I've been trying to talk Carl into buying this one(I'm great at spending other peoples money!). Saw it at Ancaster last year. He wanted 17k for it then. Clean car. It NEEDS a 455 in it!!
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.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Yes 455 starting in 70. Carl wouldn't the pedals be the same for all A bodies of those years?
They could well be, but I think what made it rare was the rest of the linkage. I got the Z bar and if I recall right, also the rod that goes down to the fork. I spend a bit of time on the Buick forum, and when a guy on there got wind of this setup he PM'd me in short order and made me an offer I couldn't refuse to go pull the setup out of the car in the wrecking yard and sell it to him. He was having big trouble finding it anywhere.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Yes 455 starting in 70. Carl wouldn't the pedals be the same for all A bodies of those years?
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
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
Geez, that's a scary tale Ken! I remember cruising downtown London in the Buick and there was an area that was a bit seedy. Two guys were having a fist fight at a bar and it spilled out onto the street. They ended up on the hood of the car in front of me. I was praying they wouldn't come near my car-or my rare GS hood! Another funny tale related to that car. I used to deliver prescriptions in the Buick part time for a local drug store (talk about nieve- I often had to deliver LARGE bottles of Morphine to cancer patients. So here's me in a screaming yellow GS clone, long hair (mullett) with this big bottle of narcotics siting on the front seat-could you imagine if I ever got pulled over?) and there was a bar/restaraunt next door. There was this guy who used to drink there with a real 70 GS (black). One day he came into the store drunk and I asked him he'd sell me his grill emblem. He said "What'll ya give me for it?". I pulled 20 bucks out of my pocket. He walked out of the store, over to his car and yanked the emblem off he car-destroying that GS grille! He handed it to me, took the 20 and went back to drink some more! Todd
that was a long time ago ,when hardtops were the in thing,i remember wanting to cut the post out,lol,the reason it was sold was because it was a post,we all learn the hard way,this is my dads post cars when i was a kid ,i posted these elsewhere