Heres a kill you should enjoy. I bought a 1970 buick estate wagon about 1 1/2 yrs ago with a 455 auto in it, had been sitting for about 10yrs by the edge of a swamp. Got the car home after cleaning the points and putting new gas in it (tank was bone dry) it fired up, yea i said it started i couldnt frickin beleive it. And it even pulled off fast idle i was floored. Anyway i rebuilt the carb drove it about 4 miles and parked it. Last spring i fired it up took it to town threw 30 bucks worth of gas in it and my buddy was there with his uncle's brand new twin turbo ford dually. We left at the same time had a buddy with me he said follow him otta town a ways. So we went about 5miles and i was right on his ass, so he slowed down when we got on a straight part of the road, i pulled up along side we went from a roll at 30mph and next thing i looked down we were going 110mph my buddy was scared for his life and that big ford was in the mirror. He called his uncle and gave him some ****, come to think of it his uncle hasnt said hi to me scince.
Gotta love Buick Big Block torque. Believe it or not you have a rare Buick. The 70 Estate Wagon is a one year only body style.
I pulled on him a little bit at first(that turbo had to build boost) then we hung together for awhile then i was gone (about 80mph). But like i said we went from a roll 30mph. I paid $500 for mine he paid about $40,000 that truck is loaded to the nuts.
When the snowbanks melt a bit i will post some pics of the wagon, amazingly that thing is clean. Needs paint only has 2 small rust holes in it and the underneath looks like new.
I had a similar experience - the night I picked up my 70 Estate Wagon (2003, 108,000 miles and everything original - including the paint - still is.) I was sitting at a stop light and an Olds Aurora pulls up. (I had only driven it about 30 miles from where I picked it up). I knew these are reasonably stout cars - V-8 I believe with some good Olds engineering behind it. When the light turned green, I decided to mess with the Aurora a bit and surprised myself as I was able to stay right with the Olds without much effort. It is not a kill story by any means but you have to love that torquey feeling in a big smooth riding car. I love driving the wagon!
thats a pretty good story... goes to show the 455's can move a lot of metal in a hurry... my neighbor has one of those northstar V8 aurora's and that thing is Q U I C K for a FWD olds.
Those new diesels are no dogs from the factory but you can tune them up like they do on tv and they really rip. But you have to be careful how much power you put on those diesels or you'll find out how good your warranty is (turbo, injectors, head gaskets, on a new powerstroke about $6000.00). I think i'll take my chances soup'in up my wagon.
Cummings are bullet proof????????? Tell that to my buddy down the street, that thing hauls ass it's a 98 but he's had more down time than jenna jameson on a new movie!!!!!!
i'm sure he has less down time than a dirtymaxipad or a powersmoke with the same power levels.. better fuel mileage i bet too
Cummins, Duxamax, Powerstroke, they are all good diesels but by far the cummins is stronger. My bud has so much done to it where do you start he's got $7000 in the tranny alone, and i dont know how many head gaskets he's blown. I think i'll stick with my gas trucks i can't afford to blow a turbo or tranny (because i would mod those diesels out if i bought 1) and with the price of fuel around 4 a gallon i dont care if you get 15mpg that still sucks.
