64 buick electra

It's been years since I've been on here but I'm back. Here's my 64 electra. Not sure if it was factory but it does have a nice limited slip diff rear end.

 

My Electra has it as well; - cost me a pretty penny to get rebuilt, but well worth it!

 

I upgraded to a 3.23:1 , nice indeed.

 

That's awesome. What a cheap upgrade.

 

Too bad that neither Buick nor any other manufacturer will sell you a car that attractive and well built for $36k today.
Patrick

 

Quick question for you guys with a 64 electra. Does your oil light come on when you turn the key to acc before you start it?

 

Why do you turn it to Acc. before you turn the key??? OR do you mean something else???

Tom T.

 

Thanks yall. I get the amp and cold light but no oil light. Will be checking sensor this week.

 

Thanks will do

 

Disconnecting the light bulb or the sensor was a popular thing to do in northern climates when the cars were just used cars; - try and start one of these cars unplugged at -40 F. They'll start, but since it's pulling oil (at -40, it's more like butter than fluid oil), from the sump in the back of the motor and the pump is in the front, it had this alarming tendency to heat up the pump gears quicker than the housing, and since they are dissimilar metals, it would tear the clearances out of the oil pump, which meant the idiot light would come on in summer heat at idle. Can't have that when trying to sell it, so a lot got disconnected and never hooked up again.

 

Well the simple answer might be a dead bulb?