The Buick Invicta is a 2-door Convertible (car) / convertible / 2-door hardtop / 4-door hardtop / 4-door Buick Estate#1960s / Estate station wagon from Buick, built from 1959, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 364 cuin Buick V8 engine#364.
The story
The Buick Invicta is a full-size automobile produced by Buick from 1959 to 1963. The Invicta was a continuation of the mid-range Buick Century that mated the standard size Buick LeSabre (pre-1959, Buick Special) body with Buick's larger 401 cubic inch Fireball V8 engine.
The Invicta continued to be the intermediate hardtop coupe, hardtop sedan, convertible and station wagon, labeled as the Buick Invicta Estate, until it was replaced by the Buick Wildcat as a coupe or sedan, while the station wagon was replaced by the Buick Sport Wagon in 1965. The name was derived from Latin and signified 'unconquerable, invincible, unbeatable, unvanquished' according to Buick Motor Division sales training materials.
What is underneath
Power comes from 364 cuin Buick V8 engine#364; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 4255 -. It shifts through a 2-speed Dynaflow#1953 redesign / Twin Turbine Automatic transmission / automatic / 3-speed Dynaflow#1958 redesign / Triple Turbine Automatic transmission / automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 123.0 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Buick Century; its successor was the Buick Wildcat; assembly was at Flint, Michigan, USA. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Mini Mini, the Nissan Patrol, the Dodge Challenger — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Buick catalogue sit the Buick First Call and the Buick Funeral Car.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Buick Invicta has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.