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Buick Century is the model name Buick used for a line of full-size luxury cars from 1936 to 1942 and 1954 to 1958, as well as from 1973 to 2005 for midsize cars. The first Buick Century debuted as the Series 60, then renamed in 1936.
In 1955, the California Highway Patrol placed a large order for 270 Century two-door sedans, a body style not available to the general public. It combined a two-door Special sedan with a Century powertrain, 135 of which were Dynaflow automatics and 135 manuals. Broderick Crawford drove a Century two-door sedan during the first season of his popular TV series Highway Patrol. These two-door Century sedans were actually police vehicles owned by the California Highway Patrol and loaned to a television production company, the CHP door emblems were changed to a generic Highway Patrol insignia. (He drove a four-door Century in later seasons, but these were not California Highway Patrol-owned vehicles.) Power brakes were optional. Tubeless tires were new. Century remained Buick's performance line, engine power increased from 149 kW, in 1954 to 176 kW, in 1955 to 190 kW, in 1956 to 224 kW.
