Via YouTube/Auto Archeology
Perhaps the saddest car of the bunch is a 1970 Buick GS Stage 1 with a rusting shell that’s likely beyond saving. This legendary muscle car came about after GM lifted its previous ban on restricting non-Corvette engine displacement to 400 cubic inches or less. Seizing the opportunity, Buick immediately went to work stuffing a big-block 455 under the hood of a Gran Sport.
Reportedly offering 360 horsepower (with some publications of the day claiming more) and 510 lb-ft of torque, a Stage 1 GS regularly stomped just about everything else on the road. Of the 2,465 GS Stage 1 hardtops built in 1970, only 1,785 came with a three-speed automatic like the one in the video