I decided to throw this out here, just to get it in front of a few more eyes. Getting kind of fed up with the amount of ignorant people giving me the most insulting offers. I originally had big plans for the car, I never thought I'd sell it. Which is why all the work I had done is stuff you can't see. As it turns out, when you Are trying to sell a car, nobody cares about that stuff. I should have done body/paint/interior work before anything. Because apparently, if you can't see the work that was done, in never happened. People want a 47 year old car to be all original, shiny paint, And to be a reliable driver. All for like $5ooo (that was on the upper end of the insult spectrum I have witnessed). Anyway. I'll just leave these links here. Take a look. (they're really the same listing, just ebay and craigslist) If you're not interested in this car for my price, that's fine, just move along. I will thank you Not to insult me with some obscenely low offer. https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/d/clearwater-1972-buick-gs/6831251656.html https://www.ebay.com/itm/264220215730
So apparently craigslist charges fees now. ..So much for that. Car is still for sale. This is just a copy/paste from the add, because I'm lazy. And tbh, I'm not super motivated to sell the car. Really I love it, and I wish I could keep it and finish it. But I know that's unrealistic, so I need to at least have it "listed" somewhere. Since this seems to be the only place that doesn't charge anymore, here is my halfhearted listing.. I am selling my 72 Buick GS, 350-4 barrel, automatic. This is a real numbers matching GS. Not a clone. The TH350 transmission was rebuilt a year ago. Dual exhaust rebuilt with new pipes and magnaflow mufflers. The suspension has been entirely rebuilt with: SPC adjustable front upper A-arms, Howe Precision series Xtra tall upper and tall lower ball joints, SPC Performance spring kit (front&rear), UMI Performance rear Roto-Joint/Poly tubular lower and adjustable Roto-Joint upper control arms, Hellwig tubular sway bars - 1 5/16" front, and 1 1/8" adjustable rate rear, Varishock SS factory set shocks (front&rear), SPC Performance Tubular Lower A Arms. Car has 14" GS rally wheels, also comes with a set of 15" GS rally wheels. I have various other parts, sport mirrors, dash tach, etc. Car is in white primer, and has a little bit of rust starting to come through in some normal problem areas. The interior is pretty rough. The car runs and drives great, and up until a few days ago it has been my daily driver for 4 years. It handles much better than it did with the floaty original suspension. This is a project car. I have over $14k invested, but I am no longer able or interested in continuing this project as I no longer have anywhere to work on it. I hate to quit on it, but it's time to move on. I bought another car and have no room for 2 cars. $7000
Solid candidate. I’m out of the market until next summer or so (building new house ) but hope to find something like this 12-15 months from now
Do you have any pictures of all the work you did? Since that's where a good portion of the value seems to be it would be nice to have some views of the under side. ...
I don't really have pictures of the underside. I wish I had take a lot when I was under there for months, but I didn't. And I don't have access to a lift, so it's hard to get decent photos of everything. I took just a few lying on the ground, but there's not really much to see. I didn't buy flashy components, I'm not into that. If the parts do there job, it matters little to me if they're black, bright red, chrome etc. I thought I mentioned it before, but it looks like I didn't. I have to say, it still surprises me how well this car handles after the suspension work I did. In the beginning, it was obvious because I drove the car plenty with the old suspension. It was floaty and the steering had play. It was a boat; exactly what I expected of an old car like this. Well, after driving it for 4-5ish years, I got desensitized to how much improved the handling is compared to before. So, I know someone with a 68 Camaro that he's done a bit work on and spent some good money, but not too much to the suspension. I've had the opportunity to drive this car a few times. I don't have the heart to tell him, but his Camaro has godawful handling compared to my GS. He has changed the steering box, shocks, and springs, but that's pretty much it. To me, this just hammers home the fact that auto makers of yesteryear were clueless about how to design a good suspension system. I didn't even change my steering box, and my steering is tighter and more responsive than this rebuilt, practically show-car 68 Camaro. The redesigned geometry of my suspension vs that Camaro is like night and day. I just had to put that out there. It really blows my mind to see how poorly these cars have always handled with stock suspension. All I can say is, if you're thinking about doing suspension work on your old car, do your homework like I did. It's 2019, there's no reason why you should rebuild an old car to handle like a boat when it could handle like a racecar.
After all of this,you did not state what you want for the car.I know you said that you spent $14,000. to fix it,but is that what you are looking for?Maybe its $20.000 ,maybe its $10.000.Specify the amount,don't let us read between the lines.Bruno.
Going to lower it again. It is really killing me to go so low after everything. I wish I had a garage to store her indefinitely, until someday I could return to the project. That's just not in the cards. I guess I might throw it up on Ebay again. $6000
