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Other Buicks and Years => Other Buicks => Topic started by: SBRMD on February 13, 2016, 04:35:40 PM
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Hi Everybody,
Relatively new to this site, but not new to '65 Buicks, grew up with one, and have this beauty since about 2000. It's a California little old granny car; I think I'm the third owner. Lots of fun.
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A few more:
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A few more still:
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Welcome Steve !! Glad you found the site and joined. Beautiful wagon.
Dan
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Thanks Dan! Thanks for the invite! Looking forward to the (red) belts!
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Welcome Steve!,
Sweet looking wagon. :thumbsup:
Loren
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Welcome Steve from northern Dakota County!
Mark
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Welcome Steve from Nicollet county! Nice wagon!
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Welcome Steve from Canada eh! Beautiful Sportwagon you've got there. :icon_thumright:
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OOOoooo. Love the Red on Red on Red..... EXCELLENT look with those whitewalls!!! VERY COOL RIDE STEVE! WELCOME to the GROUP!
Wheelz, Tampa Bay
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Welcome Steve , nice wagon .
Another frozen Minnesota guy , but were gonna warm up this week . YAAAYYYY :sunny:
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Welcome Steve from Anoka County.
You have landed in the land of mid 60s Buick A Body.
Thanks for stopping in.
Milton
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Dear Steve and mid-60s Buick longroof fans!
Relatively new to this site, but not new to '65 Buicks, grew up with one, and have this beauty since about 2000. It's a California little old granny car; I think I'm the third owner. Lots of fun.
Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup: We cannot have enough longroofs on this forum! :hello2:
There is just one small thing wrong with it .. . . . It needs a big-block Buick engine!!! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/car_3gears.gif)
Cheers, Edouard :occasion14:
P.S. Of course a 200-4R, electronic fuel injection, Bluetooth stereo, etc. etc., etc. . . . . wouldn't hurt either! . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/big_laugh.gif)
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Dear Steve and fans of mid-60s Buicks from . . . way . . . back!
Relatively new to this site, but not new to '65 Buicks, grew up with one.
I wanted to ask you about this because I too grew up with a 1965 Buick and its the wagon that is still in the family. Here is a picture taken when I was 7 years old:
(http://www.canebas.org/Biquette/Images/Biquette%20on%20Champ%20d%27Oisel%20driveway%20in%201968.jpg)
Do you have any memories of growing up with your Buick that you would be willing to share?
Cheers, Edouard
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My dad was a Ford guy so the 65 I grew up with was a 65 Galaxie 500 2 door hardtop, red with black vinyl top. When I turned 15 I bought my first car, a 66 GS.
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Welcome Steve from Defiance County, Ohio. Nice ride, several of my generation grew up in the back of one of those A body's.
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Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Nice to hear from '65 "Homies" nearby. Hope you guys are planning to bring your cars to the GSCBCA All-Make show at the MN State Fairgrounds 5/1/16!
Best regards,
Steve.
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Steve,
Look in the Events & Events Pictures forum...
Mark
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Thanks Mark, just looked; looking forward to putting some faces with names in the future.
Edouard: I have a near-copy of your engine, built by Jim/TSP w/ TA heads and EZ EFI, but it's in my '71 LeSabre Sedan, which is now a true sleeper! Regarding images of my family's original '65 Sportwagon (verde green) they are rare but I will dig something up....
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Verde Green??? Bring it on, John and I would love to see those pictures!
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Chuck
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Yeah, it was a great looking car in verde green. I looked to duplicate that but really couldn't find one then or now! But I do like the red on red.
I am only aware of one color picture of the car (possibly two) from around 1966-67, and they are both 35mm slides. Have always meant to make a hard copy of one of them, maybe this will get me off the dime. The only other photo that I'm aware of is B & W.
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Dear Steve, Chuck, and mid-60s Buick retro high tech fans,
Edouard: I have a near-copy of your engine, built by Jim/TSP w/ TA heads and EZ EFI, but it's in my '71 LeSabre Sedan, which is now a true sleeper!
Hmm, obviously there has to be one key difference. You must have a much shorter rear-end. Otherwise you wouldn't be a happy man and would be grumbling as much as I am about the EZ-EFI 1.0 system:
http://65gs.com/board/index.php?topic=2719.msg17500#msg17500 (http://65gs.com/board/index.php?topic=2719.msg17500#msg17500)
I am only aware of one color picture of the car (possibly two) from around 1966-67, and they are both 35mm slides. Have always meant to make a hard copy of one of them, maybe this will get me off the dime. The only other photo that I'm aware of is B & W.
The photos I have of my wagon from around 1970 are also slides because that is what the family used until prints started to dominate. I always preferred slides when practical so I have a ton of them from the old days. Because of that, I bought a Canon scanner that could generate high resolution images of slides. If you only have a few of them, I think you can find services that will scan them for you at a moderate cost. You might try a place like Kinkos or the UPS store. In our digital age, old film images have become a real drag! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/rolleyes.gif)
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers, Edouard :occasion14:
P.S. Any memories of being in the back seat of your Buick as a kid? I remember looking forward to getting gasoline around 1970 because in those days when you filled up the car, they gave us kids a free hot wheel car! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/bouncey.gif)
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The LeSabre's got a 3.08, and it seems just fine, although I muse about going to a different transmission, and read all the postings about 200's and 700's. My daily driver's got a modern clutchless 6L80e, which has a 4.06 first gear! Day dreaming about that.
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Dear Steve and mid-60s Buick fans of having things both ways!
The LeSabre's got a 3.08, and it seems just fine,
What tires do you have on the LeSabre? You might be close to the same final drive speed as my wagon, because she still have very small tires. I'm trying to figure out what is an appropriate rear end ratio through these trials before upgrading to bigger tires. When I do, I think I'll be looking at something 3.08:1
although I muse about going to a different transmission, and read all the postings about 200's and 700's. My daily driver's got a modern clutchless 6L80e, which has a 4.06 first gear! Day dreaming about that.
There is only so much you can do to get the modern pleasures in a 50 year old car, but I really like how the 200-4R has make my trusty wagon more pleasant to drive. It is a bit rough in shifting from 1 to 2 because it needs to avoid having 500 foot•pounds of torque hit it were it can't move the torque somewhere else. However, if you apply the throttle carefully you can minimize it. In return the car is so much more quiet even with headers.
I had a pleasant surprise on Tuesday when I made a point of driving in 3 gear instead of overdrive on the freeway to bring up the RPMs on the engine to give it some more break-in exercise. It was substantially louder than in overdrive (of course,) but the big-block Buick engine with all the modern parts was still substantially quieter than the old 300 cid V-8 was on the freeway. I never thought that a big-block with modern components could be quieter than smaller engine with 1965 components.
Still lots of things to love about our classics if you look! :love4:
Cheers, Edouard :occasion14:
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Dear Steve and mid-60s Buick longroof fans,
I'm still trying to decide on the tires for my trusty 1965 Buick wagon and I'm wondering about your 215/70-15 tires on your wagon. Do you have any problems with the tires rubbing on the front?
Curious wagons want to know!
Cheers, Edouard