Buford the Buick

[300deluxeL79]

nice work wayne!
good luck with the magazine, it sounds interesting.

Thanks for the kudos man...

I'm looking forward to it. Right now, the plan is to start with a blog (when the guy building the site ever finishes it), then start filling it with basic tech...I think the kids today call it "old school" <g>.

It's funny though. A few years ago, I had a young guy in my garage and he spied my old Sun dwell tach on the workbench. Even though he was a car guy, he didn't have any idea of what dwell was. I guess that officially makes me "old school" too!

Wayne

[copo69]

Really neat car, Wayne. I've always enjoyed your magazine articles, particularly the copo Camaro clone buildup series a few years ago. Never did see it complete and always wondered what happened to it. Looking forward to your internet venture.

[markjohnson]

It is good to see you here Wayne! I've always enjoyed your writing also and hav your "How To Build A Chevrolet Street Machine" book. That's actually one of my favorite books to this day. Your old Black '69 Z/28 Camaro with the Orange Houndstooth is owned by a member of this site. It's been all restored back into a stock Z/28 but I always kinda like what you did with the car instead. The current owner has even posted pictures of it on here, but for the life of me, I can't remember his name. By the way, sharp Buick! I really like it. I've built up a couple of Drag Radial "G" Body Drag car myself and your really looks top notch.

Hey Guys ...thanks for the responses. My Buick has been a mix of ideas that I've had for years (OK - decades <g&gt. It's not a legal drag car -- no cage or roll bar. Instead, it was supposed to be a modern version (and my own interpretation with a GM bias) of Addison's Silver Bullet. That car influenced me greatly over the years. So basically, like Addison's Mopar, the Buick was put together with the best hardware I found that was somewhat streetable. It really is a cool car, and I suspect it will really rock and roll with just a simple 572 crate motor.

My old black 69 Camaro haunts me regularly. It's one of those cars I wish I never would have parted with (the other is a for real 1971 LS6 Corvette that I regrettably sold in 1974). The truth was, I had a big tax bill that had to be paid. I had a new EFI Firebird drag car in the shop (NHRA B/Stick Stocker that Tim Bishop now campaigns). The 'Bird was giving me the opportunity to make an income while the '69 was sitting still. So I pulled out the L88/Turbo 400 combination and sold the Camaro to a fellow back east. The L88 was sold to a guy in Oregon who passed away before he could use it. Kip Martin did the machining on the L88. It was a (really) nice piece -- it was more or less an NHRA stocker style engine. FYI, drag racer, Ken Reich was the original owner of the Camaro.

If you folks ever want to see more pix of the Buick, let me know. The suspension is really neat and so is the rear end assembly. My old racing partner, Mike Pustelny narrowed the housing, fought with the concept of fitting the stock mounts in place (with the narrowed width and the huge by large M-W housing ends) and back braced it. Mike does really, really nice work. You should have seen the raw TIG welds.

But I digress. Like I said before....you guys rock and thank you for letting me ramble about some of my old heaps.

Wayne Scraba

[thumper83]

Love that regal !I am a g-body lover also strated with an 85 ss then on to the new baby a black 86ss. Grey one is a project / drag car in slow progress lol. Keep it up beautiful car !

[flyingn]

its a sin what you did to it. Its a turbo Buick for Gods sake, build up the turbo 6.. 600 hp is easy with those motors. Why didn't you use a garden variety regal which could have been bought for a whole lot cheaper and it would not have been sacrilegious what you did. What you did is basically grab a mint low mile 1969 SS396/375 and tore into it and but a Big Block Buick in it You should be ashamed of yourself.

You did a nice job on it tho..