In the summer of my rising college senior year, I didn’t have a job. So my brother-in-law hired me to help clean up a barn. His father had bought some millwork and other interesting interior features from a historic home that had been demolished that he planned to put in an old home of his. He stored it in his barn and the roof developed a leak. We worked for a couple of weeks getting that barn cleaned and had to throw a lot of nice things away that had been damaged. That is pretty much what has happened here, but far worse than what I encountered. In this collapsed garage is a 1974 Buick Electra 225 2 door hardtop for sale here on Craigslist in Simpsonville, South Carolina.

This is really a case of a car being listed before it really should have. As you’ve heard the saying, that guy’s got bigger fish to fry. Well, maybe the guy is looking for someone to clean up this mess because he says you remove from the garage. He might have to give it to me before I would do that. He would like to have it removed by mid-January, or sooner if possible.

The garage roof slowly rotted away and the trusses eased down to rest on the roof of the car. The seller sees no damage to the car. The Buick has been in the garage for about 30 years. As we often hear, it was running when parked in the garage (actually he says the engine was skipping, so it wasn’t running well).

This Electra 225 has a 455 cubic inch 4 barrel engine, Turbo Hydra-Matic 400 transmission, and Buick road wheels, and the seller says “body perfect”. This car was bought brand new by the seller’s father. No word of how many miles are on the car, and as you can tell, no really good pictures of the car, its interior or engine. It’s a shame too because this is one of my favorite Buicks of the seventies. The seller is asking $2,500 or will consider any reasonable offer. Do you consider this a premature listing? So who’s up for a little work to get a Buick? Make sure your tetanus shot is up to date before going.