1947 Buick Roadmaster with Straight 8 start up 

He'll know when he gets a bug on the windshield at 60mph what the jar was actually for

Hey kid.... That glass jar is the windshield washer reservoir! I'm the same age as the Buick, and I grew up with cars such as this!

That's the real fun, bringing them back to life! I can still remember being as little as that girl watching my elders work on ancient cars like that. I remember how cool it was. It was like watching someone work on a space ship! Along with the beer drinking, and the grill going, us kids playing and watching. We all had fun. Family, friends, neighbors' and even the dog was hanging around. Great memories!

what this guy does not know is impressive

From experience with getting old cars running that have sat unused for many years, there is no way I'd start one without pulling the oil pan and cleaning it first.

There is no starter button under the foot pedal. When the accelerator is depressed the linkage closes, by way of a cam, a switch that is attached to the carburetor (vacuum switch). That switch starts the car. As soon as vacuum is created by the running engine a piston is pulled up a cylinder attached to the switch. This movement opens the switch and turns off the circuit to the solenoid and the cranking stops. I may not have it perfect but that is the general idea.

DING DONG!! that is NOT the brake reservoir. that is for WINDSHIELD WASHER FLUID!! I know because I own my great grandmother's 1948 Buick Roadmaster Sedanet with straight 8 and Dynaflow.

People seem to think a car is rusted out when it has surface rust. Lol, no, a car is rusted out when you can see through it!!! That Buick is in really good shape.

back in the 1960s my next door neighbor had one of these tanks he drove to work every morning, it sounded like a tug boat engine to me, we used to call him Auggie Froggie..

I'm glad to see another classic car gets to live again 😊

I am a wasteland guy rusty is nothing big not a bad car

Really complete, really solid and straight old Buick!! Been a lot of backyard done under the hood...still 70 years has not done it much harm. I would say someone got a good starting point.

Hello guy. This is Giovanni from Philadelphia. I have a nice 1955 Buick Roadmaster. Owner for 35 years. Runs and drives great.

The jar is the vacuum operated WINDSHIELD WASHER!

I don't know what you american guys have with starting an engine without the head cover. US engines can go with oiless rocker arms ? Or do you like cleaning the engine bay after all the oil going up the head and splating out ?

My Dad had a'46 Roadmaster 4 door. I've always loved the sound of the straight eight engine. I can still hear it. Great car. Rode like a dream.

That exact car is in my drive way😭

Dude! That is beautiful! Come check out my 1950 Dodge Power Wagon videos!

There are pictures with a very young me in front of a same period Buick Sedanette (?). Evidently it was equipped with a DynaFlow or Hydromatic transmission which always leaked. With my mother carrying what would be my little brother,the decision would be to trade the Buick for a 4-door Hudson Hornet with sun visor. Narragansett Bay.

THAT GLASS JAR IS FOR WINDSHIELD WASHERS, I HAD A 1948 SO THATS WHY I KNOW!!!!!

That's pretty cool, glad to see he had the hose in the engine coolant thermostat to protect the engine. I noticed you had a hood ornament similar to one I've had hanging on the wall in my garage for years. It looks similar to yours, but it doesn't have the bullet looking piece in the middle, it's just a large ring with two smaller ones inside that. Using that information I looked up Buick Hood Ornaments and found out it's a 1957. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

@4:14, exactly the warmer firewall vent!....just pulled "anything" engine compartment heat, smoke, carbon-dioxide, burn-off directly into the cabin....and reduce the firewall effect....what a wonderful idea for the 1940's....and i'm not being sarcastic...I actually like and approve of it. We're too stiffy today on regulations. I want a firewall warmer vent in my new car!

This is old but I have to comment on all the disinformation. The glass bottle he said was for brake fluid is actually the Windshield washer fluid reservoir but did work by vacuum. There was no button under the gas pedal. The linking from the gas pedal to the carburetor started the car, there was a switch out on the carb. that closed and put electric from the battery to the starter motor when you depressed the gas pedal to the floor. After starting vacuum from the running engine kept the switch from closing again. There were two heaters and two blowers in the car, they used hot water from the motor. One was in the dash for defrosting/defogging the windshield the other was under the passenger seat for heating the interior of the car. Of course both could be used to heat the interior. What he pointed out as a heater was actually a sealed tube that ran all the way to just behind the front grille. This tube used a connection tube that has deteriorated over time and is missing. That's the reason we can see the engine compartment from the interior of the car. If used as this guy said every driver would have died from carbon monoxide and other gases. You best close them when in traffic so not to draw exhaust from car in front of you. They could be opened for fresh air while driving on the open road in the summer though. There was one on each side. The rust he says (rusted out) is nothing more than surface rust on steel that the paint has worn off on. Rusted out would be rust "perforation" I saw very little "rust out". The floor plate he pointed to covered access to the master brake cylinder so you could add brake fluid when needed. I'm glad he sold it, from his description of items in this video he don't know this car from his elbow.

That’s a beautiful car. She needs some paint abc a few small touch ups, then she’ll be really nice. I hope whoever gets this car leaves the engine and interior. So many old car engines and interiors are taken out. I’ve got a huge soft spot for antique/ vintage cars left as original as possible.

Starting at time mark 4:21 To program the presets on the radio use the tuner knob to tune in a station the pull out the preset button you want to program for that station then push it all the way back in , now it will always go to that station , I am very good with the old vacuum tube radios.

That's funny. I have a 47 Roadmaster, it too has 82,000 miles. Had it for about ten yrs. In the garage waiting to get road ready.

Oh my word. That 8 cylinder... A work of absolute beauty.

I’m not sure but he seems to have no idea what he is doing I counted five things he has all wrong he should sell that

I thought that ONLY the Roadmaster models had the 4 ports on side of front fenders..? Also, the motors had 5 main bearings. The white/Ivory knobs and steering wheel are HIGH dollar items though!

do you have many other words in your vocabulary besides "crazy" ?

Great gramp's auto or does it belongs to Methuselah!?They don't make them cars nomore!.Wish the owners kept the car in a garage and periodically cleaned it up instead of allowing to go rust into rust!.

Certainly wouldn't want to be working over a engine with no rocker cover spitting oil with no shirt on

you got a treasure there

Everything is the same as it was then, ONLY, you are there! Awesome show!

Not so. This is your windshield washer bottle. The master cylinder is under the floor.

Letting a child play that close to where you are working on a car, especially when the gas can is almost within reach of her little hands?

That thing is awesome!

That jar is for windshield washer fluid. It is not for brakes.

What he thinks is the break fluid reservoir is in fact the windscreen washer reservoir.

That old car is badass 👍

Americans and their sunglasses

Beautiful car!

That jar is for the wiper washers not break fluid.

I believe the mason jar is the windshield washer reservoir.

And the little kid reaching for the jug of fuel, not good

0-60 two minutes five to stop 11mpg. Armstrong steering .😁

I bought a 47 Roadmaster from my neighbor for $200. 52,000 miles, dual carbs, and a “3 on the tree”. Green with a grey cloth interior you couldn’t sit on in shorts. My parents wouldn’t let me keep it.

thats a vacuum motor and window washer bottle

*if you should making buick police cars 1950*

Very cool car! I’m picking up a 53 Pontiac chieftain with a straight eight running and driving and almost perfect condition! (unrestored) completely original! One of the coolest part is that I am buying it from somebody very famous! She’s my first project (at least the first classic car)

great ol barge, lots of tlc and she'll roam the open road again!

Buicks were some of the best cars ever built, up until very recently. Today's models look like junk. GM was very good at state of the art engineering, styling and new innovations to the point of their models being new and fresh looking for years to come, so long as the owners took care of them. Old Buicks and Chevs almost always turn my head. Not so much with Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs.

Running it that long with no water? Not too smart.

I learned to drive in a 1940 Buick Fastback Coupe. 3 carbs on a straight 8 and a 3 speed trans. I do wish I had it now. Dad sold it with the farm as he had mounted two 55 gallon drums in the trunk for gas or diesel for the farm equipment.

You sir are a bone head, that jar is what it looks like... a washer fluid jar for the wipers & there’s no vacuum brake fluid Jar on any Buick. ;-)

I think I hear the ice cream man?

Not in such bad shape at all, really....its 70 years haven't too unkind to it. Yeh, bring 'er back...stock config.

This guy doesn't know crap. That's a Trico windshield washer reservoir. Good thing someone else is getting this Buick.

This Is a really weird film.

6:40 should be running garden hose into lower radiator hose not upper

Mi abuelo y Mi padre tuvieron Estos lindos carros ,en Santiago Chile dia em la década de Los 60,Yo Los recuerdo c Mucho cariño

Makes my heart jump up and down. What great car. Would love to have one like that. Great style and a big car feeling, they rode great. But, with a bit of tlc it’s a beauty!

I remember my dad borrowed a 50 s model Buick with a straight 8 from my Godfather till his car was repaired- it had a busted muffler and I thought we had our first race car, it was awesome

BUT......... Is it crazy?

A very stylish motor. My dad had a Straight Eight Plymouth in Canada 1944.

BRASIL 021 RIO DE JANEIRO! CARALHO ESSE BUICK ROADMASTER ! É MUITO FODAAAAAA!!!

Yikes, it is Alive!

Man, that is the windscreen washer water glass! Educate yourself, please :-)

What a great looking car and so solid , Scott at Cold war motors would love a car in that sort of condition .

My cousin had one of these. And the straight-eight also in the late 50's it spent almost as much time going sideways than forwards. It had the straight stick with the column shifter

glass jar is for the windshield washer..vac operated pump on top....

My first car was a 1954 Pontiac Chieftan 2 Dr with a flat head straight 8. I paid $65. for it. It had 85k miles.

That's not a brake reservoir, its a windshield washer jar.

Nice!

All there and running. Wish I were closer, needs a good home.

My Dad had one for years, never knew what happen to it. I remember how big it was and the we had in the back seat when he would go around a corner fast.

0-60 1.6 min 4to stop 8 mpg .had a 47 conv..😃

The warmer allowing air from the engine compartment into the passenger area seems like a really bad idea. The recipe for carbon monoxide poisoning

I had a logger tell me how to start a diesel in cold weather. I takes several minutes but seems to be better than just winding on it and running your batteries down.

1947 seems to have been a very good year.

it's a windshield washer jar not brake fluid

it's not patina it's called rust

That Mason jar is windshield cleaner container

mason jars are good for moon shine

research, research, research.....

My grandfather had a car very similar and close to the same age. He kept it painted with a brush. Cool car.

you guys 14 times in 3 minutes

Nice!! my Dad had a 47 convertible.

Would like to see the Buick restored

Hi ow much did u let it go for

That's pretty crazy.

Say CRAZY one more time!

nobody: this car is too rusty jonathan ward: hold my patina

SO DID YOU EVER GET THIS ONE RUNNING???

It's not that bad of shape.

I HAVE 53 BUICK SUPER 8, LOVE UR SHOW BRO

pretty smooth for an old car

Crazy. Lol

That license plate is expensive!

VERY COOL CAR.