1965 Buick Special

Car was purchased second-hand in 1968 and has been in the family ever since. The car's name is "Biquette" which is French slang for "Billy-goat." We were a 1-car family for a decade and this wagon was it. So the car did it all from towing boats to serving as "ambulance." The car then started to "fall from grace" in part because of a botched engine rebuild that made the car harder to use. This slide culminated in the car being stolen in 1986 and disappearing for several months.

Amazingly we got the car back after it had been used by drug-dealers and the car was in incredibly good shape for its ordeal. At this point the car's ownership started to shift over increasingly to me and a slow recovery began. In her new role, she became a camping and astronomy vehicle and then a stint as a scuba "divemobile." The car has traveled to 5 states and even sneaked briefly into Mexico.

After 45 years, over 260,000 miles, and another mediocre engine rebuild, the car was in need more substantial restoration. The interior and exterior have been substantially redone. She is now in need of a drive-train "makeover," and work is underway on that. The car will be fitted with a CKPerformance 200-4R and a "JW" Tri-Shield Performance big-block Buick engine (448 cid). The new engine features Stage-2 Aluminum heads, hydraulic roller cam, exhaust headers, and a EZ-EFI fuel injection system. On the dynamometer, the engine produced over 500 horsepower and over 530 foot-pounds of torque.