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1970 Buick GSX - $65,000

Discussion in 'Cars and Parts For Sale Leads' started by BYoung, Jul 31, 2021.

  1. 436'd Skylark

    436'd Skylark Sweet Fancy Moses!!!!!

    There is a narrow market for guys who are looking to restore a muscle car rather than write a check for the finished product. A GSX is a rare car. A GSX project car is 100x more rare. At 65k its not a good buy but not everyone looks at these cars as a pseudo business venture.
     
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  2. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    Another thing to consider is that you could spend years just trying to locate the parts to build this car. With resto time it could easily take 5 years before you could drive it. I would rather buy and drive a decent one now while I still can.
    Never know what life will throw at you.
     
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  3. Brian Albrecht

    Brian Albrecht Classic Reflections

    Perhaps the understatement of the year
     
  4. gssizzler

    gssizzler Well-Known Member

    As my Buddy Glen use to say it’s rotted right up to the door handles! Even with a numbers matching documented gsx how much of the original car are you going to have left as it requires extensive sheet metal replacement! Not nocking it ,can be done! But if you took it to a shop you would easily have 40-80 thousand rebuilding the body and fitting the replacement sheet metal! If a guy could work on it and do the work himself maybe a project!
     
  5. Fred Hickey

    Fred Hickey Founders Club Member

    As a noobie, first thing I learned is the “old lady curve”. I’m currently at 30-50% actual purchase price.
     
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  6. Dano

    Dano Platinum Level Contributor

    Idk what mine thinks. I've gone to p/u "parts" and when she (sometimes) notices there's a new car in the driveway & I have to explain the parts are just still all attached to ea. other. Then again, 2 of my GS's came to me already apart & in boxes.
     
  7. Fred Hickey

    Fred Hickey Founders Club Member

    Except for a few here, most of the planet can't stomach "The Beater" beater, at any price, lol. Probably a good solution though at the right price.
     
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  8. turbotimmer

    turbotimmer Well-Known Member

    There are a lot more of us that love the beater than you might think.
     
  9. GSXER

    GSXER Well-Known Member

    May have left a few dollars on the table or could be theres an Xtra zero at the end.Funny how I see the same comments when I brought the GSX from Kleiner a good 15 years ago .Hope he gets his price he can come get my other one..lol
     
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  10. docgsx

    docgsx It's not a GTX

    I’d like to hear the backstory on the car, that’s always interesting to me.
     
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  11. weim55

    weim55 Well-Known Member

    There’s a not so fine line between a fun beater and a rolling roach. OK, at 5K this could be a fun beater, albeit A really terrible one. But at 65K it’s a rolling roach. My hats off to you guys who grew up around this kind of rust and it’s just considered A normal part of restoration(??) The rust on this car is so bad it makes me hurt. If someone actually does restore this car at some point I would love to see the picture of the end pile of rusty castoffs. Guessing that pile would be well over half of the weight of the entire car……. :)

    Steve weim55 Colorado
     
  12. 69 GS 400

    69 GS 400 Well-Known Member

    Seen on Graveyard cars where every bit of sheet metal has been replaced from the floor to the roof and even the cowl has been sectioned. At what point is the cutoff for it to be classified as restored ?
     
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  13. pbr400

    pbr400 68GS400

    Now you’re getting in to ‘George Washington’s axe’. A car that has what you mentioned is ok, but a rebody isn’t, but unless the restorer filmed the entire job, how do you know what he did? (And which would you rather have-all factory welds still intact or a patchwork quilt?)
    The seller of this X may be hoping someone will do the rebody math-that’s the only way it’d make any sense to buy at $65k.
    Disclaimer: I’M not advocating a rebody.

    Patrick
     
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  14. pbr400

    pbr400 68GS400

    Good chance it would look almost exactly like the ad pictures except missing two specific rectangle pieces of metal.
    Patrick
     
  15. Brian Albrecht

    Brian Albrecht Classic Reflections

    Have you seen the episode with the remains of a Daytona Charger? In "To Far Gone", they declined the rebuild of the car.



    There aren't ANY pictures of the floor, trunk, and cowl of the GSX to really know if the shell is salvageable, but from what I can see, it still can be saved.

    The question is more along the lines of value and worth IMHO.
     
    Last edited: Aug 4, 2021
  16. charlierogers

    charlierogers GSX stage 1 4 speed #149

    to me a rebody with a rust free 70 lark would be the most correct way of doing it.
     
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  17. Dano

    Dano Platinum Level Contributor

    Uh-oh Charlie, now you've opened that can of philosophical worms:). Been a few threads on here over the years discussing this subject, of which @Brian Albrecht & I have contributed to the discussion. Not sure we want to re-hash it all again here but we'll see where it goes.
     
  18. cjp69

    cjp69 Gold Level Contributor

    Car wasn't at Nationals, just a 1 page flyer advertising it for sale. It was Joe's (GSXER), so he has the "real story".
     
  19. BUQUICK

    BUQUICK I'm your huckleberry.

  20. George D.

    George D. Platinum Level Contributor

    It's all a game... Get as much free publicity, generate a "buzz", offer it at a ludicrous price... Someone comes along and says "There's no way it's worth $65,000.... how about $30,000?" then negotiate to $35,000... And you just made a cool $10,000 and (possibly) were able to keep some very rare parts (hood tach, steering wheel)... Not a bad return on your investment..
     
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