We've already peeped a 1970 Buick Electra Deuce and a Quarter, but it was a Burnished Saddle Iridescent ragtop, while this Sherwood Green Metallic example is a hardtop coupe.
As noted, 1970 marked the final year for the third generation of the Electra and the first year for the 455 cubic inch version of Buick's V-8.
That big motor would move the car with relative alacrity. Motor Trend tested a '72 Electra coupe, whose 455 made only 315 gross horsepower (250 net) due to having the compression ratio reduced to 8.5:1 so as to run on regular gas, and it still managed a 9.5 second zero-to-sixty and a 16.6 quarter at 86 mph. This 1970 would have had 370 hp motor with a 10.0:1 squeeze demanding premium leaded gas and been correspondingly a few ticks quicker.
This one was photographed with a Nikon D800 and 24-120mm f/4 VR zoom lens in November of 2021.
I was going to comment that in 1970 premium gas was fully-leaded "ethyl", but I did a little research and apparently Standard of Indiana had a form of premium unleaded dating back several decades. I first recall seeing premium unleaded around 1980 at a Shell station, but you must've already been familiar with it by then. Interesting!
ReplyDeleteBack in the early '90s a local-to-me gas station still sold leaded 89, although IIRC the pump was labeled "for agricultural use only" (or something like that).
Damn, thanks for catching that. I typed “unleaded” completely on autopilot. LOL
DeleteOf course it was meant for leaded gas in 1970. I’m just so used to saying “premiumunleaded” practically as a single word for the last forty years that my fingers betrayed me. 🤣