1956 Buick – The Star of every Show
In a 1956 Buick, you can be sure of many things – one of which is the satisfaction that you are driving the nation’s most sensational popularity winner. With its advanced styling, tremendous engineering advancements, progress in motoring comfort and convenience, Buick has swept to a new level of public acceptance in the space of a few short years.
Today, Buick is offering you even greater excitement in motor car travel. The many remarkable changes throughout the entire line of new Buicks have made 1956 a year of the greatest progress ever in providing you with the best Buick yet – the automobile you’ll thrill to drive.
And, just as the beautiful new 1956 Buick stand out from all other cars in the showroom, it is even more of a standout on the highway, for which it is designed. In styling, performance, comfort, economy, and in every other way, the 56 is by far the best Buicks yet…

19 models in 4 series for 56
- 1956 Buick Special Estate Wagon – Model 49Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:19+00:00
1956 Buick Special Estate Wagon – Model 49
- 1956 Buick Special Convertible – Model 46CHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:19+00:00
1956 Buick Special Convertible – Model 46C
- 1956 Buick Special Riviera – Model 46RHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:19+00:00
1956 Buick Special Riviera – Model 46R
- 1956 Buick Special 2-door Sedan – Model 48Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:19+00:00
1956 Buick Special 2-door Sedan – Model 48
- 1956 Buick Special Riviera Sedan – Model 43Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:20+00:00
1956 Buick Special Riviera Sedan – Model 43
- 1956 Buick Special Sedan – Model 41Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:09+00:00
1956 Buick Special Sedan – Model 41
- 1956 Buick Super Riviera – Model 56RHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:17+00:00
1956 Buick Super Riviera – Model 56R
- 1956 Buick Super Convertible – Model 56CHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:18+00:00
1956 Buick Super Convertible – Model 56C
- 1956 Buick Super Riviera Sedan – Model 53Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:18+00:00
1956 Buick Super Riviera Sedan – Model 53
- 1956 Buick Super Sedan – Model 52Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:19+00:00
1956 Buick Super Sedan – Model 52
- 1956 Buick Century Estate Wagon – Model 69Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:16+00:00
1956 Buick Century Estate Wagon – Model 69
- 1956 Buick Century Riviera – Model 66RHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:16+00:00
1956 Buick Century Riviera – Model 66R
- 1956 Buick Century Convertible – Model 66CHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:17+00:00
1956 Buick Century Convertible – Model 66C
- 1956 Buick Century Deluxe Riviera Sedan – Model 63DHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:17+00:00
1956 Buick Century Deluxe Riviera Sedan – Model 63D
- 1956 Buick Century Riviera Sedan – Model 63Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:18+00:00
1956 Buick Century Riviera Sedan – Model 63
- 1956 Buick Roadmaster Convertible – Model 76CHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:15+00:00
1956 Buick Roadmaster Convertible – Model 76C
- 1956 Buick Roadmaster Riviera – Model 76RHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:16+00:00
1956 Buick Roadmaster Riviera – Model 76R
- 1956 Buick Roadmaster Riviera Sedan – Model 73Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:16+00:00
1956 Buick Roadmaster Riviera Sedan – Model 73
- 1956 Buick Roadmaster Sedan – Model 72Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:26:17+00:00
1956 Buick Roadmaster Sedan – Model 72

See the 1956 Buicks in Motion
Watch the original salesmen and mechanics training slidefilms!
- 1956 Buick – Don’t Slam the DoorHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:25+00:00
1956 Buick – Don’t Slam the Door
- 1956 Buick – The Day Nero BurnedHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:25+00:00
1956 Buick – The Day Nero Burned
- 1956 Buick – How to Sell the House!Hometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:25+00:00
1956 Buick – How to Sell the House!
- 1956 Buick – Phillister Gets His FillHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:26+00:00
1956 Buick – Phillister Gets His Fill
- 1956 Buick – The Strange Cases of Messrs. X and YHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:26+00:00
1956 Buick – The Strange Cases of Messrs. X and Y
- 1956 Buick – Servicing the New Buick Rear AxleHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:26+00:00
1956 Buick – Servicing the New Buick Rear Axle
- 1956 Buick – Put a Plus in Your PitchHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:26+00:00
1956 Buick – Put a Plus in Your Pitch
- 1956 Buick – Braggin’ll Sell the WagonHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:26+00:00
1956 Buick – Braggin’ll Sell the Wagon
- 1956 Buick – Selling Buick over the Low-Price ThreeHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:26+00:00
1956 Buick – Selling Buick over the Low-Price Three
- 1956 Buick – The Face You Save May Be Your OwnHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:27+00:00
1956 Buick – The Face You Save May Be Your Own
- 1956 Buick – Bright-Eyed and Bushy-TailedHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:27+00:00
1956 Buick – Bright-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed
- 1956 Buick – The Best Buick YetHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:27+00:00
1956 Buick – The Best Buick Yet
Free repair & owner manuals for your 1956 Buick!
- 1956 Buick Product Service Bulletins AEHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:20+00:00
1956 Buick Product Service Bulletins AE
- 1956 Buick Product School ManualHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:20+00:00
1956 Buick Product School Manual
- Buicks Busy Acres in Flint, MichiganHometown Buick2017-03-01T19:27:21+00:00
Buicks Busy Acres in Flint, Michigan
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1956 Trivia
What else happened in 1956?
- February 22 – Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with “Heartbreak Hotel”.
- February 23 – Norma Jean Mortenson legally changes her name to Marilyn Monroe.
- February 24 – Doris Day records her most famous song, “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”; it is from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which Day co-stars with James Stewart.
- March 2 – Morocco declares its independence from France.
- March 15 – The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
- March 20 – Tunisia gains independence from France.
- April 19 – American actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
- May 24 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland. The winning song is the host country’s Refrain by Lys Assia (music by Géo Voumard, text by Émile Gardaz).
- June 8 – General Electric/Telechron introduces model 7H241 “The Snooz Alarm”, first snooze alarm clock ever.
- June 15 – Eindhoven University of Technology is founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
- July 4 – The first Lockheed U-2 spy plane flight over the Soviet Union.
- July 9 – Birth of Tom Hanks, American actor and director.
- July 10 – The British House of Lords defeats the abolition of the death penalty.
- September 13 – The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.
- November 3 – MGM’s film The Wizard of Oz is the first major Hollywood film running more than ninety minutes to be televised uncut in one evening.
- December 12 – Japan becomes a member of the United Nations.