The Jeep and the 1964 wagon. The Buick 350 was tall because the deck had been raised for the extended stroke to get it to 350. It was actually the lightest of the 350's by a significant amount.
Hello Jay! Just can't say how much I enjoy these engine episodes! I always learn something! In this episode I learned that the 340 and 350 Buick V-8's had a longer stroke than bore! Not by much, but EVERYTHING was bigger bore than stroke in those days. INTERESTING! WYR One. . .1966 Special. Two. . .1967 Wagon. I knew a fellow that had a pretty nice 1966 Buick Sport Wagon. A really interesting car! Can't wait for the upcoming episodes! Particularly the Graham and RUXTON episodes!
The G-block Oldsmobile 400 was the most undersquare V8 ever made. As I remember, that was done for its inherent lower emissions profile. But, there's a lot cubic inches trying to breath through heads and valves made for a small V8. It was a great torquey engine for the big Olds sedans and station wagons but, it has very little performance improvement potential. Put a later GM HEI distributor on it, a 2 bbl Holley Sniper throttle body fuel injection, and that's about all you can do to the G-block Olds 400.
We had a '66 Special DeLuxe with the 300 cubic inch Wildcat 310. Sweet car! Also a '70 LeSabre with the 350-4 HI COMPRESSION, advertised at 315 horsepower, Somehow Mom snagged two '70 B-body Buicks with manual shift (the other one was an Estate Wagon). Not necessarily looking for them, it's just that's how it worked out.
I drove a 1973 Buick Centurion B-Body convertible for most of two decades - what a great automobile! (I once had a ‘66 Skylark with this 340 4 barrel and two-speed auto - it was FAST!)
My 64 Skylark had a 300 all aluminum V-8. My buddy and I lifted the block out of the engine bay with no mechanical assistance. My girlfriend had used my car and said it overheated. The evidence was clouds of blue smoke after her time with that factory 4 speed. We swapped in a 283 Powerglide, and I gave my friend the 4 speed that he cleaned up and said, "It's a Borg-Warner T-10!!" ENJOY I SAID!!!
66 Special 67 Special wagon When I see a 5.7 L engine that's listed as having 150 horsepower it makes me want to cry. Ah yes. The malaise years of US auto production.
Awe the 80s when mostly everything had the same power came down to driver I had a friend who had a 1988 Camaro nothing fancy I raced and beat him in a 88 Lincoln town car he couldn't believe it One day I want to buy an 88 town car and do a nostalgia episode. That car sucks on paper in the performance category but it's as fast as a Honda odyssey mini van if you know how to drive it.. I wanna buy one because I would not drive somebody else's car the way that I'm going to drive this it's going to be an epic episode. I just haven't found one that I would like to get one as close to the one that I owned as possible and I haven't found one like it yet.. There three roads three gravel roads that meet at a triangle point and there's like a triangular island in the middle of where these three roads connect. All these roads are gravel roads in the middle of cornfield. I want to take the town car out there drift around the triangle like I did, when I was a younger but I want to drift the triangle and shoot it can't do both lol
Many of the harmonic balancer seal were rope (?) Yes, rope. Just stuffed it into a slot, oiled it up good, stuck a hammer handle or something to squish it down. Actually worked quite well. Thanks for the video.
3:55 The 1970 Buick 350-4 High Compression was advertised at 315 horsepower. We had one in a LeSabre four-door hardtop, sort of a mint green with a dark green vinyl top.
😍 60s Buicks ❤️❤️❤️❤️ My Favorite...... 1964 300 fabulous Engine... The Prices 😱.. I bought a wrecked 64 for 27 dollars... Interior fire but ran for 42 dollars ...4 different station wagons under 400 dollars each !! Glorious times 👍 Deuce and a quarter for under 300 dollars..Awww Happiness 😊 20 year old Buicks had no value 😢 Put the 300 in Vega or Chevy Luv❤❤❤ a real go getter 😂.. great episode 👏👏 Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
I am familiar with the Buick 350. Had one in a 71 cutless used on the oval track. Always out did the chevys with their 350. In the WYR, I would accept the 66 special, and the 67 wagon.
Thank you so much for that correction I couldn't find any information on the 350 everything that I found was very limited.. so 280 was the highest figure I saw Thank you for that correction
The Achilles heal to the really great engines, including the big Buick 400,430,and,455 , along with the 225,and 231 V-6,is overly extended oil changes,poor quality oil filters with poor drain back valves.good oil and filter service is very important to the long life these Buick engines are more than capable of providing. Jay, thanks for the coverage of these great engines,and I thought I was going to point out they used these in Jeep products,but you knew that,as always great work, looking forward to the next episode.
Back then in the 1960's and 1970's standard O.C. intervals was 3000-3500 miles, I ran a fleet garage and never experienced oil filter related failures. In fact, in comparison to the filters on the market today, I'll take the old ones, less plastic and glue. We always ran factory branded filters and oil from top tier refineries. Keeping a vehicle tuned correctly was the secret, no gas contaminated oil from poorly adjusted carburetors, point and plugs every 12,000 miles along with replacing PCV every 24,000 miles.
@@lorimcquinn3966 I have learned that there are differences in oil filters as far as certain performance characteristics. When I had my 68 Buick Special,with a 350,I bought a house brand from a big auto parts chain,instead of the name brand I would usually buy, installed it started the engine,waited for the pressure to build which during the first start up takes a bit to prime, usually after that immediate oil pressure.With the house brand filter it would take its time building oil pressure,I bought the filter I normally bought,changed the house brand,back to instant oil pressure. What I learned,there is an important difference in drain back valves,and on certain engine makes filter position can be in my experience make an impact on how fast initial oil pressure builds up and in some cases can have a potential affect on potential bearing damage.
I once had a '78 Buick Electra with the Buick 350. Incredibly torquey and moved the big car effortlessly. One day the cam began to show excessive wear, rocker arms were noisy, and had to be replaced. I got what was was advertised as a Buick-specific RV-type cam and the numbers looked good. Put it in and degree'd it in. It was a DOG with that cam! No amount of cam timing changed it. Finally found an OEM stock smog cam to directly replace the worn out cam and all the power came back. Go f'ing figure! The mechanic who helped me was amazed as I was. How does a smog cam work so well? Maybe the Buick engineers knew what they were doing.
Thank you so much for sharing that sweet story and the memories =) I've heard RV cams suck for high speed performance but have excellent power down low
When I had my 68 Special,there was a Buick parts in Alabama, called Postons Buick parts,I don't know if they are still around but they were a wealth of information,and sold great parts.,I bought an oil pump kit,could not of been happier.
@@What.its.like. In this case, the RV cam I got was a dog. I believe the OEM smog cam was designed for maximum vacuum at low rpm's. That gave it excellent throttle response and that Electra pulled away with effortless authority. The trade off was that it started running out of breath at around 4000 rpm.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi That was the problem for the most part with specific type cams, torque cams ran out of oats so to speak at higher rpms,high horse power cams general suffered low rpm drivability and came on strong at high rpms. VTC cams in late model ECM engined addresses both of the drivers demands cam position slightly retarded for low speed driving,and advanced for performance driving, depending on the demands of the driver.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi I wanted to add one more thing on the cam,if you were trying to run the cam with the factory single exhaust system and catalytic converter,the engine will be a bit gutless. You need at least from the manifolds back,a dual exhaust with a crossover pipe to really wake it up, but I am sure you already know that.
I had a hi - comp. 350 from a '69 Wildcat that was rated at 315 hp. It was one of the best engines I've ever had, to be exceeded by a series ll 3800. It makes me wish I still had the engines and the Buicks they powered.
Back in the early-70's my best friend's father had just finished a tune-up on a '64 Buick Special or Skylark coupe and handed it to us to take it out and thrash it, to make sure everything was OK. It had the new 300-2 V8 engine and that sucker would really go. We were expecting it to have a 2-speed automatic, like most mid-sized and smaller GM cars. It just had the PRNDL and no "L2" position. We were surprised that it had 3 gears and we thought that something was wrong. Nope, it WAS a 3-speed automatic and the first generation of the S.T.400 . It was the first and only year which didn't have a "L2" gear position. It had the variable pitch stator so that is why that small V8 launched so well. In the same model car from '65 to '69 the base automatic would be the S.T. 300 2-speed, up to 400 c.i.. A family friend had a 1967 GS 400 and it had the S.T.300 2-speed.
I had a 68 Buick special with a 350. It was a very nice car. Now as to the 215 V8 did not go away. It found new life in the Rover TC, and a very rare MG, the MGB GT V8.
@What.its.like. Jay, you do a very good job, knowing what you are talking about. No one knows everything, I have been into cars since I was a little boy, I'm 67 now, and I don't know everything.
It should have been mentioned that the 300 and 340 were revisions of the original 215 V8 design, but for the Buick 350, the entire top end was redesigned, beginning with the valve arrangement. Therfore, even though the 340 and 350 share the same deck height, everything from the camshaft up was different- cam, heads, intake manifold, exhaust manifolds, even the valve covers. Also, for 1968 the Buick 350 was fitted with the Quadrajet carburetor, making the intake manifold different in that respect also from that of the 340, which came with the square bore Carter AFB.
@What.its.like. you're welcome. I learned all this because I have a 1966 Buick 340 engine. It is a 2 bbl version, and I was able to buy a 4 bbl intake years ago for it. Hard to find, for sure.
I owned 3 Buicks with the 350 4 barrel 68 Skylark, 73 Century, and a 74 Century. The 73 Century had manual steering and brakes from the factory because the guy l bought it from ordered it that way.
WYR1: The '66-'67 A-body Buicks are the best looking cars ever to wear ventiports. I'll take the '67 Skylark convertible, white with a black top and red interior, 340-4 three-speed column shift. I seriously considered one some years ago, probably swap in the Special/GS grille. Might even trim it out with the GS340 graphics. WYR2: The '64 on show here is the Sport Wagon (5-inch longer wheelbase than the Special wagon, extended back doors and raised roof with glass panels). Buick discontinued the B-body wagons (LeSabre and Invicta) after 1963 and this was their near-full-size market entry. Oldsmobile fielded a similar version of the F/85 wagon called the Vista Cruiser My Mom's first cousin was high-up in Buick, actually head of a transmission remanufacturing plant in Atlanta, and he could get any Buick he wanted. He pulled up at our house in a sort of cream-yellow Sport Wagon one weekend morning and took us fishing at a small lake near his favored outdoor firing range (my Dad shot sharpshooter right-handed, expert left handed using a .45 the last time he had to qualify, and my Mom once shot a swimming snake with an M-1, it came down in three pieces. Me, I've never been a gun person). I digress, just these memories come back. Long story short, I'd go for the '66-'67 Estate wagon, again with the high-compression 340-four-barrel. I liked the looks of the steel styled sport wheels shown on the '67, but I think I'd prefer the improved stopping with the optional disc brakes that had their own styled wheels to accommodate the calipers.
I was given a "71-72"? Buick Skylark Coupe for free, a automatic with a 350, it was a nice car at one time? But in "81" not so much! Replaced the back window and front & back brakes & drums, it was ugly but that motor & transmission ran like a top! And moved that little car like a champ! I always thought The GM Buick Division made great cars! And better motors than the other GM divisions! Which never made any sense to me? It's GM!
I had a 72 Buick Skylark that had a 350, if I hit the gas just right at 40 mph you could hear a chirp!!, it also could do a smoke show all the way down the street.
Have you reviewed the first generation Cadillac Seville? It used a heavily revised Olds 350 with electronic fuel injection and carefully balanced for additional smoothness.
I have not done a Seville yet mostly this channel so far 30s-60s we've done cars outside those parameters but the focus are those years but would love to venture into 70s more as well as the modern era I want this to be the go to channel to learn more about underrated cars, over looked cars there are so many cool cars out there. I have always been a car enthusiast but I've always liked the cars that never really caught on cars that are different =)
The 300 was available with a 4bbl carb for 1964 and 1965 only. It was available with the 2bbl carb from 1964 to 1967. In 1968 it as replaced by the 350. The 340 with either 2bbl carb or 4bbl carb was for 1966 and 1967 only. Also replaced in 1968 by the 350.
Didn't know about the 300 and 340, but the 350 was toruey for it's size because of the long stroke. WYR Jeep Gladiator (always liked those) and the 67 Special for styling.
Call that music? We had Cream ... what did you gen get - auto tune, gangster rap, "Tranny" Swift , that crap would not even make it as "elevator muzak" back in the day. GM got busted sneaking in Chevy motors mid 70's, so they began to state that engines were "produced by various divisions" in the Ads. Most people at that time however were distracted by the "self recycling" feature of the Vega, they reverted back to iron oxide without any human efforts, thus saving the land fills for RVs and future plastic from the CCP.
Don't get it twisted I love music from the 60s 70s 80s I'm not a Swifty.. that was more emo than anything just for something different, they don't make music anyone that make noise
The Jeep and the 1964 wagon. The Buick 350 was tall because the deck had been raised for the extended stroke to get it to 350. It was actually the lightest of the 350's by a significant amount.
Awesome choices as well as insight =)
The BUICK early 1960’s Nailhead V8 !!! My uncle had a 1964 Wildcat !!! great car !!!!
I sure miss my 1973 Regal that was my first car. 350-2 and she never failed me!!!!~~
Hello Jay! Just can't say how much I enjoy these engine episodes! I always learn something! In this episode I learned that the 340 and 350 Buick V-8's had a longer stroke than bore! Not by much, but EVERYTHING was bigger bore than stroke in those days. INTERESTING! WYR One. . .1966 Special. Two. . .1967 Wagon. I knew a fellow that had a pretty nice 1966 Buick Sport Wagon. A really interesting car! Can't wait for the upcoming episodes! Particularly the Graham and RUXTON episodes!
Ruxton is next working on it now
That graham was awesome
The G-block Oldsmobile 400 was the most undersquare V8 ever made. As I remember, that was done for its inherent lower emissions profile. But, there's a lot cubic inches trying to breath through heads and valves made for a small V8. It was a great torquey engine for the big Olds sedans and station wagons but, it has very little performance improvement potential. Put a later GM HEI distributor on it, a 2 bbl Holley Sniper throttle body fuel injection, and that's about all you can do to the G-block Olds 400.
Another great engine video, Jay! I'll take the '66 LeSabre and the '67 Special Wagon.
Sweet choices
We had a '66 Special DeLuxe with the 300 cubic inch Wildcat 310. Sweet car!
Also a '70 LeSabre with the 350-4 HI COMPRESSION, advertised at 315 horsepower, Somehow Mom snagged two '70 B-body Buicks with manual shift (the other one was an Estate Wagon). Not necessarily looking for them, it's just that's how it worked out.
Great insight and information
I drove a 1973 Buick Centurion B-Body convertible for most of two decades - what a great automobile!
(I once had a ‘66 Skylark with this 340 4 barrel and two-speed auto - it was FAST!)
I test drove and almost bought a '67 Skylark convertible with the 340-4 and three-on-the-tree. Been about eleven years ago.
2:56 dude, that cutaway image is awesome.
=)
My 64 Skylark had a 300 all aluminum V-8.
My buddy and I lifted the block out of the engine bay with no mechanical assistance.
My girlfriend had used my car and said it overheated. The evidence was clouds of blue smoke after her time with that factory 4 speed.
We swapped in a 283 Powerglide, and I gave my friend the 4 speed that he cleaned up and said, "It's a Borg-Warner T-10!!" ENJOY I SAID!!!
66 Special
67 Special wagon
When I see a 5.7 L engine that's listed as having 150 horsepower it makes me want to cry. Ah yes. The malaise years of US auto production.
I totally agree great choices
Don't forget those were Net HP ratings. I had a 76 Regal with the 350 4 barrel and that car was amazingly quick.
Awe the 80s when mostly everything had the same power came down to driver
I had a friend who had a 1988 Camaro nothing fancy I raced and beat him in a 88 Lincoln town car he couldn't believe it
One day I want to buy an 88 town car and do a nostalgia episode. That car sucks on paper in the performance category but it's as fast as a Honda odyssey mini van if you know how to drive it.. I wanna buy one because I would not drive somebody else's car the way that I'm going to drive this it's going to be an epic episode. I just haven't found one that I would like to get one as close to the one that I owned as possible and I haven't found one like it yet..
There three roads three gravel roads that meet at a triangle point and there's like a triangular island in the middle of where these three roads connect. All these roads are gravel roads in the middle of cornfield. I want to take the town car out there drift around the triangle like I did, when I was a younger but I want to drift the triangle and shoot it can't do both lol
Have a 67 Buick Sportwagon with a 340. They only made that for 2 years.
Awesome that's a rare one
Many of the harmonic balancer seal were rope (?) Yes, rope. Just stuffed it into a slot, oiled it up good, stuck a hammer handle or something to squish it down. Actually worked quite well. Thanks for the video.
3:55 The 1970 Buick 350-4 High Compression was advertised at 315 horsepower. We had one in a LeSabre four-door hardtop, sort of a mint green with a dark green vinyl top.
Thank you for that information
My brother had a 72 GS with 350 4 speed , it would really sccot.
Sweet write in
😍 60s Buicks ❤️❤️❤️❤️
My Favorite......
1964 300 fabulous Engine...
The Prices 😱..
I bought a wrecked 64 for 27 dollars... Interior fire but ran for 42 dollars ...4 different station wagons under 400 dollars each !! Glorious times 👍
Deuce and a quarter for under 300 dollars..Awww Happiness 😊 20 year old Buicks had no value 😢
Put the 300 in Vega or Chevy Luv❤❤❤ a real go getter 😂.. great episode 👏👏
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
I am familiar with the Buick 350. Had one in a 71 cutless used on the oval track. Always out did the chevys with their 350. In the WYR, I would accept the 66 special, and the 67 wagon.
In 1970 Buick offered the 350 in three states of tune. Top dog had 315 HP. 280 HP was the standard 4bbl version.
Thank you so much for that correction I couldn't find any information on the 350 everything that I found was very limited.. so 280 was the highest figure I saw
Thank you for that correction
The Achilles heal to the really great engines, including the big Buick
400,430,and,455 , along with the 225,and 231 V-6,is overly extended oil changes,poor quality oil filters with poor drain back valves.good oil and filter service is very important to the long life these Buick engines are more than capable of providing.
Jay, thanks for the coverage of these great engines,and I thought I was going to point out they used these in Jeep products,but you knew that,as always great work, looking forward to the next episode.
Thank you so much for sharing all that great information and insight greatly appreciate it
Back then in the 1960's and 1970's standard O.C. intervals was 3000-3500 miles, I ran a fleet garage and never experienced oil filter related failures. In fact, in comparison to the filters on the market today, I'll take the old ones, less plastic and glue. We always ran factory branded filters and oil from top tier refineries. Keeping a vehicle tuned correctly was the secret, no gas contaminated oil from poorly adjusted carburetors, point and plugs every 12,000 miles along with replacing PCV every 24,000 miles.
@@lorimcquinn3966 I have learned that there are differences in oil filters as far as certain performance characteristics.
When I had my 68 Buick Special,with a 350,I bought a house brand from a big auto parts chain,instead of the name brand I would usually buy, installed it started the engine,waited for the pressure to build which during the first start up takes a bit to prime, usually after that immediate oil pressure.With the house brand filter it would take its time building oil pressure,I bought the filter I normally bought,changed the house brand,back to instant oil pressure.
What I learned,there is an important difference in drain back valves,and on certain engine makes filter position can be in my experience make an impact on how fast initial oil pressure builds up and in some cases can have a potential affect on potential bearing damage.
There's one version of the Buick tall deck that gets over looked . The 270 ci 4.4 litre all alloy Australian V8 Buick/Leyland P76 engine .
I’ve had a very of these, good motors & light.
I once had a '78 Buick Electra with the Buick 350. Incredibly torquey and moved the big car effortlessly.
One day the cam began to show excessive wear, rocker arms were noisy, and had to be replaced. I got what was was advertised as a Buick-specific RV-type cam and the numbers looked good. Put it in and degree'd it in. It was a DOG with that cam! No amount of cam timing changed it.
Finally found an OEM stock smog cam to directly replace the worn out cam and all the power came back. Go f'ing figure! The mechanic who helped me was amazed as I was. How does a smog cam work so well? Maybe the Buick engineers knew what they were doing.
Thank you so much for sharing that sweet story and the memories =) I've heard RV cams suck for high speed performance but have excellent power down low
When I had my 68 Special,there was a Buick parts in Alabama, called Postons Buick parts,I don't know if they are still around but they were a wealth of information,and sold great parts.,I bought an oil pump kit,could not of been happier.
@@What.its.like. In this case, the RV cam I got was a dog. I believe the OEM smog cam was designed for maximum vacuum at low rpm's. That gave it excellent throttle response and that Electra pulled away with effortless authority. The trade off was that it started running out of breath at around 4000 rpm.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi That was the problem for the most part with specific type cams, torque cams ran out of oats so to speak at higher rpms,high horse power cams general suffered low rpm drivability and came on strong at high rpms.
VTC cams in late model ECM engined addresses both of the drivers demands cam position slightly retarded for low speed driving,and advanced for performance driving, depending on the demands of the driver.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi I wanted to add one more thing on the cam,if you were trying to run the cam with the factory single exhaust system and catalytic converter,the engine will be a bit gutless.
You need at least from the manifolds back,a dual exhaust with a crossover pipe to really wake it up, but I am sure you already know that.
The LaSabre, and the '65 wagon. Love thie styling!
Awesome =)
I liked working on these engines. I recall most stuff was easy to get at. I'd choose the 1966 Buick Special and the 1967 Buick Special Wagon.
In 1970 the Buick 350 could be had with up to 315 horsepower and 410 ft lbs of torque according in their 1970 brochure.
Sweet thank you so much for that information I couldn't find anything for this engine just went off of what little information I could find =)
350-4 HI COMPRESSION. We had a manual LeSabre example, surprisingly easy on gas, 21-22 mpg highway at 70 mph and the air on.
That's pretty impressive all things considered
I had a hi - comp. 350 from a '69 Wildcat that was rated at 315 hp. It was one of the best engines I've ever had, to be exceeded by a series ll 3800. It makes me wish I still had the engines and the Buicks they powered.
@@danielbennion80 Must have been in a Skylark or a GS 350. ALL 69 Wildcats had the 430 cid 360 hp. engine.
Back in the early-70's my best friend's father had just finished a tune-up on a '64 Buick Special or Skylark coupe and handed it to us to take it out and thrash it, to make sure everything was OK. It had the new 300-2 V8 engine and that sucker would really go. We were expecting it to have a 2-speed automatic, like most mid-sized and smaller GM cars. It just had the PRNDL and no "L2" position. We were surprised that it had 3 gears and we thought that something was wrong. Nope, it WAS a 3-speed automatic and the first generation of the S.T.400 . It was the first and only year which didn't have a "L2" gear position. It had the variable pitch stator so that is why that small V8 launched so well. In the same model car from '65 to '69 the base automatic would be the S.T. 300 2-speed, up to 400 c.i.. A family friend had a 1967 GS 400 and it had the S.T.300 2-speed.
I had a 68 Buick special with a 350. It was a very nice car. Now as to the 215 V8 did not go away. It found new life in the Rover TC, and a very rare MG, the MGB GT V8.
Yes I should have added that
@What.its.like. Jay, you do a very good job, knowing what you are talking about. No one knows everything, I have been into cars since I was a little boy, I'm 67 now, and I don't know everything.
Imagine the performance implications had Buick done to the 340 V8 what they did for the 3800 Series II supercharged! Talk about torque steer.
It should have been mentioned that the 300 and 340 were revisions of the original 215 V8 design, but for the Buick 350, the entire top end was redesigned, beginning with the valve arrangement. Therfore, even though the 340 and 350 share the same deck height, everything from the camshaft up was different- cam, heads, intake manifold, exhaust manifolds, even the valve covers. Also, for 1968 the Buick 350 was fitted with the Quadrajet carburetor, making the intake manifold different in that respect also from that of the 340, which came with the square bore Carter AFB.
Thank you for sharing that insight
@What.its.like. you're welcome. I learned all this because I have a 1966 Buick 340 engine. It is a 2 bbl version, and I was able to buy a 4 bbl intake years ago for it. Hard to find, for sure.
Jeep Gladiator, because I think they are awesome. And as for the second batch? I would take, the Buick Special wagon, aka, yes.
I owned 3 Buicks with the 350 4 barrel 68 Skylark, 73 Century, and a 74 Century.
The 73 Century had manual steering and brakes from the factory because the guy l bought it from ordered it that way.
WYR1: The '66-'67 A-body Buicks are the best looking cars ever to wear ventiports.
I'll take the '67 Skylark convertible, white with a black top and red interior, 340-4 three-speed column shift.
I seriously considered one some years ago, probably swap in the Special/GS grille. Might even trim it out with the GS340 graphics.
WYR2: The '64 on show here is the Sport Wagon (5-inch longer wheelbase than the Special wagon, extended back doors and raised roof with glass panels). Buick discontinued the B-body wagons (LeSabre and Invicta) after 1963 and this was their near-full-size market entry.
Oldsmobile fielded a similar version of the F/85 wagon called the Vista Cruiser
My Mom's first cousin was high-up in Buick, actually head of a transmission remanufacturing plant in Atlanta, and he could get any Buick he wanted.
He pulled up at our house in a sort of cream-yellow Sport Wagon one weekend morning and took us fishing at a small lake near his favored outdoor firing range (my Dad shot sharpshooter right-handed, expert left handed using a .45 the last time he had to qualify, and my Mom once shot a swimming snake with an M-1, it came down in three pieces. Me, I've never been a gun person).
I digress, just these memories come back.
Long story short, I'd go for the '66-'67 Estate wagon, again with the high-compression 340-four-barrel.
I liked the looks of the steel styled sport wheels shown on the '67, but I think I'd prefer the improved stopping with the optional disc brakes that had their own styled wheels to accommodate the calipers.
I was given a "71-72"? Buick Skylark Coupe for free, a automatic with a 350, it was a nice car at one time? But in "81" not so much! Replaced the back window and front & back brakes & drums, it was ugly but that motor & transmission ran like a top! And moved that little car like a champ! I always thought The GM Buick Division made great cars! And better motors than the other GM divisions! Which never made any sense to me? It's GM!
I had a 72 Buick Skylark that had a 350, if I hit the gas just right at 40 mph you could hear a chirp!!, it also could do a smoke show all the way down the street.
Sweet story and memories
I’ll take a 65’ Skylark with iron head 300 please… great video!
Sweet choice happy you dig this episode
My buddy had a 66 Skylark with that 300 and that was the slowest V8 powered vehicle I've ever driven in my life.... lol
Have you reviewed the first generation Cadillac Seville?
It used a heavily revised Olds 350 with electronic fuel injection and carefully balanced for additional smoothness.
I have not done a Seville yet mostly this channel so far 30s-60s we've done cars outside those parameters but the focus are those years but would love to venture into 70s more as well as the modern era
I want this to be the go to channel to learn more about underrated cars, over looked cars there are so many cool cars out there. I have always been a car enthusiast but I've always liked the cars that never really caught on cars that are different =)
I'll take the Buick Wagon, sir.
1981 Buick LeSabre was the last police package car by Buick.
WYR: 1968 Le Saber and 1967 Special Wagon.
Great choices
The 300 was available with a 4bbl carb for 1964 and 1965 only. It was available with the 2bbl carb from 1964 to 1967. In 1968 it as replaced by the 350. The 340 with either 2bbl carb or 4bbl carb was for 1966 and 1967 only. Also replaced in 1968 by the 350.
Jeep Gladiator. I would take that in every WYR for all time.
Awesome choice
Didn't know about the 300 and 340, but the 350 was toruey for it's size because of the long stroke.
WYR Jeep Gladiator (always liked those) and the 67 Special for styling.
First pick Jeep pickup, second any of the Buick wagons particular the woodgrain Vista Cruiser styled Buick Sport wagon
Being that the Buick Special is a ragtop and a proper car.... The Jeep is interesting Out of the wagons the 67 looks the best.
Awesome choices =)
68 Buick - 67 wagon
Awesome choices
68 Jeepuick!
67 Wagon, but uh....
Clearly the 340 and 350 had angled valve covers. We had a 340 4bbl.
I saw the 350 has angled valve covers
Foo Fighters --Everlong ? Jeep -65 wagon
Great guess denis got it taking back Sunday what's it feel like to be a ghost
Great choice
Seems the 340 and 350’s were just stroked 300’s
Yep with a decked block
Seems like it resulted in a torquey engine for the size
Call that music? We had Cream ... what did you gen get - auto tune, gangster rap, "Tranny" Swift , that crap would not even make it as "elevator muzak" back in the day.
GM got busted sneaking in Chevy motors mid 70's, so they began to state that engines were "produced by various divisions" in the Ads. Most people at that time however were distracted by the "self recycling" feature of the Vega, they reverted back to iron oxide without any human efforts, thus saving the land fills for RVs and future plastic from the CCP.
Don't get it twisted I love music from the 60s 70s 80s I'm not a Swifty.. that was more emo than anything just for something different, they don't make music anyone that make noise
Buick ?????????
WTF ??????????
DOA !!!!
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BUICK ??????? ARFKM ??????
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