Restoring a 1970 Buick GS Stage 1 Convertible to be DRIVEN!
Restoring the 1970 Buick GS Stage 1 Convertible used in SPEED Network TV special Dream Car Garage - "Muscle Car Shootout". After seeing this car perform, our customer fell in love with this Gran Sport. He instantly purchased the car from LMC and had a complete nut and bolt rotisserie restoration completed. The car was then used as a feature dream car on Dream Car Garage.
Buick's mighty GS Gran Sport is one of Detroit's all-time automotive success stories. Spawned from one of General Motors' most conservative divisions, it built a fast reputation as one of the meanest and most revered offerings of the muscle car era. Equipped with a newly developed 455-cu.in. engine, the re-badged GS 455 touted a whopping 510-lb.ft. of torque--this from a division that catered to the upright businessman and the moderately successful family alike--bolted into a car that, with the exception of discreet badging, didn't scream "muscle" like its striped brethren. And if that was not enough, there was the Stage 1 option that, when adapted to the 455, produced an additional 10 horses...or so they claimed. Even the contemporary motoring press, specifically Motor Trend, which tested a Stage 1 to a 13.38-second ET at 105.50 MPH (January 1970), was quick to quip that the factory rating was "some kind of understatement of the year."
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