Owner Norm Moore will not be around to read this. He had own the car for 30 years, collected parts and worked with it but then one day he received his diagnosis. He immediately picked up the phone and rang his friends and car builder Remo Adkins. - Finish it Remo, he said
Norm Moore found the car of his dreams in Ohio 30 years ago. A young woman was selling her grandfather’s car. Norm had always liked Buick and used to drive a -42.
– I want my cars to pop out, Norm tells me in a telephone interview.
-I had lots of ideas for the -49. As soon as I bought it, I started collecting parts. The project hasn’t switched directions throughout the years. The coarse was set from the get go and hasn’t changed even if the tempo has been low at times.
The car was chopped during the nineties in Ohio. When the time came to move down to the Florida sun Norm drove the car. A distance of 1200 miles in a half done project.
Years came and went, Norm collected more items but then one day the bad news came. He was diagnosed with a blood disease.
The unnecessary stuff was sorted from the good stuff and then the phone rang at Rod & Speed shop, Cape Coral Florida, owned by Remo Adkins. The message was short:
- Finish the car.
That was three years ago. Worldkustom meets up with Remo in the shop. The Buick is parked outside. Remo looks happy. As the circumstances are explained to us we understand his joy and also his first question.
– How quickly can this be published?
The Buick is built of an interesting recipe written by owner Norm Moore. The chassis is actually from an 1975 Oldsmobile Delta 88 which means a variety of great features like a modern driving feeling, disc brakes and a modern rear axle without the integrated cardan of a Buick.
The rear axle is a ten bolted Chevy axle. The donator-Oldsmobile had already been purchased and Norm got down to business right away.
01-0 1949 Buick Century
Norm Moore style
By Lars Krantz. Translation Ellen Kay Krantz.