GN Another kind of Grand National Buick

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My first car was an 89 Shelby CSX with an open downpipe and FWDPerformance performance computer.

Most of the guys at my highschool had bolt on foxbodies and 3rd gen f bodies, from a slow roll I was always half a car ahead by the end of a race.
AWD DSMs would have half a car on me and a FWD could reel back up to me by the end. I loved that car, until I slid it down a hill on it's side.

My 86 Turbo Z Daytona was just open downpipe but I never really raced it against anything except a GSR swapped civic and I had a nose on him by the end.

My old CSX is about 40 miles from me and it still runs, been tempted to try to get it back.

I had one just like this. After embarrassing 5.0 Mustang guys (the ones who couldn’t drive a 5 speed for sh*t) , I was always slaying *ss in my little town cause there were none around and the girls thought it was sexy.

I’d buy one today and drive around to see if any of those wh*res, I mean Grandma’s are still interested in my stick.

We all thought the majority of K cars were lame junk. Unfortunately Mustang's were kings of hill for performance in high school. The F bodies looked so much better but because of the TBI option, weight and Lame cam TPI autos, they got the dog reputation. In the late 80's, very early 90's, late 60's and 70's Muscle Cars were still cheap. My BIL bought 69 Beaumont and 71 Chevelle, both for 2 grand, the Chevelle with a high performance 327 that would spank 5L Mustangs. You may say, then why do you love the Olds V8? He blew up that 327 in short order, the sbc has never impressed me. He tried for years to blow up our 75 Cutlass, it just kept going and even when the wrecker hauled it away, someone bought it and drove it another 5 years.

 

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Buick had to qualify this new body style for Nascar, hence why they #1. had to produce it #2. sell a few to the public. 117 built, 112 sold to the public. The 5 that were not sold were prototype turbo charged ones that had transmission failure, and with big brass having a deadline, that's as far as the project went, so only normally asperated 3.8 V6 engines were under the hood. 20 of the 112 built were actually ran at Nascar to initiate the new body style and then sold. Here is a picture of the one I own and is documented to have been one of the 20 ran at Nascar initiation lap.

 

[UNGN]

NASCAR seems to have been very lax on the whole homologation thing. You were supposed to make 500, or 1200 or 1500 of something, but it seems if they didn't sell, nobody ever did. Charger 500's? Nope. Charger Daytona's? Nope. Pontiac 2+2's? Maybe, but there are lots of questions if they actually did..

I'm sure Buick promised NASCAR they were going to make/sell more than 117 LeSabre GN's, but the NASCAR season doesn't line up with the model year, and if they didn't make 500, or 1,200 or 1,500, it wasn't like NASCAR was going to take the victories away.

 

[Anyone68]

I have an 82 cutlass

 

[1 RARE T]

I have a dog.

 

[81cutlass]

I stumbled upon this on the bookface

 

[88ss408]

So am I the only one who likes this car.

 

[fleming442]

All 3 of the last pics are better than an 80s-90s FWD Dodge supercar.

 

[olds307 and 403]

I have a dog.

I have more, I have four.

 

[olds307 and 403]

So am I the only one who likes this car.

Which one, it has gone down the rabbit hole this thread.