Hemming's article on the Buick Wildcat

[elagache]

Dear mid-60 Buick fans of cars with "more!"

You full-sized Buick fans should enjoy this article on the Hemmings's blog:

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/12/27/buick-lets-a-wildcat-loose-for-1962/

It includes a lot of information gleaned from a Popular Science review of the Wildcat and its contemporaries in 1962.  It even has a YouTube link to an original TV ad for the Wildcat:

https://youtu.be/m-6HQ0xM6uk

Enjoy! 

Cheers, Edouard 

[elagache]

Dear mid-60s Buick fans of "more!"

Hemming's has another piece on Buick full-sized cars of the 1960s.  This time it is the curious tale of the 1964 Lesabre:

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/07/11/buicks-1964-lesabre-an-expensive-car-with-an-affordable-price/

It described the curious marketing scheme that led to this car and what became of it.  It is an interesting quick read.

Cheers, Edouard 

[elagache]

Dear mid-60s Buick owners with a taste for any classic vehicle,

This morning the Hemming's blog has the story of a very unusual vehicle that is finally going to be restored - the Cheetah Transporter:

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/08/31/after-nearly-50-years-apart-cheetah-transporter-heads-into-restoration/

This oddball vehicle was built to transport race cars in Southern California.  Here is a photo from the article of the transporter at work:



Interesting story and nice to think that even this unusual vehicle is going to be saved.

Cheers, Edouard 

[TrunkMonkey]

Speaking of the Le Sabre.

1964 LeSabre Sport Coupe. Tawny Mist.

Bought for $300 in Houston in 1975. Was my first Buick.

Bucket seats, Iron board console.

And the Switch Pitch got in my blood. (So I figured, I would put one in my 1968 behind the 430 in an ST400 with the ST300 converter.)

Yeah, that put the monkey on my back.

(I will be parking and doing all the work on the '68 the end of the month or start in November due to GNATS and Ocean Springs in October, and hope to be up and running fist of the year.)

If I ever get another Buick, it will be a 1967 Coupe.  And yeah, it will be red, and low and go, "uggadah uggadah uggadah" and have a four note horn.

https://youtu.be/MH1DeiDhaEA

I'll need something slow enough that people can actually see what went by...

 

[elagache]

Dear Michael and mid-60s Buick owners who occasionally stroll down memory lane,

Speaking of the Le Sabre.

1964 LeSabre Sport Coupe. Tawny Mist.

Bought for $300 in Houston in 1975. Was my first Buick.

Bucket seats, Iron board console.

Thanks for sharing!  Would you have any pictures of your first Buick by chance?

And the Switch Pitch got in my blood. (So I figured, I would put one in my 1968 behind the 430 in an ST400 with the ST300 converter.)

Yeah, that put the monkey on my back.

I dunno' . . . that sounds like it might be goin' about it da' hard way! . . . .

If I ever get another Buick, it will be a 1967 Coupe.  And yeah, it will be red, and low and go, "uggadah uggadah uggadah" and have a four note horn.

https://youtu.be/MH1DeiDhaEA

I'll need something slow enough that people can actually see what went by...

I like it!  Subtle and understated . . . . . and almost as quiet as a Tesla . . . . . NOT!!!!!!!!! 

Cheers, Edouard 

[TrunkMonkey]

No pics. :(