Dear Ronnie and mid-60s Buick caregivers,
Edouard 
, yeah im going to be using a carb and a mechanical fuel pump. No efi for me. That gas tank was expensive. I do like the 25 gallon tank and wonder if that would balance the skylark out some after i install a heavier engine that was intended for it.
I agree that those tanks are very expensive. I'm only keeping an eye on them because my wagon is supposed to be pulling a heavy trailer so her gas mileage will be really poor. Extending a car's range is a lot more important when you are traveling and don't know where every gas station is located. I hope the Internet will make that problem less serious than in the past, but driving from gas station to station is a real drag.
I don't think the extra weight of the larger gas tank will make a big difference in the car's handling. Assuming the tank itself weighs about the same, the extra gas is only about 30 pounds. Depending on the configuration, your engine will weigh as much as 50% more then the stock engine: 400 lbs. vs. 600 lbs.
Which takes me to another topic... Handling 
,,, Since the 430 is going to weight more what should I ne looking for to rectify my rides maneuverbility???
See I remember when I drove a car with a heavier engine swaped into it, and I had to watch myself turning. In a strait line it was very good.
My wagon's engine has a lot of aluminum so it is probably closer to 550 lbs., but that's still much more than the standard Buick 300. I'm no performance freak but I think she handles very well with her suspension upgrades. There is some description of the upgrades on the Biquette thread starting here:
http://65gs.com/board/index.php/topic,2610.msg28763.html#msg28763Certainly feel free to ask for any additional details.
I personally like the blue and yellow plates from the 80's. But still a big fan of the black&gold.
Compared to other states CA has simple plates. Ive always noticed more effort in the art department in other states plates.
Biquette ended up with blue and gold plates after she was stolen in 1986. She had them until a few year ago when I got her the black plates with her name on them. I also liked the blue and gold plates (after all I am a graduate Cal Berkeley and those are our school colors!)
I'm just about certain that the DMV had released a recent batch of blue and gold plates. There is a vanity plate in the neighborhood that is too new to date back to the 1980s. However, it isn't listed on this Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_CaliforniaHowever, this could be the case where Wikipedia is out of date. At the moment, The CA DMV has a wide variety of vanity plates, but the only one that isn't a reflective white background is the retro black plates.
Cheers, Edouard
