1970 Buick GS Stage1 LOSES HALF ITS VALUE in 10 minutes!
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- "Shoulda kept the barn dust on it...it'd be worth more!"
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To the dorky purist, you can keep the dust. These cars were meant to be driven and to look good doing it. Clean and mean!!!
Rat Rod works...but not on 1960 plus.
Had a friend that had 1 almost like it, (Color wise) was parked on the street and a truck hit it in the back end and totaled it. Hit it so hard the back seat was in the front...
To the dorky non-purist.
Name-calling is childish and immature.
You have your stupid opinion.
Keep it to yourself.
Others can have their stupid opinions, as well, but for the love of God- grow up.
This should be beneath grown ass men to talk like that
Did I make my point?
The idea that dust is value, is utterly ridiculous. Id have washed it in a heartbeat, just like they did. Beautiful car!
To each his own. I’m not into the lacquered rust look. I’m also not into the torn jeans look. Nothing better than a clean shined up (nice paint) muscle car!
Agreed. This one needs to be painted. I can appreciate an original well-preserved car, though.
@@antiqueautomotiveserviceyeah needs a lacquer. Paint job not too shiny
Heck yes. If it were a 1951 pickup, yeah maybe the barn find 'patina' look, but not a car like this.
@@danherring5676 gotta agree do it right paint jambs under hood trunk
Me too
I had GSX car #125 for almost 28 years. I bought it in 1980, sold it in April 2007. I sold it to help my mother and father out when they both got sick.
Man, I sure hope they got better.
@@marcotelli1601
Lost mom in 2005, lost dad in 2007. When you go into a nursing home, it's all over. Nursing home care in 2005 was $300.00 a day or $9,000.00 a month.
This is almost the exact car my dad bought new when he came home from Vietnam…his was a lighter blue with the white vinyl top. That was the car I came home from the hospital as a baby in!
*To your father.*
_Welcome home Brother._
Army 11B ABN 🇺🇸
That's awesome. I came home in a 71 gs orange with a black top. I still have the 455, trans, and diff. The rest of the car is long gone, though.
My dad was into Buicks, but I'm sure it was a LeSaber I came home from the hospital in.
To each his own. That said imo the patina look is overrated and quite frankly tacky.
That Buick deserves to be restored. Rust and paint damage weren't OEM so the originality concept of rust and paint damage never made sense to me. I did the 1970 Buick A body thing for 31 years.
You can buy it and restore it!! LOL. I will be driving it next week.
@@georged8066 I did that already. You're a few decades late to sell me a '70.
I hate this whole rust patina thing on a muscle car!
Sweet ride. As a Pontiac enthusiast I fervently love any gym muscle car that isn’t a Chevy. Please restore it to its former glory BOP forever!!
Paint it, shine it, tune it, bring back the original look it was designed to have!! I grew up driving 60s and 70s cars, beautiful vehicles! They weren't made finished out in rust and should be restored
Is that a stage II455 WITH SPECIAL ENGINE ,MODS
Restored to factory original condition is expensive but done right it is worth it. Don't give that crap about patina and wear and tear being essential to its value. To be a 400 point car to the BCA (Buick Club of America) that car has to be restored to EXACTLY the way it was when it left the assembly line.
Yes it would need pretty much everything.
@@antiqueautomotiveservice - hmm.. I don't know about that, sir.. LOL. I am registering (and driving it) next week...
@@georged8066 It was a subjective statement!😂 How's the exhaust coming?
@@antiqueautomotiveservice It's exhausting!! *I'll show myself out.*
You tear the rest of that rag top off and get the exhaust leak fixed and that becomes a really awesome daily driver!
What an awesome find! It certainly does deserve a proper restoration. The headliner was in amazing shape.
Surprisingly, yes it was! Curious as to how many mice decided to make it their home, though.
This car has been restified. The remaining paint is being buffed and polished, the engine, brakes, and electrical system has been gone through. All of the original parts that could be reused, were reused, to keep the originality. The car WILL be registered May 15, 2024, and driven to the Bass Pro Shop cruise night, at Patriot Place, on Thursday, May 16. I will take a video and some photo's at that time, and post it on my UA-cam channel.
Nice score! One of my all time favorite muscle cars.
Im sick of the patina BS
Absolutely!! If you can afford to, get the goddamn thing RESTORED 💯👍🤨!!!!
@@dmansf49ers71 *God Blessed
My first car was a 70 GS 455 auto in the floor in 1981,the car only had 32000 miles on it.Talk about one you wish you had back.
BB fun. I would do an efi conversion for cold weather starting, enhanced perf and better atomization.
I remember those back in the day, so nice the were called the banker's hot rod.
Buick used to advertise “Go Fast with Class”.
That car isn't that bad. A bunch of disassembling and cleaning, reassembling, some paint and a new top.
It really is a great foundation. Not a rotten mess.
This car look very straight, but it needs a frame off restoration considering what a rare classic it is.
Not inexpensive, but the return will be worth it.
No way I would put a vinyl top back on it. Completely not needed and a contrasting color or matching color paint woud do it just fine
@@anonimous2451 I see lots of folks wanting to keep the color combo but not the vinyl top part, and paint the top the color of the vinyl. Pretty sleek, and it doesn't really "devalue" the car...since it was an option to have a painted top in 1970.
@@antiqueautomotiveservice Of course. That was my point sir.
So half the value of the car was dirt. I've got a pile of dirt I'll sell you for cheap....
The GS was way cooler than any Chevelle IMO . and I have big love for the 69 Chevelle for sure .
Awesome car with great color combination.
Those cars never came in blue. Either Apollo white or yellow
@@gregorylyon1004 Guess its a BIG conspiracy then, owners all over the world got together and picked the same color blue and painted their cars! One coat of primer and one coat of paint SHOULD be your first clue! eee yikes bud
@@gregorylyon1004 You're thinking of the GSX package... This is just a GS, albeit with the HIGHLY desirable "Stage 1" option. This one has ultra rare cruise control, also. Literally only option missing is PW.
@@gregorylyon1004 That's the GSX, the GS came in 10 different colors not including special order paint.
At the end of WW2 mechanics came home and started Souping up their cars. Manufacturers decided to get in on the market and that's how we got all these muscle cars. With that said, I don't care if it's numbers matching or 40yrs of patina. If the car looks good, drives good, and knocks your socks then 👍🏻
So take a picture of it dirty then turn it into a looker 😁
1981 back when you could buy these types of cars for a few hundred bucks. We got this same car for $25 because it wouldn't start. We took it home and did everything to get it to go. We were just teenagers though. After we failed and took it to the junk yard we realized we forgot to check the points and dizzy cap. Oh well, what can you say. But it wasn't half as cool as the dark green 1968 Mustang GT 428 4 speed fastback i got for $900. Then I remember borrowing a few hundred bucks from my construction boss because i didn't quite have enough money to buy a 1969 Cougar eliminator 4spd car then i bought it. Its a toss up but i think i preferred the Eliminator over the fastback. Sold the Eliminator for $2400 to a guy 3 states away. If you only knew what you had back in the day. man. Don't worry i have 11 other badass cars these days.
You done the right thing by cleaning it up...
A/C and PW makes it worth a LOT.
Crank windows, but power locks 🤷♀️
Those cars were never blue
@@gregorylyon1004 So your saying... the whole car was stripped down to the bare metal, then one coat of primer and paint. You had better tell that story to the rest of the owners of blue ones im sure they would be interested to hear your made up story LOL
@@gregorylyon1004 You're thinking of the GSX. The GS could be ordered in any Buick color of that year.
Those are Power door, lock switches, you see. Not power windows.
65-66 buick special were my favorite followed closely by the GS and GSX. Hell of a start on that one, hope it makes it back to see some more glory days.
My first car in '76 was a '66 Buick Special that was owned by an elderly neighbor who could no longer drive, only had 22000 miles on it and I paid $1.000 for it - I'm now as old as that "elderly" neighbor was -lol!!
My dream car.
Man what a find. That thing's actually in really good shape. That color is gorgeous too. Repaint that exact color, I would; fix the mechanical and other cosmetic issues and woe!
Oh man. That was the ORIGINAL dust! What have you done!?!?!?
Lol
I told ya I was devaluing the car! LOL
That dust ain't original unless it came from the factory that way.
I had a 70 and 71, great cars!
Love the hidden driving lights and wire nuts.
Nice catch!
One of my favorite parts of this one...it sure does date it!
Beautiful job, beautiful car.
I loved this car, and nearly bought it from the owner. There was a lot more to do with it, but this was a quick wash down so I wasn't swimming in dirt and mouse nests.
The GSCA sticker makes me wonder if someone has a photo in BG when it was mint. Love the color combo!
Those cars never came in blue.. Either Apollo white or yellow
@@gregorylyon1004I think you’re confusing this GS with a GSX….
@@mattskustomkreations Agreed.
You are talking about a GSX
@@gregorylyon1004Yes, they did. That was a legit color for most, if not all, 1970 GM cars. Pontiac offered the same color that they called "Atoll Blue".
My dad had one, same color. I believe he said he put a 409 in it because he needed more. lol!!! He always regretted selling that car. He had some old road runners too. One of which I had me a little campfire on the back floorboard with some matches I found under the seat. Made a hole in the carpet and i wore a sore ass fer about a month from the whoopin I got. I was only about 6 but I learned not to play with fire.
Looks like a pretty solid car to me. It is 54 years old after all. Ready for it's senior discount! I rode in one of these new, they were impressive and FAST!
It really has great bones!
My uncle had that exact same car. Bought it after coming home from Nam. A real beast. A growing family caused him to sell it to a kid who promptly totaled it during a police chase. A shame.
My friend had one we put a bed into the trunk caption chairs in front cut hood put duel holly 650 and two foot tunnel ram 3/4 cam never lost a street race. Great car.
I think the "patina" gives it a more menacing look
If that car is truly a ND car...it's a miracle it's still running and driving. Tag expired in 90, 20 years on the road in ND can be quite rough on any car, much less a grand old musclecar like a GS.
In Florida, about 1971, we took my friend's girlfriend's mother's car, a new GS 455, wide open down West Hollywood Blvd. It would. do well over 100. Scary fast!
Wow, what a score!! Hope he repaints it.
Nice car to start with looks pretty solid
My brother bought a Brown 71 skylark in 1979 with a extreme BUILT chevy 350 in it and a rock crusher 4 speed . We got the GS hood and vents from a junk yard. Couldn't find the GS decals though. Total sleeper except for the spoke rims. It had a sway bar on the 12 bolt rear which had a Detroit locker in it. Cornered like a dream and was fast as hell. 10.42 in the 1/4. With slicks it lifted the drivers front wheel up about 3 1/2 feet and the passenger wheel about a foot. Learned that torque twist was a normal thing in a GS/Skylark. I had my 71 Pontiac lemans. Mine looked 1000% better, but my brothers car was way faster. (mine 13.58 in 1/4).
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
I had the exact car in the 80's same state too, with foglights behind the grill, thought it might have been my old one but mine till I saw the white interior., mine was blue ( if memory serves) I have bought and sold a bunch of muscle cars but that is the one I miss most.
I recently did the same on a 69 427 Caprice. The interior was in surprisingly good shape just dust bunny paradise. The passenger and driver side inner door handles were too brittle and discolored. They eventually broke but easy to find repro.
Those little mud flap thingys are cool
A nice JC Whitney touch for sure!
Tar babys.
all original , all there and when finished it will be one hell of a ride .
For sure! I love this car.
Had the ziebart rustproofing done,probably when new,or thereabouts.
Good eye! Those little yellow body plugs in the door jambs give it away.
@@antiqueautomotiveservice indeed,had that done to my ‘75 Lesabre convertible way back when
I buy and sell quite a few older cars. I've got A79M GB that is rust free. And it's been Z barted 82 Ram charger. Pretty much the same thing. I didn't believe in it back in the day but it's making a believer out of me now.
I bet ya he could've put Sea Foam in the fuel and oil and restored some of that noise too.
Great job cleaning it off.
The guy who bought it from me got it running well. There was a GIANT hole in the exhaust runner of the head. Head was replaced and all was well.
Was a great car back in its days
It’s still is
Other than paint and a new top the car looks fairly solid
It really is solid, considering the storage method for the last decade or 2.
beautiful car love the body style of that era , i have a 76 nova
Give it the vice grip garage treatment, maybe get some patina juice turn it into a going to town rig
I believe that is what's currently happening with it. That big ass exhaust leak you heard at the end of the video was the actual HEAD that had a hole in the exhaust runner. Someone got excited when they did some porting.
@@antiqueautomotiveservice you just don't see these grand sports very often not like a Chevy or Pontiac or even Olds I've only seen one it was red and white I had to ask the owner what it was and I'm 53 so I've seen a lot
@@user-uj6rs3mr6j "Grand Sport" is a Corvette. Gran Sports were Buicks. But Buick made zero Gran Sports in 1970. The cars were named GS and GS455 (with and without the Stage 1 or the very rare Stage 2 package) or the GSX, which was a mid-1970 model.
@@bbb462cid thanks but more than I need to know I was just stating that I felt in my opinion it's a rare car
@@user-uj6rs3mr6j and I'm just giving you info
It’s a Keeper 🤩 It’s All There
I would rather have that than any modern car on the road right now.
That Ziebart must have really helped, I noticed the sticker in the back window as well.
Yep! Amazing how some cars stay so well preserved and others are just trashed.
When I was about 20 I bought a 13 year old GS 350 that was triple brown and more rare than any 455 I've seen as they only made 9948 of them but, it was the options my car had. Power/Tilt Steering, A/C, map light in rear-view mirror, speed warning buzzer, deluxe rear interior lights and the most rare bucket seats with U handle floor shifter and center console. In the last 40 years I have never seen any GS Skylark in person with bucket seats and maybe only 1 or 2 in pictures. Unfortunately 10 years later I decided I could only restore 1 car and I had a cleaner last year 240Z that I chose to do and 5 years after that I had a garage fire that took that car from me. So I guess I would have lost the Buick even had I kept it. Even the GS 455's are hard to find now. Back when new you could buy from the dealer with factory headers.
A pos import over a gs buick? Hope it went to a true red white and blue Patriot...
The car is in remarkably good shape. It doesn’t look like there’s any mouse damage either.
For the life of me, I cannot fathom what motivates people to neglect these legends to automotive awesomeness the way this car was just left to rot outside, in the elements.
If all the pertinent numbers match on this icon, it is woth a damn fortune when it is restored to it's original glory!
People both suck, (& swallow) & ROCK simultaneously!
The original owner parked it under a car port, as the cost of aviation fuel that he used was getting to be too much, plus the station was ~ 100 miles away from where he lived. The car port was a "lean to", which kept the hood, fenders, and the entire PS covered... However, the DS door, DS quarter, and trunk lid was exposed... And the rain "washed" some of the paint away in those areas...
This car needs restored as good of shape it’s in
I've got my 1968 Charger in my garage. It gets dusted but I haven't started it in year's. I just can't part with it ❤
That's a great looking & solid car. I would drive it as is until I had the money & resources to restore it. Grand Sport is one of my dream cars...
Registered it last week and have been driving it since!
I was wondering where the car lost its value🤷♂️ I had no idea that cleaning years of dust, dirt and rat sh*t off a “ barn find” would devalue a car🙄 it would be nice to see that car completely disassembled, properly cleaned, repaired, put back to original factory standards and driven again😯
It's a joke. Barn dust apparently to some people makes cars worth more than gold.
Those Stage One engines had over 500 foot pounds of torque
How does removing dirt, mouse droppings and a rotten vinyl top reduce the value of the car by 50%?
The only thing I cringed at was using the knife to cut the vinyl top around the window moldings. Those moldings should have been removed so all of the roof covering could be gotten to and completely removed.
That car should be refinished only where the rust and missing paint affected the body panels. A really competent restorer could match the paint with no difficulty. And as was said by others, the roof would look very good finished in white.
That's a very desirable, original Buick GS, and it deserves first-class treatment.
Id switch that to buckets console..hate bench seats and column shift
Definitely a polarizing debate!
Never could get close enough to my date w buckets & console
I miss bench seats terribly!
Looks like and sounds like Christine as she drives her self back to the barn after the fire
I've owned both a ram air 69 judge and a 70 GS stage 1 455 Buick !!! Guess which one is still in my garage today !!! (If you guessed JUDGE your correct) !!! The ugly truth about Buick,s at hi RPM,s they couldn't take it and will lose a bearing on #8 cyl !!!
It sure cleaned up nicely but I don’t think I would put a vinyl top back on unless the top gets a really good paint job first.
For sure...this car really needs to be completely gone through. It was ridden hard and put away wet.
The factory top would have had one seam down the middle. Two seams indicate the top has been replaced. Fabric was manufactured wider in those years compared to now.
I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing that information with us Mr. James.
I noticed in the past some had one seam and some two never knew why until now.
@@MrJames1549YOU Are wrong, all cars had 2 seams from the factory regardless of manufacture.
@@czechmate6916 Mr James is WRONG, all cars in the 70’s had 2 seams.
No harm no foul on this car!
I would have covered the air intakes on the air cleaner
They have drains on them.
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
There’s a brown GS, same year, sitting on the street over from me on the north side of San Antonio. Been owned by the same dude for as long as I have been alive (43 years). I’ve seen it run once. Pretty sad. It just sits in his driveway outside
Always frustrating to watch these rot, and not be able to do something about it.
We love how the old time machines looked so different from one another. But consider modern NASCAR level power available, much more precise tolerances.
Gorgeous! Has factory A/C!
Find the flaws and correct them, good start!
Restoration is needed, however keep it original for maximum money 💰. I drove one in ‘70, wish I kept it.
There aint no wayin hell I would have sold that car, but to each his own.!!
Good luck just remender everthing is a challenge have fun is it just another adventure in the life of many
I’m still waiting for my “barn find” to turn up but I haven’t given up hope , yet . I’m getting too old to deal with it but I’m not too old yet . I’m a Mopar guy so if anyone has something they want to sell ………..
How did it lose half it's value?
I have the same car years ago I bought it from an old lady.
SEE THEM CHROME BUMPERS,REAL CAR,LOSE VALUE,NOT LIKELY,it would be a honor to paint that bad boy,put many an engine in those,gravy job,any car made before 1974 was designed by mechanic engineers who knew how to design for REPAIR AND LONG LIFE,CHERISH IT
Way too much pressure washing on the engine and blowing water to the carb is a bad No No. But that car deserves to be driven!:)
Being driven! Will be out on the Mass roads this weekend!
That would be a great restoration car.
I actually fast forwarded through the 9.5 minutes of clean up to see what ever was wrong with this car and shortly after i realized it was just a washing a dirty flip car video.
Lol when you first it up I thought you you fired up a tractor didn't know it was the car till you drove by the camera so yea she definitely has an exhaust leak but those cars are getting harder and harder to find so the restoration will be well worth the hard long work it's going to take.
Yeah it sounded ROUGH....big hole in the side of the head on the exhaust runner.
Yea it's going to take some work.
@@Joe8648 - already repaired- furnace welded, back on the car... ua-cam.com/video/8O3SVXIdFLM/v-deo.html
Nice Restoration project👍
Well.....all new interior installed, all new factory paint outside, re chrome bumpers, new tires and rims, redo brakes complete with new lines, master and wheel cylinders, new exhausts, new radiator, hoses, water pump, belts, rebuild or replace carb, new fuel pump, clean out fuel tank, new fuel lines, flush out engine, new oil, drop tranny pan clean out, change oil at least a couple of times, grease all grease points, change points plugs condenser, new air filter, check state of power steering and air conditioning, then thermal clutch radiator fan, guages and lights all working, ...... Then she may be good to go. A top classic that runs almost new.
Yep, just a few things LOL
My sister has a ‘69 that is pretty clean but original paint that needs to be done, the interior is great. It was originally a 400ci engine but it has a 455 swapped in. She still has the original engine as well. We would like to sell it but she really doesn’t even know what to ask. It’s in Colorado. Any tips?
That GS is crying for a restoration!
UPDATE! PLEASE!
Gorgeous car and it will be much better when repainted. Patina is severely overrated.
Guess what I have in my mothers garage ? And it is a convertible no less !
Why can’t it be soft washed not pressure washed? I never understood that. Seems like pressure can damage more and trust me these old cars are leaking water inside of it and possibly trunk area too
It leaked everywhere. There was no saving rubber parts etc. I'm very aware of when I should and shouldn't use a power washer. This car would leak everywhere if it merely rained on it.
@@antiqueautomotiveservice to each its on. Pressure washing can tear stuff up including paint but since you know when and how, tear some stuff up!
Wow Adam, this video got popular
That's for sure. Freaking wild. Catchy titles and the right hashtags do wonders.
I got a 1972 dont have time to fix up and 100 s of new parts with 455
Strangely optioned , power doors locks with manual windows , interesting .
Had a 1972 GS Skylark with hood scoops. Not a fun car when it rained
Could be problematic, for sure!
it must not have been in a barn for very long. My impala had way more dirt and dust sitting on it in just 1 year of sitting
I hauled it on a trailer for 10 hours, so a lot of it vaporized in the wind.
I miss mine, sold it in Michigan in 81 when i entered the US Navy
LOST HALF ITS VALUE IN 10 MINUTES BECAUSE THE OWNER REALIZED HE WAS STILL IN NORTH DAKOTA WHEN DONE.