Just LOVE that idle! I came back three years after only to hear it again. Beautiful all around Buick GS. Gorgeous engine and body. Many thanks for posting.
uski59 it's hard to beat up somebody else's Buick GS when it's for sale! If I blow them up, I have to buy them! Thanks, Jason Phillips, Michigan based auto appraiser.
E X C E L L E N T ! Very good condition indeed. Love the idle sound -- and everything else (well, I'd get a better / complete aftermarket sound system but I realize it's not a priority and other few details [also, replace Cragar rims]). Thanks for sharing. Sincerely, Buick Fan.
I like the semi-fastback for all 1968 GM midsize cars, especially the 2 door hardtop and the body is totally restyled from the 1967. I also like the 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury, 2 door hardtop, and still using the 1965 and 1966 cantilever roof that also used on 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury. They only came with V-8 engine as standard on these models. They don't use fender skirts on all 1967 Plymouth Fury, as well as early 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury, which was ended in January 1968, however they used fender skirts on the 1968 Plymouth Fury III with a 1967 style roof on the 2 door hardtop as of semi-fastback. There are 5 body styles for the 1968 full size Plymouth Fury III, they are: 2 door semi-fastback that I mentioned, 4 door hardtop, 4 door pillared conventional sedan, convertible, and a station wagon, and most of them uses fender skirts which partially hide the rear wheels.
I have a GS400, all original my Dad bought in 1968 .. as of today it has 22,642 miles. Mine is same color exterior but all white interior and has the automatic floor shift .. Just drove in his funeral on 6/8/21 😢😢😢😢
That's a bad ass Buick. The Buick GS might not have been the fastest muscle car but it was probably the overall nicest car out of them all. Really fast and nice comfortable cars to drive too. The Olds 442 was also a very nice car like the Buick GS
Damn Beautiful Ride !!! for Michigan,.....must have done alotta garage/storage time........I have no doubt that mill has the guts,....thank god you didnt show,.........it was bad enough you tryn to cam & drive in the residential.......plz use a co--pilot next run.......n take it on the 4 Lane......600 hp should make a giant cloud of burnin rubber.....been there done that.....
A little late to the show here but I can tell you as a 45 year Buick fanatic and builder of some serious 455's, this car has no where near 600 hp. You can't just add up all the advertised gains for the parts and call it engine hp. Currently I have a '66 Skylark with a 455, T/A aluminum heads, SP2 intake, Edelbrock 850 carb, roller rockers, Comp Cams Big Mutha Thumper cam w/.567 life, 10:1 forged pistons, bored 0.30 over, headers, 3" exhaust, Ford 9" w/4:11 gears and a Gear Vendors over/underdrive unit and it doesn't make 600 hp. This is a sweet car though but not 600 hp
You must be making at least 500 or so HP ? I have a 74 Century GS 455 built with Poston Pistons 10:1, a Poston cam with .490 lift with hi rev lifters, stock heads, alum intake and headers, I think I am making around 425 HP. Agreed, if I add up all of individual claimed HP gains I am close to 500, but c'mon...lets be realistic!
Sorry to tell you but, if that's a 455 in it, it is not correct! The 455 didn't come out until 1970, the "GS 400" emblems mean that it is a 400 cid engine. In 1968 the GS was either a 350 or 400 cid engine.
PS: If I were to get my hands on it (day dreaming), I believe I'd bring the front bumper down at the center angle a bit more to sit properly parallel to the grill. Again, relatively easy details for a new owner to work on.
If it has a 455 then it is not period correct, they didn’t make those blocks until 1970, also I have spent a lot of time with these motors and there is no way that that setup makes 600hp, maybe 500hp way up top at best
Garry Dahl, the term period correct is almost synonymous with it being from the same year, the only time when something can be period correct but not from the same year is when there were multiple years of one generation of car. In this case the 455 is from a completely different generation of car AND motor. Some people use the term period correct very lightly when you are interchanging parts from different models and makes but even still the part must have been made within the same generation as the car. This engine was not. Another way something could be period correct is if it was a modification that was commonly done to the car when it was new or in that same time period like a hurst shifter for example. This was not a common modification in that era. In fact, that engine wasn’t even made in the same decade.
Anybody watching this knows he's saying it's from the 1968-72 body style and also if you throw tons of timing in the 400 they are easily capable of making 600 hp but makes them very cold blooded to where it takes a few minutes of cranking and it will die multiple times upon crank any time the engine cools
Garry Dahl The skylark had a complete facelift in 1970 and it is very unlikely you could alter the timing enough to get 600 hp, and even if you could, this particular car obviously does not have even close to that type of dramatic timing alteration
Lucky dog! I had the 68 gs 400 stock nothing like the 70 455 stage 1 but I still out ran most of what laughed at my little Buick including chevelle ss lol
Brian Samuels people guage the sound of power on a cam! Just because a cam doesn't have that grumpy 560/600 lift and duration doesn't mean it doesn't have 600! Only way to know is throwing it on the dyno and I bet it's close to 6 at the flywheel but not to the wheels
Oiling systems on buicks are the worst, I love em but being in the business for years I have witnessed all the buick engine issues with the timing cover scoring and cam brg failure
first thing i would do is slam a 5 or 6 speed modern standard into this baby, 3 grand at 60 mph would drive me nuts and the need to know every gas station within 50 miles wouldnt be so important
I forgot about them goofy steering wheels they all cracked where that was cracked everyone of them it did it on the back in the sixties they all cracked right there that's a nice whole car of at 35000 little State considering even though I mean it's a beautiful car inside and out but that the engines just behind the times put an LS3 and there and just put that Old Stage to the rest, it was a good engine though the f****** oil pumps what killed them engines! there's a guy the other day what a old electric 225 and if I didn't tell him about that oil pump being external and being shot he would have burnt that engine up.
That's a BAD machine right there. I'm a Mopar guy first but I always liked the 67-69 Buick GS400. The GS/GSX Stage 1 and the Olds 442 W-30 were the nicest, most upscale muscle cars you could buy in those days. The 70 GSX 455 Stage 1 gets all the recognition but I always liked the Buick 400 and 430 better than the 455. The 455 engine blocks were really prone to cracking under high RPM abuse because of the thinwall casting they used and the Stage 1 455's oiling system was way undersized. I'll take a 69 GS400 Stage 1 over a 70 GSX 455 Stage 1 any day of the week. Always liked Buick Riviera's and 2 door Wildcat's too
My god, that idle sounds soooo good! Love that low bellowing thumping.... beautiful ride!
Just LOVE that idle! I came back three years after only to hear it again. Beautiful all around Buick GS. Gorgeous engine and body. Many thanks for posting.
clean 68. and a very strong engine and trans and rear end combo. would love to have that old school.
uski59 it's hard to beat up somebody else's Buick GS when it's for sale! If I blow them up, I have to buy them! Thanks, Jason Phillips, Michigan based auto appraiser.
E X C E L L E N T ! Very good condition indeed. Love the idle sound -- and everything else (well, I'd get a better / complete aftermarket sound system but I realize it's not a priority and other few details [also, replace Cragar rims]). Thanks for sharing. Sincerely, Buick Fan.
I like the semi-fastback for all 1968 GM midsize cars, especially the 2 door hardtop and the body is totally restyled from the 1967. I also like the 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury, 2 door hardtop, and still using the 1965 and 1966 cantilever roof that also used on 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury. They only came with V-8 engine as standard on these models. They don't use fender skirts on all 1967 Plymouth Fury, as well as early 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury, which was ended in January 1968, however they used fender skirts on the 1968 Plymouth Fury III with a 1967 style roof on the 2 door hardtop as of semi-fastback. There are 5 body styles for the 1968 full size Plymouth Fury III, they are: 2 door semi-fastback that I mentioned, 4 door hardtop, 4 door pillared conventional sedan, convertible, and a station wagon, and most of them uses fender skirts which partially hide the rear wheels.
I have a GS400, all original my Dad bought in 1968 .. as of today it has 22,642 miles. Mine is same color exterior but all white interior and has the automatic floor shift .. Just drove in his funeral on 6/8/21 😢😢😢😢
That's a bad ass Buick. The Buick GS might not have been the fastest muscle car but it was probably the overall nicest car out of them all. Really fast and nice comfortable cars to drive too. The Olds 442 was also a very nice car like the Buick GS
Damn Beautiful Ride !!! for Michigan,.....must have done alotta garage/storage time........I have no doubt that mill has the guts,....thank god you didnt show,.........it was bad enough you tryn to cam & drive in the residential.......plz use a co--pilot next run.......n take it on the 4 Lane......600 hp should make a giant cloud of burnin rubber.....been there done that.....
A little late to the show here but I can tell you as a 45 year Buick fanatic and builder of some serious 455's, this car has no where near 600 hp. You can't just add up all the advertised gains for the parts and call it engine hp. Currently I have a '66 Skylark with a 455, T/A aluminum heads, SP2 intake, Edelbrock 850 carb, roller rockers, Comp Cams Big Mutha Thumper cam w/.567 life, 10:1 forged pistons, bored 0.30 over, headers, 3" exhaust, Ford 9" w/4:11 gears and a Gear Vendors over/underdrive unit and it doesn't make 600 hp. This is a sweet car though but not 600 hp
You must be making at least 500 or so HP ? I have a 74 Century GS 455 built with Poston Pistons 10:1, a Poston cam with .490 lift with hi rev lifters, stock heads, alum intake and headers, I think I am making around 425 HP. Agreed, if I add up all of individual claimed HP gains I am close to 500, but c'mon...lets be realistic!
Sorry to tell you but, if that's a 455 in it, it is not correct! The 455 didn't come out until 1970, the "GS 400" emblems mean that it is a 400 cid engine. In 1968 the GS was either a 350 or 400 cid engine.
that sounds like something a guy who just lost a drag race would say!
the 455 is sitting in his garage- READ!
No shit Dumbass!! He also said it was a period correct engine...LISTEN!!
@@kevinstout6988 @ 6:55 he states in the car is a period correct 455. LISTEN AGAIN
Then he states it has the stock 400 chrome covers
Clean
PS: If I were to get my hands on it (day dreaming), I believe I'd bring the front bumper down at the center angle a bit more to sit properly parallel to the grill. Again, relatively easy details for a new owner to work on.
Voltage meter not working or its not charging.
Nice 68! Nice Presentation! What did it sell for?
4 wheel drum brake car for $35,000 usd and its in resale red to boot,what a deal
still for sale?
If it has a 455 then it is not period correct, they didn’t make those blocks until 1970, also I have spent a lot of time with these motors and there is no way that that setup makes 600hp, maybe 500hp way up top at best
He said period correct not that it's the same year
Garry Dahl, the term period correct is almost synonymous with it being from the same year, the only time when something can be period correct but not from the same year is when there were multiple years of one generation of car. In this case the 455 is from a completely different generation of car AND motor. Some people use the term period correct very lightly when you are interchanging parts from different models and makes but even still the part must have been made within the same generation as the car. This engine was not. Another way something could be period correct is if it was a modification that was commonly done to the car when it was new or in that same time period like a hurst shifter for example. This was not a common modification in that era. In fact, that engine wasn’t even made in the same decade.
Anybody watching this knows he's saying it's from the 1968-72 body style and also if you throw tons of timing in the 400 they are easily capable of making 600 hp but makes them very cold blooded to where it takes a few minutes of cranking and it will die multiple times upon crank any time the engine cools
Garry Dahl The skylark had a complete facelift in 1970 and it is very unlikely you could alter the timing enough to get 600 hp, and even if you could, this particular car obviously does not have even close to that type of dramatic timing alteration
Nice ride..
i would've searched out a beat stage 1 for a platform- lots of goodies there that your skylark doesn't have.... and no i didn't just lose a drag race.
watta monster !
Lucky dog! I had the 68 gs 400 stock nothing like the 70 455 stage 1 but I still out ran most of what laughed at my little Buick including chevelle ss lol
Nice specimen
Price is
You do know how a stall speed converter works right?
Doesn't run like a 4000, more like about 2500. I had about 3-4000 and I hated it. Not good for the street it was like it was always at 4000 rpm.
I have one😌
I love that body
Sorry bud! that didn't sound like 600hp...still a pretty nice car though
Brian Samuels people guage the sound of power on a cam! Just because a cam doesn't have that grumpy 560/600 lift and duration doesn't mean it doesn't have 600! Only way to know is throwing it on the dyno and I bet it's close to 6 at the flywheel but not to the wheels
Brian Samuels lol... ear dyno.. you have no idea if it's a stroker which can take the same cam from a smaller displacement and act MILD
Brian Samuels I'm with you. Probably 5-550, but unlikely 600. Some don't think we can have an opinion.
@@stefandwoodham Wrong maybe 400-450 at flywheel. The weak burnout tells the story,plus 2800rpm at 60 mph. That is geared pretty low. 4.11s?
I agree, sounds like 200 horses tops
need you sell t for how much please
Price?
Jeffrey Weston it's been sold, thanks
Buick with a Furd rear end?...no way
yeah , GM 12 bolts getting hard to find anymore , aftermarket makes a direct bolt in 9"
Plus the ford rear end is built better and easier to find
Too bad it dont have a rockcrusher. 4 spd trans. Woulda been alotta fun on the street.
I had a 69 GS Stage 1 and a slouch it's not.
600 hp and drum brakes. Needs an upgrade a.s.a.p.
Oiling systems on buicks are the worst, I love em but being in the business for years I have witnessed all the buick engine issues with the timing cover scoring and cam brg failure
first thing i would do is slam a 5 or 6 speed modern standard into this baby, 3 grand at 60 mph would drive me nuts and the need to know every gas station within 50 miles wouldnt be so important
He admitted his Speedo was 10 miles off he was only going 50 that would drive me crazy too and I did not hear 600 horsepower naturally aspirated
I forgot about them goofy steering wheels they all cracked where that was cracked everyone of them it did it on the back in the sixties they all cracked right there that's a nice whole car of at 35000 little State considering even though I mean it's a beautiful car inside and out but that the engines just behind the times put an LS3 and there and just put that Old Stage to the rest, it was a good engine though the f****** oil pumps what killed them engines! there's a guy the other day what a old electric 225 and if I didn't tell him about that oil pump being external and being shot he would have burnt that engine up.
Sure as hell aint your daddys Oldsmobile! Lol!
specially when its a buick
Great muscle car
Beautiful car
Blessing's
Nanastê
0010110 -Paul
It's beautiful! Too bad it has the optional high performance vinyl top
I'll go with 400hp maybe 425
That's a BAD machine right there. I'm a Mopar guy first but I always liked the 67-69 Buick GS400. The GS/GSX Stage 1 and the Olds 442 W-30 were the nicest, most upscale muscle cars you could buy in those days. The 70 GSX 455 Stage 1 gets all the recognition but I always liked the Buick 400 and 430 better than the 455. The 455 engine blocks were really prone to cracking under high RPM abuse because of the thinwall casting they used and the Stage 1 455's oiling system was way undersized. I'll take a 69 GS400 Stage 1 over a 70 GSX 455 Stage 1 any day of the week. Always liked Buick Riviera's and 2 door Wildcat's too
Stock 455 at best
Junk Ford 9m inch
PRIMO !