Hi. So i am a classic pontiac owner as well. I just bought my 69 skylark and really dont know a ton about buicks. So i have a 72 455ho gto. Its a post coupe car. First question, did buick make skylarks in post coupes? I have never seen one. As i type i guess i didnt google it. Second question. There is a service for Pontiacs, phs or pontiac historical services. Does someone out there do a similar historical packet for buicks? Thanks, Matt
Yes there are 2 door post Buicks and yes Buick has Wayne Roberts and Sloan Museum for Authenticators.
Does Wayne roberts go as extensive as phs? Like copy of original order form, dealer packet ect? Does he have a web site or a service i could pay him to run a packet for my car? Also did buicks have protect-o-plates like pontiacs? Its a warranty card issued to the original owner.
Here is what a Sloan Package would look like for a Buick. And, yes, Buick did issue Protect-O-Plates on their cars.
One big difference at Buick is that Buick didn’t offer the bigger engine in post coupe bodies nearly as often as the other divisions. ‘66 Skylark GS with a 401 could be a post car, ‘67 GS340 and ‘68-9 California GS were posts with small blocks, but there weren’t any 400, 455 or Stage 1 cars built on the ‘sedan’ body. Patrick
Pbr, i wonder why that was. I have always understood post cars were structurally stronger and i believe lighter than the sport coupe, or non post cars. I Figure a bbb would be fine in there and way back then guy looking from a drag race point of view would rather have those options.
I think that Buick’s higher ups, who were more concerned with image and marketing than winning races, wanted to be upscale so they relegated the post bodies to base models and high profile engines to higher body and trim levels. A savy buyer could delete options, choose steep gears and even buy Stage 2 stuff from the parts department (probably because the engineers were in charge of that). If a buyer did do that, he still was racing a slick looking hardtop (after ‘66) so marketing was still happy. See the Jones & Benesek car, Benesek’s ’69 Stage 1, the Reynolds cars, The Dead End Kids car, Jim Turner’s Stage 2, Gary Paine’s ‘69 Stage 2, the Wile E Coyote Stage 2, etc., they’re all very attractive and successful race cars. Patrick
Here’s a photo from the write up of Dave Benesek’s ‘69 Stage 1. It ran 12.39@112 with a 400 and was a multiple class winner-beating Mopars and a RAV GTO Judge that was built with help from Pontiac.
