Does anyone have any ideas about how they think a new/retro GS should look? Never mind that it probably would never happen, how should it look? Should it be modeled after one year only or use styling cues from several years? I'm guessing that RWD goes without saying! Any drawings, models, carvings, 3D renderings ect you can share? How hard could it really be to re-sheet metal a car anyway?
Not sure that I'd like to share (to give someone else ideas from my own designs), but I've made my own "Chip Foose" style '70 GS, with rounded fenders and 1/4 panels, similar to the new GTO, except using an original '70 GS, just reshaping the metal. Even if I wanted to share, I'll have to find it (somewhere in the house), and Scan it, and Transfer it to my other computer, just to get it HERE! :Comp: :grin: Picture this: '70 GS with '69 Chevelle Front End (Rounded Fenders around Headlights, instead of squared). '69 Camaro style Hidden Headlights, built into '70 GS Grille. Chopped Roofline similar to Boyd Coddington's "Chezoom" (modernized '57 Chevy). Rounded 1/4 Panels to smooth out rear bodylines, and flow into trunk area. I'll see if I can find some of my artwork. I think you'd like it, for what you're thinking about.:bglasses: Drawing '70 Buicks, and coming up with Modern designs for them, is what I've done since 1987! If I had a Shop where I could actually BUILD the cars that I Draw, I'd have some serious Show Cars!:shock: I just don't have the room, right now.:Smarty:
i would say a small gsx body (70) on the new zeta (or wahtever they call it) frame with a turbo'ed 4.6 northstar. but no back seat for the smaller chassis (a given. hood bulges where the heads would need clearance (and add a nice look to the hood) and a hood tach. or just a 4.6 and a turbo 4.6 as a stage one, and intercooled for stage 2 w/ more boost. maybea a rare 5.0 turbo as an expensive stage 3 that would be a sight to see and drive. Add a couple little modern touches and i'm sure it would sell.
You actually suggested a "non Buick" engine be put in a GS? Get your flame suit on. :spank: Call me a sicko, but I liked the new GN concept. I think others would too. It will never happen though.
The only buick engine left is the 3.8 and that doesn't look to me like they kept a lot of buick in that motor last time i checked, besides the bore and stroke. (correct me if i'm wrong, my interests aren't really in the v-6) GM would never build a motor for one car so it can be called a "buick" motor, and the 3.8 is getting old here for a new car. I picked a motor that is of very good design (abeit slightly less material wise) and seems that it can handle boost (4.4l 440hp SC). GM will throw any motor in any car (within limits of course) because all its motors are now corperate anyways - there is no brand engine anymore anyways. Now if we were talking about an older buick i'd definitely be on your side about the motor thing, especially since its the heart and soul of a car. By the way, it would be offered with a 6 speed manual or 6 auto - (s/p would be nice)
Can't say I disagree with you. You know how some of the purists are, though. They must be out having fun as no one has jumped up to say @#$%* :rant:
Might be cool on such a car to have the engines "farmed out" from a performance source as opposed to letting the factory install them.
I seem to have a hard time getting ideas from my head to paper (or computer screen) but here is the latest thing I did (a few months old now). I took a picture and cut it up in Paintshop Pro to make the car smaller. It looks more like an F-body now. Problem is it still doesn't look "new". The bumpers need something done to them. Painting them body color makes a big difference (my GS has the bumpers painted body color), but lowering the car and blending the bumpers into the body would make the car smoother. I think the design would need to be done well enough that anyone who looked at the car would say "I know what that is". (nevermind the people that already call them chevelles, novas and even ford torinos!!!!!
Frankly I'd prefer to see them license another manufacturer to make the original ones, maybe the 1970s. That os as impossible as the concept as this thread. Buick is as likely to retro a GS as American Motors is to redo the AMX. Since American Motors is out of business, I guess that would tell you what I think the chances are.
The concept of the thread isn't about the possibility of GM building a new GS, but what a new GS would look like. I've always wanted to learn metal shaping skills and I'm not beyond building one myself! (or trying to, anyway) As for a reproduction '70 GS, C.A.R.S. is already reproducing a "69 camaro. If they ever do a '70 chevelle it would be a few changes in sheet metel to a "70 GS. I just interested in what other peoples ideas of a "new" GS are.
Hmm, that one picture does resemble a Camaro a bit much. I love Camaros, but I also love my Lark. As far as hidden headlights, any reason for the 69 style? I liked the earlier style - made it look like one huge grill. How about with rectangular headlights instead of round?
I'm not sure that rectangular headlights would flow with the rest of the styling cues. If the entire nose was reduced in height it would work better. At this point I'm not even sure if all the cues need to come from one year or not! The challenger prototype strongly resembles the older one, and I think a new GS should do the same. Here's a picture with styles form a few different years of GS.
