1972 gsx ?? Not mine

Discussion in 'Ebay Parts and Cars' started by stage2bruce, Dec 7, 2015.

  1. George D.

    George D. Platinum Level Contributor

    John, it will be restored. It's owned by someone who loves Buicks and will have it restored correctly. :TU:
     
  2. bill van steen

    bill van steen Well-Known Member

    Mikes painter is doing a 72 GSX currently it's white and a 350 car, came from Manitoba I think, if anybody brings the red one back to life it will be Mike, original owners son contacted awhile ago, long story behind that car. Will be as cool as any 70/71 in my eyes. B
     
  3. staged70

    staged70 RIP

    Hi Bill, long time huh. The SunCoupe is done and due to impending retirement we are going to list both cars and keep the one that doesn't sell first. You know I love that red car from the first pics you sent. Terry is retiring in March and we want to get down to 1 car
     
  4. bill van steen

    bill van steen Well-Known Member

    Yes john long time, good for you on the retiring, hope you enjoy it. Nice to hear sun coupe is done and saved, definitely another rare one. Still looking at buicks but don't own any presently. B
     
  5. TORQUED455

    TORQUED455 Well-Known Member

    Mark, were any of the "fire red" ones sold in the U.S.?

    Back in the mid-80's, while attending college at General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan, there was a red 72 GSX that appeared a couple of times at the fraternity house next to mine on nice Saturday afternoons. It allegedly belonged to a higher-up at Buick whose son drove it to college a couple of times. I remember being told that it was a post-production vehicle, one of one, made possible only because the father was well-connected. Buick had to come up with parts after the fact to put the car together. How true that is is anyone's guess, and the car was absolutely gorgeous. I want to say that it had a black vinyl top but can't be 100% certain.
     
  6. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    Bob I think it is possible as I remember an article that claimed 350 GSXs were made from left over parts, as how many people would really order or be looking for a 350 GSX ? It would probably be the same as ordering a Vette with a 4 cylinder. :)
     
  7. Duane

    Duane Member

    "Bob I think it is possible as I remember an article that claimed 350 GSXs were made from left over parts, as how many people would really order or be looking for a 350 GSX ? It would probably be the same as ordering a Vette with a 4 cylinder."

    That is total BS.

    Every 71-72 GSX was a "Special Order Car" and was ordered EXACTLY like it was optioned. Otherwise it would never have been built.

    I know of 3 cases where a dealership ordered a 1971 350 GSX to be used as a "draw" to lure customers into their showroom. The idea was to buy the cheapest one available and use the "stripes" to bring in customers.


    The one that "TORQUED455" is talking about would have been a clone, not factory. People have been making clones since they were first built. Including some dealerships.
    Duane
     
  8. Mike Sobotka

    Mike Sobotka Founders Club Member

    Good to hear from you, Duane. :TU:
     
  9. Duane

    Duane Member

    Howdy Mike.
     
  10. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    Anyone have any info as to how many 72 GSX 350s were ordered by customers and how many were dealer ordered ? Also if anyone knows the base MRSP of the 350 /455/ Stage one. Trying to check out a lead on a car from I guy I was talking to and trying to determine at how rare it is as I was told it was one of a kind. We've all heard that one before. lol
    Thanks in advance.
     
  11. Duane

    Duane Member

    We do not have that type of info......however we do know that a bunch of very early 72 cars were purchased by dealerships. They came in 2 different option packages, with the only difference being different exterior/interior color combinations.

    With the large number of options available and the small number of cars produced probably every 72 GSX is unique. That makes every one a "1 of 1" car thus making it a worthless statement. The only thing you can say is it is a 1 of 44 car, like the 71's are a 1 of 124 car, and leave it at that.

    I can't help with the base prices, but do know that when I checked the dealership invoice on the 71 350 GSX I once owned, the selling price was so high the original owner could have bought a low optioned Vette for the same price.
    Talk about price gouging.
    Duane
     
  12. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the info Duane . Any knowledge and insight is greatly appreciated as they were rare cars when built so it is difficult to find the history of these cars.
     
  13. gsxnut

    gsxnut Well-Known Member

    If you have the VIN on the 1972 GSX you are looking at you can contact Sloan Museum and they can verify the car and all the options the car came with. From my research on 1972 GSX the following was true about invoice pricing.

    Maximum Invoice Price was $4500.67
    Minimum Invoice Price was $2855.46
    Average Invoice Price was $3712.45

    This is Invoice pricing not MSRP. If you have the information from Sloan and know every options Mike Trommetter could help you get an MSRP. He has done a ton of research for Window stickers so could create the cost based on what he knows about prices shown on Window Stickers.

    Mark
     
  14. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    Great info. Thanks
     
  15. Hawken

    Hawken Hawken

    Mark,

    I have another question about '72 (and '71) GSX production and the research you did. I thought that the dealers which ordered the cars were broken down into "Zones" and that there was one or two of these "Zones" which were reserved for special uses or situations like overseas deliveries. Is this accurate? If so, is this another way to possibly identify more specifically where the production went?

    Thanks.
     
  16. gsxnut

    gsxnut Well-Known Member

    Ken,

    I was only able to research 1972 cars. No data is available for 1971 cars. The microfilm shows which dealer code it was invoiced to but no information about the dealer related to the code. The dealer information fore each code was gathered from other documents the Sloan museum has including 1973 invoices, dealer code lists from the 1960s through the 1980s and dealer delivery list from 1965. On domestic dealers the codes are straight forward. For overseas the codes are assigned to code 79. Per the information from the 1973 invoices this code references an address from which the car was shipped out of the states or at least processed to be released. The microfilm had additional codes for some cars showing the car was transferred to another dealer code at a later date. There were also other special codes like zone 16 that were used for internal tracking of the car through "dummy" accounts if the car was used by Buick prior to being released to the general public through a dealer.

    I have some of the zone 16, 79 etc codes but not all of them. A couple of the 79 codes were for HI. Beyond those codes I have not found code for any dealers in Europe, Caribbean, etc. There were two 1972 GSX registered that are currently in the Caribbean that had 79 codes.

    Canadian codes were typically zones in the 80s and 90s.

    Mark
     
  17. Mister T

    Mister T Just truckin' around

    A few years ago, I spotted what appeared to be a 72 GSX on an open trailer being towed on Hwy 75 northbound through Morris, Manitoba. I was heading south in my big rig at the time or I would have done a flip and followed it until they stopped again.

    I wonder if this is the same car. :Do No
     

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