Continuing from part 1 of Curbside Classic Manor North, here in part 2 we find three droptops and a longroof. I’d really rather have the Buick.
Here’s a side view of the Space Age T-Bird we liked so much yesterday. I’m crazy about that color, is it original?
Hmm, it is not ready for a close-up: a 61 minus its fender skirts and with the wrong whitewalls. I see in the color chart for that year that there was one called Garden Turquoise that might be a match. But from this photo it looks more a generic Earl Scheib color to me – with paint covering the script on the front fender?
The discovery in the first photo is that gorgeous 62 Buick Skylark convertible – I’ll take it!
+1 on the Buick Special Skylark convertible.
Your comment caused me to question my memory but Wikipedia supports it:
“For the 1962 model year, the Buick Skylark became a model in its own right, instead of being a subseries of the Special.”
+1 on the +1
I don’t think the paint is covering the Thunderbird script. When I clicked on the bigger picture it looked OK.
Could be an “offset” of the factory color. It looks pretty close to me.
Here’s one off of Hemmings. It looks to be the same color–maybe just a touch lighter.
Let me echo that these MUST have the factory fender skirts to look good–Sports Roadster excepted, of course.
I’m a sucker for woodys both real and wallpaper but the 62 Skylark would do me fine.
I saw one of those little Buicks in the street where I work a few weeks back (parked just a few cars down from a 1960s Opel Rekord 1700). There wasn’t a whole lot of badging on it, and I’m still not sure if that was a Special, a Skylark or a Special Skylark. Anyway, it looked good in red.
I’d take the woody wagon (Roadmaster, is it?). Big family, and I’ve always loved those.
That was a great mini-series, thanks for the cool pictures!
Where are all the tags?
That is a really bad rear spoiler install on the Fox Mustang, it’s practically in the middle of the trunklid!
I have pictures of a ’62 Special convertible with, believe it or not, factory 4 on the floor. Sadly, it isn’t a Skylark, so it could have had a V6 for all I know, did not get to look at it as much as I would have liked to.
But which Buick, Mike? Oh wait – only one of them is really a Buick. 🙂
As for the color on the Bird, I don’t think it is original (though I like it quite a bit as well). Having owned a 61 (and having it painted once) I got pretty familiar with the colors offered. The turquoise was quite a bit lighter than this color, as I recall. I also agree with a comment above that these look like crap without fender skirts.
My question is this: After seeing all of the cool stuff under the carport, I wonder what is in those garages?
Skylark please.
Mmmmm, the wagon please and thank you!
No luck on a nice Mopar in the second installment. The Roadmaster would make a nice daily driver, but as a keeper it looks like it would still be the T-bird or nothin’ for me.