It does have some and I feel like it gives it some character. Like it was a "street warrior" at one point. :Brow::3gears: The small bumper dents, the scraped fender and the paint make no difference to me. This is a car that SOMEONE had the amazing foresight to treat like it was their first born child. Well, aside from the brief period when that young kid owned it. Haha!
Agreed! Not sure how you recoup $14K buy turning a 1 of 101 into a carcas but hey, whatever.... I'm in a better spot now, anyway. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk
Sweet score on that car! Congratulations. Time to road trip her to BG in September! You wouldnt be the only 4 speed Stage 1 heading down there I can tell you that much (riding in good company):bglasses:
Nice score Brett. Bring it to the East Coast Regionals at Cecil County in September. I know that Marco will be there with his & possibly one other.
Thanks John! So, today I decided to take a page out of the Jason Cook "cold call" book while I had some down time at work. Dano had text me the names of the 2nd and 3rd owner and after a quick Internet search, I found (what I'd hoped was) the second owner. Last anyone knew, he owned an asphalt company in Lebanon, PA. I called the number listed on the company website and got the answering machine. As I was nearing the end of my somewhat long and descriptive message, a gentleman's voice picks up the phone. "Ehh, hello?? Sorry, I couldn't find the damn phone." "Yes, I'm looking for a guy who might have owned an all black 70 Buick Stage 1 4-speed back in the mid to late 70's?" "Ohhh, yeah, that's me. That was my car." The conversation went on for a little over a half hour and he recalled buying the car for around $4,000 - with an installment loan from his father. He even recalled the name of the original owner, who he said is still in the Lebanon area. He explained that no one (back then) had a Buick and that everywhere he went, heads turned and people used to ask him a million questions about the car. He also said that he really didn't drive it much because of the "low gearing". His mother lived in VA and he told me he took a couple trips there (in the car) but between the gearing and the feds jacking up insurance prices on factory high-performance cars - especially those owned by young adults, it wasn't economically feasible to use it as his daily driver. He eventually bought another car and kept that until selling it to the third owner - a high school kid - in the very early 80's. Owner three blew the original motor and the gentleman told me he'd warned the kid about how easy it would be to "get into trouble" with the car but he said that didn't stop him from "ripping around town in it." As the conversation came to an end, he told me he still had pictures of it that "he'd look at from time to time". I immediately asked if he had an email address so I could send him some of how it looked now but he replied: "I don't know anything about that email stuff." I gave him my address and phone number and he told me he'd send me the pictures so I could scan them and return them. He didn't have any old paperwork or service records but figured the gentleman he bought it from might. He's next on the "cold call" list. Stay tuned....
The automotive archeology is half the fun. Good for you Brett! You get the Jay Cook seal of approvalp.
