Just try and picture a world without these two things: white bathtubs and boattail Rivieras. Now, please, stop, just stop. That world, with its iron-black bathtubs and no distinctive-reared classic American coupés is just to horrific to imagine. Now we need to take a moment and thank David Dunbar Buick.
That's right. The namesake of GM's China-pleasingest division was also the man who developed the enamel annealing process used to make cast-iron bathtubs white, which were the 19th-century equivalent of bathroom iPhones, and as such were a huge hit. Buick's plumbing fixtures company did very well. And, around this time, he developed an interest in cars, which would prove both his greatest legacy and his undoing.
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