The engine is out, and we are gathering parts. Together, we are working to restore her 1972 VW Bus. My oldest daughter just hit 17 and just bought her first classic. It has been running great! It has a 455 engine, which surprisingly gets around 13-miles to the gallon on the highway! It is a gas hog around town though.Īlthough I will eventually prep it for a paint job, I have put most of my plans on hold for the moment. So far, I have given it a tune up, changed the fuel sending unit, and changed the battery cables. Combined, they cost me $275 with shipping. I found the driver-side exhaust manifold on Ebay, and the passenger side manifold on a classic car website. In fact, only 2,396 convertibles were made in 1972, a much lower production run than some of the more popular vehicles of that era. Centurion convertibles are not well known, and actually are a bit rare. I met him the next day, checked out the car, and handed him $5,000. He said the engine was loud because there was a hole in the exhaust manifold, and they don’t make replacements. I immediately contacted him to find out what was wrong with the car. Usually the cars are on the market place, so I was surprised to see it in a garage sale site. One night, I was on Facebook and one of the garage sale sites in my area had the Buick listed for sale. I had been looking for a classic car for about two years, without finding anything that fit my budget that didn’t need an entire rebuild. The Centurion is safety designed throughout.Here are some pictures of my 1972 Buick Centurion. The oil and amp gauges are unique in that they are not visible until there is danger. This allows for added leg room for the driver. The steering column is located on the centerline of the car and is connected with the wheel at the driver's position by a cantilever arm. The interior trim is a combination of red leather and fiber glass trimmed with bright metal.Ī unique steering column arrangement features a cantilever suspended steering wheel of the aircraft type.
For rear seat occupants, the front seat back when pushed manually forward, activates a switch which moves the front seat forward and out of the way for easy entrance.
#BUICK CENTURION DRIVER#
For easy entrance into the car, the front seat mechanism is automatically rocked back when the door is opened to allow the driver and the passenger to be seated in the car with the least possible difficulty. The four bucket seats of the Centurion are trimmed in red leather. The wheel discs incorporate air scoops for cooling of the brakes. Fresh air scoops are located in the front fenders. The grille and hood are a solid unit hinging at the front behind the grille and opening at the rear. The front and rear bumpers are an integral part of the shell design.
#BUICK CENTURION TV#
The rear end panel of the car houses a TV camera which in conjunction with a TV viewer on the instrument panel replaces the rear view mirror. When the lights are not in use, the bomb appears to be solid chrome due to thechrome appearance of the outer lenses. The stop and backup lights of the Centurion are located in a bomb in the rear center of the car. A 325-horsepower V8 engine powers the car. The tread is 60 inches both front and rear. The car is 73.5 inches wide, 53.7 inches high, 213.1 inches long and has a wheelbase of 118 inches. The aerodynamically designed Centurion is of fiber glass construction, with the upper body painted red and a brushed metallic finish on the lower portion, separated by a chrome sweepspear. The Centurion, a two-door four-passenger coupe is Buick's 1956 experimental car.
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