As a few of you know, I have a 72 buick gs stage 1 that is about to be shipped away for a good ole restoration. My question is, is there any way to tell whether or not the car was a special order by a customer or not? My can seems a bit strange with all the bumper moldings, side moldings, and a few other options seem out of the ordinary. Any help would be great. Thanks very much.
Single Stage, I don't know your name, but if you post your Vin# (you can make the last 3 digits just dashed lines if you want), and the body number I could tell you if it was an SCO car or not. Duane
Options I believe the rubber bumper moldings were standard on 72's and the side moldings were an option. What other options are you wondering about?
Look at the Data tag under the hood and see if its a SCO special car order . It sounds like you have a nice GS Stage 1 but not special other than that . john
Hi Matt - If you really need to know, for a couple bucks contact the Sloan Museum (810-237-3450 or www.sloanmuseum.com) and ask them to research your VIN for you. Their documentation will list a column identified by an '*'. The value in this field will tell you if a dealer ordered it, a customer ordered it, or something else special (like factory delivery). Happy new year! :beer
Matt, Your window sticker shows the vin, but I also need to know what your body number is. It will be stamped on the ID plate on the firewall. Now that I know when your car was built the body # will let me know if it was an SCO car. Duane
Not all 72 GS's had the rubber taillight and front bumper rubbers. I had a 72 that was probably the least optioned car that I ever owned,that didn't have the rubbers and yes, it had a BUICK emblem in the rear bumper as well..
What kind of roof does this car have ? plain full vynil or half vynil . My window sticker shows SCO on it . I agree that Sloan is the way to go to get the full account of options and details .
Matt "special car order" is a term of art (abbreviated SCO on the cowl tag) meaning that something generally not available or listed as an option but was nevertheless done by the factory by special requst. As an example there is a car painted something like the MOPAR plum crazy supposedly which if true would be an SCO for the special color paint. Now the way you were using the same term I interpreted to mean "Is our car one for which a customer went in and selected the options, the dealer ordered it and it was made per those checked options from the standard Buick option list for Skylark GS cars in the 70 model year?" The answer is, " Sure it could have been." But the way to tell is to order the records from the Sloan Museum as Marco suggested. Also, if you knew the dealer identity from the paperwork you already have, there is an outside chance they may have kept their old records regarding customer orders.
Yes flynbuick, that is what I was wondering (if someone ordered it with specifics, or if it was just a car that came to the dealership). Oh well, I was just curious, so I figured Id ask. Thanks for all the help. I certainly appreciate it.
A few of the cars I have found build sheets for have had "Customer Order" or "Dealer Order" hand written on the build sheet. Maybe if you can find the build sheet.
SCO's Hey JW do not forget the SCO can also be an out of house special option like our Suncoupe . The SCO sunroof option was done at ASC after the car was completed at the factory, then drop shipped to the dealer that ordered it .
Funny that you mention the build sheet.....I was so excited about 3 weeks ago when I lowered the gas tank. I saw that beautiful piece of paper laying on top of it. When I opened it up to read it, I was suprised. I noticed that none of the options matched mine. Then I looked in the lower left corner. The good ole boys at flint gave me the build sheet for a car that was 2 behind mine in the line. My vin ends in 443. The build sheet is for 445. Isnt that crazy! I have even heard stories of people getting two build sheets on their gas tank and neither one of them are for their car. If you get a car with the original build sheet, consider yourself very lucky. There is no telling what happened to my cars build sheet though I kept the one for number 445.
It was worth a shot! A friend had a Fremont built 1969 GS 400 and the build sheet we found in that car was for a GS 350 build a few cars later. The cars were almost exactly the same, color, interior, black tops, A/C... it was wierd
