For the love of $%#*!!!!

Seriously, why would you make such a point to stress its a "true GS" and do this to the drivetrain?? I just dont get it....ou:

http://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/2701032906.html

 

Because he is obviously clueless.

 

A 396? That motor sucks! So not only wrecked the value, made it slower.

 

at least he "WILL INTERTAIN"

I'm wondering if its a soft shoe (in the arse) act or comedy (of errors)

 

Lord that is painful to read, regardless of the subject mattter....:spank:

 

Not a bad deal i think... as long as theTWEETY bird floor mats come with the car:Smarty

 

Guys swap engines all the time. The original may have been dead.
They go with what they know or what's the cheapest way to make the power when the do it a lot of times also.
It can be made back into an all Buick car easy enough.
Too bad the price is more like where it should be with the correct engine.

 

Some people (not me) considered modified/ re-engined cars a still being GS if that what it was born as - had that discussion on the board a while back.
in my opinion if the things that made it GS are gone it ain't
- of course some argue you can put the GS stuff back have a real GS, but putting GS stuff on skylark makes a GS clone thats still just a Skylark with GS stuff - and I certainly wouldn't argue with that - or pay $12500 for a car that a chunk of junk in place of its proper GS 350

 

10bolt poss. has 355 gears,

Does this mean that maybe it has 355s? or it has some sort of limited slip?

 

Sweet mother of pearl! Everyone knows....."Friends don't let friends, put Chevy motors in Buicks!" On second thought maybe he doesn't have friends, it would explain this. o No:

 

What a disgrace......... uzzled:

 

I wonder if the same guy would post a Chevelle for sale titled ''True SS'' with a Ford motor between the frame. :rant:

Nothing against any other brand at all, it just chapps my :moonu: to mix the pot for any vehicle and call it ''True''

 

:laugh:

 

As you can see in my avatar, I owned a 71 Stage 1 auto and a 69 SS396 4 speed at the same time. The SS was modified (headers, Edelbrock, Holley, Engle cam, rectangle port heads, etc.) and the Buick was completely stock. And the Buick could easily out-run the Chevelle. It wasn't even close. But the Chevelle got 10 times the attention at cruise-in's... People wouldn't believe me when I said the Buick was faster...

Mike

 

come to think of it, where 355's available in the 10 bolt ?

 

I know you can get 3.55's for a 10 bolt (8.2"). Im not sure, but I dont think so on an 8.5" 10 bolt. Wouldnt swear to it though..

 

The model number makes it a 'real' GS or not. Not the engine.

I don't like it either.

 

I think i'm going to be sick!!

 

I know I'll catch hell for this but I will never understand the constant whining because someone didn't build their car they way someone else wanted them to. Yeah, a Chevy engine in a Buick is going to hurt the value of it, but so what? It's his car, his loss. Maybe it's not a fast as it would be with a Buick engine, although if he replaced a 350 with the 396 I'd bet that it is, but it's his car, his loss. It sounds to me like this guy bought the car like it is, but none of us knows the circumstances. Maybe the builder already had the car with a blown motor and got a killer deal on the 396, or maybe he had the 396 and got a killer deal on the car without a motor. It could be just about anything but the bottom line if it's his car, not yours. If you don't like it send him some money to put a Buick motor in it, or send him a Buick motor, or buy it from him and "save it" from a fate worse than the crusher.

 

You won't catch hell from me. The previous owner put a Chevy 350 in my 72 Skylark, and I'm looking right now for a 455 to replace it, but that's because I like the idea of a Buick engine in my Buick, not because I'm worried that somebody might be disgusted if they looked under the hood. I like to think there's room for everybody--purists who want their cars absolutely original, people like myself who want the car to be all-Buick but don't care if it's exactly the way it came from the factory, people who just want to go wherever their fancy, pocketbook, whatever, takes them. I know a guy with too much money to spend who took the body off his 68 Charger and put it on an 06 Charger chassis with Hemi. Some people are predictably bent out of shape about it, but I really don't care and don't see why anyone else should, either.