Century Sport Coupe
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I haven't seen a sport coupe version lately (if ever :lol: ) but I did see a base model over the summer....
Damn, that brings back memories. In '82 I had a Corvette and needed a "driver". I bought a '78 Century Sport Coupe with buckets, power windows and locks with a 305. It had a bunch of neat pieces: Aluminum bumpers and deck lid, quick ratio steering, the big sway bars. The cam went bad around 48,000 miles, so I swapped in a 400 from a '75 Caprice. It surprised a few Mustangs over the years. Certainly not a popular model at the time, since the prevailing style of the time was the "formal look" with padded Landau tops and vertical grilles, which was why I bought it cheap.
I always thought that a well-designed wraparound rear spoiler would fix the clumsy area of the rear quarter and make the whole car look better. When we bought our first Sprint Car it had to go, since we needed a truck stout enough to pull the trailer. I bought it back years later as a rusted heap, kept the good parts and scrapped the rest. The sway bars are under my Camino and the 400 is on my engine stand. I don't know if it was the lightweight bumpers or maybe the straight, "no bends" rear sway bar, but I still think it cornered better than any other stock V-8 G-body I ever drove.
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I always thought that a well-designed wraparound rear spoiler would fix the clumsy area of the rear quarter and make the whole car look better. When we bought our first Sprint Car it had to go, since we needed a truck stout enough to pull the trailer. I bought it back years later as a rusted heap, kept the good parts and scrapped the rest. The sway bars are under my Camino and the 400 is on my engine stand. I don't know if it was the lightweight bumpers or maybe the straight, "no bends" rear sway bar, but I still think it cornered better than any other stock V-8 G-body I ever drove.
Bill
supercrackerbox said:
There was one. In 1980 Buick had a model designated "Turbo Coupe". I worked for a fairly large-volume Buick dealer at the time and we never sold a single unit. I only saw one on the road, a GM-issued company car.Considering it was an unpopular engine in an unpopular body, the production numbers were probably minuscule.
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