Driving a 1964 4-speed Wildcat 

Yep - Muncie 4 speed. Love it

Buick sold their B bodies with optional 4 speeds in 1964 and 1965 only (LeSabre and Wildcat)

Dynaflo is not related to powerglide what so ever

What makes the wildcat an oddball??

nice car

nice car

My '64 was like yours with the 4-speed. (Fawn-colored) I only saw one other with a 4-speed. A red 1963 convertible. Mine was built just 25 miles away in Flint. I purchased mine in July '66 from a WWII veteran. He said he liked it because it reminded him of flying his bomber during the war!

Fried or mashed.?

Be goode for me to see,as I owned that very car. The vinyl seats were colder'n hell in winter. My 445 dropped oil pressure at low idle, so i located and transplanted a 465 out of a wrecked '66 Riviera. The thing would smoke tires with a standing 2nd gear stomp.

The whine can indicate a lot of things about a pilot bearing and/or input shaft bearings; not to mention high mileage wear on gears, etc.

Only 64 and 65 Wildcat offered this trans, and you could get the 64 and 65 LeSabre with the 300 and a 4 speed

I had a '63 445 Wildcat with the DUAL PATH TURBINE, 2 speed trans, (incorrectly identified as a Dynaflow but had the same basic housing). This was an experimental transmission made only in '61, '62, and '63. If you want to know more about this transmission, look for it in the Motor's transmission service manual from the era. You'll only find a few pages on it. It was also known as the switch-pitch turbine. By 1963 Buick had perfected it, as there were subtle differences between it, and the two previous years of production. To this day, it was the most impressive car I ever owned, and I only wish I could go back in time to buy one new off the showroom floor. I simply cannot list all the reasons, but fuel economy and power delivery were incredible for the day, not to mention, unless I did it manually, it never shifted a gear! I will never forget the day I put old school, bias ply, 60 series racing tires on the back and dropped it into low&go! That was the first time I'd ever been in a passenger car that nearly lifted the front wheels off the ground, every time, it actually might have, don't really know for sure. The thing that really set the cat off, is that I figured out how to shift the thing once it maxed out the rpm's at 60, took a couple tries. There is a very special technique, and once I figured it out, the car would slam into second and take off like a rocket to it's top speed... I only wish I could have taken it to the track to get an elapsed quarter mile. All I know is, there were a lot of Mustangs, Camaros, and even a few Corvettes, that ate my dust, and forget about the rice burners... Those were the days... 😘

@@FirebirdCamaro1220 They abandoned it because the horsepower was murder on trans input shaft bearings.

I've had good luck out of the pertronix conversion kit in my 68 cat with the 430 BBB. It made the ignition hotter than with points. I'd recommend one.

It sounds like a symphony orchestra to me.

I was pretty sure the 63 was Auto only, and only the 64 and 65 B bodies could get the 4 speed (LeSabre and Wildcat), LeSabre with the 300 small block and Wildcat with the 401 and 425 nailheads

oh yes, still have it. i'll make a new one here soon. I drive it quite often, in fact.

with those big block Buicks not melting the tires is the trick. they will burn the tires through all four gears and will not stop until you lift off.

Except it's a Super T-10 Borg/Warner.

M20L35 "T-10" I believe, supers didn't arrive til later

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Came back to this video 8 years later lol, owned 4 different cars since, all sticks (14 mustang v6, 14 mustang gt, 16 scion tc and now a 15 civic Si). How time flies

No, this is the factory, original, unaltered T-10, complete with VIN stamped on the top. I have four of these, and they all whine just like this.

I built one out of a Riviera ! They are old school popular !

@@4speedBuick That shifter, is awesome never seen one shift like that. What did Buick call it? Thx.

No official name that I know of. Us Buick 4-speed guys call it the boomerang shifter.

This is factory, you could get the Wildcat and LeSabre with a factory 4 Speed in 64 and 65 only

About 122 MPH (redline) with this 3.42 axle ratio. Cars in with less aggressive axle ratios (on the order of 3:1) could just top 130 MPH on long stretches. I know because my dad did it.

@@peteshea8010 Thank you! :)

Of course. Just drove it this past weekend, in fact.

These had power steering and brakes.

I'm really surprised that even in 1964 a buick of this size does not have power steering. The Wildcat was almost the size of a Electra . I would sure hate to park this car

I'm sure it was an option, but it was all ala carte you ordered it if you wanted it then. My pops had a 63 LeSabre that had the power steering, but it was way over assisted and didn't have a very good road feel, but that wasn't uncommon for that era either...

my older brothers both had 64 Buicks, both convertibles one was a LeSabre and had power steering,and the other had a Skylark and it didn't I know what you mean about the ala carte, everything was a option then there were no packages like today

Marshall L Smith Search '4 Speed Wildcat' theres two more videos of the car.