The images of this 1968 Buick Skylark kind of make you wonder: Is it being trailered to somewhere, or has it just come from somewhere? If the latter, then it appears that someone “drug this bad boy out of the mud,” because the underside is more than a little bit rusty. Still, if you’re inclined to take on a job, it might be a car you should look at, sitting at a current bid in the hundreds of dollars and with nearly a week to go in its auction here on ebay. You’ll have to take your own trailer to Port Huron, MI to retrieve it.

Can you ignore the obvious signs of trouble and see this car for what it could be? It’s a handsome coupe, a car with bloodlines at GM that included the A-body platform Olds Cutlass and Pontiac LeMans, as well as the Chevy Malibu. Nice stuff, all of it, and the Buick version like this Skylark Custom was kind of the stately one of the bunch. You lusted after a LeMans. You aspired to a Buick. It meant that you’d gotten somewhere.

The go-power in this car is a 350 V8 with 130,000 miles on it. It apparently runs on starting fluid, but as rusty as every surface is, who knows what the engine internals look like? Perhaps the mice that were recently displaced when someone took it out of the field it might have been in. Once you get the mechanicals sorted, you’ll have a smooth-running car, ready to cruise with power steering and an automatic transmission. That was, after all, the formula that sold so many hundreds of thousands of GM cars of this generation and the ones that followed into the early 1970s.

What’s it going to take to get this one from trailer trash to trailer queen? There’s various surface rust on the body panels that I wouldn’t bet hasn’t gotten close to going through (if you’ll forgive the double negative). The trunk is full of holes, and the ad says the floors are rusty too. The underside is all crunchy on both structural members and parts like the rear end pumpkin. The interior looks like an angry bobcat tried to scratch its way through the seats. About the only real positive the seller names is that all the chrome and emblems are present, which is something. Is it enough for you to venture a bet on this car? There are others that are all done in the market for around a $25K asking price. I doubt you could stick to that budget on this Skylark unless you have to hire out exactly zero percent of the work. Perhaps you should take it on as a labor of love?