1965 Buick Special Deluxe V8 Thin Pillar Ac Ps Pb Az Car Make Your Own 4dr Gs on 2040-cars
Year:1965
Mileage:143000
Color:
Original color was Artic White and its had at least
Location:
Tucson, Arizona, United States
1965 BUICK SPECIAL DELUXE
Up for Auction: SUPER LOW FAIR RESERVE !!! We want to move our cars, not sit on them with crazy reserve prices. Check out our Feedback I didnt see a catagory for the SPECIAL so we used Skylark Obviously this is a Special Deluxe model. For a 50 yr old car this Buick is a really clean un-restored survivor. Its had at least 1 repaint, white like the original color. But dont see any real signs of bondo or rust repairs. Although the rear 1/4s may have some rust on the lower spots or around the inner wheel arch. Nothing major of course, its a solid AZ CAR. The car always looks better in pics, but its still a nice body with a nice original interior. If you check out how Buick sloped the rear back window, it almost has a Fastback design to it making for a better profile then most 4 drs.
Car starts and runs, but it does idle rough and once warmed up it smokes. Someone installed a good size 4v carb with an adaptor and that could be the reason it smokes so much. It also smells rich when you are driving it. I drove the car home at night on a 10 mile trip and it ran okay, but Id suggest at least put an original 2v carb back on it first along with a good tune up and see if the smoking goes away. If not then it may need more works like valve seals or rings. Honestly my first guess would be the carb and tune up stuff first. The car has been a daily driver for the last few yrs, but recently the gas tank developed 2 leaks so it was parked recently. I would suggest just getting a new fuel tank. RESTORE it back to stock or do something along the restomod way, or rat rod and have an awesome 1 of a kind car your friends only wished they had for such a low investment. I hate to say it, but some people may look at this as a nice rust free parts car, but I think its too nice for that myself. Maybe even make a Clone 4dr version of the famous GS !?
DRIVETRAIN: best we can tell its a matching #s car with the factory V8. Not sure if its the 300 or 340 motor but probably the 4.9. Has options like PS, PB and AC. All the AC stuff is there and connected, but its not currently functional. The blower motor under the dash it bad (and it comes with a new one in the box not yet installed) Not sure what else the AC needs. Other details about what we know about the motor was mentioned in the beginning of the ad. Automatic trans feels good, shifts fine too. Not really sure if its a 2 spd or 3 spd auto. Someone yrs ago moved the shifter to the floor which works great and easy to use and making it more fun to drive Ill be honest. Brakes work well too. Drums all around stop the car fine, at the very least they may need some adjusting because of a little pulling under hard braking. INTERIOR: All original blue interior shows some wear and tear for a car with 140k on it. But its actually in nicer shape then most cars at this age. Dr side bench seat shows the worst of it all. The chrome inside looks really nice with no pitting and still shines great . Gauges all seem to work okay. Still smells like a cool old car and even the stock AM radio works ! Driving it home the other night listening to some 50s and 60s music with the windows all down, you almost felt like it was 1968 all over again. Cant get the RR door to open, probably just the latch or something. Trunk is very clean on the bottom again, just a little rust near the 1/4s. EXTERIOR: Original color was Artic White and its had at least one repaint over the yrs, still acrylic enamel , Im sure over time its had some body repairs but really they are hard to see. Maybe its because of the white paint. But I dont see any signs of huge bondo spots or rust repairs. Stainless and chrome not in bad shape for being 50 yrs old. But again its not a restored car either.
SUSPENSION: all factory the best I can tell and Im sure some bushings are old and shocks, but again this stuff is easy to fix these days then rusted out bodies. Its not as mushy or tank-like of a drive as I expected to be. The car drives like a smaller 2dr car to be honest and Im sure with a few upgrades it would be even more fun to drive.
Leave it stock or put some 20" wheels on it. Check out ALL the pics below ----->
it may take a full minute for them all to load if you have a slow connection, so be patient AND looks for the extra schroll bar on the right side. Az gets maybe 12" a yr of rain and Az very dry climate. more info AFTER the pics etc. There are 100 large pics.
There you have it, probably The BEST represented Buicks on Ebay. Shows you all the good as well as any bad, hope you appreciate them. We put a lot of time and effort in marketing our cars and it shows. People wait months for a car this solid to come up for sale and even if you have to pay shipping to your area, it still beats paying a body shop to hopefully fix a rusty car for weeks on end. Having as much as the original steel on a restored car these days speaks volumes.
Also, if you buy a car thats been "restored", who knows what sort of surprises are hidden under new paint or thick undercoating. People are flipping cars all the time when most of the jobs are fast, for a quick buck and quality suffers.
Our auctions have NOTHING to hide . Restore a car like this yourself or locally and you know exactly what you have in the end.
Email us with ANY questions before you bid please
If you treat yourself to buying one of our vehicles youll never buy a total rust bucket again from anyone !! Our Impeccable FEEDBACK speaks for itself. Doing restoration on this type of project is less labor intensive which means overall cost is less too ! With less horrid surprises later on. Dont let auctions with little to no pics try to fool you. With other auctions, you really dont know what to expect until you take the car apart. While we go over our cars ALL OVER with great pics to help making your decision easier. Along with ANY other questions you may have. Email me for a quote for shipping.
ARIZONA TITLE IN HAND CAR MUST BE PICKED UP WITHIN 14 days of auctions END ! we can no longer store cars for anyone !! Unless other arrangements have been made before auction ends. Can help with shipping outside the USA too if you need help. But keep in mind, the car cant ship until you get your title from us in hand. This car, you can see clearly what to expect with no surprises and our Feedback speaks for itself ! EMAIL US WITH ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE !! Car will obviously ship as an INOP. IF you need a shipping quote, just email us with your city/state and Ill find out our best quote for you !!
No problem helping it to the docks if you are shipping overseas . If you have to wait for the title to ship your car, it still needs to be paid for and shipped from our holding lot as mentioned in the ad. When we get the title for it, we will fedex it to you.
If there is a winner, please email me when the auction ends and say Hi and we can take it from there. Bank Wires need to be prompt if you are out of the country because they always seem to take longer then expected. I bank with B of A which makes things easy for many out of state for payment. direct deposit or Cashier checks If you wire the funds we must add a $50 fee that our bank charges us. must clear before car can move. Its a sign of the times, sorry. IF RESERVES NOT MET, email us anyway maybe we can work out a deal after it ends.
NO PAYPAL for $500 deposit only - rest direct bank deposit or wire Must be paid within 5 days of auction
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Sat, 09 Mar 2013
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The original sad tale goes something like this: On March 4, a man reported to police that he had left his infant child in a running Toyota RAV4 while he ran into a supermarket briefly. When he came back out, the vehicle and the child were gone. Later in the week a suspect turned himself in to the police; confessing to them that he had stolen a sport-utility vehicle, strangled the infant that was in it, and then buried the child in the snow.
As you might imagine, the gristly incident was covered massively in the Chinese media. (There was huge public outcry as well, as evidenced by the vigil scene, above.) "Changchun baby abduction" was very quickly amongst the highest ranking search teams of the China's Weibo social media site - an equivalent of Twitter in the English-speaking world.
Sun, 03 Aug 2014
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Oshawa is home to three other vehicles, aside from the Regal - the Chevrolet Camaro, Impala rental queen and the Cadillac XTS. We already know next-gen Camaro production is headed to Lansing, MI, and that the fleet-only Impala will (finally!) die in 2016. As for the XTS, as AN explains it, sales are so slow that GM will either kill it or just shuffle its production volume elsewhere.
Taken along with the fact that Unifor, the Canadian labor union repping workers at the Oshawa factory, claim GM hasn't made any guarantees about future production at the nearly 60-year-old factory, it seems fairly clear that the Regal's current factory is going to be put out to pasture.
Thu, 27 Feb 2014
"This is just silly," I said as I laughed my way sideways around the icy track at Circuit ICAR, a racecourse, drag strip and kart track at the Montreal-Mirabel International Airport in Quebec. It wasn't the activity that had me cracking up, though. After all, winter driving experiences aren't uncommon in this business.
No, in this particular case, it was the car that had me chuckling. I wasn't in a mad hot hatch or a rally-derived rocket - I was in a Buick. The 2014 Regal GS, to be more precise. Somehow, despite its recent product renaissance (not to mention its distant - yet storied - history of performance models), I was having a hard time believing that this attractive, turbocharged, all-wheel-drive sedan sliding around the Great White North could possibly be wearing a Tri-Shield badge on its nose.
But it was, and slide about it did. While having access to a vehicle in this setting is fairly rare, what's rarer is the fact that I've had so much exposure to it. In Mr. Ewing's recent Volkswagen Golf R drive story, for instance, his ice capades were his first experience with the new model. In my case, though, I was lucky enough to first test the refreshed Regal GS for a week back in December before flying to Quebec to drive it on the snowy, icy, winding roads of Canada's most fiercely independent province and on the track at Mirabel.