Dear Jim, Tom, Tony, and mid-60s Buick owners who watch television,
I'm still behind on this show. Because we have a TiVo DVR and tend to watch only about an hour a night, we have only gotten so far as Henry Ford Jr. taking control of Ford after World War II (barely.)
It was a little humorous to see John DeLorean's reenactment of how the GTO came to be while using a 63 Wildcat 4 door hardtop. 
I still haven't reached this point. That seems extremely strange. There
has to be a whole lot more 1964 GTOs than 1963 Buick Wildcats! There is one in our area because I've seen it in a supermarket parking lot. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has to know the difference and finding a 1964 GTO couldn't have been that hard, so something else has to be the explanation. I was wondering if they had a GTO lined up that backed out at the last minute and used the Wildcat because they had to film on those days? Hard to imagine any thing else that explains the
faux pas.
Tom, Edouard and the rest of the this Buick crazy bunch.. I only missed the first hour of the first episode. I thought the rest of the series was very good, they kept the auto history moving with Ford being the center and everything revolving it.
It is a decent documentary, but I am seriously disappointed on the Ford emphasis and the quest for
"dirt" rather than actually trying to document:
"The cars that made America." GM and Chrysler get some mention in terms of their cars and technology, but the documentary clearly focuses on Ford and the nasty dealings that were happening there. The reenactments of Henry Ford brutalizing his son Edsel were so bad I finally had to forward past some of them.
And there was a scene where the narrator is talking about the status ladder of GM vehicles, after Olds he went to Cadillac !! What happened to Buick ? (my blood pressure went up ) Since I missed the fist hour did they even mention that Buick is the cornerstone of GM ?
Well, I just made a mistake and discovered that this documentary and others are being seriously
"too economical with the truth." This documentary claims that William Durant first ouster as chairman of GM was because of his attempt to create a Buick that would beat the model T. If that was correct, then Buick was Durant's initial brand name for cars for the working man. However, Wikipedia doesn't back up the documentary's claim:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._DurantInstead, the explanation is simply that Durant was overextended on credit and the bankers who he owed money to forced him out. So which is true?
Either way, there is clearly a identity crisis for Buick. When Durant used Chevrolet eventually to regain control of GM, now Chevrolet was the working man's brand. It isn't clear when Buick moved into a luxury car brand competing with Cadillac and Lincoln. Sadly it is clear that when there is a choice, GM will protect Cadillac before Buick. Not that long ago, Buick was forced to abandon their Suburban rebranding - the Rainier. I can only assume because GM was concerned it would cut into Cadillac Escalade sales. Buick has thus far avoided the fate of Oldsmobile, but GM doesn't seem to be willing to give Buick the respect it deserves as the first company in the GM organization.
We'll just have to see or . . . . . perhaps the second coming will simply just resolve all this . . . .
after all, perhaps even Jesus
would really rather drive a Buick!! 
Cheers, Edouard
