Cheers or Jeers: 1979 Buick Century Turbo

Link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item3a6fa4f2ee

Here we have a 1979 Buick Century turbo

Enthusiast owned for 11+ years, extremely clean and professionally built for street/strip

Very well maintained and built for a 32 year old car, paint is 4 years old with no rust.

Great strip/street/show car ,so much to list and very tastefully modded

BUYER MUST SET UP AND PAY FOR PICKUP

Vehicle specs:

• 406 small block chevy/World Products Block (never tracked with current motor,has under 1000 miles, non turbo now )
  
• Eagle crank/ Eagle H-beam rods 6"
  
• Wiseco pistons 12.1 compression
  
• Roller cam 640-644 lift
  
• Brodix Track 1 heads w/ stud girples
  
• Victor jr. intake
  
• Edelbrock NOS profrogger with Edelbrock delay timer control box
  
• 15lbs bottle NOS kit professionally done by Steve Johnson
  
• 850 Holley carbs
  
• Aeromotive 1000 fuel pump
  
• MSD 6AL ignition
  
• Hooker headers
  
• 3" exhaust w/ H-pipe & Dynomax mufflers
  
• Turbo 350 trans with brake reverse valvebody 3spd. manual ,reverse lockout (tranny may need rebuild in future)
  
• Dana 60 rear spool 4:10 gears, 35" axles
  
• 2" tubed out rear tires M-H 325/50r15
  
• front Micky Tompson 26x7.50r15 LT on welds 5 star wheel
  
• Qa1 all adjustable shocks
  
• aluminum radiator & radiator support (very rare)
  
• Fiberglass hood
  
• Aluminum bumpers
  
• Modified T-tops from 86-87 Monte Carlo
  
• 6 point roll cage
  

well... not a turbo anymore.

Meh...kind of pointless w/o a turbo Buick V6.

Could be quite the sleeper if it lost that stupid hood.

The Salon was an awkward body style with an awkward name.

I'm disappointed. I've had the idea for years I wanted to build a fastback Century coupe with a late model Turbo 3.8. This ain't it.

Modifications not in the spirit of the car itself, so I'm going to have to go thumbs down on this one...

Modifications not in the spirit of the car itself, so I'm going to have to go thumbs down on this one...

+1

What I find funny is these were 30 years ahead of their time, with the stubby trunk. If GM would have made the trunk a bit taller...

...Well, it would still have been an awkward car.

All the hardware is there for a killer street/strip car, but I always hated these designs. One could bolt this stuff into anything. Jeers.