Cheers or Jeers: 1979 Buick Century Turbo

[wildmanjoe]

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
  

[Drew Dowdell]

well... not a turbo anymore.

[Robert Hall]

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

[Camino LS6]

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

[§carlet §wordfish]

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

[ocnblu]

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.

[vonVeezelsnider]

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

[daves87rs]

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

+1

[SAmadei]

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.

[balthazar]

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.