John, here's an appraisal for the car we talked about. PM me your email for some more pics. As I said, the coolant system puked and I'm willing to let it go for about $20K as is. Latest is that my nephew wants it but he can't really afford it in my opinion, and has no garage. I need to get rid of it to someone who will keep it up. Mike
In case you haven't done your research on how many of these cars were made, here are some numbers: 1970 4spd Convertible: GS350 -0; GS455 - 126; GS Stg1 - 67. Total = 193 1971 4spd Convertible: GS350 - 51; GS455 - 18; GS Stg1 - 9. Total = 78 1972 4spd Convertible: GS350 - 39; GS455 - 12; GS Stg1 - 15. Total = 66 That's a total of 337 4spd GS convertibles cars manufactured in the three years. As for 3spd manual shift cars (mine was said to originally be a 71 3spd column shift GS350 upgraded to a GS455 4spd) production on them was: 1970 3spd Convertible (floor): GS455 - 18; GS Stg1 - 1. Total = 19 1971 3spd Convertible (column): GS350 - 6 1972 3spd Convertible (column): GS350 - 5 That's 30 more. So in total, 367 GS manual shift convertibles made from 1970 - 1972. About 120 per year. Just for context, during the same time, 3,727 manual shift GS350, GS455, GS Stg1, and GSX hardtops were produced. That's a ten to one ratio. Good luck in your quest. You're looking for a car that barely exists if you want a real GS Convertible manual shift car.
And he is looking to buy on a very limited budget: "Looking just for a nice decent 70-72 GS Convertible driver. Don't need any numbers matching, just real GS. Want to shift gears with top down Have around $10K to spend."
We have one of the 72's, a Cascade Blue/blk. top/white interior and boot cover, non a/c, 3.08 non posi, no tach, no tilt,14x6 chrome rallye wheels, and 59K original miles, about half original paint.
Are you offering it for sale? Be specific, if so. Mine came with a 3.08 peg but upgraded it to a 3.42 posi. It's interesting how many of these cars are still around (or not). When's the last time you had yours out for over a 25 mile drive?
Not actually offering it for sale, but if somebody came up with an $18-$20K offer we would certainly take it under consideration. Haven't had it out for a drive for well over 9 years, but maybe next year I will.
