85 Buick Lesabre Custom

[85 Lesabre coupe]

85 Buick Lesabre.  Olds 307 V8.  37,800 miles. Runs fantastic. Car never had rust or body work but was painted. It is kept in a climate controlled garage. Car has been kept as close to original as possible. We did add a pinstripe that was hand painted under the clear. Pinstripe not factory but looks real sharp. Thought I would share it. Thank you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 

 

Edited January 22, 2023 by 85 Lesabre coupe
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[EmTee]

There's a similar Delta 88 available over in the "Not Mine Autos for Sale" topic: https://forums.aaca.org/topic/390889-1983-oldsmobile-delta-88-2-door-11000-obo-24000-miles/#comment-2478165

[Paul Dobbin]

Interesting thread, but all the links only brought up 1/4" pictures.

[zepher]

Very clean looking car.

The side profile shot really shows how big the deck lid is.

Must have a ton of room in that trunk.

[Ozstatman]

6 hours ago, Paul Dobbin said:

Interesting thread, but all the links only brought up 1/4" pictures.

Scroll way down to see the BIG pictures.

[Pfeil]

Very nice looking and nicely preserved car. Hope it has the 307 V-8 Oldsmobile engine.

[Paul Dobbin]

3 hours ago, Ozstatman said:

Scroll way down to see the BIG pictures.

   All I got from each of the links was a black screen with a 1/4" picture.  Scroolling got nothing better.

   While doing my 35 Buick, I wanted to stay with a Buick driveline, but I needed AT, PS, PB, A/C, leather, power windows and     

   locks.   I didn't was a drag racer, just a comfortable luxury ride.  I had a client with a Taxi Company who bought these old       

   Buicks because they were good for 500,000 miles, which appealed to me.

   I bought a 1983 Buick LeSabre with 63 K miles that was T-Boned hard in the front passenger door.   That was 1996 and it was

   only 13 years old.   I used the engine, transmission, steering column and some small parts.   I scrapped the throttel body Fuel     Injection and put a 1977 Buick intake a Quadrajet on instead.

   Finished in 1999 with 1985 Buick Regal SW trailing arm coil spring rear end..   It's been a delightful car to drive for 23 years!   

   Only non-Buick component was the 1978 Mustang II V8 rack & pinion front end with the Buick Disc's & Calipers.    Only gets

   about 15 MPG while my friend's 1984 Buick LeSabre gets 29-30, maybe I should have kept the throttel body.   

   

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[85 Lesabre coupe]

Hopefully you can see these. Yes. Olds 

307 in this car.  Bulletproof!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 21, 2023 by 85 Lesabre coupe (see edit history)

[Pfeil]

Most of these cars I see have the vinyl roof option. Your car looks sooooo much better without it!! Well Done!

[TAKerry]

Particularly attractive automobile. Looks like the same colours as my 79 Tenth Anniv Trans Am. Dad had Olds and my uncle drove Buicks. I was always partial to the olds counter part but this car is nice. Def. dont see many 2 door versions.

[rocketraider]

That was when GM would slap a vinyl roof on anything, whether or not it complemented the car's styling. This one shows what the stylists intended. Nice.

 

I'll allow that GM built its share of utter garbage in this era, but the 77-85 B and C cars were good cars. Underpowered for sure, but the four I've had were all dead reliable and one 307-powered Pontiac Safari would routinely deliver 24 mpg. Really hated when that uninsured Eagle Talon ran a red light and t-boned that wagon hard enough to bend its rear axle. The 5 years and 90k miles I drove it, it simply never needed anything other than routine maintenance.

[Bryan G]

Very sharp! I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a 2dr LeSabre that late. That thing is all trunk! From my experience, these big Buicks represented the best of what the big three were cranking out in that decade as far as quality.

[EmTee]

And these GM B-bodies still looked svelte as compared with the 1976 models they replaced.  It's interesting how the '77 down-sizing brought back sharp body lines and crisp corners, while the '80s smoothed everything and evolved to the 'aero-jellybean' look.  Today, sharper/crisper styling seems to be coming back.

 

 

[Larry Schramm]

I had a bunch of them as company cars in the early 80's.  Good road cruisers, but they were big.

[ayilar]

I owned a Light Brown metallic 1984 LeSabre 2dr Limited with the 307 -- see my avatar for a photo of the brown interior. Wonderful car, perfect cruiser for driving 3-4 hours across the state. Sold it when my needs changed, the buyer repainted it white (who knows why) and then totaled it a month after buying it.