1967 was the third model year of the third generation Buick Electra, and it saw the car receive only a light styling update. The Electra's snout now sported a grille with a central dividing bar, echoing a theme more usually associated with Pontiac and Oldsmobile.
The big news for '67 was under the hood, where the previous year's increasingly archaic 425 cubic inch "Nailhead" V-8 (a nickname acquired due to the motor's valves having long stems relative to the size of the valve itself) replaced by an entirely new motor.
The new "Big Block" V-8 from Buick came in two sizes: a 400 cid version for the division's midsize Special and Skylark to comply with the corporate-imposed displacement limit on midsize cars, and a larger 430 cube version, with the same 3.9" stroke but a 0.15" larger bore, for the full-size Le Sabre, Wildcat, and Electra.
The 430 in the Arctic White '67 Electra 225 in the photo would have been rated at 360 SAE gross horsepower, with a 4-barrel Rochester carburetor, dual exhausts, and a 10.25:1 compression ratio demanding premium fuel. This was as much horsepower from the standard 430 as was produced by the exotic dual-quad variants of the old 425 Nailhead. The standard, and only, transmission was a column-shifted 3-speed Super Turbine automatic, which was Buick's house name for the GM corporate TH-400.
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