Option. $5.20 This Buick-crested beauty is attached to the lower edge of the instrument panel. Designed to hold an entire box of tissues and dispense them one at a time.
Why don't they make stainless steel kleenex-boxes available in Buicks anymore?
For the full 1955 option list for the Buick Special, see this link.
I have a special place in my heart for the 1950's Buick advertising.
1 comments:
That is a great post & link!
I love long option list! I daydream about walking onto a showroom floor and watching some salesman grovel as I stroll down an order sheet, carefully choosing the perfect options so they can build a perfect car perfectly. Most of the sweetest musclecars came to be because some lucky Joe did this and checked off the COPO box or suchlike. Alas, it's a total fantasy because nowadays real options are a joke. Usually its just option 'packages' and then your choice of colors or HID lights (one of the reasons, against everything, I don't really dig 1969 Mustang Mach 1's-- a musclecar pioneer of 'option packages'). Lame. I don't think I'll ever order a new car straightaway.
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