I'd have preferred it in the original color. If it was and if I had the cash I'd certainly consider buying it pending Sloan Docs &/or a numbers matching trans. although that's strong money for a '72 350 even being a 4-sp. Looks like a very nice car however. Will be interesting to see how high it goes. Of the five (5) '72 350 4-sp. hardtop cars I ever recall seeing, (assuming this isn't one of them), four of them were Hunter Green & one was/is one of the 23 or so SCO Charcoal Mist '72's made (also a Riviera only color afaik despite not being indicated as such on the link Kerry provided). Last I knew of it, it was being restored by a guy near Hartford. He'd tried selling on CL for around $5k a few years ago to no avail (I should've bought it) & decided to keep/restore it. There was a beautiful Hunter Green/no vinyl top one at the '86 & '87 (IIRC) Nationals with a Saddle interior/consolette - Have always wondered what ever happened to that one. One was sold in the early '90's outside Baltimore (IIRC someone in the Baltimore area bought it) & a few years ago one was sold in South FL to someone in MI in a pkg. deal w/a '72 455 car. Both were in pretty rough shape. I was ready to buy the one in FL but he made the deal on both before as I was getting quotes on shipping. Idk why I didn't buy the one in Baltimore. I even test drove it - I think I just had too many cars & nowhere to put it but neither has ever seemed to stop me in the past.
Wow, Dano, you seem to keep really good tabs on the 72's that remain in existence. You need to be on Jeopardy when one of the categories is "1972 Buick GS's" ! I sometimes wonder what became of my beige 1971 GS350.
Only the 350 4-sp cars, lol (any year). Unfortunately, there aren't very many to keep track of. So many were either parted or converted to 455's. @Chris Lott & I probably know about most of 'em. We've each owned 3 '70 350 4-sp cars I believe (one of his was/is a 3-sp.) I had a '71 350 (auto) that I'd bought from a friend in the late '80's. We went together to look @ it when he bought it when we were in HS (1984 ish). He took it apart & I never got to putting it back together. It was a kinda uniquely color/optioned combo (side note - almost every GS I've owned was green exc. my GSX, a white '70 Stage 1, & the only 2 '71's I've owned which were/are Burnished Cinnamon of which there were only 700 ish made). l sold it to a guy in OH around '08 & figured it was probably still apart or wound up being parted out. Was @ Cecil a couple years ago and as I'm looking at this '71 350 in the show, it dawns on me that it was my old car. Very neat - Texted my old friend right then. We were both very happy to see that our old car had been treated so well.
I'd go check out the los alamo car, but that is as far north of my location as phoenix is west of here.
