Needed a break from trying to make some headway in not only making room but going through old stuff I have collected over the decades & and figured what the hell some of this stuff might give some of y’all some smiles as you remember seeing stuff back in the days on the road or in the scrap yards. Old school Winston lighter you’d probably be immediately arrested for owning (lol), one of my favorite T-pattern black Hurst w/ white shift pattern handle, white 4sp shift ball,NOS BUICK Tri-shield 70 center medallions on factory rubber shipping block. Other things,original 69 Hurst Olds fender emblems from my 69 H/O car I sold during wife’s cancer, Shelby center cap score, a (guessing) early prototype #5335 Hurst stick (never even chromed, WAS mint but box got forgotten). Nothing else of mention except the NOS Muncie clutch boot. Anyhow just needed a break so there it is,hardly made a dent in this 10x12 shed, not looking forward to the 2500 sq ft 1890 barn & snakes & crap as well as critters (ran into a foaming rabid as hell raccoon down there one year! Have a video of it if you ask me at the Nats!). Anyhow hope y’all are having a great weekend & peace to all my Buick brothers & sisters BACK TO WORK FRITZ!!!
Ah hah! A box within the box Found my ticket stubs from my FritzeeBaybee “DAZE” in Charlotte. I barely remember any of Rush or Judas Priest but I KNOW I JAMMED along & had a good time! Some cool ole memories
Well it was VERY touchy but managed to get the “A tour through Buick” mailer open without creasing or God forbid tearing it! Some cool ole info that appears to be around 1968? I fell in love first with Buicks via my older brothers (R.I.P. buddy ,miss you!) who had a full size Prestige sales “book” I stumbled across while rifling through his drawers looking for his Playboy stash. That 67 GS in there actually made me stop dead in my search & I’d end up going into his room just to look again at that GS-400. Then in late 1971 he bought his 72 GS (canary yellow with black top & black bucket seats!). His wife hated it (foreign car lover) so it laid forgotten under leaves except when I visited & against my Dads wishes (he tried to bribe me away from “That POS” with GTO’s,Trans Am’s etc & kept his promise NEVER to help me on that GS if I bought it). I bought it from my brother after cutting and selling firewood,cutting lawns (WHATEVER it took!) at 15 years old. My Dad kept his word of not helping except when he noticed it parked (I NEVER parked that car over 24 hours) he obviously took it for a drive & realized it had ZERO brakes (hey! I was a kid). I woke up and he had had it towed off to Kmart where our buddy “Fats” redid the TRASHED brakes. Of course I had to work it off in his 1920’s Old School style! Ever pushmowered a 2 acre lot in the South during the summer when riding mower was down? I have!!! And that was just the warmup! I loved that man though.
Okay, to complete this trip back in time here is how it was done back in the day in the U.S.A. Dad INSISTED all of us buy American. He said “Buy in the USA or Bye USA!” He meant it too “What the HELL is that in my driveway” kinda “meant it”. *Limited to 12 pics so two final pics to follow”
Hi Dylan , I wish it was but I couldn’t afford a GSX so I did the next best thing in my case and built my own “GSX” from this 455 4-speed car and insisted (regardless of condition) using factory original 1970 GM original GSX parts to turn this 72 GS into my dream car. I have no plans to restore the body,chrome or paint,preferring to drive it like a clapped out looking derelict GSX
It’s rough but glad to at least have something to work with. I call it the “Poor Touring GSX” Maybe one day (health allowing) I’ll actually get it running
455 with soon to be installed cleaned up,magged with new valve job (thank you Gary!) original GM 70 Stage 1 ported & polished heads (port & polish done in early 70’s) ,B4B (also to be installed, M-21 4-speed,Mickey Thompson Super Scavengers,1970 original 8.2 w/stock 3:64 gears. Still looking for a Kenne Bell window rattler cam. Hasn’t been on the road since 1992.
I certainly hope you can and will finish this....so you can enjoy and drive the wheels off of her....best of luck and good health.
Thanks Dan, I’m tryin buddy,have most all parts because that’s one thing I did for my job (equipment procurement) and working along side the guys in the shop but always been the grunt to assist in working on equipment but very overwhelmed on my own. Always been that well but somehow gotta step out of my comfort zone and get this damn thing back on the road. Even a tried Face Timing with my buddy Frank so my confidence level was higher knowing he at least knew what he was doing. I know just enough to be dangerous basically.
