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Radios

Buick Radios are completely transistorized and are engineered by Buick Autombiles’ acoustics. The Sonomatic Radio furnishes the highest fidelity possible and permits loud and clear reception while enjoying road speed driving with windows open. The Buick AM-FM Radio is equipped with Automatic Frequency control which “locks in” the FM stain you have selected. The AM-FM Stereo Radio available for the LeSabre, Wildcat, Electra and Riviera provides the same incomparable Stereophonic Sound you have heard in your home or in the theatre.

Tone Reverberator

This new dimension in musical reproduction will excite and enthuse the most casual listener and provide the ultimate listening pleasure to the music lover. The Tone Reverberator produces a concert hall effect by electronic means. A portion of the sound is heard directly from the front speaker. Another portion is routed through the Reverberator, where it is delayed, reverberated and amplified through the Rear Seat Speaker. Available for all models except Special and Skylark Convertibles.

Rear Seat Speaker

“Stereo-like” quality is offered for the listening pleasure of all passengers with this auxiliary speaker, which is installed on the rear shelf. It operates with, or independently of, the regular front speaker and is controlled by the driver. Available for all models except Special and Skylark Convertibles.

Buick: Engineered Approved Accessories for 1966. Second Edition 1377749. General Motors, 1966.

Featured music:

Mauriat, Paul. “Love Is Blue”. Love Is Blue. Philips, 1968.

pa·nache \pə-ˈnash, -ˈnäsh\
Function: noun
Date: 1553

1 : an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet

2 : dash or flamboyance in style and action : VERVE

- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

General Motors, 1967.

A fateful encounter with an older relative shows significant advancements in automobile design over the past fifty years.

Those in industrial design were introduced to his work as prime examples of automotive rendering. Graphic designers and illustrators have come across a piece or two in their search for all things ephemeral.

When Pontiac introduced their new “Wide Track” vehicles in 1959, Art Fitzpatrick was brought in to execute the artwork for the new campaign. Over the next 12 years, Art would develop a healthy relationship with Pontiac creating 285 illustrations. Each reflected the shift in automotive design as cars shed excess chrome and flair for clean lines that exuded formality and refinement.

To produce his famous “wide” look, Fitzpatrick traced photos of the new car, cut the tracings into pieces, then “stretched” the car into bolder proportions. “We wanted pictures that were different,” Fitzpatrick says. “Impact is the name of the game, so we went with predominately front views—even cropping the cars so they looked too big for the page.”

Van Kaufman (a former illustrator for Disney) created exotic backdrops and a spectrum of weather conditions that Fitzpatrick would balance out in the reflective surfaces of the car. Working together, the two not only crafted advertisements, but visual stories that communicated Pontiac’s first complete brand image.