1996 Buick Park Avenue Owner's Manual

Durant also created a racing team that won 500 racingtrophies in 1909 and 19 10, including successes atIndianapolis two years before the Indy 500 began.The success of Buick engines was visible not only onthe race track, but in endurance tests across the countryand around the world. Buick was the only car tocomplete a 1,000-mile Chicago-to-New York race in1906. And a Buick was the first car to travel acrossSouth America, driven from Buenos Aires, Argentina,over the Andes to Santiago, Chile in 1914.Buick drew plenty of attention because it could climbhills and run through mud like no other car. Buick’sendurance and reliability were world famous.During World War I, Buick built Liberty aircraft enginesas well as Red Cross ambulances so successfully thatone Buick ambulance was awarded the Croix de Guerreby the French government.As a builder of premier automobiles, Buick was hard hitby the Great Depression. However, new GeneralManager Harlow H. Curtice created popular new modelsincluding the Special and the Roadmaster. Buick salessoon flourished.I :I9II Model 21 Touring Car on Buick’s Test HillFirst Buick FactoryV