This thing would look great lowered a bit with some new wheels.. https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/d/metamora-67-buick-lesabre-door-coupe/7652332142.html 67" Buick LeSabre 2 Door Coupe - $11,500 (Metamora) © craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap google map 1967 Buick LeSabre condition: excellent cylinders: 8 cylinders drive: rwd fuel: gas odometer: 73030 paint color: black size: full-size title status: clean transmission: automatic type: coupe 67" Buick Lesabre 2 Door Coupe 340- 4 barrel Carter Carburetor Powerglide Transmission Power Steering/ Brakes No Ac, Handles Nice Mechanically sound Newer Paint Nice Interior 73,030 Miles
x2! That's nice. Kinda like a good mullet haircut from a while back, Electra business in the front, Wildcat party in the back! And still sporting the rocking-horse-poop-unobtanium one-year-only grille emblem, too. Warning to potential buyers tempted to try hot-rodding: The Electra business-in-the-front is cut short. Literally, by a few inches. At least for '67, LeSabre is shorter than Electra/Wildcat from the doors/firewall forward by a few inches, so anything bigger than a small block would not be an easy fit. But this car is a beauty in the photos. Devon
To add to what Devon says, nothing fits from a Wildcat or Electra in LeSabre, the motor, trans, front suspension are totally different as a result of being 3 inches shorter. I've owned both, a 67 Wildcat and a 67 LeSabre. You won't be able to drop in a BBB without a lot of mods; - starting with rewelding the saddle for the mounts. Even though this one is plane-jane and the interior colour doesn't suit it, it's a very pretty example.
Interesting, It makes me think that, One less ventiport on the fender is about the length difference...
x3 And my small brain, even after thirty years in the industry, can't compute cost-based decision for the tooling differences for those three inches. Devon
I'm thinking the same as you... But, only having been a consumer. They did the same thing with the straight eight Buicks. The Supers' engine was not quite so long as the Roadmasters. So for the big cars , there are different front fender lengths. The Special was smaller all the way around.
When I had my 46 Super, it had the same size body as the Roadmaster, but it did have the smaller 248. It still filled the engine bay though. If I'm not mistaken, the smaller body on the cheaper or lesser model was something that Pontiac and Oldsmobile did as well, not sure whether the Chevy Caprice was built on the bigger body, I don't think it was.
