another ugly GS

[TimR]

Pats thread got me thinking, maybe we should see who has the worst GS out there???LOL

This is my candidate, it came with my gs convertible. 72 GS 455, #'s matching solid gold hardtop but engine has spun bearing, parts missing, lots of rust. Really sad thing is the perfect buildsheet I found plus another one on top of the gas tank (I can see it through the trunk floor)......not sure what to do with it at this point. been debating parting it out, selling it, or perhaps doing a resto one day....

http://members.shaw.ca/timcr/timcr/GSS2.jpg


later
Tim

[David Gramlow]

This is (was) my brother's 68 GS400. I wrecked it, oh, about 24 years ago... :Dou:

[hemikillerstg1]

OK here's my entry!!!!!!!:Brow:

It looked worse when I bought it

[TimR]

So far I think David still wins...:pp

later
Tim

[Stagedcoach71]

David Gramlow said:This is (was) my brother's 68 GS400. I wrecked it, oh, about 24 years ago... :Dou:


Were you killed?:confused:

[hemikillerstg1]

Stagedcoach71 said:Were you killed?:confused:


No he wasn't killed but he was forced to live in ND
You can see the vast wasteland and baren tundra that david inhabits. Rumor has it that there were trees at one time but were used up to burn the evidence of his accident:laugh:

[David Gramlow]

Stagedcoach71 said:Were you killed?:confused:

Umm, I don't THINK so...

The car has suffered thru the growing years of 2 teenage nephews(..like, beating on the old wreck), and been thru a couple grass fires gone wild.

Chris, you are one funny guy! :laugh: :laugh:

I hadn't seen the car for several years, out at the family farm that my brother now owns, and when I bought my 68 1.5 yrs ago, I had plans to salvage lots of good parts from the old car.... needless to say, I was very disappointed when I went for a look-see. I AM going to salvage some decent stuff off it, this summer I hope. It's hard to find time to go home and work on it though.

[bignastyGS]

I think Davids is the winner too. Guess my GS wasn't as bad as I originally thought after all.That makes mine look like a showroom car.
Pat

[TimR]

surely there must be others???

Tim

[David Gramlow]

This isn't mine, but I know where it is, for sale, but the owner wouldn't state a price, he thinks it's worth a fortune, for just a Skylark... :rolleyes:

[SportWagonGS]

OK Tim,
you knew I'd get in on this, for those that don't know, I bought this and am going to restore it, it's a 1970 GS455, it is suppose to be Bamboo Cream with a brown Vinyl top and will be again

[TimR]

Kurt, you know, it looks rough but it really doesn't look bad.....

later
Tim

[brblx]

did the spare grille in the engine compartment come with the car?:Brow:

so has the resto started yet? if so, any progress shots? we'd all love to see them.

[SportWagonGS]

Well, I'm sure that I could have kept the truck grille if I wanted too:grin: but I dumped all the non Buick parts out of it before we forklifted it onto my trailer.
I really havn't done much to it except installed suspension and wheels so I could roll it around. It needs a rear clip, it's rusted out around the back glass so the trunk floor is shot as are the 1/4s, core support needs a heavy patch and the under hood wiring harness is cut, the good news is 1 fender is good and I might be able to use both doors and the floors in the passenger compartment are super solid, I'm hoping for a soild 1970 Skylark parts car to be donated to the cause since I'm working on a budget of $0
But it is mine, with a clean title and all!

[SportWagonGS]

TimR said:Kurt, you know, it looks rough but it really doesn't look bad.....

later
Tim

Well, thats what I thought too, my girlfriend and the neighbors on the other hand.......
This car actually got me sued by the neighborhood association, but I still have it, and it's still at my house!

[TimR]

I know, I got the same looks when the ragtop got dropped off at my garage.....:grin:

Keep us posted.

later
Tim

[Chris Lott]

Kurt, have any more recent picture of the car as a roller? I'd like to see a couple more shots of it, just curious. Always glad to see a GS being saved.

[BuickGSXJuiced]

hey kurt what did you pay to get that 70 455 out of the junk yard?????

[SportWagonGS]

BuickGSXJuiced said:hey kurt what did you pay to get that 70 455 out of the junk yard?????

$150, I have the recipt that says "sold as scrap metal, not roadworthy" Oh, and the recipt has it listed as the ultra rare Olds GS455 LOL!
The yard did not have a title but I had tracked down the last titled owner before purchasing it and he still had the title as well as a bunch of the cars paperwork and a 70 service manual, he signed the title to me and gave me all the paperwork he had. He was not the one that sent the car to the yard, he had sold it to a guy as a running, driving car, that guy was "going to restore it" what he did was part it out and send it to the yard, I'm willing to bet that some people on this list actually have parts of my car on thiers if they bought any 70 GS parts on Ebay a couple of years ago! Of course now it's up to me to bring this thing back to life someday....so if anyone has spare 70GS parts they are willing to donate to the cause.....

[Chris Lott]

SportWagonGS said:He was not the one that sent the car to the yard, he had sold it to a guy as a running, driving car, that guy was "going to restore it" what he did was part it out and send it to the yard,

Don't that just piss ya off?:blast: :blast:

[BuickGSXJuiced]

jezzzz why can't i find a deal like that, darn it, and i have the money right now too, man this stinks, all i have is a freaking clone, i want the real thing atleast a 70' GS 455 heck even a 70' 350 GS would be nice

[BuickGSXJuiced]

kurt how's the rear window area in that thing, any holes or putty?

[BuickGSXJuiced]

oh i forgot hows the quaters too????

[Chris Lott]

I wouldn't necessarily call that a "deal." (this isn't putting Kurt's car down at all, I'm really glad he's bringing it back from the dead). It depends on what you are looking for. That GS is a "time filler" project, a place to put your extra parts. It will be nice one day, but a LOT of time and money down the road. Your time would be much better spent spending 3k and getting a driveable project car. You can find a '70 GS that needs some work somewhere in the 3-4k range, the more you spend the more money you'll save down the road. If the clone is nice, I wouldn't be in a big hurry to pick up a car that doesn't run. That's just my $.02

[SportWagonGS]

Josh,
holes around the back glass, trunk floors rotted and both 1/4's shot, the car will require a rear clip. It also needs front and rear bumpers,core support, decklid, 1 door, 1 fender(I have a fender and a 70 GS hood) someone donated a used 70 GS grille that needs repair. This car is a long term project!
Chris, I know you arn't putting the car down, LOL, it's the type of project that would scare most folks away, just pissed me off to see it in the yard and I had to do something about it, also the titled owner was PO'd that the car was in the yard too, he's a nice guy and I actually knew him from the motorcycle shop I worked at, he use to buy parts for his dirtbike from us.

[TimR]

He was not the one that sent the car to the yard, he had sold it to a guy as a running, driving car, that guy was "going to restore it" what he did was part it out and send it to the yard

Well it happens, who can say what the situation was for him to do that?? I bought a 72 GS 455 with intentions of restoring it (the guy wanted it saved and I wanted it saved), but once I got into his crap paint, discovered everything had been patched together and misrepresented....there wasn't hardly a good piece on the whole car, hooks in the a/c box, 67 carb on a 71 455, a'arms cracked, backing plates cut, previous repairs with fibreglass, p/s pulley bent, it goes on and on and on posi was shot (full of metal), throttle cable broken (but glued together), everything I looked at (once cleaned up) had been butchered in some way...there was just no way it was going to make it so I parted it out. I hated to do (really, I do, there were only so many of these cars and its sad to see such a crappy fate for them). The cancer in the forward dash area once the windshield came out was the final killer.

Then I bought my 72 ragtop 350/72 GS 455 hardtop combo....the ragtop will be saved for sure, but the big block is still up in the air...its sad but true that most of these cars are worth more in parts than as a complete machine. I tried selling it complete, got stupid and insulting offers on it. It might get parted. For now it sits.

Some die so others can live. Thats just the way it is.

Hats off to Kurt for bringing that car back. I am doing the same for my interior fire and rusty ragtop, most people would not even bother. A guy can only save so many from the crusher.

later
Tim