You know the car car you are buying has alot of rust when....

You can see it from space... :laugh:



Unfortunately there is more rust today than when the pic was taken on google maps.

 

That will save you a trip for sure ! I like the picture next to your name by the way.

 

Thanks, but I am actually still buying the car for parts. It's a 73 century and has a lot of small parts I need for my 75.

 

With that much rust, I hope you are getting the deal of the Century.

 

Here is a bigger image :TU:

 

Wood grain dash, anyone?

 

Here are some updated pics. The car has sat for 16 years but was not seized up and I actually got the car running pretty good now and it's not even smoking out the tail pipe. The previous owner claims that the mileage is original and has not been rolled over. I am going to pull the motor and check out what the motor has to say this winter. If the motor checks out, it just may find it's way into my 75 Century. Anyone know if I can put an intake from a 75 and put it onto a 73 engine?

 

Yes, same intake manifold if it's from a 350 Buick engine.
Will you go for a 4-barrel now?

The engine looks repainted, maybe someone overhauled it at some point between 1973 and 2000 :TU:

 

Yes that was my thinking. The 75 has a 4-barrel. I was also going to use the HEI distributor from the 75 since it is already wired for it.

Hard to say. After he already had my money and the deal was done, he told me how the car was his Grandmothers car and was driven primarily on weekends and vacations. He claims the car has sat in storage and in the parking lot were I found it for sometime. He claims that the garage the car was stored in for a few years had a problem with the roof and the ceiling collapsed and wet drywall sat on the car for some time. He said that he did not live near where the car was stored so he did not check up on it. After that the car kinda went to heck. He genuinely seemed surprised about how bad the car had gotten when he looked at with me at our first meeting.

 

Don't forget to remove the resistor wire when you change from points to HEI :TU:

 

Wow. Not a Buick, but not something you see everyday either...

http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/5686493113.html uzzled:

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the 73 engine is planned to go into the 75, and use the intake and distributor from the 75, no changes should be needed?

 

If you disconnect the engine wire loom from the 1973 engine at the firewall to use it in the newer car, you need to remove the resistor wire from the wiring.