Tamir Ali, proud owner of this glorious 1961 Buick Invicta, is quite honest when I ask why he bought the car. “I like bright colours and I’m loud and eccentric,” laughs Tamir. “I like to make a statement and when I first saw it I just fell in love with it.” Tamir initially spotted the Buick on Facebook. “I’d just sold a 1978 Cadillac Coupe deVille, was looking at photos of a pick-up truck that was for sale in Canada via a friend of a friend and could see a bit of the Buick in the background of one of those pics. I knew it must be rare. The owner, who ran a hotel in the Rocky Mountains, said the car wasn’t for sale. Six months later I contacted him again and this time convinced him. I imported the Buick in 2017.”
The Buick was kept in a heated garage. “He said the car had
