Oxford 1/87 Balfin Green Carlsbad Black Buick Century Estate Wagon Diecast Model

Oxford's 1/87 scale mid 1950s Buick Century Estate Wagon, as a two-tone liveried vehicle decorated with a dark green and black body with a dark green roof.  The interior is also dark green.  Exterior trim is finished in either black or silver and the model comes once again with whitewall tyres. The Buick Century signature badge is printed in silver and red underneath the rear-most side window with the Buick name in silver on the front edge of the bonnet. It is registered in North Carolina 54 No. 356-910.

Buick, a subsidiary of General Motors, introduced their Century vehicle range in 1936 and it continued on and off, with a gap during WWII, right until the 1990s. The Century name covered six generations of cars of varying sizes, performance and trim levels.  All of them, including the 1954 station wagon featured an FR layout which incorporated a transverse front engine and rear wheel drive. The Buick Century Estate Wagon represented one of the second generation of vehicles produced between 1954 and 1958.  It was classed as a high end full-sized car first aimed at the wealthier country estate fraternity.