For Sale: 1969 Buick Electra 225 sedan - $7,500 - Adrian, PA - Not Mine

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For Sale: 1969 Buick Electra 225 sedan - $7,500 - Adrian, PA

1969 Buick Electra 225 - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle... (craigslist.org)

1969 Buick Electra 225 430 V8 engine with 78,712 miles, one family owned, always garage kept and had not been run for about 35 years until recently. Includes all 5 original rims and two others, vinyl top in good shape, bias ply tires on it. Runs smooth since installing new spark plugs. Also has a new battery, new rear brake lining and cylinders, new fuel pump, new wiper blades, new windshield washer pump and hoses, and four new headlights. Had it detailed on the outside and I cleaned the inside which is all original and in good shape. No electric windows, locks, or seats and the AC compressor runs but doesn't make cold air. Exhaust needs a minimum of the over the axle pipe and tailpipe. Any questions you might have we can discuss over the phone or when you come to see it and I will answer as honestly as I can.  The price is a FIRM $7500 cash only sale right now. If I do more work, the price will go up.  I WILL NOT ANSWER A TEXT! Thank you! odometer: 78712

Contact:   Joe  call:   (724) 9-5-four-4-one-1-six  Please, no calls after 9pm
Copy and paste in your email:  5a40912809343a07a984859b154ce565@sale.craigslist.org

 

I have no personal interest or stake in the eventual sale of this 1969 Buick Electra 225 sedan.

[Fossil]

The ultimate north American gas eating road boat. We owned a 1970 with the 455 V8. It actually would get 20mpg in on the road but in town you don't want to know. 

Still like them and this one would make a nice driver but after setting 35 years I'm thinking this could easily turn into a money pit. A real shame. 

 

[Brooklyn Beer]

What was the biggest car this year ? Caddy, Imperial or this ?

[EmTee]

Cadillac Fleetwood has the Electra beat by 3.5 inches... 

 

https://www.carfolio.com/cadillac-fleetwood-brougham-sedan-358699

 

[John_S_in_Penna]

11 hours ago, Brooklyn Beer said:

What was the biggest car this year ? Caddy, Imperial or this ?

 

Back when a car's perceived worth was measured by

its size, a Cadillac would have a longer wheelbase, and

greater length, than less expensive G. M. makes.

The Cadillac Fleetwood for 1969 was 228.5" long;

the Cadillac deVille 225"; the Buick Electra such as this, 224".

 

My reference book (the "Standard Catalog") doesn't list

the length of the 1969 Imperial, but the virtually identical 1970

was 230" long.

 

Cars would gain a few inches in the 1970's.

[John_S_in_Penna]

15 hours ago, Fossil said:

We owned a 1970 with the 455 V8. It actually would get 20 mpg in on the road but in town you don't want to know. 

 

Fossil, did your family ever measure the in-town gas mileage

of the Electra?

 

I had a 1973 Cadillac Eldorado convertible.  By then, emissions

regulations had cut into gas mileage.  Mine got only 6 m.p.g.

around town, and 10 on the highway, for a consistent average

of 8 m.p.g.!  That's terrible.  I read a 1973 review by Consumer Guide

and they received the same 8 m.p.g. average.

 

With my 1978 Lincoln Mark V, I have measured 14 m.p.g. on

the highway.  That's a notable 40% improvement over the 

Eldorado's 10!

[Fossil]

Hi John:

   It comes to me that it got in the 10 to 12 mpg if driven conservatively. 70 was the last year of the high compression engines so it had around 375 hp. Two of my friends had them also, same year and we all would get the same mileage.  If you started pushing them the gas mileage was terrible. 

On 8/30/2021 at 10:34 AM, John_S_in_Penna said:

I had a 1973 Cadillac Eldorado convertible.  By then, emissions

regulations had cut into gas mileage.

I had heard that the later ones got very poor mileage and were low on power.