Yep, it was $500 when I looked at the link this morning. Probably been getting a ton of calls. I'd have it in my driveway if I was closer.
Those pictures look like they're 15 years old as do the cars next to it. I'd hate to see how rotten it is now, considering the door looks like it is air conditioned. It'd probably come apart as you loaded it on the flatdeck.
Here it is at $2000 with a little more info. https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/buick/invicta/1929098.html?refer=blog
Does anyone know anyone who can ship a car from Illinois to Alberta cheap without getting himself or me arrested? Conventional shipping would easily cost $3K to get it across the border and on my driveway. As a Canadian I can't just go there with a flatdeck and a pickup and get it. At $2000 it's worth a shot, even if the car is shot.
God thinking Marc, go get it, restore it and sell it cheap to me.. I'll come get it personally when you're done, that way I can see the country as well ..
If there was a way, I'd try it. At $2000 the car is worth that in parts, even if it is rotten to the core. I've always wanted a 1959 Invicta hardtop, but, sorry to disappoint you Soren, I'd keep it if it got here. Now, if you wanted a nice Buick to see Canada with, I might have just the car for you; - and it won't cost an arm and a leg!
The change you had of unloading your 66' cab to me is gone :laugh: The Invicta on the other hand is welcome :bglasses:
http://www.layitlow.com/forums/15-v...uick-electra-225-a.html#/topics/103304?page=1 Wish I could turn back time.. The others I can find is $40K +
No kidding! I abandoned a 1960 Buick Invicta in Mission BC, but that was about 35 years ago. Last I heard it was turned into a flower planter somewhere near there. But yes, I wish I could still find 59 Buicks for a reasonable price. So I'm stuck with my 66 Electra cab...It could be worse I guess, I could have decided to collect Morris Minors or Renaults or something equally as stupid...
I actually had a Morris Mini 1275cc.. Sold it a couple a week's ago, cause with 2 small children, house, wife and full-time job + my 65 Electra there's enough to spend time on.. What would the 66 cost if for sale? Really starting to like the topless cars more and more..
The 66 has an appraised value at around $25K, but I'd be willing to let it go for a lot less, more like $15K or so to someone on the board. It's a good solid runner now.
http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/buick/217259-1960-buick-electra-225.html http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/buick/211209-1960-buick-electra-impeccable.html Sad that they are 60's instead of 59.. Is that 15K$ Canadian ?
I was hoping you wouldn't ask that and just use American dollars... Let's just say I'd be open to negotiation...let's just say you bring me that black 60 Electra in the link above, with a clear title and all import charges taken care of, in my driveway and you might have yourself a big red convertible. I happen to love 60 Buicks as well as the 59s. It's just that I've already had a 60, and was hoping to get a nice 59 at some point. But I wouldn't say no to that black car.
I actually found prices on shipping for the silver one, but I the felling in my gut is not all the way there.. I'm way more in to the 59.. And then there's the 2 speed dynaflow trans.. Gotta be right to go trough the hassle of importing and taxing the car..
Which is why I haven't brought a car out of the US yet. I looked into shipping one across the continent, and it was cheaper to ship the bloody thing to Rotterdam than it was to Edmonton. It was actually cheaper to put a car on the boat in Florida and then ship it through the Panama canal to Vancouver than it was to put it on a truck. Apparently gas is worth more than bunker sea oil. Either way, a good car in the US once one factors exchange, taxes, shipping and then trying to get it registered here makes a good deal a terrible nightmare in a hurry. For instance, that black 60 Electra is reasonably cheap, but once I get it here it'll easily double in price. And legally, the hassle for a foreign national to do business in the US is getting tougher; they want you to have the proper B-4 visa whereas beforehand a driver's license and the fact you spoke English and brought money used to be good enough. Otherwise, it's a broker, who then goes and does the deal, pays out the money, greases the local authorities for the requisite paperwork, all for a "small fee" of course. So I just sit and wait for that "perfect" deal to come along that I can't refuse, then I'll go into bankruptcy to try and make it happen.
