Vehicle Description
1972 Buick Skylark Convertible - 455ci V8 - Automatic Transmission
- 3917 Miles Shown - Blue Over Blue Interior - White Convertible
Top (Please note: If you happen to be viewing this 1972 Buick
Skylark Convertible on a website other than our Garage Kept Motors
site, it's possible that you've only seen some of our many
photographs of the car due to third-party website limitations. To
be sure you access all the more than 185 photographs, as well as a
short start-up and walk-around video, go to our main website:
GKM.com) Light your fire. �€" Period Buick Skylark advertisement
headline Offered here is a 1972 Buick Skylark Convertible, a
recreation of the GS455 Stage 1 model, in light-blue metallic over
blue under a white fabric top. The car's odometer shows 3,917,
likely indicating the mileage amassed since the restoration and
modification work was completed. The exterior light-blue metallic
paint has been refreshed and shows good overall gloss.
Twin-air-intake hood, quad-headlight surrounds, and rear spoiler
are other extras to take note of. Badging is limited to a single
455 emblem in the front grille and the Buick lettering included in
the rear chrome bumper. There are no GS poser badges. Cabin glass
and all lighting lenses are clear and uncracked. Chrome bumpers and
trim show minimal patina from age. Five-spoke body-color-painted
wheels with Buick-logo center caps are mounted with Defender 225/70
blackwall tires in front, and wider BFGoodrich Radial T/A tires in
the rear. The interior color theme is blue, with vertically pleated
blue-velour upholstery covering the well-bolstered front buckets
and rear bench seat. Original door trim echoes the upholstery with
a vertically pleated blue vinyl look. Blue carpeting covers the
cabin floors. A replacement RoadMaster 3-spoke,
brushed-metal-trimmed steering wheel fronts a black dashboard and
square-design instrument panel. Factory instruments have been
augmented with an AutoMeter oil-pressure and coolant-temperature
gauges incorporated into the dash; an exterior tachometer is
mounted in the aftermarket hood. An aftermarket Buick-branded AM-FM
radio is mounted in the original factory-radio location with
Pioneer speakers added to the under-dash trim. The ProMatic2
shifter for the automatic transmission is floor-mounted. Under the
hood, it's all business with a 455-cubic-inch Stage 1 powerplant
wearing red engine-block paint and a chrome, open-sided air cleaner
to accept cold air entering through the hood intakes. The engine
bay is clean, properly ordered, and features an aluminum radiator.
Viewed from below, the chassis is similarly clean, undamaged, and
complete. Visual focal points include the custom exhaust headers
and collector pipes, clean lower-engine surfaces, full-length
dual-exhaust system with crossover, Hotchkiss swaybar, and TCI
transmission. While the more than 185 high-definition photographs
and the short walk-around-and-startup video available on the
GarageKeptMotors website showcase this '72 Buick Skylark
Convertible in detail from every angle, including from below, we
expect and encourage in-person inspections at our Grand Rapids,
Michigan showroom. Please call to arrange an appointment in advance
as our showroom is not open to the public. And feel free to get in
touch anytime by phone or email if you have questions. This
celebration of early-Seventies Buick performance offers all the
sound and fury that routinely surprised Pontiac and Chevy
owners--to say nothing of the MOPAR and blue-oval crowd-- back in
the day. And it'll still do the same today... at car shows and
stoplights
