I found another 71 skylark, but it's in Kentucky. I would like for somebody to go by and look at it for me.
We have a lot of members in that region, you might want to mention what area of KY and what level of expertise you expect from anyone volunteering to inspect the car.
Im not trying to get too technical. I just want to know if the person looking at it would buy it. https://www.carsforsale.com/vehicle/details/24835082
Is it just me, or are the front wheels too far back in the fenders? Missing trunk lock and rear side markers too.
Base Skylark engine, I do believe. (Chevy, btw) Yeah, the front wheels position looks really odd, in a couple of pics.
How about this one mentioned on the board, looks great and similar price. http://www.v8buick.com/index.php?threads/1971-buick-skylark.320837/#post-2677251
He needs to lower it to $3500! Being a dealership, that may possibly be what they paid for it?(probably less though) Derek
Approaching derby weekend. Things tend to get a little busy in that neck of the woods. Car's been advertised for at least a couple of months. If the paint is decent, I think you could do worse.
A question for you, why do you want an old car as a daily driver? And why out of all the year Skylarks does it have to be a '71 Skylark? That kind of limits your search for a replacement only looking at the '71 model years. The '70 to '72 model years look VERY similar so you could broaden your search if you expanded the years you look at. I would stay away from the straight 6 powered cars if I were you, WAY under powered for that size car IMO. Look for '70 to '72 cars that have a sbb 350 or ones with a BBB 455 that they already swapped in a overdrive trans of some sort and upgraded the rear gearing as well. An overdrive trans would help a lot when you go and pick it up and drive it home. A plane, train or even cheaper a bus ticket and some gas cash is cheaper with the insurance on the car that you would get for it anyway than paying a transport company to ship your car to you. Road trips like that are fun with a friend, maybe not so much with a wife or "girlfriend" though, unless they are of the non-complaining adventurous type. I flew to the Texas Fort Worth area on a Saturday with a friend from Michigan about 6PM flight to meet up with his dad around 8:30pm so we could drive him back to Michigan in his 40 ft motorhome because he was having eye issues. We made it back to MI Monday morning around 4am and my friend made it into work that day. The point is, you can get to where you're going driving somewhat quickly if you only stop to re-fuel, its a good practice to try to time the bathroom stops with the re-fueling as well to save time. Derek
In what part of the country? In 2001 I thought I was buying a "daily driver" too, and I lived in a very northern state... needless to say the daily part of the equation never came to be. Not that an old Buick can't be a daily driver, but you need to live in an appropriate climate, and make certain all systems are serviced properly and up to snuff safety-wise. Just sayin', since you don't have a location in your settings, we don't know where you live.
There's no reason you can't drive an old car everyday, especially in the south. Just make sure the brakes, engine, trans, etc. are all up to snuff. I drive a '74 F-100 2 wheel drive rain, snow, or otherwise every single day, unless I'm driving one of my old cars, and I'm in Montana. If my grandma could make it around in a '46 Oldsmobile with 50s tire technology, and my mom could drive a '73 Torino throughout the 70s, I figure I'm man enough to drive something of a similar vintage with modern tires. And we get a lot of snow here, they still drove them every single day, and they're women. I've got a thread here in the Bench somewhere about guys who drive their old iron everyday.
