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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

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    ...first year for the B U I C K 455, the Hurst/Olds had it in 1968, first year for Hurst/Olds and Poncho got theirs in 1970 like Buick did.

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

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    Just for those of you NOT in the know about the 1970 Buick GS stage I (Sans Badger)....FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN POUNDS FOOT OF TORQUE @2800 rpm ==============
    Plus, the Buick 455 was considerably lighter than a Chevy or Olds big-block. I have a buddy in Orlando with a 455 Buick in a '37 Chev. When we visit on vacation, I've done a bunch of work on it over the years. It's funny to talk with some of the 60-somethings at a car cruise. Many have a story about 442's, big-block Chevelles, GTO's etc getting embarrassed on the streets in the 70's by a conservative-looking BUICK!

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    Love THAT story and it repeated itself in the 80's and into the 90's with the GN/GNX/T-type/Limiteds1970 Buick Grand Sport

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    A 70 GS Stage I Skylark was the subject vehicle of my most memorable assignment when in college. I was attending General Motors institute, in an engineering co-op program with GM's Hydra Matic Division. Back in those days, you could write a GM Division and request performance modification advice on your GM car. I was charged with updating the transmission mods section for Buick.as previous data was for a 400 engine. I was issued a Skylark GS Stage I and assigned to flog the heck out of it until the trans broke, then disassemble it, do a failure analysis, find a fix and flog it again. I was told by a senior engineer "Get the data, but we don't pay for tickets, so use your head". In order to test the transmission more severely, it had a 2.93 rear gear, so full-throttle 2-3 shift points were 92-93 mph.
    For a 19 year-old broke college kid with a 327 Impala SS in the parking lot, to get a brand new muscle car and instructions to beat on it till it broke was an absolute dream job. 7 rebuilds later, we had developed a near-bulletproof Turbo 400 trans and I was finally clocked at 22 minutes to assemble one from a bench inspection state.
    Over the years, I've had Corvettes, Buick Turbo Regals, even a Syclone, but the red '70 Skylark GS experience is burned in the memory bank forever.

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    GREAT STORY!

    I really appreciate hearing things like this because it surely doesn't happen like that anymore!

    Any turbo Regal stories you'd like to share?

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    Awesome story Bill!

    Looking forward to the write up Mike!

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    I have 72 Stage (as seen in my avatar) anyway a buddy of mine bought a 2010 GT500 and wanted to play saying that he would win. I told him anyway you look at it he would lose. He asked why---I told him if I win, you just got beat my an old man in a Buick. If you win are you going to tell your friends that you beat an old man in a Buick. He looked at me with a serious face and said you got a point there!!!
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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    ...that said, the GT500 vs. a stock 72' GS...total destruction ======

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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

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    ...that said, the GT500 vs. a stock 72' GS...total destruction ======

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    Somewhat stock. Got him 3 out of 4 runs. He was always spinning at the light and if your spinning you ain't winning! Mine hooks up pretty good. Nowadays I just drive and cruise, car is getting older (like me) and more expensive to fix(like me) and run so I just take it easy. Still turns heads and get thumbs up at lights.

    I took him for a ride afterwards and he was surprised that I shifted an auto trans. Said he never seen that done before. He now mastered his stick shift and controls the GT pretty well. I drove it and it is an impressive vehicle and gets darn good gas mileage compared to mine!!
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    Re: 1970 Buick Grand Sport

    There's still 1 out of 2 Stage 2 GS cars around
    Story and pics should on v8buick dot com

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