I had a 63 Buick Wildcat it was black with a white interior it was awesome it was the nicest car it was in several parades. And my dad always wanted to take it Saturday's when he went golfing
Can't make them like that today , l had a 1963 Olds Star Fire 2 Dr hard top love that car my dad bought it for me in 1970 , 600 dollars it was my first car
Francis Potter -Awesome choice🇺🇸 My father in law has one & finished it off frame restoration himself. It’s the convertible Star Fire. 394 ultra high comp engine. Beautiful ride & IMO, they’re works of art from a bygone era. ✌️🇺🇸😎
True Beauty & Class (ic) THX👍😎 Today’s peeps have no idea of the sweet era they missed! The “egg” shaped cars today are completely soul-less compared to a new beauty such as this 63 BUICK. -Wish GM, FORD would bring these classics back in a 2020 version w/ airbags & electronics. I’m sure they would suffer in the wind tunnels but DAMN wouldn’t it be sweet to see them built again. (I can dream) 👍Thx for filming✊
The best looking year for the Wildcat. I had a rose metallic one. 2 door hardtop I called it the Pink Panther. License plate: PKPANTR. My dad has a first year 1962 Wildcat 2 door hardtop in powder blue and a 1964 4 door hardtop in white with a 425. My mom had a 1969 4 door hardtop in white. I liked the old 401 engine much better than the 430.
the first car the I learn how to drive was a 1962 Buick Electra 225 back in 1970 was my uncle's car I drove it for 3 month's and I was 13 I wish I can go back to the 70's no worries with 7 dollar's you fuel up your 20 gallon tank of the Buick
I really believe the Invictas and Wildcats were the best Buicks.I had Deuce and1/4s and Rivieras also.,Invictas and Wilcats.First Buicks with legendary 401-425 Nailheads Wildcat 445 ft.lbs torque.
@@Quickened1 No!! I live in Chicago, but I'm an almost lifelong Buick fan thru my own experiences with them,since I was about 10 years old. This neighbor of mine had a 59 Invicta. It was very shiny & Black with Red leather interior & had a very cool looking grill & canted headlights & I told him that was the coolest looking car I ever seen,so he said, Let me take you for a spin & the car greatly impressed me so the very first car I owned was a 64 Wildcat with a 401 Nailhead & duel exhaust!!! It was an awesome,powerful,solid,durable,reliable car & that's why I owned 7 Buicks in my lifetime!!! What is a Cadillac???
@@JohnGruber-di3cw that's awesome man! This guy would drag race his Invicta, and it was built solid w/4 speed... I've only owned one 63 Lesabre, and it was my favorite car I've ever owned. Bought it for 250 bucks in the late 90s... My first car was supposed to be a 72 Buick Riv 455, but my sister didn't let me buy it for 300 bucks because it used too much gas!!! So I ended up with a 68 Cutlass convertible instead... The oldies are my kind of rides, but there's just something extra special magic, driving a 1963 Buick with the experimental, dual path turbine automatic transmission... I'll never forget the first time I drove that car, and it never shifted gears, and the first time I discovered the kick in the pants it would deliver by flooring it!!! Could have had a 64, 225 with a 465 Wildcat engine in it for 500 in the late 90's as well. Just didn't get it because I didn't like the body lines of the Electra... Always wished i could go back in time and drive a brand new, 1963 Buick off the floor... Take care, and keep spinning those wheels!
@@Quickened1 Hey buddy, I can can ramble on forever with awesome Buick factual stories but for now I'll tell you this one. in the mid 70's I had a 70 Wildcat & a 70 Riv at the same time. They both had 455's with duel cherry bombs with shorty pipes & modified air filters but other than that,they were stock. I was curious about which one was quicker so I decided to run them against each other.I had a summer place in Wisconsin & my brother drove my Riv out there & l drove my Wildcat.Early in the morning we found a very nice back road stretch & decided Let's go!!! The Riv was in front for the first 30 feet but then my Wildcat caught up to within about 3 feet. We ran them about a good 5 miles & pegged out the speedometers. The Riv won I think,because it had an electronic fuel pump on the fuel tank!!! I think about how lucky we were that a deer didn't jump in front of us!!! Crazy shit!! LoL!!!
Absolutely! But, I had a 63 Lesbre, and you couldn't tell the difference until you could see the grille, or emblems! They had the exact same chassis except the grille insert, which, I liked better on the Lesabre... It was two tone, red on top, white on bottom, with that simulated soft top look...red with white striped vinyl interior... What a fun ride!!
WRONG. This engine (Wildcat 445") was named as such because of its peak gross torque output of 445 ft-lb. Displacement was 401 cubic inches. Remember that's gross torque; as installed (SAE Net) torque would have been substantially lower. Here's the related page from the 1963 Buick brochure: www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Buick/1963_Buick/1963_Buick_Full_Line_Brochure/1963%20Buick%20Full%20Line-28.html
Says gangster threw and threw with them vogue tires sets it off right..leave the chrome factory wheels.. If it had steel wheel then I consider crager 30 spoke wires with them vogue tires..
You're wrong about that. The sticker you mentioned didn't appear until the 1964 model year. The air cleaner shown here is factory correct for the 1963 model year Wildcat. This '63 Wildcat features the same style airliner and "sticker:" www.hemmings.com/magazine/hmn/2013/06/1963-Buick-Wildcat/3726751.html
@jonowens460 yeah, obviously for maximum performance, that stick would be desired... Knew a guy with that in his Wildcat (Invicta) station wagon of all things! but I had the automatic in my 445 Wildcat LeSabre. Most people don't know this, but in 1963, Buick had perfected their experimental automatic transmission, that they had begun producing in 1961. The 1961 and 1962 differed in several ways from the one in 1963, and those changes resulted in the most incredible transmission that had ever been made up to that date, and for decades to come. They were specific internal differences, and I can't remember what exactly, but whomever designed these trannies, was a freaking genius! In 1964, GM decided to utilize the Turbo 400 as their automatic of choice for decades to follow. So, large 1963 Buicks, with the automatic, have one of a kind transmissions!!! They were experimental, and then perfected in '63, and only a 1963, performs to the level the designer desired... Let me tell you, for a grocery getter, there was nothing better on the road... Completely stock except for the rear tires, with the huge, factory 1150 cfm Carter AFB, I got 25 miles to the gallon around town, but when, and if I put it into low at a light, it could lift the front tires off the ground, WHEN the rubber hooked up (good old 60 series bias plies :). Low and go... Zero to one twenty in mere seconds... I miss her. If you want to confirm what I'm telling you, you can find an old, Motor's transmission shop manual from the 60s. Look for the 1961-1963 Buick transmission called the Dual Path Turbine. It's tough to find because there are just a few pages dedicated to these incredible transmissions.. They were also known as the Switch Pitch Turbine... You could literally hold this transmission up, in the palm of one hand! Without the torque converter full of course, but empty you could if you were a mechanic worth your salt... lol In the end, who knows why GM pulled the plug on this perfect transmission? Was it because it got too good of gas mileage in a full size car if driven correctly? Was it because people could not get used to a car that never shifted a gear while driving? Or was it just too hard and too expensive for mechanics to repair when it did break? Idk, but it was a sad day for me, when I had to let mine go... 😥 Keep spinning those wheels! ; )
@@harddrivin1le-970 @harddrivin1le-970 haha... Saw this reply for the first time, five years later! Thanks for the notification! ok, maybe decal, is a better description of what adorned the air cleaner. I do have to admit, my '63 Lesabre with 445, is not a Wildcat model, but I can't imagine a dealership not putting the "decal", air cleaner on the Wildcat, when it obviously came factory on my Lesabre. So, for all I know, you may indeed be correct about the Wildcat receiving it for the first time in 1964... But all that aside, I'd slide into this, or any other full size Buick from 1963, and drive it cross country if I could... Smoothest ride ever with that turbine... 😉👍
Now that's the perfect Buick Wildcat. What a spectacular beauty.
That is one mean & stylish front end & grill. Beautiful Buick
Best looking tail lights on any Buick.
I had a 63 Buick Wildcat it was black with a white interior it was awesome it was the nicest car it was in several parades. And my dad always wanted to take it Saturday's when he went golfing
Just, utterly nice.
What a beautiful car - I just graduated HS when these came out!
Can't make them like that today , l had a 1963 Olds Star Fire 2 Dr hard top love that car my dad bought it for me in 1970 , 600 dollars it was my first car
...the best!
Francis Potter -Awesome choice🇺🇸
My father in law has one & finished it off frame restoration himself. It’s the convertible Star Fire. 394 ultra high comp engine. Beautiful ride & IMO, they’re works of art from a bygone era. ✌️🇺🇸😎
Awesome color. On these, cornering lamps were optional and dealer installed.
Those tail lights are just divine!
Man I just love the wildcat one of the cars Buick made
A car to be proud of .
Beautiful styling, love the flat-iron taillights reminiscent of the '58 Limited.
WOW!!! MY FIRST CAR. THE PERFECT ONE..................
True Beauty & Class (ic) THX👍😎
Today’s peeps have no idea of the sweet era they missed!
The “egg” shaped cars today are completely soul-less compared to a new beauty such as this 63 BUICK.
-Wish GM, FORD would bring these classics back in a 2020 version w/ airbags & electronics.
I’m sure they would suffer in the wind tunnels but DAMN wouldn’t it be sweet to see them built again.
(I can dream)
👍Thx for filming✊
my dad had a turquoise 61,old Buicks were cool cars. big torque, good looks sporty family car.
Buick wheels nicest stock wheels of any production car, loked good on a lot of models right up to the deuce and a quarter
Gawd what a beauty..
Thank you for the comment! It is an absolutely phenomenal car. It featured the original 401 Nailhead engine.
Gorgeous car, really like the colour
Buick wildcat 1963 i prefer to drive classic's like this in warm Laredo, Texas weather where it doesn't snow or in Mexico to.
A perfect example !!! pull up to the cc in that baby !!!
The best looking year for the Wildcat. I had a rose metallic one. 2 door hardtop I called it the Pink Panther. License plate: PKPANTR. My dad has a first year 1962 Wildcat 2 door hardtop in powder blue and a 1964 4 door hardtop in white with a 425. My mom had a 1969 4 door hardtop in white. I liked the old 401 engine much better than the 430.
That is as good as they get.
That's a nice look wildcat
As good as it gets.early sixties Wildcats were cool.had same color on 93 lesabre.
Magnificent.
Nice car👍🔥😍
the first car the I learn how to drive was a 1962 Buick Electra 225 back in 1970 was my uncle's car I drove it for 3 month's and I was 13 I wish I can go back to the 70's no worries with 7 dollar's you fuel up your 20 gallon tank of the Buick
Jewel.
those mags look so good with the vogue tire. They look like 15's. I wonder how that style with bigg center cap would look like on my 64 Special
May I ask what size tires and rims do you have for this car? I have a 1964 Riviera and these look great
Straight n Sweet
interior and trunk reminds me of a rivera
This car sold at Mecum Kissimmee 2017.
What did it sell for?
i had a 63 and a 67 wildcat
To think what I could have paid for this same car back in high school in '77
I really believe the Invictas and Wildcats were the best Buicks.I had Deuce and1/4s and Rivieras also.,Invictas and Wilcats.First Buicks with legendary 401-425 Nailheads Wildcat 445 ft.lbs torque.
You don't live in Las Vegas do you? You sound like someone I met there decades ago... :)
@@Quickened1 No!! I live in Chicago, but I'm an almost lifelong Buick fan thru my own experiences with them,since I was about 10 years old. This neighbor of mine had a 59 Invicta. It was very shiny & Black with Red leather interior & had a very cool looking grill & canted headlights & I told him that was the coolest looking car I ever seen,so he said, Let me take you for a spin & the car greatly impressed me so the very first car I owned was a 64 Wildcat with a 401 Nailhead & duel exhaust!!! It was an awesome,powerful,solid,durable,reliable car & that's why I owned 7 Buicks in my lifetime!!! What is a Cadillac???
@@JohnGruber-di3cw that's awesome man! This guy would drag race his Invicta, and it was built solid w/4 speed... I've only owned one 63 Lesabre, and it was my favorite car I've ever owned. Bought it for 250 bucks in the late 90s...
My first car was supposed to be a 72 Buick Riv 455, but my sister didn't let me buy it for 300 bucks because it used too much gas!!! So I ended up with a 68 Cutlass convertible instead...
The oldies are my kind of rides, but there's just something extra special magic, driving a 1963 Buick with the experimental, dual path turbine automatic transmission... I'll never forget the first time I drove that car, and it never shifted gears, and the first time I discovered the kick in the pants it would deliver by flooring it!!!
Could have had a 64, 225 with a 465 Wildcat engine in it for 500 in the late 90's as well. Just didn't get it because I didn't like the body lines of the Electra... Always wished i could go back in time and drive a brand new, 1963 Buick off the floor...
Take care, and keep spinning those wheels!
@@Quickened1 Hey buddy, I can can ramble on forever with awesome Buick factual stories but for now I'll tell you this one. in the mid 70's I had a 70 Wildcat & a 70 Riv at the same time. They both had 455's with duel cherry bombs with shorty pipes & modified air filters but other than that,they were stock. I was curious about which one was quicker so I decided to run them against each other.I had a summer place in Wisconsin & my brother drove my Riv out there & l drove my Wildcat.Early in the morning we found a very nice back road stretch & decided Let's go!!! The Riv was in front for the first 30 feet but then my Wildcat caught up to within about 3 feet. We ran them about a good 5 miles & pegged out the speedometers. The Riv won I think,because it had an electronic fuel pump on the fuel tank!!! I think about how lucky we were that a deer didn't jump in front of us!!! Crazy shit!! LoL!!!
Covet, majorly.
Wow
Richard Lewis Bailey
I think the Wildcat is prettier than the Electra for the same year.
Absolutely! But, I had a 63 Lesbre, and you couldn't tell the difference until you could see the grille, or emblems! They had the exact same chassis except the grille insert, which, I liked better on the Lesabre... It was two tone, red on top, white on bottom, with that simulated soft top look...red with white striped vinyl interior... What a fun ride!!
Absolutely Phnomanal Looking Car' Sounds Amazing is it 455? Best Wishes thanks for the Video
Is this sold?
is this the one just sold at Kissemmee?
410 ft pounds of torque. had one. loved it. gas mileage only around 13 mpg, but it had a 23 gallon fuel tank.
WRONG. This engine (Wildcat 445") was named as such because of its peak gross torque output of 445 ft-lb. Displacement was 401 cubic inches. Remember that's gross torque; as installed (SAE Net) torque would have been substantially lower. Here's the related page from the 1963 Buick brochure: www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Buick/1963_Buick/1963_Buick_Full_Line_Brochure/1963%20Buick%20Full%20Line-28.html
Buick Rivera
The Riv is nice, but it should have a '65 grill to look legit imho... ❤ em...
Look at that dash Boyz n gurlz
Says gangster threw and threw with them vogue tires sets it off right..leave the chrome factory wheels.. If it had steel wheel then I consider crager 30 spoke wires with them vogue tires..
Squeaky pulleys and belts!!!!!!!!
only thing missing is the 445 Wildcat sticker on the aircleaner... super nice ride
You're wrong about that. The sticker you mentioned didn't appear until the 1964 model year. The air cleaner shown here is factory correct for the 1963 model year Wildcat. This '63 Wildcat features the same style airliner and "sticker:" www.hemmings.com/magazine/hmn/2013/06/1963-Buick-Wildcat/3726751.html
Didn't see the factory tach on console.
@Marshall L Smith 445 is the torque rating, not the engine size or the horsepower rating.
@jonowens460 yeah, obviously for maximum performance, that stick would be desired... Knew a guy with that in his Wildcat (Invicta) station wagon of all things! but I had the automatic in my 445 Wildcat LeSabre. Most people don't know this, but in 1963, Buick had perfected their experimental automatic transmission, that they had begun producing in 1961. The 1961 and 1962 differed in several ways from the one in 1963, and those changes resulted in the most incredible transmission that had ever been made up to that date, and for decades to come. They were specific internal differences, and I can't remember what exactly, but whomever designed these trannies, was a freaking genius!
In 1964, GM decided to utilize the Turbo 400 as their automatic of choice for decades to follow. So, large 1963 Buicks, with the automatic, have one of a kind transmissions!!! They were experimental, and then perfected in '63, and only a 1963, performs to the level the designer desired...
Let me tell you, for a grocery getter, there was nothing better on the road... Completely stock except for the rear tires, with the huge, factory 1150 cfm Carter AFB, I got 25 miles to the gallon around town, but when, and if I put it into low at a light, it could lift the front tires off the ground, WHEN the rubber hooked up (good old 60 series bias plies :). Low and go... Zero to one twenty in mere seconds... I miss her.
If you want to confirm what I'm telling you, you can find an old, Motor's transmission shop manual from the 60s. Look for the 1961-1963 Buick transmission called the Dual Path Turbine. It's tough to find because there are just a few pages dedicated to these incredible transmissions.. They were also known as the Switch Pitch Turbine... You could literally hold this transmission up, in the palm of one hand! Without the torque converter full of course, but empty you could if you were a mechanic worth your salt... lol
In the end, who knows why GM pulled the plug on this perfect transmission? Was it because it got too good of gas mileage in a full size car if driven correctly? Was it because people could not get used to a car that never shifted a gear while driving? Or was it just too hard and too expensive for mechanics to repair when it did break? Idk, but it was a sad day for me, when I had to let mine go... 😥
Keep spinning those wheels! ; )
@@harddrivin1le-970 @harddrivin1le-970 haha... Saw this reply for the first time, five years later! Thanks for the notification! ok, maybe decal, is a better description of what adorned the air cleaner. I do have to admit, my '63 Lesabre with 445, is not a Wildcat model, but I can't imagine a dealership not putting the "decal", air cleaner on the Wildcat, when it obviously came factory on my Lesabre. So, for all I know, you may indeed be correct about the Wildcat receiving it for the first time in 1964... But all that aside, I'd slide into this, or any other full size Buick from 1963, and drive it cross country if I could... Smoothest ride ever with that turbine... 😉👍
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