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30/01/2025 11:38 am
'50 Buick or DeSoto?
Be sure to make your selection.
Of course, please “Reply” to share your comments.
If selection is greater than 2 rank them.
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John Bono
North Jersey
30/01/2025 11:46 am
A few years ago I would not have voted this way but I have surprised myself in warming up to the 1-year wonder "overbite Buick". I like it now because it is so very strange and different; quite a bold gamble by GM at the time IMHO. The DeSoto is very nice too but a bit dated and overly conservatively designed in comparison.
30/01/2025 12:17 pm
I voted for the Buick because it was so...well...Buicky!
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
30/01/2025 12:22 pm
I do not own a 'woody'. Always wanted one. If I were to be able to buy one of the above...wait for it...I'd buy the DeSoto.
I would rather own a standard Buick for 1950, than the standard DeSoto of that year. But as a woody, the Buick is only half-heartedly so. The DeSoto goes all - the - WAY!
30/01/2025 12:40 pm
The DeSoto is very nice but a bit dated and overly conservatively designed.
Well said, Jack; I voted for the Buick, too.
Barry Levittan
Long Island, NY
30/01/2025 12:47 pm
Buick here too
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
30/01/2025 12:50 pm
No interest in these choices. Station Wagons, wood on the outside of a car, Continental tires I just don't care for on cars.
1950 I would have bought:
30/01/2025 2:35 pm
This was a "Battle of the Grills". And the DESOTO waterfall grill wins out over the toothy-overbite of the Buick.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
30/01/2025 2:39 pm
Like Tony, that Buick looks like half a woody to me. DeSoto looks much better.
30/01/2025 6:00 pm
Buick but it was very close.
30/01/2025 6:38 pm
I voted DeSoto, just a better overall look as a woodie. 👍
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
31/01/2025 12:08 pm
Tough choice but I went with the Buick too, and that Studebaker next to it looks very interesting!
David Vandermeer
Corinth, Texas
31/01/2025 4:37 pm
@david-vandermeer Several years ago Buz at Route 66 Models did a model of that one off Studebaker woody. He also did a one off Hudson woody.
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