1976 was an American Bicentennial wonderland - with the Buick Electra leading the parade! What an awesome time and your beautiful Electra Limited brings back so many memories. Thank you for sharing your cars with us online and may you and your whole family have an awesome Holiday Season 2023.
There was a sliver one with the maroon interior 1976 Buick Electra 225 in my family but seemed like it had the extra overstuffed interior in it,one absolutely amazing car I would drive today
Magnificent car. The self-leveling suspension is a bit low in the opening sequence. The GM wiggle is not caused by the lack of rigidity of the hardtop. The wiggle is the geometry of the rear trailing arms, especially when the bushings are soft or slightly worn. Ford avoided this by using a Panhard rod to locate the body over the rear axle. It worked without adding harshness. I do love these big cars. Odd to find the 350, but I have to admit that engine is a sweet one. Oddly, the 455 used less gas in the open road. I had a 78 Electra Limited with the 350. Once set up the car was actually pretty good on gas. Listening to how it starts, the carb is out of adjustment. I'm going to guess it is running a bit rich. Most of them were. It is a shame, too. The Buick engines are ones of the only GM engines that can benefit from a good dual exhaust with H crossover. It will gain about 20 horsepower and 4 or 5 miles to the gallon on the highway. Best of all, it is a bolt on that is easily reversed if you want. The one thing that helps ease the wiggle is to upgrade the front antisway bar and add the optionally available rear bar.
Wow, I never HEARD of a 350 in a 1976 or eariler Electra. WHY? The 455 (and all engines) were radically detuned starting in 1971 and more and more each year. Even a 455 in 1976 is a shadow of its former self. I can't imagine what a slug a detuned 350 Buick would be in this huge car. Now if it were a 1970 top of the line 350, it would be just fine.
Oddly enough the 350 is not a slug. Actually, stoplight to stoplight the 350 car is quicker than my 455s. (Rear end gear is different ) The place you notice the difference is high speed passing on the freeway. Additionally, this special order 350 car routinely gets 16 MPG. I know that doesn't seem significant, but when my 455 cars average between 9 and 11 MPG it's a huge difference. I took both this car and my 76 Estate Wagon to the national Clamshell Wagon Festival a couple months ago. It was approximately a 5hr drive. I had to stop and refuel the wagon 4 times. This 350 car made it on a single tank. The 350 was a $159 credit delete special order for 1976. The reason was 2 fold. 1st CAFE standards. 2nd Buick suffered a strike in 1976 and ran short of 455s. All the 350 cars were very late build dates. This car was built in July of 1976. You will always be able to tell a 350 1976 Electra by the letter J in the VIN
@@stangslayerws6 A 1976 350 is a slug compared to the high compression 4bbl 1970 350. I have owned several 350 and 455 Buicks of various years. My brother and I each had a 1965 Skylark with 2:78 rear gears. I dropped a stock 1970 350 in mine, he had a stock 1971 455 in his. Each time we raced, it was a dead heat. Makes sense, both engines were rated at 315hp. By 1976 both the 455 and 350 were seriously detuned. But the 76 350 was not enough engine for a full sized Buick. It was fine in an Apollo.
@@stangslayerws6 My 1970 Electra gets 18 mpg on the freeway, as does my 1976 Sedan DeVille with a 500 engine. I will never understand the reports of 11mpg on these Buicks. Between my dad and I, we have owned 50 or so of them.
@@MostlyBuicks I understand what your saying. I also collect GTOs and Trans Ams. I own 2 LS2 GTOs and LS1 WS6 Trans Am. Racing is one thing. But for the way I use this 76 Electra the factory 350 is completely adequate. I drive this car to relax in comfort in, not race
I had a beautiful 76 silver blue Electra and it was sweet. It was smooth, powerful but the most thirsty 455- V8 I’ve ever owned!!! I got 7-8 mpgs city and highway. I could feather the gas and drive slow and it was still 7-8 mpgs 🤣🤣🤣
My other 76 Electras with 455s are the same. Best highway mileage ever was 11. However, this particular Electra was a special order 350 4bbl Buick V8 car. It routinely get 16/17mpg on the highway. That sounds really low by modern day standards but was a huge improvement compared to the same year 455 cars
Hi from Sydney , Australia. I have owned 6 American type cars that were sent here in boxes to Ford Aust' at Homebush Bay , Sydney, and to GM Holden Aust' at Pagewood , Sydney plants, sent here as CKD kits, (completely knocked down). out of the 6 there has been a 1965 Galaxie, 1965 Lincoln, 1972 Lincoln mk4 Coupe but a model year73 car, plus a 1979 Collectors Series Lincoln Town Car. The other two are a 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and a 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. I have in recent years sold both the 1965 cars, however I have kept the rest. I have owned the '74 Fleetwood now for just over 41 years it has been my primary car, it has astonishing mileage on it a testament to its build quality and design quality. If you put the 1965 Galaxie on a hoist, and the late 1979 Collectors Series Town Car, what you saw was that the Lincoln was simply a "gussied up " 1965 Galaxie with a 10 inch longer wheelbase near all componentry for the chassis and running gear came from the 14yr older Galaxie. AND let me tell you that the Galaxie drove better, as it was a lighter car, in a rural high-speed bend if you hit a bump in the rear suspension mid curve the shock wave jumped the rear axle and upset the whole car, made worse in the softer sprung, heavier Lincoln. However, in either of the two Cadillacs with their air ride self levelling shocks/suspension, WHAT BUMP ????, their infinitely superior system just "killed" the bump. Having owned the cars now for four decades, the Ford Aust guys simply used the "stuff" in the boxes sent from their USA division, then created a RHD set of exhaust manifolds, firewall, and steering gear. Not so at GM Holden Aust, the "Pagewood" GM boys looked at everything, from the rubber isolation blocks between the chassis and body, the shocks, the coil springs, and he list just goes on and on, meaning that the car was massively re-engineered for Australia's harsh conditions. The Aussie Cadillacs have their own unique glovebox manuals, a unique service/parts manual as well as there are marked differences and improvements on the US specification cars, one of the best being we had no EPA rule pollution cars until July 1986, so all these lovely '70's cars came with export spec full power engines be them the Lincolns or the Cadillacs. Let me tell you a full power 8.2 litre jumbo block Cadillac will beat near any other car 500hp and over 500ft lb of torque delivered instantly straight from GMH-A Pagewood. Also have owned since new a 1982 WB series 1 Holden Statesman Caprice. These were Australia's first attempt at making a global quality high level luxury car. To get an idea , think if you mixed Rolls Royce with Cadillac, a small snippet of S class Mercedes, then an updated/refreshed body similar to the rare 1970 Swiss Monteverdi 375/4 four door, you have something approaching our WB series Statesman's, back in 1982 when I bought it, it was $38 change out of $44,000 I left off ONE option, a sunroof as I HATE them if I'd added the sunroof it would have been just over $45,000, what US home market luxury car was that price in 1982 ?? NONE, the same GMH-Aust guys that designed it were responsible for the re-engineering of the earlier RHD Cadillacs. 1974 was the last of the CKD Kit cars, the GM guys had created the HJ series Statesman's, followed by the HX, HZ & SL/E versions running thru to 1979. Then for 1980 their crowning glory the WB series 1 was launched, using the same brilliant tried and proven chassis platform, but pulling the rear axle back 5 inches, using a short-cut station wagon roof pressing giving more rear headroom, and allowing a near vertical back window, like the Swiss Monteverdi the Holden guys had given the rear seat folk near 10inches more space on exactly the same length car. With these being made from 1980 to 1985, series i's made for 3 years and the series 2's made for 3 years. In 1985 visiting USA GM "brass" said too expensive stop making them immediately. Nowadays an excellent one from any of the 6 years of production has now become a $100,000 car.
I love your car. I was 8 years old. First time i seen this car For me this car the most beautiful car ever made by GM Buick Park Avenue. Not all of them come full loaded. . I would like to own one. Enjoy it beautiful car Ever make byGM
The Electras from the 1960s through 1970 did NOT have the jiggle the 1971-76 Electras had. This includes ALL full sized GM whether 2 or 4 door, hardtop or post from 1971-76. That is why they have all those braces under hood, which did not alleviate the problem entirely.
Interesting I didnt know you could get a 350 cu in in these...I thought the standard would have been the 400 cu in and most people having the 455 cu in
The 455 was the standard engine. However, Buick went on strike in 1976 and had a shortage of 455s. Very late production cars in 76 could be ordered with the 350 which was a $159 credit delete option
The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) did a lot of work to stabilize river flooding and other projects to also put men back to work after the Great Depression. Do you think they had any involvement in the areas you showed us in this video? Thanks!
What? No Intellibeam? No Guidamatic? No cruise control? GM's longest 1:59 and Buick's longest 2:11 ? My '75 Buick Estate 9-passenger was so long that it had a space behind the third row of seats that was as big as the trunk on most cars, AND below that space it had a trunk. AND it had the 455 engine, AND in case you couldn't fit everything you need inside that behemoth, it had a roof rack too. Whisper quiet 8:32 ? Well, of course its going to be whisper quiet if you drive it only 10 miles an hour.
Yes this car has cruise control along with a couple more options that I did not point out. And yes, it is not only the longest Buick ever produced, but it was also General Motors longest 4dr hardtop ever built (including Cadillac Sedan DeVille). Guidematic and Twilight sentinel were dealer installed options not factory installed options. If you watch my channel, you will see that I too own a 1976 Buick Estate Wagon as well as another 76 Electra Limited and a 76 Electra Limited Park Avenue. This car is whisper quiet no matter how fast your going. The 75 and 76 Electra was longer than the 75 and 76 Estate Wagons. Nonetheless, the 1975 and 1976 Buick Estate Wagon was the longest station wagon ever produced by any American manufacturer. You did not own a 9 passenger wagon as the Estate wagon for 71 to 76 was only avail as a 6 seater version or 8 seater version. The 74 to 76 Estate wagons also hold the record as being the heaviest Buicks ever produced.
1976 was an American Bicentennial wonderland - with the Buick Electra leading the parade! What an awesome time and your beautiful Electra Limited brings back so many memories. Thank you for sharing your cars with us online and may you and your whole family have an awesome Holiday Season 2023.
There was a sliver one with the maroon interior 1976 Buick Electra 225 in my family but seemed like it had the extra overstuffed interior in it,one absolutely amazing car I would drive today
Buick is such a cool car!
I'm from Japan, and Japan doesn't have such cool cars! !
Sorry for the strange English as I am writing this in English using Google Translate.
Japan dose have the best cars in the world my favourite car 1992 Mitsubishi diamanté
Wow that is one beautiful deuce and a quarter!
Awesome ride, my pop's had the Limited Coupe with half puffy top w opera window
this is just beautiful piece of art
Beautiful beautiful cars thanks for sharing it with us.
Magnificent car. The self-leveling suspension is a bit low in the opening sequence. The GM wiggle is not caused by the lack of rigidity of the hardtop. The wiggle is the geometry of the rear trailing arms, especially when the bushings are soft or slightly worn. Ford avoided this by using a Panhard rod to locate the body over the rear axle. It worked without adding harshness. I do love these big cars. Odd to find the 350, but I have to admit that engine is a sweet one. Oddly, the 455 used less gas in the open road. I had a 78 Electra Limited with the 350. Once set up the car was actually pretty good on gas.
Listening to how it starts, the carb is out of adjustment. I'm going to guess it is running a bit rich. Most of them were. It is a shame, too. The Buick engines are ones of the only GM engines that can benefit from a good dual exhaust with H crossover. It will gain about 20 horsepower and 4 or 5 miles to the gallon on the highway. Best of all, it is a bolt on that is easily reversed if you want. The one thing that helps ease the wiggle is to upgrade the front antisway bar and add the optionally available rear bar.
Thanks for not ruining the dash with led's the incandescent glow cannot be replaced with modern leds, beautiful automobile, thank you for sharing
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thats a beautiful Buick!
That's beautiful. Been searching for a 75 Park Avenue. Tough to find one, in any condition.
I own a 76 Park Avenue. Triple Black Car. It's featured on this channel as well
I saw it, stunning!
Absolutely beautiful Buick!!! Take care of thatt machine. Thanks for sharing. I love it!!
Beautiful car. I wouldn’t intentionally be taking it through rough spots to prove a point.
Wow, I never HEARD of a 350 in a 1976 or eariler Electra. WHY? The 455 (and all engines) were radically detuned starting in 1971 and more and more each year. Even a 455 in 1976 is a shadow of its former self. I can't imagine what a slug a detuned 350 Buick would be in this huge car. Now if it were a 1970 top of the line 350, it would be just fine.
Oddly enough the 350 is not a slug. Actually, stoplight to stoplight the 350 car is quicker than my 455s. (Rear end gear is different ) The place you notice the difference is high speed passing on the freeway. Additionally, this special order 350 car routinely gets 16 MPG. I know that doesn't seem significant, but when my 455 cars average between 9 and 11 MPG it's a huge difference. I took both this car and my 76 Estate Wagon to the national Clamshell Wagon Festival a couple months ago. It was approximately a 5hr drive. I had to stop and refuel the wagon 4 times. This 350 car made it on a single tank. The 350 was a $159 credit delete special order for 1976. The reason was 2 fold. 1st CAFE standards. 2nd Buick suffered a strike in 1976 and ran short of 455s. All the 350 cars were very late build dates. This car was built in July of 1976. You will always be able to tell a 350 1976 Electra by the letter J in the VIN
@@stangslayerws6 A 1976 350 is a slug compared to the high compression 4bbl 1970 350. I have owned several 350 and 455 Buicks of various years. My brother and I each had a 1965 Skylark with 2:78 rear gears. I dropped a stock 1970 350 in mine, he had a stock 1971 455 in his. Each time we raced, it was a dead heat. Makes sense, both engines were rated at 315hp. By 1976 both the 455 and 350 were seriously detuned. But the 76 350 was not enough engine for a full sized Buick. It was fine in an Apollo.
@@stangslayerws6 My 1970 Electra gets 18 mpg on the freeway, as does my 1976 Sedan DeVille with a 500 engine. I will never understand the reports of 11mpg on these Buicks. Between my dad and I, we have owned 50 or so of them.
@@stangslayerws6 BTW I LOVE the Buick 350 engine, especially 1970 and lesser so the 1971 and 72. After that the emissions choked it up.
@@MostlyBuicks I understand what your saying. I also collect GTOs and Trans Ams. I own 2 LS2 GTOs and LS1 WS6 Trans Am. Racing is one thing. But for the way I use this 76 Electra the factory 350 is completely adequate. I drive this car to relax in comfort in, not race
I had a beautiful 76 silver blue Electra and it was sweet. It was smooth, powerful but the most thirsty 455- V8 I’ve ever owned!!! I got 7-8 mpgs city and highway. I could feather the gas and drive slow and it was still 7-8 mpgs 🤣🤣🤣
My other 76 Electras with 455s are the same. Best highway mileage ever was 11. However, this particular Electra was a special order 350 4bbl Buick V8 car. It routinely get 16/17mpg on the highway. That sounds really low by modern day standards but was a huge improvement compared to the same year 455 cars
I always liked 1970's GM styling, steering and handling but the Ford products had the body integrity and ride quality in that era.
This particular car has air ride suspension. I personally have never rode in a smoother riding car
Hi from Sydney , Australia. I have owned 6 American type cars that were sent here in boxes to Ford Aust' at Homebush Bay , Sydney, and to GM Holden Aust' at Pagewood , Sydney plants, sent here as CKD kits, (completely knocked down). out of the 6 there has been a 1965 Galaxie, 1965 Lincoln, 1972 Lincoln mk4 Coupe but a model year73 car, plus a 1979 Collectors Series Lincoln Town Car. The other two are a 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and a 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. I have in recent years sold both the 1965 cars, however I have kept the rest. I have owned the '74 Fleetwood now for just over 41 years it has been my primary car, it has astonishing mileage on it a testament to its build quality and design quality. If you put the 1965 Galaxie on a hoist, and the late 1979 Collectors Series Town Car, what you saw was that the Lincoln was simply a "gussied up " 1965 Galaxie with a 10 inch longer wheelbase near all componentry for the chassis and running gear came from the 14yr older Galaxie. AND let me tell you that the Galaxie drove better, as it was a lighter car, in a rural high-speed bend if you hit a bump in the rear suspension mid curve the shock wave jumped the rear axle and upset the whole car, made worse in the softer sprung, heavier Lincoln. However, in either of the two Cadillacs with their air ride self levelling shocks/suspension, WHAT BUMP ????, their infinitely superior system just "killed" the bump.
Having owned the cars now for four decades, the Ford Aust guys simply used the "stuff" in the boxes sent from their USA division, then created a RHD set of exhaust manifolds, firewall, and steering gear.
Not so at GM Holden Aust, the "Pagewood" GM boys looked at everything, from the rubber isolation blocks between the chassis and body, the shocks, the coil springs, and he list just goes on and on, meaning that the car was massively re-engineered for Australia's harsh conditions. The Aussie Cadillacs have their own unique glovebox manuals, a unique service/parts manual as well as there are marked differences and improvements on the US specification cars, one of the best being we had no EPA rule pollution cars until July 1986, so all these lovely '70's cars came with export spec full power engines be them the Lincolns or the Cadillacs. Let me tell you a full power 8.2 litre jumbo block Cadillac will beat near any other car 500hp and over 500ft lb of torque delivered instantly straight from GMH-A Pagewood.
Also have owned since new a 1982 WB series 1 Holden Statesman Caprice. These were Australia's first attempt at making a global quality high level luxury car. To get an idea , think if you mixed Rolls Royce with Cadillac, a small snippet of S class Mercedes, then an updated/refreshed body similar to the rare 1970 Swiss Monteverdi 375/4 four door, you have something approaching our WB series Statesman's, back in 1982 when I bought it, it was $38 change out of $44,000 I left off ONE option, a sunroof as I HATE them if I'd added the sunroof it would have been just over $45,000, what US home market luxury car was that price in 1982 ?? NONE, the same GMH-Aust guys that designed it were responsible for the re-engineering of the earlier RHD Cadillacs. 1974 was the last of the CKD Kit cars, the GM guys had created the HJ series Statesman's, followed by the HX, HZ & SL/E versions running thru to 1979. Then for 1980 their crowning glory the WB series 1 was launched, using the same brilliant tried and proven chassis platform, but pulling the rear axle back 5 inches, using a short-cut station wagon roof pressing giving more rear headroom, and allowing a near vertical back window, like the Swiss Monteverdi the Holden guys had given the rear seat folk near 10inches more space on exactly the same length car. With these being made from 1980 to 1985, series i's made for 3 years and the series 2's made for 3 years. In 1985 visiting USA GM "brass" said too expensive stop making them immediately. Nowadays an excellent one from any of the 6 years of production has now become a $100,000 car.
One beautiful car, I’m surprised with the 350 though. You could get a 500 in the Cadillacs. These big cars were classics full of style and detail.
I love your car. I was 8 years old. First time i seen this car For me this car the most beautiful car ever made by GM Buick Park Avenue. Not all of them come full loaded. . I would like to own one. Enjoy it beautiful car Ever make byGM
Thank you. I do also own a 76 Park Avenue but this one ist a Park Avenue. It's a Electra Limited
The Electras from the 1960s through 1970 did NOT have the jiggle the 1971-76 Electras had. This includes ALL full sized GM whether 2 or 4 door, hardtop or post from 1971-76. That is why they have all those braces under hood, which did not alleviate the problem entirely.
Oddly enough, Electra lost those bars for 75 and 76 while, Lesabre, Estate Wagon and Riviera kept them 🤷♂️
Correct. GM cost-cutting did not do those years any justice.
Do you have to be Carnival Cruise ship certified to drive this boat???
Absolutely ⛴️
MALAISE ERA KING !!!
Interesting I didnt know you could get a 350 cu in in these...I thought the standard would have been the 400 cu in and most people having the 455 cu in
The 455 was the standard engine. However, Buick went on strike in 1976 and had a shortage of 455s. Very late production cars in 76 could be ordered with the 350 which was a $159 credit delete option
The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) did a lot of work to stabilize river flooding and other projects to also put men back to work after the Great Depression. Do you think they had any involvement in the areas you showed us in this video? Thanks!
Yes this dam is indeed a TVA dam
What? No Intellibeam? No Guidamatic? No cruise control?
GM's longest 1:59 and Buick's longest 2:11 ? My '75 Buick Estate 9-passenger was so long that it had a space behind the third row of seats that was as big as the trunk on most cars, AND below that space it had a trunk. AND it had the 455 engine, AND in case you couldn't fit everything you need inside that behemoth, it had a roof rack too.
Whisper quiet 8:32 ? Well, of course its going to be whisper quiet if you drive it only 10 miles an hour.
Yes this car has cruise control along with a couple more options that I did not point out. And yes, it is not only the longest Buick ever produced, but it was also General Motors longest 4dr hardtop ever built (including Cadillac Sedan DeVille). Guidematic and Twilight sentinel were dealer installed options not factory installed options. If you watch my channel, you will see that I too own a 1976 Buick Estate Wagon as well as another 76 Electra Limited and a 76 Electra Limited Park Avenue. This car is whisper quiet no matter how fast your going. The 75 and 76 Electra was longer than the 75 and 76 Estate Wagons. Nonetheless, the 1975 and 1976 Buick Estate Wagon was the longest station wagon ever produced by any American manufacturer. You did not own a 9 passenger wagon as the Estate wagon for 71 to 76 was only avail as a 6 seater version or 8 seater version. The 74 to 76 Estate wagons also hold the record as being the heaviest Buicks ever produced.
Lowrider customizable for the Buick Electra. Any gang bangers who own an Electra has done just that and pimped it out.
Pimped it out how?
Road Dog.