In the first Buck Rogers story, Armageddon 2419 A.D., Rogers is an employee of the American Radioactive Gas Corporation and a World War I veteran, in 1927, exploring abandoned coal mines in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. He falls into a cave, gets gassed, and wakes up in the 25th Century, still a 29-year-old man despite nearly 500 years passing.
Well, the Buick on these pages, Betty to her caretaker “Wild Bill” Knowles, of Dalton, Massachusetts, can probably sympathize. After all, she’s only about 10 years old herself, even though she was assembled roughly 95 years ago.
One of 40,113 Standard Six two-door sedans built for the 1926 model year, Betty was apparently sold new right there in Berkshire County—at that time a prosperous place, thanks to several General Electric…