1973 Buick police Manuel trans

saw this on CL and it looked interesting enough. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/d/clearlake-park-1973-buick-century/6788398265.html

 

Paint it dark brown and you can pretend you are Kojak

 

I bet that's seriously super rare?

 

"Very very fast until the engine went".

Isn't that always true?!

 

Three on tree. If police? maybe some sort of meter maid car??

 

Colonnade vehicles with manual trans of any sort - including El Camino/Sprints where they were most common - numbered in the tenths of one percent of total production most likely.

 

Looks to be radio delete also. When was the last year for 3 on the tree?

 

gawd they got hit with the ugly stick in '73

 

Anyone going to check it out?

 

pretty remote area of CA and with missing title and bill of sale only. I am sure it will sit a while especially since the seller is even to lazy to hose off the dust and apply for a duplicate title.

 

Well its not a very handsome car.

 

Wonder where the seller got the idea it was a police car; not many cops in the 70s knew how to drive stick by that point. Yeah, dog dishes and a crashbox, and possibly radio delete; it's got frugal geezer written all over it and with a blown motor just an expensive parts car. Rare? Sure. When was the last time you ever saw one? Desirable? Yeah, I can see people lining up and beating his door down for this...NOT!
It was cheap junk back then, it's just old cheap junk now.