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Not mine, but I know the owner and have seen it at shows several times. https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/d/tacoma-1965-buick-skylark/7740011590.html 1965 Buick Skylark - $23,500 (Tacoma) © craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap 1965 buick skylark condition: excellent cylinders: 8 cylinders drive: rwd fuel: gas odometer: 100000 paint color: red title status: clean transmission: automatic type: coupe odometer rolled over Restored 1965 Buick Skylark 2 door coupe. Helping sell this car for a friend who is in an assisted living senior center and no longer able to drive it. He has owned it since 2018 and used it mostly for car shows, where it has won numerous awards. Turn key and ready to show or cruise! Overhauled (by previous owner) 300, 4 barrel motor with Pertronix coil and points. Offenhauser valve covers, headers, chrome alternator. Front disc brakes, dual exhaust, excellent condition wheels and tires. Bucket seats with factory floor shift & center console (added by current owner). Vinyl top is aftermarket, not originally a vinyl top car. Excellent running and driving condition.

Finally was able to check on your speedometer question. Unfortunately I could not find any speedometer information on your Pontiac.

Just a bit on an update on the car. We decided to get a bit of the mechanical stuff done, like the brakes. As we will need to move the car from the lift over to a bay with better width in order to paint the car. But Oh my some things are a struggle! The new power steering lines for instance, one is just a bit short. It kind of fits but is awful close to the exhaust manifold to be safe, so that I have to sort out. Last night we got new brake lines installed and got some fluid back in it, and will start bleeding it today. New brake cables are also installed but need to be set up, though all the shoes have been adjusted, so we should have good brakes once all the rest gets done and set up. The gas tank was reconditioned a while back, and I have the new sending unit installed, so it's just about ready to go back into place. I have a good high density rad which is just a few years old but I had it cleaned and it's now ready to go back in. The heater core had been leaking since before we got the car so long ago I re routed a heater hose to by pass the heater unit. It was rather rusty inside, but it has now been cleaned, repaired as nec, painted and reinstalled with the new core. The blower motor was seized due to lack of use, but some cleaning and lube and it works fine and runs quietly from the dash control. The one thing we are having a struggle with is the fit of the right front fender, the door fit is good, but the fender is sitting too low and I have a lot of shims in the fender mount and it's still about 3/16's in low. Basically I got frustrated with this and decided to get onto some of the mechanical stuff which needs to be done as well. Sorry folks, no pictures today! All kind of boring stuff that seems to be taking far too long! I think some of this is me as after working on this car for so many years I just want to get it together and looking good. Part of my rush right now is there are changes to the certification standards for cars coming into effect early June and the gents I use to do safeties have decided they are going to retire from writing these, which here we call MTO safeties due to all the extra paperwork, computer documentation that will be required. Please make no mistake, under no circumstances do I want an incorrect safety! I want everything to be safe without exception!! If I've missed something, or screwed up somewhere I want to know about it and have it sorted out. I just don't want to show up at a shop who doesn't know me with this old car and get taken for a whole lot of money. That's it for now folks, thank you for reading! Keith

https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/d/tacoma-1965-buick-skylark/7740011590.html Not mine, but I know the owner and have seen it at shows numerous times. 1965 Buick Skylark - $23,500 (Tacoma) © craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap 1965 buick skylark condition: excellent cylinders: 8 cylinders drive: rwd fuel: gas odometer: 100000 paint color: red title status: clean transmission: automatic type: coupe odometer rolled over Restored 1965 Buick Skylark 2 door coupe. Helping sell this car for a friend who is in an assisted living senior center and no longer able to drive it. He has owned it since 2018 and used it mostly for car shows, where it has won numerous awards. Turn key and ready to show or cruise! Overhauled (by previous owner) 300, 4 barrel motor with Pertronix coil and points. Offenhauser valve covers, headers, chrome alternator. Front disc brakes, dual exhaust, excellent condition wheels and tires. Bucket seats with factory floor shift & center console (added by current owner). Excellent running and driving condition.

I live near Kenosha where they were made and I never remember seeing very many of them. This one looks good from the photos and despite needing a good cleaning(and a little less fixation on a long gone TV show) it could be a lot of fun.

I have never owned the EXACT same car twice but have owned the same make and model a number of times. 1955 Ford, 1963-4 Oldsmobile, 1969 Olds Cutlass, 1967 Plymouth GTX, 1995 Chevy 9C1 Caprice.

I used Fig.6-3 in the service manual as a guide to do mine on the '38's

Very nice.

I am also quite sure that spring missing may have been causing this problem with the leather cup riding too high in the accelerator pump chamber. That knob on there is from the slot in the accelerator pump chamber.

Not an issue

True Minibago, but I think Doug meant with the wings on the can. I too was wondering about the addition of the wings. Nice touch @Mattml430 What was the wings emblem originally used on (if you know), or was it some sort of smaller hat pin originally?

Mechanics lien? Possibilities?

I love it, but I'm wondering if your insurance would allow for a 16-year-old to take the car out on his own. It seems that most insurance companies seem to frown on that, by way of increasing premiums to the point of unaffordable.

Most others seem to think no way no how without a title. ????? most others are not me.............

Amazing story!

If it's cheaper to plead guilty by mail (whether you are or not) than it is to argue your position in court, then it's a money grab, not a fair application of the law. The fees to appear are onerous and are collected up front, regardless of the outcome.

Thank you CarbKing. Great information. I ordered a spring kit and clip yesterday and from the pictures it looks like it has the same amount of turns from end to end as you described. I rebuilt the carburetor about 7 years ago and I can't believe I didn't notice that spring missing at the time 🙄. I have been noticing some hesitation from a full stop and that's why I decided to pull the carburetor off as the first possible culprit. There's a good quarter inch of up and down free play in that Rod without that spring attached. So I'm sure I was missing a good majority of that piston stroke without that spring in it...? I'm hoping for the best and I thank all of the responses for this issue. Take care. Les

Having restored several antique cars of various makes and models, I have learned that most parts for any car or truck is limited to a single purchase. And, say it is for a carburetor float or a model specific light, the search for a replacement ends when the needed object is found. I.e., it really doesn’t matter if the objects are literally falling from the tables at Hershey, or only a single one remains in all of everywhere, so long as you find that one, you are good. Many of the parts, such as gaskets, bearings, seals, covering and upholstery materials is generic, and available at many merchants on eBay and Amazon. The needy articles, such as tires, windshield and side glass and nice to have knobs and handles can be fabricated of found after some amount of searching. And, a immense part of restoring these old machines, in my stead, is the search, acquisition and finally owning the harder to find stuff. Again…….owning my old machines is the 97% pleasure of working on them, .02% pleasure of looking at them and the .01% pleasure of actually driving them. Perhaps it is the journey, and not the destination, which determines the real value of our old cars. All that said……if a Dodge DA-6 talks to you, in a language you like to hear, get it and make its restoration a work of love and not a labor of necessity. Jack

Thanks Joe, pont35cte. That was quicker than I thought.

Some of those early manuals say "have your man do" - - - - each day, month, miles.

Direct from the "horse's mouth" original Boyce Moto-Meter instructions.

Didn't Dodge have 16" wheels with 6X16 tires?

Thanks,I just coated the inside with gas tank sealer to prevent further rust holes.I hope that works for another ninety years.

Well, different induction system. The basic engine was the same 3.8 liter V6 Buick. The Series I 3800s (actually the LN3 motor from 1988 with a balance shaft) are considered to be a different generation. The early turbo motors used the draw-through Qjet. The 1984 GNs and T-types used the Sequential Fuel Injection and distributorless ignition.

Something I always have wondered, did they get really rare recently? I remember Lincoln's from the 60's being pretty affordable, but now they're stupid expensive.