It is gorgeous!   I want it ,and a few others!!  Todd keeps finding all these jems..  It seems 2 door posts were 68-69 in the intermediates only?.. Would anyone have ordered a post with 455 4 speed?    anyone?  anyone?  Beauler?

I think there was only a 455 in Buick starting in 70, right?

There is a wrecking yard that I go to that has a 70-72 Skylark post car. It has a rubber floor mat, and was 3 on the tree. I got the pedals out of it a few years ago. I understand those pedals are a bit of a rarity.

There are zero documented 68-8 Skylarks or Specials with 400's (wagons you could get 400's) or any 70-72 Skylarks (or wagons) with 455's.

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Yes 455 starting in 70. Carl wouldn't the pedals be the same for all A bodies of those years?

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The clutch/brake pedals were different for all A-bodies but most of them will install and function. I have bought pedals at swap meets just to figure out what they are from. 
 The Beaumont shared pedals with the GTO until the end of 68, then with Chevelle for 69.

Speaking of manual trans equipped Buicks. Here's one that got away: It's a 71 Buick GS with a 350/4 speed combo. A minister in Goderich, Ont bought it new. He said he was embarrassed that it had a Hurst shifter! It was a bench seat car. He wanted something like 6 grand for it. I went to see it and he was kind enough to let myself take it for an hour by myself for a drive with the top down. It was great! This was 1991. I didn't have that much money and offered him $4500. He turned it down. I bought a 66 Mustang and got a call from him a few days later saying he'd take $4500 for it! I couldnt get the Mustang sold in time. Last I heard it was in Quebec. I think there were only something like 115 4 speed 350 GS rags in 71! Carl, you may know this car??
Pic:

I had an interior shot somewhere but can't find it.
My first car was a 70 Skylark Custom (350/Auto). I paid $750 certified for it (it really shouldn't have passed the certification!) and I replaced darn near everything on it. You'd try anything on a car when you are 16! Here's a pic not long after I bought it in 1986. Ugly eh?

My alcoholic neighbor backed into the Buick thus resulting in him writing me a cheque for $450 to commence repairs. I used the money to buy a rotted 70 GS that had long lost it's drivetrain. It yielded plenty of great parts.
Notice the dent in my fender from my drunk neighbors Explorer:

I wanted to duplicate the GSX and got as far as the yellow paint (although I chose Corvette yellow which is MUCH brighter than Saturn Yellow-Hey, I was 16!). My neighbor had a set of rally wheels that I bought for next to nothing. I found a MINT black interior in a local auto wreckers for $75. Canadian Tire provided the dual exhaust that I installed in my driveway with Thrush Turbo 400 mufflers (remember those?). I felt like a million bucks in that car:

A neighbor was a bodyman (not the drunk neighbor!) and he agreed to do the body work for something like 300 bucks. We took it to the local "Fix it Yourself" garage as they had a paint booth (I used to love going there! I wish they still existed!). He had a friend who worked for Ron Box (famous body shop in the area) who came out and sprayed the paint. It turned out flawless! I also managed to score a ram air cleaner from the back of an old school bus sitting in a local auto wreckers. I paid $25 bucks for it and restored it. It was actually for a big block Buick!:

Sadly, my first part time job didn't take enough income tax off my bill so I had to sell the car to pay my taxes($1200). I was pretty heartbroken. My dad was disabled so my parents couldnt afford to bail me out. The car went to Stratford. I felt nolstagic a few weeks back and bought the used car package for the car. It is showing last registered in 1991 in Stratford. I tried tracking down the name of the owner but haven't had any luck yet. It's now listed as Maroon in color. Anyone ever see a Maroon GS clone in the Stratford area? It was too nice to scrap at that time..
   Todd



-- Edited by 69Laurentian at 11:45, 2008-04-05

Todd, back in 1986 I drove a 1972 Pontiac Lemans Sport-it wasn't chevelle or beaumont but affordable-I remember driving through the french high school parking lot after a dance night cruising for girls and a bunch of guys with a GS buick clone chased us for blocks and blocks then we pulled over to see what the problem was-they jumped out with baseball bats-we didn't wait around-Drove the crap out of my car with the headlights out!! but of course being 16 with a new license I was using my signals ! it took hours to dump them-we pulled in an ex girlfriend's backyard and prayed they didn't find us ! Thats my buick GS story-it was blue

You guys were Bad!    Good thing you turned away from your lifr of crime....

Thats a post car    a two door sedan !    you sold it for 500 bucks