Buicks from 1956 aren’t exactly thick on the ground here, let alone Buick wagons, and two-door wagons? Well, forget about it … Buick never made them. Yep, you read that right, what you’re looking at here, despite being obviously customised, never even rolled off the factory floor in stock form. The man behind the build is Ross Higgott, a Kiwi who spent many years in Aussie before heading back home to take life a bit easier. Besides a sun tan and the hint of an accent, the best thing he brought back home with him was the half-completed Buick, a car that he’s now owned for 10 years all up.
Rewinding back to when he first got his hands on it, Ross wasn’t specifically looking for a Buick, or necessarily a wagon, but he knew that he wanted to build something different to what everyone else had. A neighbour of his was an importer, regularly bringing
