I walk by a Pantera and hear a lady asking the owner about his car.

When I brought my Rivi home....my neighbor's mom was over visiting him.

She looked over and waved hi. Mind you at this point...the Boat had 3 flat tires, no cowl, horrid paint.....your basic 600 dollar car.

She proceeded to ask me what it was and I told her. She then asked "well why do you have it?"

"I'm fixing it up and am gonna get it running again"

"Oh!....for the demolition derby?" ou:

At this point my wife, who was in the garage, chocked back on her hysterical laughter just long enough for me to give her "the look". I think she felt the same way as "mom"

"No...it will be nice. I'm restoring it"

"Well it looks pretty tough! I bet you could win the derby if you changed your mind"

Laughing....I agreed and went back inside. Silly old ladies......

 

I don't know whats worse, them, or the guys that claim their all original 60's mopars can do 180mph or so from the factory.

 

This one did 235 at the Chelsea Proving grounds with Charlie Glotzbach behind the wheel. Check out that wing on the back!

...And while we are on the subject a few pages back of wierdo export market cars, here is a photo of the Chrysler Charger that ruled New Zealand and Australia, based on an A-body platform, Dart/Valiant, while the charger above was based on the Coronet/Belvedere B-body platform When was the last time you saw a hemi six pack car!?



KFD

 

You Guys in the States have it easy.
Down under, very few people have any knowledge of US Muscle.
There were no Chevelles, Malibus, Toronados, Rivieras in any sort of numbers here.
So, nobody confuses my car with one of them, instead I am insulted by...

"Nice Mustang"

When I say, "not a Mustang, it's a Buick", I get "Buick? Who makes them?"o No:

 

Glad I don't have any of those mis-identified Buicks...

Seriously...used to bother me, thought everyone there as interested in hobby as me. They're not. Just as likely to be wandering around a mall.

Now, instead of being annoyed at "wanderers," I just enjoy them...and appreciate those who have some understanding...

 

I guarantee that I'd nail your Marauder X-100. Those are such cool cars. :TU: I knew of a 1970 model that sat for many years in a small Northern Ontario town, but it's either gone, or moved now.

 

PLFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His plate is crooked. That's gotta knock 5k off right there...ou:

 

The blow through twin turbo setup gets all kinds of off comments. Some people tell me it doesn't work because you can't just blow through a carb. I tell them they are right and that the turbos are gutted and it is just for show. Sometimes I just say "do you want to race against it?"

I'm frequently asked where the trailer is.

Two of the best comments I've heard was when somebody asked their friend why it had 3 alternators. The other was when a guy said, I think I saw that once on Star Trek! At least he was being intentionally funny.

People ask if they can hear it and are bored when I fire it up because it isn't nearly as nasty sounding as it looks.

Just a few days ago, some lady walks up to me smiling, and staring at the car. I was expecting her to say something, but not expecting it to be "you ruined it!" I just looked at her in disbelief and said "weird".

 

My 46 Super has been called a DeSoto about 5 times. I've been told that it has a flathead V8 while standing there looking at it. One guy even told me that the Buick Straight 8 was an off-shoot of the Chevy stovebolt 6, - and yeah, he claimed to have worked at GM then. My 66 Electra has been called a Cadillac, Chrysler, and a Lincoln. I've been told that the engine is a Chrysler hemi, - here again, while standing with the guy looking at it. I've had experts and their entourages look the car over and these same self-styled experts inform me and their entourage that the engine in my car was an experiment for Chevy that didn't work, so they shoved it in a car that isn't expected to go fast, namely a Buick. With one such clown on the way home from a show, I raced him and showed what a fine Buick will do against a poorly hopped up Nova with a wheezy small-block. He didn't have a chance.

Then there was the guy I took with my 60 Invicta; I had just hauled the car out of it's slumber in a bush. It had no exhausts, blew smoke, and the Dynaflow wasn't working all that well. I had no idea what this car would do, and I expected it to fall flat on it's face and leave me humiliated. So just for a joke, I signalled back to him, "sure, let's go". At the next set of lights we took off, and I thought, this thing isn't going to move, and dropped it into 1st. But it did move; and how. He was driving a early 70s Vette, and he had me off the line, but as soon as I got the Dynaflow into second at 40 the car squatted in the back and lifted its nose and took off. The ribbon that was the speedo just shot to the right and started bouncing. He was left "back there", and I was contemplating on throwing my shorts out of the window this car had scared me so much. It took me 2 miles to stop that thing because the brake drums were separating and the shoes were glazed. He pulled up and asked what I had in that car; I told him it was a stock 401. He replied that's impossible, there's no such thing. Buicks are "old man" cars, they never moved like this one did, and I must have this thing fixed up to race. "No", I asured him, "I just pulled this thing out of a bush 1/2 hour ago". So I showed him, opened the hood and there was this rusty smokey 401 plugging away on 7 cylinders. He was P.O'ed, because he had just had a 396 built for his car, and my Buick laid waste to it. I think he went and sold his car; I've never seen anyone so mad...

 

Should be posted as a Kill story!

 

I forgot about the "my car did 180 mph" stories. Do people not realize it takes about 650-700 horsepower to make those old bricks do 200+ mph? Not to mention the cooling system required to even approach those power figures.

I have very good cooling on my Turbo but one blast to 150 for a 15 seconds and my temps are approaching 210. One blast down the 1/4 and I go from 160 to 190.

Yea but that was not a street car. The streetable versions were just basic hemi's with the ground effects packages and ran out of gear long before 180.

Never heard the three alternators before that's funny.

Yep, good kill story.

Mikey

 

This should get y'all mad.
Sunday we went ot "Back to the Beach". a festival to help save the lake and the coastline. Well they also have a few hundred cars there as well. We FINALLY see a Buick. It was a beautiful '63-'64 Riviera up for salr @ 16K:shock: The hood was closed due to the recent drizzle, I figured. The owner was talking to 2 other guys and said "Go ahead and buy it".
Ahhh, so HE owns it. I say beautiful caqr. Please tell me you have dual quads.



He laughs and says "OH, NO I GOT RID OF THE PIECE OF $HIT NAILHEAD!!!! THEY WERE BAD DESIGNS THAT ALWAYS RAN HOT, SO I PUT A SBC IN IT!!!!:shock: I was flabbergasted and told him he would be tarred and feathered if this was a Buick meet.:laugh: He then said " Nailheads are only good for coupes from the '20s and it's in his friend's(i forget what exactly he said) car. I shook my head and said good luck on getting 16k (not snarky I might add).:spank:
Made me glad the hood was shut. I didn't want to see that...:ball:

 

:gp:

 

Not a "things they said" posting. but I was sitting at a light after leaving a show last weekend and a truck traveling the other direction suddenly stopped in the middle of the road, leaned out his window and said, "damn, that is one beautiful car!" and then proceeded to slowly drove away while still leaning out the window.

 

I heard a new one at a show last weekend now this was from one guy with a car club shirt on to his buddy on my GS clone
"These were the luxury version of the Chevelle" The more I thought about what I overheard I thought what a D*****bagou:

 

I dunno, I think I'd take that as a compliment. After all, the motto is "Fast with Class." Chevelle's are often thought of as being fast; that and most people dont know what a GS is; and Buicks deffinetly outclass them. :TU:

 

Ditto!!!!!:TU:

 

Yea I did for about 30 seconds but then I realized he was one of those guys that was talking out his a** on everything he said, but it was a original line

 

A guy tells me , " If that were my car , i'd cut that funny looking roof off and make a Buick El Camino .

 

Just read the discription

http://manitoba.kijiji.ca/c-cars-ve...-Buick-Skylark-Convertible-W0QQAdIdZ288954921