Ones that got away...
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SammyChevelleTypeS3
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OMG! Not a small fortune / A BIG ONE! Probably one of the most sought after engines to this day along with the original Hemi engines with cross ram intakes. Those were sold with "no warranty implied - for race use only!" You knew exactly what you were paying for then. I never got to ride in one of those. I did have a ride that required me to clean my shorts after! When my buddy opened it up in his Mercury Cyclone Spoiler with the 428 SCJ "drag pack" engine. Yikes, those were monsters back then. You could almost see the gas needle going down in unison with your foot on the pedal. That is when I found out what "pinned to the seat" meant when that 4 barrel carb kicked in. You could hear it sucking wind from the cabin.
He actually had to get rid of it for two reasons. He could not afford the gas or the insurance and his new wife was scared to ride in it and afraid he would kill himself with it. His Cyclone Spoiler was the only one I ever saw on the street. Majority were turning left on the NASCAR Super Speedways.
Too bad Chevrolet never put the Chevelles on the NASACR race tracks. They opted for the Monte Carlos until the 1975 - 1976 Chevelle Laguna Type S3 came out. Most of those went racing and won so many NASCAR races in 1975 / 1976 they were eventually banned and Chevy discontinued the Chevelle after 1976. Type S3 were the last Chevelles GM ever produced. YET the racers were allowed to use them one more season in 1977.
"The past is gone. The future may never see a car like the 70 Chevlle again. It is one of the brutes, with the LS450 hp engine. All it needs is a way of staying in contact with terra firma”
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
I LOVE it....Yeah, that stings a little. lol. As best I can recall this is pretty close to what this one I missed out on, looked like.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
You know James Dean's "death car" was called the little bastard. (some type of foreign job, Porsche maybe? I think he named it. The car has gone missing many times. It is supposed to have brought great amounts of bad luck to the owners. As of this time I think people only know where the chassis is.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
WOW. Looks identical to a friends 1976 GP SJ model. I had bought a new 1976 Chevelle Type S3 and when I saw his Grand Prix a week later I was kind of sorry I didn't see them first. Another one I would love to grab these days is the 1977 Olds 442 with the one / two year only slopped front end for (of course) NASCAR after they banned GMs Chevelle S3.
I believe it was a 1955/56 Porsche 550 Spyder.
Agreed, I just recently sold my LS6 so I could finance the dream Buick (1970 GSX) for me. This will likely be my last muscle car, so I want to get the right one. To this day, I still miss my 68 GS400 the most.LOVE them all but really lust over the 1970 Buick GS455 and Buick GSX Stage 1 or Stage 2. One of the few GM cars to beat Roadrunners and Super Bees at drag strips. The Buick GS were some of the highest cui and horse powered machines ever sold by the General.
1984 Corvette.
Uncle of my then brother-in-law had a hobby of collecting Corvettes; some were new, some were restorations like the '63 he was working on when I visited. He had a 3-bay garage out behind the house, heated/cooled and even carpeted with indoor-outdoor carpet. His wife tolerated the hobby with the stipulation that he had to be able to park whatever he had in the garage. He had his eye on another restoration and was willing to let the '84 go 'cheap'. After seeing the garage setup and hearing that he never took the thing out in the rain, I respectfully passed because I would have to use the car as a DD and didn't want to do that to a car that had been pampered to that point.
Uncle of my then brother-in-law had a hobby of collecting Corvettes; some were new, some were restorations like the '63 he was working on when I visited. He had a 3-bay garage out behind the house, heated/cooled and even carpeted with indoor-outdoor carpet. His wife tolerated the hobby with the stipulation that he had to be able to park whatever he had in the garage. He had his eye on another restoration and was willing to let the '84 go 'cheap'. After seeing the garage setup and hearing that he never took the thing out in the rain, I respectfully passed because I would have to use the car as a DD and didn't want to do that to a car that had been pampered to that point.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Really!? Did you actually find and buy the GSX yet? Oh man that is a major move. I first can't imagine and won't ask the price but would be afraid to drive one down the road. I am sure you know owning a GSX will be just like money in the bank drawing interest or buying gold or precious metals that will only increase in value. I would have no problem owning a GS that someone turned into a GSX clone. I always found that the Buick and Olds or even the Pontiac muscle cars just rode and drove better than their brethren Chevrolets. They even seemed to have a notch better quality of interior. Its been said the Buick GS from 1968 thru 1972 were some of the best handling / riding offerings from GMC at that time. Congrats on a big move and enjoy. Apollo white or the searing Saturn Yellow paint were the only offerings at first. I do know they began to offer more paint color choices after a few years.
my first car was my 65 gto and i still have it. i never let it get away. went through a bunch of girlfriends but never even considered getting rid of the car ...
Not yet, search is ongoing. It has been difficult, to say the least, recently. If you, or anyone else on this thread, knows of any 1970 GS455/GSX cars that may be for sale PM me. Just an up front note, only premium upper echelon candidates, no junk or over-restored cars. Most of the cars in my signature were typically low mileage original unrestored top tier condition cars and I am looking for the same going forward on the Buick.
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My aunt had a Porsche 356 1600 Super that had been languishing in her garage for a long time. Fortunately, this was in Arizona, so it wasn't rusting away. It was dusty and the tires were dry rotted, but it looked like it could be restored. When I was a teenager, I kept lusting after that car, thinking I'd buy it from her someday and restore it. I gather she did sell it to somebody to restore, never heard anything else about it.
