The LS is everywhere for sale. I can hardly find an Olds V8 for sale, they were everywhere a couple of years ago. Well, I could have got a low mile Olds 260 cheap, no thanks! Oddly enough there are a bunch of Buick 300 and 350's for sale, a direct 3.8 swap, never hardly saw them even back a few years ago. Most of the late 70's Buick, 80's
Lesabre were Olds powered and the 80's Regal were sbc up here. I hope that 4L60 turd trans holds up. My BIL had to rebuild his on his 95 Z28, big surprise. He also found out the oil pump pick up fell off his motor and why it had the LT1 "tick". Very nice car and yeah, comparing base motors of the 70's to 300+ V6 cars of today is a joke. Plus frail 3 speed trans that the 3.8 and 260 could kill to very strong, smooth 8 and 10 speed trans rated at 400 ft/lbs in the lowest models with deep first gears, tall OD and still better ratio and stronger rears make the base G bodies borderline undriveable in modern traffic.