1996 Buick Regal Owner's Manual - Page 8

In World War 1 , Buick built aircraft engines, tanks and 1 other military hardware. Thispost-war period brought great styling and engineering changes which resulted in increased sales. Thetorque converter automatic transmission, Dynaflow, was introduced in the 1948 Roadmaster. Buick's Fdmous "portholes" came along in 1949. A high-compression V-8 engine was introduced in 1953. And Buick's famous vertical pillar "toothy" grille, (introduced in 1942), became more massive in the post-war era. ~ 1.953 Skylark 1949 Roadmaster Motor Trend magazine named the 1962 Buick Special "Car of the Year." The first production V-6 engine was used in the Special.