its a great, but sad site, they havent updated that i have seen in years. a friend of my dads is a contributor, a good amount of pics in the gm section are stuff he found.
really?!?! well, now i have to go check it out, havent actully loged on in a while, because they stoped updating it and i looked at every.... single... page... twice! ( even the fords!) its a great site to kill some time, it would be great if they finally added some new material.
Buicks at www.carsinbarns.com: 1. 1966 GS Post Coupe; 2. 1968 GS350 HT & 1970 GS Stage1 Conv .. scroll down; 3. 1971 Lime Mist GSX; 4. 1970 GSX. I do not see anything new from a couple of years ago when I checked. Most of the info on the cars is 10+ years old ... but it is interesting to see these cars in the day when you could find these cars out in backyards and junkyards.
You'll be happy to know that Limemist GSX is mine and if all goes as planned will have the restoration complete or mostly complete for the GSX reunion. :3gears:
Glad to see the Limemist saved.That site and those people who refuse to let someone have a chance at restoring them make me sick. Don't get me wrong. I'm a BIG proponent of crushing the 1966 Skylark 4 door , small block auto on the column with 200,000 miles and no floor boards and not a single salvageable piece of trim/glass ANYTHING. But if someone can use the littlest piece of trim or stainless, save everything down to the smallest clip and get rid of the rest. It infuriates me as much as the guys with cars that are going to be restored " some day":TU: . If you're actively buying parts and doing the littlest thing towards a resto, keep it up. If you bought a car ten years ago and have done nothing with it and haven't bought a single thing, sell it to someone, reasonably priced, who will get it back on the street.No offense meant to fans of 4 door auto hardtops, but considering the production numbers, you can probably find a nice one and not do a frame off. If it's a big block,convertible or four speed , I'd do anything possible to save it.My 2 cents .
Yeah those people do suck There's a guy here in my town, has a bunch of old cars. Nothing spectacular tho, most I'd junk myself. But he has this 72 Electra 225 that he bought when it was new, just sitting in the street for the last 15 yrs rotting away. The interior is MINT on this thing.. absolutely refuses to sell the car. "I Might need to use it one day". - yah, he's got one of the late model Roadmasters in like-new condition. He won't ever "need" to put the 72 Electra back on the road. He's in his early 90s now, got to be. I'm just hoping that one day when he passes, someone will sell me that car! -or give it to me! I guess in this case, the owner needs to die so the car can live?
Here is my Buick horror story. In 1963 my father bought a brand new Wildcat convertible as a birthday present for my mother. It was bright red with a white top and white interior. It even had a tachometer on the console for that oh so sporty look. In 1969 they sold it to a neighbor in order to buy another new Wildcat. The neighbor drove it for a couple of years and then toasted the motor when he ran out of oil. That was in 1971, the year I left to go to college and it was sitting in a side yard next to the house waiting for the day it would be fixed up. I would go home and visit from time to time and there it sat. 20 years ago when my parents died I was home to take care of the will and all and it was still there. So, a few years have gone by and my wife and I were on a trip last summer and decided to go and visit the old neighborhood. As we come around the corner to my old home there that damn car is, still sitting there with a blue tarp covering it. I talk to the people who are living there, relatives of the original owners of the house and ask if they would sell it. "No way, we are going to fix it up because it has a lot of sentimental value." In just two more years it will have been sitting there for 40 years. It still makes me sick to think of it.
Yep, Makes me want to cry also.... On a positive note; Here's some up for salvage/ and or parts: <img src="http://gmsportssalvage.com/files/images/IMG_5256.preview.jpg" width="900" align="center"> <img src="http://gmsportssalvage.com/files/images/IMG_3955.preview.jpg" width="900" align="center"> <img src="http://gmsportssalvage.com/files/images/IMG_4791.preview.jpg" width="900" align="center"> <img src="http://gmsportssalvage.com/files/images/IMG_5108.preview.jpg" width="900" align="center"> <img src="http://gmsportssalvage.com/files/images/IMG_3295.preview.jpg" width="900" align="center"> <center>More: [B]http://www.gmsportssalvage.com[/B]<A href="http://www.v8buick.com/"> <IMG height=130 alt="V8Buick.com - Your Online Tool Box!" src="http://www.buickpartsdirectory.com/v8buick.gif" width=130 border=0></A>
Looks kinda sad to me.... How many have gone to the bone yard? In this case there Buicks. From the looks of em all they look like they have all been there for a while. RIP
Try mapleleafmopars.com. I am NOT a mopar fan, but those Canucks know how how to keep track of a car!!! I spent a few hours there, and found myself thinking about finding a Hemicuda to restore. A few antidepressant tablets, and I was back on solid ground... Dan
I must apologise. I looked for mapleleafmopars, and realised that those &@## Canucks had sold out. I couldn't find the original site, which documented old salvageable Mopars, including most of the original Hemicuda convertibles sold in Canada. Shame on YOU for selling out!!!! Dan
Where exactly "on the web" did you find these? http://www.dvautoparts.com/list_cars.php Search Our Parts Cars! Type in Buick, year, Etc.
'70 Judge on page 11 of Bowties. I lived next to this fellow & his family for about 4 years, circe 1975. Owner was John Stephens, he had this car in the front yard. For a while there was a 66/67 GTO in the back yard. Didn't see hime ever put it on the road. John was also a big fan of fast small block Beaumonts.
