1995 Buick Roadmaster Owner's Manual - Page 8

In World War11, Buick built aircraft engines, tanks and other military hardware. This post-war period brought great styling and engineering changes which resulted in inmeased sales. The torque converter automatic transmission, Dynaflow, was introduced in 1948 the Roadmaster. Buick's famous "portholes" came along in 1949. A high-compression V-8 engine was introduced in1953. And Buick's famous vertical pillar "toothy" @e, (introduced in 1942), became more massive in the post-war era. 1953 Skylark 1949 Roadmaster Motor Trend magazine named the 1962 Buick Special "Carof the Year." The first production V-6 engine was used in the Special. vi