I think these were some of the best looking american cars ever made, the proportions are all really nice

Steve, thank you so much for your daily contributions to automobilia, and all things related. I love your sense of humor, especially when you do your automotive CSI. Please keep doing what you do, and I will keep tuning in.

“Hey you smoking Mother Nature, this is a bust”😂 good stuff as always Steve

I love my GS400. It is a 1967 that had been off the road since the 80s and changed hands a few times through ebay and craigslist sales. I bought it in 2017 with a seized motor and a few missing (expensive!) trim pieces. Swapped in a 1972 455, refreshed the interior, and tracked down all those missing pieces and it now runs and drives like a dream. Still original paint and mostly original interior. I look forward to restoring it one day.

I love the old Nailhead! Spent a lot of time driving and working on those as a teenager in the mid 70's.

Hey Steve, let us not forget the boxed frame found on the early GS Buicks. It was shared with the convertibles and helped stiffen what was otherwise a pretty flexible frame.

I never knew I wanted one of these until now. What a great looking car.

Going fast with class!! Great way to wrap up "Buick" week Steve! I'll bet that was a real looker back in its day! Your videos are great. The information you provide is also spectacular! Keep up the great work and keep on crawling!!!

Love the Buick stuff lately. I would also like to see more cutlass and corvairs and any old GM cars. Thanks for the education.

"Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars, oak tree you're in my way", which was the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "That Smell", based on a real event. On Labor Day weekend 1976, Gary Rossington was high on a combination of alcohol and Quaaludes and passed out at the wheel of his 1976 Ford Gran Torino which he had just purchased. He crashed into a VW, pushing it several feet, hit an oak tree on Mandarin Road in Jacksonville, FL and then came to rest after hitting a house, doing about $8,000 worth of the damage to the house. Mr. Rossington (who is still alive today and married Dale Krantz, who was the lead singer of the Rossington-Collins Band) also knocked out all of his teeth. Ronnie Van Zant, the band's leader was extremely angry at him for this incident and fined him $5,000 due to the band having to cancel shows. As a result, the song "That Smell" was written (Allen Collins also wrecked a Jeep that same weekend while drunk, but wasn't severely injured) and earned Mr. Rossington the moniker, "Prince Charming" in the song's lyrics. The reference to the "Oak tree, you're in my way" was specifically aimed at Mr. Rossington. Mr. Van Zant died in the 1977 plane crash. The band was enroute to Baton Rouge Airport when they ran out of fuel. I fly to Louisiana for work somewhat often and every time I fly there, that plane crash is in the back of my mind. We got the tag, we can brag: 03C for the third week of March 1966 production, 66 for 1966 model year, 44617 for Buick (4) Skylark GS (46) hardtop sport coupe (17), BAL for Baltimore, MD assembly, 198 for Black interior trim, W for Silver Mist lower exterior paint, 2 for Black vinyl top, ZB potentially has some ties to the two-speed automatic transmission. The Baltimore, MD plant operated from 1935 to 2005 and last assembled the Astro and Safari vans. If the car was without a vinyl top and was the same upper and lower paint color, it would have "W-W" on the tag to signify Silver Mist upper and lower exterior paint. Since it has the 2, we know it had a black vinyl top when it left Baltimore GMAD. No VIN, can't win, but easy to figure out, no doubt: 4 for Buick, 46 for Skylark GS, 17 for hardtop sport coupe, 6 for 1966 model year, B for Baltimore, MD assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The bigger question is: Did Johnny really hate jazz? Yes, Johnny Hates Jazz band member Mike Nocito's brother-in-law (who was named Johnny) did in fact hate jazz music.

Thanks Steve! The proportions of those cars were just so ‘clean’, for lack of a better word. And all that v8 torque-even the most sedate cars from that era had a coolness built in!

A friend of mine had one in high school in 1981. I had a 1968 Torino GT with a 4bbl 390. We had some good battles. Lol. If I got good traction at launch, I would beat him. If not, he would win. That GS would hook up everytime.

Hi Steve, great video lineup this week Buick. The Tuned Car. “Styling, performance, ride, and handling, all tuned to work together, Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?”... if it's a Gran Sport, yep! Namaste 🙏🏼

The damage on the car looks just like one a childhood friend of mine did when he bought a 1965 Ford Galaxy. He was doing bootleg turns in the new snow about 4 hours after he bought the car and slid sideways into a telephone pole about a block from his house at about 35 mph.

Buick made those 5 spoke sport wheels until 1987. My 1985 Regal had those exact same wheels from the factory. I loved them.

We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you soon

Really enjoy your videos Steve. Thought I knew alot about classic performance cars, but learn something new every one of your vids. Keep it up!

Morning gents

Cool Steve ! My aunt drove a 67 GS... my brother still talks of the fun him and my cousin had in that car while on summer vacation.. they were a few years older than me so i was never there , but i remember the car for sure... my aunt had a 65 impala then the GS... my uncle totalled them both racing around... he was a hot rodder from the 50s and 60s and had some cool 57 chevies and more... problem was he liked to drink way too much.. my aunt is the only one still here from that generation... what a fun time being a kid in the 60s and 70s

Had a 64 Lemans (first car) whose rear coils had lost their height. Easiest and cheapest fix for a 16 yr old was jack it up with the bumper jack like you're gonna change the tire. Once you got the wheel off the ground and the axle was just hanging there the coils became separated from the body enough that you could easily crawl under that bumper jacked car (the stupid things we did as kids) and slip a piece of 2x4 between the body and coils. Jackpot! Whole new profile. Cured the problem of the drive shaft scraping shaft tunnel when you hit a cross street with a crown to it.

Always liked the Buick. Cars with style.

Two day, two Buicks! And both super turbine 300 cars! Sweet! I drive a 67 firebird overhead cam 6 with the st300!

I had a 67 Skylark 300 2 speed in 92 it was my passion. I went on to hundreds of more cars . I wish I would have stuck with her and built it. I loved how that car made me feel

Hi Steve, good video. You mentioned the small diameter front drum brakes on this vehicle. Lack of stopping power was an issue on the early GM "A" Body (mid-size) cars, unless the buying customer opted for power brakes. On some early early GM "A" Body cars, the customer could order larger front finned aluminum drum brakes with a steel insert with factory steel impregnated brake shoes along with power brakes that had enough stopping power to lock all four up at 100 mph, before power front disc brakes where an option. I agree with what you said about power steering and power brakes go hand in hand, but for some reason power steering was a more popular option over power brakes back in the 1960s. You also mentioned the difference in drivability with a 2 speed automatic Vs. a 3 speed automatic, this is very true to a certain extent. With a 2 speed automatic, second gear is absent from the transmission, just low and high, or "1st and 3rd" you might say. The nickname for 2 speed automatics is a "slushbox". But on the other hand, the Chevrolet Powerglide 2 speed automatic is popular for off road drag racing, due to the fact that the transmission only has one shift, this results in more consistent ETs or "elapsed time" in the 1/4 mile stretch. Good street drivability can be accomplished with a 2 speed automatic, with a decent power engine and a low rear end gear ratio, I.e. 3.90 to 1 or 4.11 to 1 because the engine "thinks" that high gear is second gear, but not so good for fuel economy. Please reply. Dave...

Though a few years later, shortly before Opec and State Farm had their way with Detroit Muscle, such artifacts of mechanical diversity left their mark. As a Texaco pump jockey, I recall a patron that had a 68/70-ish GS. The guy was nuts and used to come by the station early evenings and pull donuts around the tiny pump islands. The car was an absolute beast. Cant help but have visions of Bud Lindleman's TV show putting these relics through the pylons and panic stops. The last of an era......

I believe they had a variable vein torque converter which help make up for the lack of a third speed but a direct torque converter 3 speed obviously was the popular choice over time.

Great video Steve. Keep them Coming.

Oh wow, and it's a GS 😍

I had a 1974 Buick Regal,drove that car from1985 to about 1990,,pulled that motor out transmission out and I had bought a 1976 and drove it until I had put motor flush in it and blew it up.i was sick to my stomach because I drove it for almost 9 years.R.I.P.Buick Regal.✝️

I think the gs was the best looking of its rivals from the same year. Great channel, im glad i found it.

I don't know how I missed one, but I didn't catch this the first time around. Looking forward to you being back and healthy again sir. Until then, still pulling and praying for you. ~ Chuck

Man i love junkyard crawl!

Steve Magnante..... SWEET!!!!!! Yesterday, in response to someone else's comment, you said that you would have a special "muscle" Skylark today. And I responded to your comment, with my guess of what it would be. I was almost correct!! I was only off by a model year...I guessed it would be a 1965 GS with the 401. 😎😎

Loving all the Buicks Steve, Great car, always loved my Buicks of which I’ve had a few. Back in day had a 67 Skylark convertible w/300 and 2 speed. I bought a 67 California GS 340 for $100.00 because it had those gorgeous rally rims. Car was shot but swapped those road wheels to my convertible. Miss those days.

How better to wake up on a Friday than with a great video from Mags !

wow that yard has some cool old steel in it. Everything around where I live seems to have been picked over and what worth saving has been.

You crack me up with your fantasy scenario of prom night, Skynyrd and Miller brewskis. You left out the Trojans though, although this ride did have front buckets so that would have meant a trip to the back seats. It's not surprising that Pontiac outsold Buick. Pontiac was known as the sportier division while Buick and Olds were the old folks rides. Every guy over 70 that I knew back in the 60s and 70s drove some giant Electra or Humongous Delta 88 or 98. Don't forget to feed the dog and thanks for the trip down memory lane. Oh yeah, one tip, the locks from that era can easily be raked open in a snap. It requires very little skill to do.

Thank you Steve for another awesome wake up story

Another episode of great content.

Coffee and Crawling!

"Gen X" youngin's will NEVER understand and respect what the "Big 3" automakers designing and manufacturing during the muscle-car era...this is why they're CLASSICS!

Buick had the best looking road wheels...

I had a 66 Buick GS hardtop, Red , Black interior!

My brother has a Plain Jane 67 2 door Impala 283 2sp and it is fun to drive around town. Lunges away from a stop if you want and then burbles along city driving nice and calm and good mileage. Less is more sometimes.

For all these years l had a 68 Skylark with a 350 4 barrel and l thought a powerglide transmission but it was a super turbine 300 so you always can learn something even if you are old like me 😼

Awesome episode

I’ve wanted a Buick GS for roughly 35 years now. I’d even love a model kit of this ‘66

Really glad I started watching you on KZfaq really enjoyed your time on MotorTrend as well. Thanks for all the info keep it up😎

Thank you Steve Get well soon

Steve’s morning classroom!

Beautiful car indeed! Love those! The styling was sleek. 👌😎👍

I'm a pretty hardcore FoMoCo guy, but I really feel like Buick made some of the most forgotten and overlooked capable muscle cars of the 1960s and 70s. B-O-P always made the nicer looking GM cars in my opinion, but often got overshadowed by Chevrolet products.

As a vintage 63 myself i appreciates your work ethic and joydeauto. My favorite car maybe of all i owned was a 1981 Honda accord 2dr hatchback LX.

Banged on the trunk and woke the cat LOL the frame looks almost square the wheel wells look symmetrical, it’s the top rail part and radiator support is swayed over but you could pull that on a frame machine, drill out the spot welds and weld in donor parts. Man I’d buy it.

Great looking car.

I can't imagine heat and defrost delete unless you live in Hawaii. I grew up in S. California and it sometimes got down to freezing during the winter.

I grew up being a Chevy guy but I've always liked the Buick and Oldsmobile on these early muscle years. Body lines and make up of the "muscle" was cool to me. Thanks for finding this gem.

Thanx Steve.....I'm a daily viewer....hope you eventually find your way out of this junkyard.......😊

I don't know if the spring extenders and overload shocks were meant to cure sagging springs , or if they were there to jack it up for L60-15 ProTracs on 10" slots ! That was "THE LOOK" for A-bodies back on the day !

The GS was a great car back then!

My swim coach bought a new '66 red GS400 conv with the autobox. It was more power than he could handle and wound up totaling it. Not sure if there was drinking involved.

Hey Steve how about an update on some of your personal cars? Give us a tour of the collection. 👍🏻

That shirt with the logo really gives you that baked in holiday effect 😜

It's in bad condition, but it's there and real, I hope it gets restored.

The Super-Turbine 300 trans in a Buick also would have a Switch-Pitch converter controlled by throttle position.

As I recall, the '65 and '66 were never referred to as a GS 400. They were simply Gran Sport or GS. The first GS 400 name was in '67 when it came with an actual 400 cubic engine in place of the 401.

I had the model of that car (the one that was really a dealer promo no engine).I always liked the styling of the 66 67 skylark 2 door hard top.I’ll never understand what happened in 68.

Great looking body style IMO.

These Buick chrome wheels look similar to the Kelsey Hayes chrome wheels shared by Chevy, Ford, Dodge, Plymouth and AMC in the late 60’s - early 70’s muscle cars.

The standard (manual ) three speed mentioned was a Ford top-loader. GM called it the Dearborn transmission. Also, the manual floor shift would have been Hurst.

Mopar guy!!? You must hate how hard it is finding them not to rusted out... great informative video you gained a new sub

Awesome Steve thanks 🙏

Always learn from your amazing videos ! thanks

Thanks Steve

Fun walking through the Buicks this week. Thanks Steve

Mr. B. ! Good morning to all ! So sad to see this vehicle in the bone many of GM a body’s were smart looking vehicle & they had class. Thanks Steve great pick ! Have a good day .

Cool car, Steve! Didn't see many of these around when I was coming of age in the mid 1980's, and certainly don't see many now!

"...Prom night, some Skynard, a little Miller..." Steve, are you having a flashback there buddy?

Loving the Buicks. My first job was at a Buick dealership. I used to wash those cars in the used car lot. They had lots of stainless trim which would rip open your hands.

Interesting aspects keep it up Steve !

The best thing I did to my all drum equipped Olds Cutlass was get some Olds rally wheels. It cut the fade in half after that.

That Buick looks very restorable,do people ever reach out to you and want to purchase any cars you show in your videos

445 lb - ft of torque! Lots of oomph.

Depending on how much filler is in the body, it might make a nice candidate for a resto-mod. Grandma had a mid 60s Wildcat when I was a toddler and I've had a soft spot for them ever since.

Love your videos and the information within. I don't understand GM'S thinking with the crappy brakes they used back in the day. the best you could do was get optional metallic shoes for their little drums. Weird

From what I remember back in my Buick 10 bolt was 1 legger 12 bolt posi that's what I remember seeing and driving

I had a 1966 Gran Sport, it said Skylark GS on the rear quarters, mine was a 4 speed with a posi rear end, bucket seats, no ps no pb but had a console with the tack in it, the car was really fast would keep up with or beat the muscle cars of it's time. It was blue with black interior, it was a repro car and was sitting in the back of a Buick dealer, I got it for $600 in 1971.

1981 prom night 🤔 I’m gonna go with AC/DC Back in Black or Ozzy Osborn Blizzard of Oz in the tape deck! 😆👍 🤷‍♂️ ✌️🤙 Rudy & LJ approved ✅ 😂

Always did like the dash in these 65-67 .

Great video, that looks like it has a lot of parts still, i like the waether, T shirts in december

I'm surprised no one has snagged that instrument cluster. It has speed minder.

Awesome stuff thank you

'66 GS's were really nice, surprising to see this junked despite the damage, I had a '66 442, very similar body

Love the Ole 66 Buicks

Took the day off and slept in until 10:30 CST so I’m a late arriver here today! It’s amazing how much sleep a guy can get when the wife and kid aren’t around to get in your business……😂 LOVE these mid-60’s Buick intermediates - especially the interiors, which I think are so well done compared to their “O-P-C” counterparts……!!!!!

No reindeer head? No stuffed dog?... ah, wait, maybe it WAS in the trunk?

The 36 Buick century was the first muscle car by that definition.

I had a 1968 Firebird 350 convertible with the powerglide 2speed trans. Some people may like that trans, I hated it!

Thanks Steve ✌️

My Dad had a 66 Skylark convertible with 300ci . Learned how to drive with that car.