this will get you scratching your heads /my first car was a 67 hr kingswood 6cyl 186 cubic inch first buick 67 electra
63 Chevy II, three on the tree, 194 ci six. Bought it for $400 from the owner of the gas station I worked at. The shift linkage used to bind between first and second if you didn't move it a certain way... I remember one night coming home from some party and drunk off my a$$.. My buddy was in much better shape so he was driving it home and me in the passenger side. He couldn't work the linkage right so I had to reach over - head bobbing and ready to puke - to work that 1-2 shift with my left hand. It was pretty beat, but in my High School it was cool enough to be voted as one of the top 3 popular cars by our graduating class. Sold it to someone for $700. He wanted to make a drag car out of it.
First car a 76 Caprice 2 door with a 400. You could pack a lot of drinking bud's in that car! First Buick (at heart) was a 62 scout with a little old V6 in it, a 225 Odd-fire Buick! Quite a bit of power in that thing and I drove it about 30 miles or so to college every day. First real Buick was an Apollo, don't remember what year it was but it was a good little car that I bought for the wife. Still working on my first Nailhead!
Summer of '73.......here's a picture of me and my mom Rosie(Rosalie) on graduation day..first of June '74....i could only afford mags and tires for the rear on a Sear's warehouse worker part-time wage...... How's this for being a Buick guy......what a GREAT Mom i had :TU: Peace WildBill p.s....that's Levi's Big Bell Bottom pants i'm wearing under my gown......NOT a denim dress......it was the 70's Peace WildBill
Well at least it's not a pair of cord pants. You remember the ones with the wide cords running down them! I can relate to the mags on the back only. We did what we could on the budget that we had.
first driver was a 1975 hornet hatchback 401 with 425 hp 727 trans 355 gears, heckof a ride at 16, still have the motor and trans 24 years later nastalga stuff first buick 1969 skylark bought for 500 bucks from original family full rebuild under going way to much money but also way too much fun jamie
no its an aussie gm sedan /must be badged after the american kingswood because we also have brougham/premier/all are bassed on the gm american cars but all are smaller/the current pontiac gto is made in aus but is called a monaro and the new police car there is a aussie built gm statesman/will upload some pics soon/maybe of some interest/sadly no new buicks here.
First car and Buick was a 1970 Skylark 350 2bbl, great car. Blew the trans after a couple years and sold it to a friends brother. 2nd car was a '71 GS Stage 1, naturally would like to still have that one. Sold it to the same guy that bought my Skylark. My first two cars were his first two cars.
I really liked the car itself. I even bought a set of the 427 cast iron headers for it from a guy for $25. Boy, I sure wish I had those today. I never felt anything I did to the car made it any more powerful. On the plus side, I never blew anything up in it, which is saying a lot for a 16-17 year old kid :beers2: When I traded it in in 1972 for that `67 GTO I was in hog heaven. Fastest thing around at the time but that was short lived. I blew 3 engines in a year before I figured out that you can't treat a Pontiac like you can treat a Ford or Chevy. Of course, being an 18 year old kid at the time probably had a little to do with it :laugh: I wouldn't mind having another `64 XL. Red w/red interior would be great. 427/425hp would be even better. Bill
1st car was a '64 Pontiac Tempest 326 I got when I was 14. Tinkered with it for 2 years till I got my license. 1st Buick was the '66 Riviera I bought in 1981 when I was 20. In between those I had a '67 Rustang, and a '72 Cutlass Supreme.
My first car was a Buick . 1970 Skylark 2door coupe. 350 2bbl, green on green. that was in 1984 had it on the road for about $500 bucks. drove it for about two years. I took 20 years to get my second Buick
my first car was a 70 Skylark that I bought for $700 in 85' when I was 17...drove it for a couple of years and got right into a 70 Stage 1 4 speed car by the time I was 19...bought that car for $2700. Should have kept that GS and got rid of the first wife that hated the car
My first car was a 65 Chevy II station wagon that I bought from my parents. Had a 283 and a three on the tree, rubber floor mats. They bought it new. My first Buick was a 41 somthin or other, it never ran and I sold it that way. First one that ran is a 69 Wildcat 4 door that I bought on an auction for 375.00. 69000 original miles-still have it. :beer
