hey guys I'm looking to buy a old buick electra or le sabre, I don't mind if it needs work done to it, ideally would want something in good nick, as I will be shipping it back home to Auckland new Zealand, there arnt many buicks over here so best place id thought to look for would be a forum especially finding spares, iam also on face book if u wish to talk to me through there, have always wanting a buick, just sold a brittish classic car I used to own, humber supersnipe, now wanting to import a buick from the greatest country ever usa!! =D
The best description of what it would be like, I read in Hot Rod Magazine, in about 1970- "cubic money". Then, it was horsepower they were discussing. But shipping costs are horrendous, when you have to use the ocean highway.
Yeah, my convertible is worth a bit more than that; - mind you, if you'd have talked to me last week I might have sold it for $5K.:grin:
what are crappy cars in new zealand? holdens from australia? or ladas, trabants and yugos from the eastern bloc? when one thinks of crappy cars, those three makes come to mind.
Now, now! I'm going to take exception to that statement, there's nothing wrong with the Trabant; - it kept the mosquito population down for decades! And Yugos encouraged physical fitness, which is why they included a rear window defroster on them so you wouldn't freeze your hands as you pushed! :grin:
We've always loved Holdens....used to assemble them .... and related GM product .. and the newish ones are excellent cars with some upscale ones still exported to the Middle East and the USA ... though the manufacturing dies in Australia next year...... But what 02bbad is talking about is that us Kiwis have for 30 years had to suffer an avalanche of cheap used Japanese cars ...and within a decade of import tariffs being removed, the world-famous car stock on our roads (you could see decades-old post-war British, European and American cars all day every day even into the mid 1980s) was transformed. In 1986-1996 damn near every driver took a look at the Nissans, Hondas, Subarus etc etc with air con and power windows and power steering going cheap and said: ''I'm through with this old Wolseley / Chevrolet / BMW / Chrysler / Renault / Vauxhall / Humber / Hillman / Zephyr / Triumph ....... look at the spec on this 4yr-old Toyota!'' My Dad went from a 1938 Dodge to, in 1974, buying a beautiful and really mint 1967 Rambler Rebel with 232-inch six to... a bloody Mazda! I was gutted. I wanted that Rambler. I still remember the plate: DY242 Now you only really see cool old cars at car shows. Like everywhere else in the world. I am always astounded at the absolute lack of classic barges on American roads in the last 15 years. Am I wrong here? You never see them, unless you get lucky in and see a granny in a Hispanic neighbourhood driving an early 1980s Caddy that maybe her late husband bought new..... as for 1960s/1970s Buicks....as if!
https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/cto/5585537022.html He's asking 5K CDN which is about $3500+ US and that would be before you grid him on the price.
