"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/23/2019 at 08:46 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/23/2019 at 08:46 • Filed to: None | 4
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It’s 1961, and just look at all the straight lines. It’s the FUTURE!
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 08:59 |
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Ooo, that might have had a 215 V8. One of my favorite engines of all time!
facw
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 09:09 |
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Seems that the De Waters Art Center (built 1958) is now referred to just as the Flint Institute of Arts. It’s been expanded enough to be unrecognizable though:
Looks like the new front was added sometime between 1999 and 2005, but I don’t know if your picture is the front of the building or somewhere else.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
10/23/2019 at 09:17 |
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The aluminum, glass, brick, perpendicular architecture of that era seemed so fresh and futuristic at the time. Now it seems dated and somewhat sterile. I am fascinated by architecture as a reflection of the era in which it was created. Which is not to say the 60s were sterile.
arl
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 09:20 |
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Pillarless 4-doors. Mmmmmm......
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facw
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 09:24 |
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My high school was very much in that style before they renovated it.
fintail
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 09:33 |
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Gone are the fins and space-age wraparound windshields. Those wacky cars from a year or two prior looked old fast.
Milky
> facw
10/23/2019 at 09:43 |
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I didn’t know this existed ... might actually have a reason to goto Flint.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 09:54 |
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The Le Sabre is an every man’s car. Take a chevy , put speed holes and nice hub caps on it and call it “middle class”.
WilliamsSW
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
10/23/2019 at 10:20 |
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It would be a 364. The 215 was only put in the compact cars.
Oddly, there are probably 3 or 4 car companies that put that engine in more different models than Buick ever did.
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> WilliamsSW
10/23/2019 at 10:49 |
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Ahh, I’m not great at readily identifying old Buicks, b ut it’s a sharp car.
I don’t know much about the 364 engine though, but I’m familiar with the history of the 215. Rover group bought the molds and perfected it and used it in tons of stuff. Over the years it got bored, stroked, and they ended up using them through the early 2000's. Also, its the only “production engine” to win an F1 Championship . The Repco Brabham team used the Oldsmobile version of the 215 block as a basis for a SOHC 3.0L (183 cubic inch) engine used in the 1966 BT-19.
ranwhenparked
> ttyymmnn
10/23/2019 at 18:35 |
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The modernist buildings back then at least were able to make inexpensive materials and techniques look elegant, not like the public buildings we do today, which look as cheap as they are - metallic finish insulated cladding and fake styrofoam stucco, and oversized/misused cornices and ornamentation.