Rough 1970 Buick GS 455 4-speed MI C/L

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  1. cammerjeff

    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    My kind of car. Too bad it needs so much rust repair. Those were a rough five years on the body.
     
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    $50,000??? I've done two of these style cars. If you need ANY parts, you're looking at $100.000++++ for the restoration. 1000 hours minimum @ $100 per hour plus parts of at least $50,000. See how quickly you're upside down?
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    It looks like just a cheap quarter-miler. Sad to see this in this shape.
     
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    It's an early car too, judging by the plastic upper radiator support. Later ones were steel.
     
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    Right? That thing must have been pt away after a really rough Detroit winter, full of road salt, filthy and in a moist garage. I always loved maroon cars. I don’t think they use that color name anymore. But early ‘70’s maroon cars were great. I always loved that ‘71 Custom that Bert Reynolds drove as a moonshiner.
     
  7. cammerjeff

    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    I did say another $50,000 or More

    it is my kind car also, not much to go wrong, but it beyond what I am willing to take on anymore. And as it sits it is a $2000-3000 car to my eyes. As it needs everything
     
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    To let it rot like that and then demand overly-inflated imaginitive prices is quite bold, to say the least. The only thing practical to do with it now would be to use it as an organ donor for a clean California body. Most perferably, a lighter than hardtop sedan
     
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    Honestly, as long as the floors are solid-ish this is something I'd just freshen up the drivetrain on and drive as-is, rust and all. It's high priced, but finding a 455 4-speed GS is very difficult, especially one like this that appears to have all of the hard to find parts still together. The GS and 4 speed parts alone are worth probably half the price.
     
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    If it were structurally sound underneath it would be a fun car to mechanically restore and drive as-is. Not for $20k though.
     
  11. cammerjeff

    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    I doubt the floor boards are solid with the rest of the body as bad as it is, but given Buick V8 & V6's tendency to leak oil out of every gasket surface it is possible. I have seen a few Buick powered cars that rust proofed their own floor boards, I even owned a 77 Buick century wagon that looked worse than this car, but did have solid floors coated in about 1/2" of oil sludge.
     
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    Yep, a LOT more. Closer to $100,000.......
     

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