96 years ago today, on March 6, 1929 (January 25, 1929, the pioneer of Buick cars, David D-Buick, passed away. David D Buick On March 6, 1929, Buick pioneer David D Buick passed away. Buick was born on September 17, 1854, in Scotland. In 1900, Buick, who immigrated to the United States, and his chief engineer, Walter-L-Marr, left the ship and agricultural machinery repair shop where they lived day and night in Detroit and began to build the first experimental car (at that time, horse-drawn carriages were the main means of transportation). In 1903, they founded the Buick BUICK Automobile Company. A year later, automobile production officially began, and the first batch of 37 vehicles went on sale. In the second half of 1904, William C.Durant, a carriage manufacturer, saw the huge future potential of Buick BUICK and resolutely bought the company. He founded General Motors in 1908 and used the Buick BUICK brand as the cornerstone of pioneering new companies. Logo of an old Buick