1950 Buick Super four-door sedan with all-steel body, black with chrome trim, and gray herringbone upholstery. Valve-in-Head Fireball straight eight-cylinder engine. Dynaflow automatic transmission. Weather Warden "venti-heater" and radio. 17' 3" L x 6' 5" W x 6' H

In the late 1940s, the new car market changed from a seller's market to a buyer's market. Supplies of cars increased after postwar materials shortages eased, and manufacturers added dramatic new styling and new features to attract customers. Families went shopping for cars with features that matched their growing affluence, taste for fine consumer goods, child-raising responsibilities, and increasingly mobile lifestyle. General Motors responded by pricing some of its Buick models (the Special and the Super) at levels that middle-class Americans could afford to buy on credit. Once aimed at an elitist market, Buick became the third-most-popular car in America by the mid-1950s.