In 1913, David’s grandfather took a train from Pennsylvania to Boston, a trip that, on a good day, required two transfers and at least 12 hours. There he bought this very Buick. It's been in the family ever since

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/cherished-buick-has-spent-113-years-with-the-same-family  for the whole article

GSX

https://www.hotcars.com/buick-muscle-car-nobody-remembers-outran-the-gto/

I saw this Buick on the way home the other day

seen in traffic today

seen on the way to grabbing a sammich for lunch yesterday, a Buick at the intersection and a semi that broke down in the middle of the 10 lane Mira Mesa blvd

this is weird, they gave up on the car, then they gave up on the car cover. Then rain chewed up the roof, and I bet it's killed the floor too

How about this, I stumbled across another very interesting Elks Club car! Tacoma Elks motion picture crew, and their 1931 Buick 8

The Elks had signed the Peptimist Motion Picture Corporation of Hollywood to create a motion picture comedy drama woven around the industrial life and scenic attractions of Tacoma. 

The completed picture would be shown a gala frolic June 27, 1931 at the Elks Convention. A casting call went out for 500 men, women and children to be in the picture with the two main female starring roles receiving a salary. 

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/179/

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/177/

From 1929 thru 1937 the Elks Club used Studebakers painted purple and white exclusively in their annual tour to their Intl meet site.

the Elks Lodge in Butte Montana was a Studebaker dealership on the ground floor from 1926-56  https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/phase-1-of-butte-elks-lodge-building-renovation-nearly-complete

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DKkMObSBr7y/

one of the rare early paper bumper stickers with wires that were hung on bumpers before the adhesive thing was figured out

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/351/

I posted some that were at an auction in 2024 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2024/06/tom-told-me-about-paper-signs-put-on.html

George Jelinski, Eagle Scout of Poland, on his round the world tour (good idea for "scouting" as learning self preservation is inescapable while driving around the world) stopping at San Fran city hall in 1928

Jelinski left Warsaw on May 30, 1926, in a white Ford that was named “A Scout Is Clean”, paying all expenses of the trip by lecturing and writing articles for Polish newspapers. (That's a long name for a car, but the clean white thing is quite clever)

Jelinski's tour took him through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, and Italy where he met with with Benito Mussolini, and Sicily, where he embarked for the North African shore. 

He drove through Tunisa and Algeria to Casablanca in Morocco, and had traveled about 19,000 miles, the mileage being attested to and verified, by various foreign automobile clubs.

He left Casablanca for America on an export steamer, arriving in Manhattan in August.  In Washington he was greeted by President Coolidge in Sept. When he arrived in Detroit, Jelinski was received by the Polish consul for Detroit, who presented him to the Mayor. (Detroit had a large Polish population)

He addressed several Polish-America organizations during his several days' visit here. The Polish Falcons of District 13 raised the funds for a new Buick to replace the light weight Ford model T he had worn out

The happy presentation was made by the owner of Stanley Krajenke Buick, who also presented Jelinski with a membership in the Detroit Automobile Club, the seventeenth organization of its sort which has welcomed him since he left Warsaw. 

JFK was photographed in front of Krajenke Buick 30 some years later

Jelinski was also welcomed by James E. West, chief Scout executive of the United States, on behalf of the 870,000 Scouts in the United States. From Detroit his route was through Toledo, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities.

He continued his journey to San Francisco, and left on the ship Taiyo Maru, and on July 13 arrived in Hawaii, then rode to Japan, where he traveled from Yokohama to Kobe, arriving there in mid-August 

He planned to return to Poland through China, but there was a civil war going on there, and he gave up the idea of ​​traveling to India at the last moment due to insufficient financial resources. Jeliński left Japan around September after visiting Nagasaki, then set out for Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

The expedition was described in the book "Under the Polish Flag by Car Around the World" published in 1929 by Władysław Umiński.  The book is free online, but in Polish. https://www.ee.pw.edu.pl/~kwestorm/jelinski/uminski_jelinski.pdf

His grandson made a replica of the Buick

a replica of the Ford is in the Museum and Centre of the Scout Movement in Krakow

After his time in the scouts and his round the world tour, he was a sailor and returned to the USA, going to Hollywood to learn to be a cinematographer. He studied modern film techniques and camera operation in Hollywood, becoming a professional cameraman.

Returning to Poland in the mid-1930s, he founded the Laborpat company, which dealt in film processing and production.

During World War II, the Germans confiscated equipment from Laborpat, destroying the company. Jeliński was participant of the Polish-Bolshevik War, and member of the resistance movement during World War II. 

After WW2, he established a rickshaw and handcart factory. 

He died in 1986

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/433

https://opensfhistory.org/NeighborhoodPhotos/Civic_Center/child

https://www.nytimes.com/1927/09/23/archives/on-world-tour-in-auto-polish-boy-scout-master-is-received-by.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/63828311648/posts/10162072540351649/

https://time.com/archive/6656249/national-affairs-around-the-world/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2965587276847192&set=pcb.2965594886846431

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/custom/mirador?manifest=https://collections.lib.uwm.edu//iiif/info/mke-polonia/32397/manifest.json

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Jeli%C5%84ski

https://twojapolonia.tvp.pl/73803582/wielka-przygoda-polskiego-podroznika-95-lat-temu-jerzy-jelinski-ukonczyl-samochodowy-objazd-swiata

It's uncommon to find photos of Boy Scouts as they are too young to drive, typically. I remember the ones using a wagon to hike from Minnesota to San Francisco for the 1914 Pan Pacific Expo though https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/1914-kids-were-made-of-tough-pioneer.html

The scouts from Brazil that drove a Jeep to Canada https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/02/coffee-and-dunts-video-in-1955-three.html

The scouts on the Lincoln Highway with a covered wagon in 1928 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/03/i-think-i-posted-this-before-but-cant.html

in a 1927 article, U. S. Boy Scouts trekking through foreign lands were mentioned:

Sixteen Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London.

Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions.

Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark.

In 1926, the following outstanding men were made honorary scouts:

Roy Chapman Andrews

Robert Abram Bartlett 

Frederick R. Burnham (horse mounted messenger for Western Union, actual US Cavalry scout, taught by native American Army scouts, fought in the Boer wars, and then taught Baden Powell trail signs and woodcraft, then went gold prospecting in the Yukon, and wrote his excellent biography, that I've read and have a copy of and recommend, Scouting On Two Continents https://www.facebook.com/groups/1491191564434558/posts/1514731728747208)

Richard E. Byrd 

George K. Cherrie 

James L. Clark 

Merian C. Cooper 

Lincoln Ellsworth, polar explorer in above airplane, which was once buried by an 8 day blizzard, and he dug it out, with a teacup. The only implement he had at hand

Louis Agassiz Fuertes 

George Bird Grinnell 

Charles A. Lindbergh 

Donald Baxter MacMillan, arctic explorer next to his tracked vehicle, 1927

Clifford H. Pope 

George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's husband

Kermit Roosevelt 

Carl Rungius

Stewart Edward White 

Orville Wright

Of the 294 men and women selected to be astronauts since 1959 to 2005, more than 180 have been Scouts and of the 27 men to travel to the moon on the Apollo 9 through Apollo 17 missions, 24 were Scouts, including 11 of the 12 men who physically walked on the moon's surface, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13 mission, that had it's oxygen tank explode meaning the landing mission had to be aborted.

Jake Erlich from Colorado, born to Polish immigrants and was 8' 6 1/2"

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/512/

the other brands at the Optima Challenge

nice crusty ol Ford!  Just sitting here in the finals means that there is a lot going on that isn't obvious to a view on the surface

art and Bonneville streamliners... come together at SEMA

 Jeff Brock's Bombshell Betty https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/take-52-buick-and-lot-of-effort-make.html for the before and after, but for a full gallery https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-finally-found-brocks-bombshell-betty.html

This ’71 Buick GS is still owned by the guy that bought it brand-new, and he finally made it to the track at Road America with it to race in the Optima series

https://www.hotrod.com/events/optima-ultimate-street-car-ousci-road-america-2025-event-results

central Minnesota authorities discovered human remains in a car submerged in the Mississippi River, after the car turned up on a fisherman's sonar

The sheriff's office contacted a tow company to help remove the car, which the Sartell Police Department said was "intact but severely deteriorated, had been underwater for decades and was filled with river sediment." 

The sheriff's office says the car was a 1960s-era Buick, belonging to Roy Benn.  Benn was last seen in Sartell on Sept. 24, 1967, driving a blue 1963 Buick Electra. He allegedly had been carrying a "large sum of money" when he was last seen

Benn, a widower who owned an apartment building and an appliance service business in nearby St. Cloud, was considered financially comfortable and known to carry substantial sums of cash. Authorities at the time said he may have been carrying thousands of dollars when he vanished, according to the outlets.

Benn, who was 59 when he went missing, was declared dead in 1975. However, the case remains unsolved.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/sartell-car-found-river-missing-man-roy-benn-cold-case/

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/sartell-car-found-fisherman-crack-in-cold-case

https://people.com/remains-found-in-river-may-solve-minn-cold-case-11791274

'63 Wildcat factory 4-speed with the dual-quad Super Wildcat 465. With only 9,979 miles

according to the Buick owners’ community, only thirty four-speeds were installed in a Wildcat—broken down as eighteen four-door hardtops, six coupes, and six convertibles.

Buick didn’t advertise this combo for 1963, but a select few had enough clout with Buick brass to get one. It was the muscle car for the middle-aged executive who secretly wanted to drag race on the weekends.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/1-of-1-dual-quad-1963-buick-super-wildcat-4-door-4-speed-emerges-it-s-absolute-eye-candy-255487.html#

ever hear about the brake lights, IN the trunk, of a Buick Cascada, only visible when the trunk is open? Weird

https://www.motor1.com/news/765312/buick-cascada-tail-lights

1931 at the future site of Lake Mead, Loretta Young, Roscoe Turner, and the Gilmore Lion airplane

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=24231725669779212&set=p.24231725669779212&type=3

great photo of a set of G bodies! 1987 Buick Grand National • 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS • 1984 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQp7O8s_Td/

Might be the coolest thing I found today, Isky's autograph on Chavik's 39 Buick hot rod, next to a quartet of Stonmberg 97s

 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/09/built-not-bought-this-39-buick-was.html for a gallery on the Buick at SEMA

a nice little trailer, and a ’55 Buick Century 4 door Riviera. What more do you need?

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-snapshots-and-photography/vintage-snapshots-cars-trailers-parks-and-trailer-homes-in-the-50s-60s/