Howdy. Anyone familiar with this bamboo cream example currently listed on this site? https://spudsgarage.com/vehicles/65BuickGSlhc/index.htm There is a pretty cool 15 minute video of the car on YouTube too -Mark
Not bad, from looking at the pictures, for $30k. Not much of a write-up. I didn't watch the video, maybe it contains what a normal write-up would have.
This one sold on BAT recently. It should give you an idea on market value. The one on BAT was a 4 speed car. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-buick-gran-sport-2/
I like it! Very clean looking car! Tach is not installed correctly, missing hardtop trim! Has great options! The post car on be BAT has been around! It is actually a rare 3 speed car! One of 405 made! Nice documentation! Repairs to frame,floors and trunk floor! Bottom of fenders and quarter repairs!
The roof/ sail panel trim was NOT an option. It was standard on all '65 Gran Sport hardtop and post sedan models. Loren
Just being inquisitive here. In what way is the tach not installed correctly? It looks correct to me. I just can't find a very good picture focused only on the tach though.
The tach should sit down inside the console cup piece. It looks like a knee knocker tack was taken out of the knee knocker cup and installed at the front of the console cup.
You are right. The original tack did sit back further than the one in the Spuds Garage listing. I looked up another 65 GS with the automatic console tach, and sure enough, it did sit back further than this one does.
Apprecaite all the feedback guys. Consigner hasn't responded to initial email inquiry but I'll call. All the soot coming out of every exhaust joint gives me pause, and if you forward to the end of the video there is a ton on H2O coming from the tailpipes. Minor point, but houldn't the air cleaner scoop face driver's side on a '65 GS ?
You would think logically the intake should face towards the driver's front. But on most 65 GS pics I've see, it faces just as the pictures of this one for sale faces.
Is that a bad thing? I fired up my 400 after hibernation, and it is making lots of water out the tail pipes. Maybe winter weather causing it?
If the air:fuel ratio is perfectly stoichiometric (14.6:1), and the combustion process is perfectly complete, the makeup of the exhaust is 73% nitrogen (our air is in the mid to upper 70's for percentage of nitrogen), 13% carbon dioxide (nitrogen and carbon dioxide are noncondensible at atmospheric pressures) and 13% water vapor (water vapor condenses to liquid water as vapor temperatures cool). If the air ratio is too high (lean condition, unreacted oxygen can also be emitted. If combustion temperatures are very high, oxygen & nitrogen can combine into nitrogen oxides and possibly nitraded hydrocarbons. That 13% water vapor does cool after ejected from the combustion chambers and heading down the exhaust system, and the cooling causes condensation into liquid water. Winter, with its colder temperatures, can condense out more water as a result. So is water a bad thing? No.
As long as it stop once the engine reaches temperature and the exhaust system has evaporated any condensation, it's not a problem.
Good info, thanks guys. I guess it's the opposite of those secret invention engines (suppressed by Detroit) that RUN on water.
With the cars generally in this forum (not run in northern winter climates), this is true. In the upper Midwest and Canada, running a car engine at a -25 deg F daytime high temp, the tail end of the exhaust system doesn't warm up enough to prevent condensation, so water (even ice forming water) comes out all the time. But these classics hopefully aren't being run under these conditions (anymore).
