Robert Moses' 70 GS455
When I was in high school(1977 I think), I bought this car($900.00),
and later sold it to a friend about five years later. The reason I sold
it was because I already had a 67 GTO and the GS and I found a 62 Catalina($600.00),
with the aluminum bumpers fenders/hood and the SD 421 with a Mickey Thompson
Cross Ram 2X4 intake 4 speed radio delete 8 bolt wheels finned aluminum
drums...
So anyhow the friend carried the car from Alabama to Midland
Texas and ended up selling it to a fellow who bought it for his 14 year
old kid...
A couple of years passed by, I sold the Catalina, crashed
the 67 GTO and really missed the Buick. Back then a lot of people from this
area were working out in that part of Texas. I kept asking around until
I found out how to get a hold of the kids dad in Midland. Called the man
up and asked about the condition of the car, offered the kid $600.00 and
he said OK. So me and a buddy caught a ride with these two chicks who worked
in that area(this is true), and went and got the car. Had to buy a battery
to get it running and put the spare on it. We went to a local junkyard and
bought a spare tire and a jack. Had the oil changed and put a new air filter
on it and headed back the next morning at daylight...
The alternator tried to give out all the way back(the warning
light was glowing dimly), we swapped batteries with some fellow at a gas
station to get it running again after stopping for gas. That evening we
stopped in Baton Rouge and got a bottle of Jim Beam and a cheap motel room.
The plan was if the car broke down we were going to catch a bus and leave
it on the side of the road because it would cost too much to have it towed,
not to mention the lack of funds. Next morning it fired right up and off
we went.
When we pulled in the parking lot in Ft. Payne Alabama the
right front wheel had about an inch of metal left holding the center part
of the wheel to the rim, the part that bolts to the drum had almost broken
away from the wheel...
A couple of years before selling the car I had traded it
for a 55 Chevy and then a couple of weeks later swapped back, oh well thats
another story...
So as you can see this car has some very significant sentimental
value as well !!!