inc@fluke.UUCP (Ensign Benson, Space Cadet) (09/27/85)
I recently purchased the car I've been looking for for about 5 years now,
and it is a creampuff! It's a '61 Buick Special (just like the first car I
ever owned), and I am only its third owner. It has 73,000 original miles.
For all you metric fans, that's 125,000 kilometers. The interior is perfect,
the engine (aluminum block 215 cubic inch V8 [3.5 liter]) hums like a a
little top -- in fact all it needs is shocks and paint. The original bill of
sale ($3,028.00) and Owner's Manual were in the glove compartment. Sorry, I
don't know the formula to convert dollars to metric. ;-)
Needless to say, I want to keep it as well as it has been kept in the past,
but I'd really prefer an original shop manual over the Chilton's. Does
anyone know a decent source for that kind of thing? Does anyone have such a
manual the'd be willing to sell or give to a good home? My J.C. Whitney
catalog is on the way, so I don't know yet if they carry them or not.
Also, under the hood, mounted over the right wheel-well is a bracket that I
had previously seen on a '62 BS. My first one didn't even have the bracket,
but on the '62, it held a pint (half litre) bottle of a clear liquid. Any
ideas what the liquid might have been? I suspect possibly starting fluid
(ether? alcohol?) but really don't have a clue.
Any of you 'Vette owners want to drag for pink slips?
My "vanity" plate is going to read:
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Thanks - Gary Benson
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Ensign Benson
-Space Cadet-
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-The Digital Circus, Sector R-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_JCA@psuvm.BITNET (10/02/85)
The bottle under the hood was for additional windshield washer fluid.
I once had a 61 LeSabre with the same type glass bottle.
Jeffery Almoney
122E Computer Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814)863-0422
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