Car of the Day: Buick Y-Jobb

Considered today, to be the first “Concept Car”, Harley Earl’s 1938 Buick Y-Job  was built on a 1937 Buick chassis. Earl sought to combine his vision of the automobile with new technologies and features to create a benchmark for future designs. The Y-Job included such advanced thinking as hidden headlights, flush-mounted door handles, a convertible top concealed by a metal tonneau deck and electrically operated windows.

1938 Buick Y Job, penned by famed designer Harley Earl, is known today as the first concept car ever created.