Lustworthy Y-tin/A-tin/USA-tin!

The year thing does seem crazy where design and R+D is concerned so good to know some bits are shared.

'68
"RAAaaAaa", " theres a nice car"




'70
Niiice

but not a buick is it! sweet

Chevelle wagon, it caught my eye while searching for '1970 Buick'

Still a bit of 60-70's Y tin that may not have as much scene tax or classic tax, i wont be ruling out a big old bruiser cruiser out of the master plan just yet!

Get the 454 Chevelle ;D Mmm, ridiculously awesome.

FFS a '69 Wildcat! How did I miss that? Oh yeah, I banned myself from eBay. Love them. yes, one year only body style, good luck getting panels... pretty much everything is different on a '69 panel-wise, although the doors may be common to the '70. It wa called planned obselescence. The idea was to refesh the designs every year and therefore encourage people to upgrade more often.

I've had the jones for one of these for years. I missed a clean '69 LeSabre for sale a few years ago, saw it living on the same street as amate in Cov for a couple of years then it got torched in a dispute withhis neighbours!!!

Its a 4 door which limits its value. I might hold out and buy one in from the US when I'm flush one day.

If anyone buys this they have a just-about guaranteed buyer here for it when you are bored of it.

The Wildcat is basically the LeSabre shell with the Electra engine and a "sportier" package. Its lighter than an Electra and more powerful than a LeSabre. Its a full sized car. That one is just shy of 220" long and weighs in about 4200 lbs. 1969 is a very good year. Last of the proper high compression lumps. The 430 is a damn good motor, often overlooked by people wanting the extra cubes of a 455. Makes about 375 BHP and 495 lbs torque from memory (455 makes 375 and 510 respectively). Peak torque is something like 2800 RPM. Total stump puller. Trans will be a TH400 and you'll probably have the 12 bolt rear in that. Posi was optional, but unlikely in a 4 door. Some people call the Wildcat the "bankers hot rod" but that title was originally given to the Chrysler 300 letter series.

Look out for rot round the rear window frame, in the boot floor especially around the chassis mount points where water congregates. Other rot favourites are the boot lid (tripple skinned at the closing section and tricky to repair right) and front floor/toe-board areas.

They are like all GM b body cars - Fisher body built on a separate chassis so even quite ropey ones can still get through the MOT. technically sills are non-structural even.

15 sec 1/4 mile when stock (on cross ply tyres!) many have fairly high gearing but the factory offered a selection so you may be lucky and have something over a 3. in there, maybe.... Again unlikely in a 4 door.

But then my '66 has optional low gears and thats a 4 door. (in fact mine has all the "performance" options except the posi so I wonder if the original owner was trying to get a family hot rod type car together at the dealer...)

Buy it and trade it me for my Chrysler when I have that fixed up!

God I love Buick Wildcats

Anyone got a pick of the Boat-tail Coupe that they did in the 60's?
That's my faverist car ever!!!

Gonna pay more attention to stuff like this at this years shows. Interesting to see what it goes for.

Here's one of my favourites....

Probably pretty desirable, especially by me!

Thats the puppy. I have also seen that '70 Riviera around too. I think I saw it for sale or it might have been a different one. Not expensive at all. Probably one of the least desirable years of the RWD Rivs.

That wagon is hawt. Biscayne?

The best is the '66 Gratuitous repost of this photo of mine



See how tiny the Trooper parked along side looks LOL