1959 Buick design breaks with traditional style
From the The Semi-Weekly Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) Nov 26, 1958
Buick’s 1959 automobiles are described by General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale as “a whole new concept in automotive design … the new Buick is a complete break with traditional design.”
The 1959 line includes 15 models in three newly named series: LeSabre (the lowest-priced), Invicta and Electra (the luxury model).
LeSabre and Invicta have a 123-inch wheelbase and are 217.4 inches long. Electra models are available in two overall lengths. The stock Electra is mounted on a 126.3-inch wheelbase and has an overall length of 220.6 inches. The Electra “225” is mounted on the same wheelbase with 225.4 inches in overall length.
Hardtop models are under 55 inches tall, but headroom is about the same as it was in the 1958 models.
Electra and Invicta series cars are equipped with a new Wildcat V-8 engine with 401 cubic inch displacement and a four-barrel carburetor. The compression ratio is 10.5 to 1.
Ratio is same
The LeSabre engine has a 364-cubic inch displacement and is equipped with a two-barrel carburetor, with four-barrel carburetor offered as an option. Compression ratio in LeSabre engines is 10.5-to-1 when equipped with Dynafiow transmission.
The new styling is highlighted by “delta-wing” rear fenders that flare outward. The twin headlights are canted at an angle to carry out the front end design.
The new four-door hardtop design has a flat roofline with a slender pillar behind each rear door. The area behind the rear pillars is encased in a huge, curved “picture window” enclosing the rear passenger compartment.
Buick’s redesigned twin-turbine Dynaflow transmission is standard in all but the LeSabre series. Triple turbine Dynaflow is optional on all series.
The car: Buick ’59
Hundreds of thousands of families have already made the magnificent chance to the most talked-about style of today
1959 Buicks: Le Sabre 4-door hardtop
You own a lot of future when you buy a Buick now!
This Buick makes your money look ahead in a way other cars can’t do. In a Buick, for instance, you own the clearest and cleanest example of a new styling trend that will be here for years… style that caused editors to name a Buick “best looking overall” of all 1959 cars.
And, beneath its new beauty, a Buick brings you other long-range satisfaction, too.
You own the best-riding car in a long history of great Buick rides. You own the best-constructed car in a long history of great Buick quality: You own the smoothest kind of transmission made… smoothest because there are no gears that shift… improved still more this year both in performance and economy.
You own brakes that are Buick’s alone, unique in their fin-cooled design, aluminum front drums, long brake-lining wear.
You own a car that will serve you better, and trade-in to better advantage when the time comes.
Le Sabre, Invicta, Electra… A new class of fine cars within reach of 2 out of 3 new car buyers.
1959 Buick 2-door hardtop
The most important $200 in the automobile world
If you’re going to buy a car and you want all the satisfaction and fun and quality your money can possibly buy . . . just think about this For only about $Qo0 more than the best models of the “leading low-priced three” . . . you can own this Buick LeSabre.
And this is not the kind of comparison where one car has no extra equipment and the other has lots of it. Look at the manufacturers’ suggested retail prices posted right on the cars in the showrooms, and you can check this for yourself.
And think how much more car you own. An important car with an important name. A car of Buick’s solidness, plus Buick nimbleness that’s wholly new this year and wholly wonderful to feel.
Buick ’59 is the most exciting Buick ever built. The smoothest and quietest running car in America today.
The only car with Buick’s exclusive brakes and new Wildcat engines which not only give important increases in actual gas mileage. . . . but, car weight and performance considered, are proved to be the most efficient users of gasoline in any car today.
Many thousands of families have already made the magnificent change to Buick ’59. They’re the most enthusiastic Buick owners we have ever heard from. And with good reason!
’59 Buicks: Le Sabre 2-door convertible
Whatever car you have in mind… you’re better off with a Buick!
Almost any new American car you’re thinking of buying falls within reach of today’s Buick price range.
And when this same money pays for a Buick, today more than ever before it brings you things you just can’t buy elsewhere!
It pays for a very special feeling of wisdom and pride. It pays for the magic in the Buick name itself-a sense of quality, tradition, reliability.
And it pays in ways you can touch and feel — for the most exciting beauty, the most advanced and expert performance ever built into Buick cars.
If you’re thinking of buying a car, don’t fail to see your Quality Buick Dealer. He has some wonderful new surprises for your money.
LE SABRE: The thriftiest Buick
INVICTA: The most spirited Buick
ELECTRA: The most luxurious Buick
Let your Quality Buick Dealer help you discover how much future is here, and how easy it is to own today.
BUICK MOTOR DIVISION. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
Your eyes, your heart, your good sense tells you it’s… The Car. Buick ’59.
1. Enjoy the finest ride in Buick history, finest in any car today.
2. Stop with the surest-stopping, longest-wearing brakes in America today. New fin-cooled rear brakes, exclusive aluminum front brake drums…
3. Admore new “classic modern” beauty. Lean, clean, low. Easy to get in, roomy to be in.
4. Feel real command behind Buick’s big new control-center instrument panel.
5. Discover the smooth power-flow of Buick Wildcat engine and Twin-Turbine transmission.
6. Steer more easily, more surely than ever in your life.
