Hello, this is a wonderful and informative website you have. I stumbled onto this website after needing to do much research on Gran Sports, PARTICULARLY the 1965 Skylark Gran Sport. I suppose I will bore everyone with some details, even though I hadn't planned to. I grew up around musclecars my whole life, seeing as my father had purchased a Camaro SS brand new in '67. One of the first vehicles (besides the Camaro that used to send me running for the hills when it started) I remember was a yellow (74? I'll have to ask my mom) convertible Buick Centurion with a white top and interior, and a 455 in it. I grew up learning many of the same edicts my dad lived by, including no preference for brand name, as long as it was from America. There were exceptions made for certain (extremely cool) imports. :grin: . Fast forward to 2002. I am married, with a 1 year old daughter at this point. My father passes away, and my mother and I are left with a few musclecars to keep up, 2 of which are a '67 GS 400 convertible and a 1965 Skylark Gran Sport. Fast forward to 2004. My family and I decided that I can feasibly keep one of these cars, and keep it up to snuff. I wish I could keep them all, but I simply can't keep up with them all, and even though my mom loved riding around with my dad (and putting the occasional smackdown on whatever is in the other lane), the cars just aren't her thing. She's more of an arts and crafts type of person. She is getting ready to retire, and my wife and I are trying to get some sort of comfortable existence started (starting with a house). Since the Camaro is the one that has always been around, it has (by far) the most sentimental value to me, and is the one I choose to keep. The '67 GS 400 was easy to sell. The '65 has been rather a pain, however, mainly due to the 444 vin. This site has been a great boon to my efforts to know more about Buicks, and has been entertaining in the meantime. Thanks. I just tonight came up with the idea of advertising the cars on enthusiast websites, duh. I figured I would at least make an introduction before I just registered and avertised, though. BTW, I apologize for the length of the post, but I got started, and felt I had to finish.
Tavis you never have to apologize for talking Buicks, musclecars or family here. Welcome aboard! :beer Make mine root beer. Now lets hear/see more about those cars.
WELL, the cars that we still have.. There's the Camaro: a '67 rs/SS350 with m-21 4-spd, Hurst shifter. I'm not sure of the exact specs of the parts my dad put on it over the years, but it's mostly stock with 29k on the odo. Mods include an Isky cam, some sort of high flow heads, Heddman headers, 4:56 rear. I have put a Wilwood disk brake conversion on the front, and am about to put an MSD 6al and pro-billet distributor in it. There's the Buick: a '65 Gran Sport 4 spd, fire engine (Flame) red with black "leatherette" interior. Under the hood is the matching #'s 401 nailhead, and it is completely stock except for the big gears in the rear, and the 2x4 bbl. (is there any way to tell if this carb setup was dealer installed?) It has no a/c, no power anything except brakes. I really wish I didn't have to sell this one, because it is FUN, and it's not everyday you see a '65 GS (unless you have one :bglasses: ) There's the Roadrunner: a '72 Roadrunner CLONE with a Mopar Performance 440 crate motor, 4 spd pistol grip shifter, and a best time of 12.9 with absurd amounts of traction problems. It is Blue Streak Blue with black strobe stripe, and orginal blue vinyl back seat, but the front seats are buckets out of some late model car. And there's the Challenger: a '70 that has been almost fully restored, inside and out, with a Mopar Performance 360 c.i.d. / 380 h.p., Slap Stick shifter attached to a 727. Absolutely beautiful car. Hunter green / green int. I need to figure out how to downsize the pics I have, evidently 1.4 MB is too large to attach.
