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1978 Buick Regal 2 Door V8 on 2040-cars

US $3,000.00
Year:1978 Mileage:100000
Location:

Oak Creek, Wisconsin, United States

Oak Creek, Wisconsin, United States
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 1978 Buick Regal two door coupe. Car is a factory V8 automatic with the 305 Chevy motor. Car suns and drives good. It does have a small exhaust tick on the right side (heat riser?) that goes away when its warmed up. It has brand new full dual exhaust with flowmaster mufflers, sounds great. I dont know exact mileage, just had to put a number in for ebay. The body is very solid. Buick ralleye wheels with fair white letter tires. Car is white, used to be a baby blue. Paint is average, not show by any means. There is a hole in the drivers floor starting. the rest of the floor pans are solid, the trunk pan is excellent and the frame is clean...even at the rear bumper mounts! No rust that I see anywhere other than the hole in the floor. The interior is blue. Has a power seat but it is broken. I will include a pair of black high back bucket seats with the car, not sure the original application they came with. It has a maroon steering column with tile and an Oldsmobile steering wheel. Headliner is homeade and the rest of the interior is dirty and getting worn. Dash has no cracks, just the speaker grill on top. Has a blaupunkt cd player that runs a single speaker on the floor that works fine. (not mounted properly so its a bit loose and its not wired to hold radio station memory.) Glass is all good, power windows and locks work. The taillights are no longer black as shown in the pictures and there are no rear bumper fillers on the car. It is an old car, therefore it is sold as is and has no warranty or guarantee. Buyer is responsible to pick up or have shipped or I can deliver for 1.50 a loaded mile, please ask first. Payment will be cash on pickup only.
I may consider partial trades up or down. 1977 or 1978 trans am, 1973 grand am or GTO, Hurst Olds or 442 or ??

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Sat, Feb 20 2021

Around the time that OPEC shut off the oil taps, The General realized that it was time to sell more small cars from GM divisions not previously known for such machines. The logical candidate for this project was the Chevrolet Nova, a rear-wheel-drive compact that shared much of its chassis design with the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird. The Nova-based Pontiac Ventura came out in the 1971 model year, and the Buick and Oldsmobile Divisions began producing their own badge-engineered Nova siblings for 1973 (Cadillac was late to the party, but eventually created the Nova-based Seville for 1976). At first, the Buickized Nova got Apollo badges, but the better-known Skylark name was applied to these cars for the 1975 through 1979 model years. Today's Junkyard Gem is one of those Nova-based Skylarks, found in a Denver self-serve yard. From the 1964 through 1972 model years, the Skylark lived on the A-Body chassis and was sibling to the Chevrolet Chevelle/Malibu, Pontiac LeMans/Tempest/GTO, and Oldsmobile Cutlass/442. After the 1975-1979 rear-wheel-drive X-Body phase, the Skylark name then went onto the unrelated front-wheel-dive X-Body chassis developed for the Chevrolet Citation. It's a Nova, sure, but Buick made sure that it had a bit more swank than its Chevy counterpart. Checked seat fabric with big square buttons! The base engine in the '78 Skylark was the 3.8-liter Buick V6, rated at 110 horsepower. GM had invested in a new crankshaft design for this engine the year before, so it no longer had the "odd-fire" cut-down V8 crankshaft that shook the fillings out of so many drivers' teeth in earlier years. An assortment of low-compression V8s from Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Buick were available as optional equipment as well, eventually leading to the "Chevymobile" lawsuits of a few years later. The base transmission in this car was a three-speed manual (I'm not sure if you could still get a three-on-the-tree column-shift manual Skylark in 1978, but a three-on-the-floor manual was available for sure). The very last three-on-the-tree car Americans could buy was the '79 Nova and its Olds Omega/Pontiac Phoenix siblings, while the final three-on-the-floor cars were the '81 Malibu and siblings. This car has the optional three-speed automatic.

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