Here's my 71 just after a repaint last winter <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s2jbg2hRE-g?fs=1&hl=nl_NL"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s2jbg2hRE-g?fs=1&hl=nl_NL" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> I'm the second owner got all the paperwork for it. Interior is in great condition:
Been a while since my last post. Hope everyone is having a good season. I've got my boats 'winterized' just in time. Our temps here in the northeast US have dropped fast - about 20 tonight. Everyone else have their machines in hibernation?
My '73 is sitting out in the cold same as every night. Haven't started it in a few weeks so I'm figuring I probably should fire it up sometime this week just to keep the ice out of it. That's assuming she'll choose to start.
Hey guys, its great to see lots of these big old boats still cruising the streets!!! Lets face it, they just don't make em like this anymore!!! Here is a pic of my 70 electra.
My beautiful 73 is in the hands of a mechanic that talks a good game. I am feeling pretty positive although I likely won't get her back for a week. The carburetor is being rebuilt. Cool fact #1: mechanic reported back that one of the rubber things meant to block fuel do.... okay I don't understand how they work.... was completely rotted away. Mech says that the Buick should not have been running, much less so smoothly. This Buick is the AK47 of cars. Big, overpowered, and nearly unstoppable. 78k miles... 20+ years to go.
I love my boat, even though I didn't drive it much this year. Grumpy's in hibernation for the winter.
It's supposed to be 5 below tonight. With 2 plus feet of snow on the ground, I can't imagine ever being able to slide under the big boat to work on it, but come Spring, I won't be able to imagine not doing so. Going to be a long winter's nap for the ole' girls! :eek2:
I dug mine out yesterday so that I could open the hood and run a new line for the brake booster and test fit a few pcv grommets. After the last snow storm dumped 2 feet of snow up here the foreign guy parked next to me dug out his '06 or so Hyundai and was to lazy to throw the snow so he just dumped it on my '73 Electra and on a '66 Mustang parked on the other side of him. :rant: I just waited for him to finish and then proceeded to clean the snow off my car back onto his. Buried his drivers side up to the windows and it didn't even get my car half cleared. Figured it would be a nice thing for him to deal with in the morning before he went to work. He hasn't parked anywhere near me since :laugh:
It's minus 25 C up here, and we have had snow every day for the past ten days. There's a good 3 feet of snow which will be here until mid April at the earliest. Luckily my Electra is in the garage, which isn't heated yet, but will be by next winter. The 46 Super is safely in a buddy's shop in storage. And yes, snowblowers up here are a necessity this year, I just wish the county would keep the roads as clear as I have to keep my sidewalk...A few days a go there was an abandoned Hyundai at the entrance to my crescent because he got stuck in deep snow...they finally got him out yesterday. I guess it's an 8 hour wait for a tow truck now. Good thing I don't have to drive that Electra in the winter; I imagine a convertible would be a pretty cold ride...
I used to have a 1976 Electra Limited coupe and I have my 1975 Electra Limited since 2001. I really like them! Someday, I'd like to get a 1959 Electra 225 Riviera.
Wait in line! :laugh: :laugh: I've been looking for a good one for a couple of years now and all I've found is overpriced junk that has been poorly restored! There's got to be a nice '59 Electra 225 hardtop or convertible with my name on it somewhere....but it's certainly not in Canada! It seems that '59s are very rare up here, most probably never survived the heavily salted winters of the late '60s and early '70s. Unfortunately both the '59 and the '60 have this alarming tendancy to rust like shipwrecks; my last '60 Invicta was so rotten there was plywood on the floors and the tank was in the trunk because there was nothing left underneath to secure it. That said, I'd love to have a nice '59 Invicta or Electra, preferably with a good options load, something else that never seemed to make it to the Canadian market. I'm really tired of plain-jane-no-option equiped Invictas, Wildcats or even Electras that were sold here. My convertible was assembled in the US, otherwise it would have had crank windows in it! That Invicta I had had only one option, - the clock. It didn't even have power steering or brakes; - try driving or parking a car like that with "manual" steering!
Electras weren't as common as Invictas and LeSabres here as they weren't built in Oshawa and they were taxed as imports before the auto pact. I'd like to get one with the auto heat, a/c, all power options and the Flightpitch transmission. But that will probably never happen!
-Which would explain why Electras came with options, and the local cars didn't. Thanks for the info! Never understood why Canadian built cars were always built without options; I've had a couple of Wildcats from the late '60s that were built in the US and when parked alongside their Canadian built cousins they were totally different cars... Was it something the manufacturers did or was it actually public demand (or lack thereof)?
I've seen Canadian Wildcats with some options. Some even had A/C but it's rarer here because of the cooler weather (many new cars sold here still lack a/c today!). When ordered with power windows, the 1965-66 Wildcats made in Canada also had power vents. Canadian LeSabre and Wildcat models also had standard Custom trim, even the Wildcat 4 door sedan (Wildcat sedans were only available in the cheaper standard and Deluxe trims in the US). As an option on the model 46639 4 door hardtop and standard on the model 46669 4 door sedan was an interior that was similar to the Electra 225's interior. My '65 Wildcat has the same interior cloth as the '65 Electra 225 Custom. Wildcat coupes and convertibles built here before 1966 also had standard operating consoles with tach, standard automatic transmission and clock. And even in the early sixties, some canadian Invictas had interior trim that compared with the US Electra and the canadian LeSabres had Invicta trim.
