After going through the pictures and listing of this car, the phrase, “what would you do for a Klondike bar?” was rattling around in my head. The seller would like to trade you this 1927 Buick Standard Six Two Door Sedan for the equivalent of $7500 in gold, which is kind of like a Klondike bar, right? It is located near Fresno, California. Thank you Ikey H. For the tip. You can view more here on craigslist.
According to the seller, their father bought the car 52 years ago, began to take it apart and gave up. It has since sat for 52 years. From the photos, you can see it has a straight six engine. That is connected to a manual transmission. The seller does have the headlight glass, blinkers, bezels, a radiator, grill, and even the spare tire, along with other extra parts. There are no photos of those parts.
However, those parts look to be stuffed into the interior of the car. Unfortunately, there is no specific photo of the inside, but one can see from the other photos that the back is full of stuff. The seller has stated that there is some surface rust but they have not noticed anything more major than that. They do not know much more about the car and suggest you come and see the vehicle to answer your own questions.
It might be an interesting transaction to purchase this car. They will take the cash, but as owners of a gold exchange, they are happy to take that currency as well. They also state that the car will stay on the trailer and they would like to deliver it to you for a fee. It seems like these are the savvy type of Craigslist users, making you rethink how to approach acquiring this awesome automobile from their clutches.
Looks like a fine restoration project, I like the 2 door style but I’m afraid that they might charge me too much to tow it 3000 miles. I don’t have that kind of gold just sitting around.
The underhood oil can is a nice touch.
Wonder how long before cars like this simply just don’t get restored as they should?
This restoration project must be the world record holder for time taken so far at 50 years. Barn Finds should keep track of the time it takes for it to be restored some day as it is undoubtedly the longest running restoration project in the history of car restorations in the world to date, officially.
Bob
I’m a sucker for a good Buick–no matter
what the year. From the very beginning,
Buicks were well-engineered cars that
were soundly built. Due to a severe case
of emptywalletosis, it won’t be coming
home with me. Other than the surface
rust on the body, the wooden structure
under that metal skin would be a deal
breaker for me. Replacing it would
require the services of a skilled carpenter.
Or, you could use a 3-D printer to repro-
duce the needed parts using the original
wood parts for a pattern. It would make
a great subject for a nice pirtrait though.
Hope it finds a good home.
All you need is a bandsaw, a scroll saw, and a pencil and you could recreate the wood frame. Or better yet take original wood pc’s that are salvageable and coat them in epoxy resin. If the parts are soft with rot the epoxy will harden it up and forever seal it. To each there own I guess right Kenneth.
But even resined, dry rotted wood had no strength.
But the resin and of fibreglass fabric will have strength, more then even new wood.
I think for the simplest of parts, maybe that tool list would handle it but for most it’s going to prove problematic at best. I’ve made some wooden car parts in the past, been doing woodworking for over 50 years (over 30 professionally restoring items) and have a full shop of tools available. Even for me, some of the parts would be very time consuming to make. Now days, I’d expect someone to have access to a cnc or 3d printer setup to duplicate many of the parts.
Even something like this dash which was made out of a single board could prove a challenge to many.
One expert (I forget whom) argued that the Standard Six was the first Muscle Car. Buick replaced the four cylinder in their low-price sedans with the 60hp six in 1925. For comparison, the Ford flathead V8, which came out in 1932, originally had 60hp. Apparently, the two-door models were pretty rare too. It would be interesting to see some genius do a period-correct hot-rod.
Buicks were always considered banker’s
hot rods even then. Yeah, the first Ford
V-8s cranked out 65 HP, but it was Buick
that had all the torque–allbeit at the lower
end. Wasn’t ’til ’36 that Buick got really hot with their straight 8 Century–a small
bodied Buick stuffed full of 320 cube
Fireball straight 8. Those cars were the
fastest cars on the road until Ford put a
95HP flatmotor into an upscale model
and called it a Mercury. Yes, I’d really
rather have a Buick!!
So would I, Kenneth. I’d take a Buick over pretty much anything. My dream car is a ’70 GSX Stage 1, a.k.a. the “Hemi Killer.”
Hey Kenneth, Larry Cerda here….. I Bought the Buick…. Belive it or not , All the wood is solid as a Rock…….. All Original