Buick International

[GP403]

Good grief.

Just got back from getting a new battery from a certain big box store for the 4Runner. Thing ran fine yesterday. This afternoon... clicky clicky clicky.

Had to listen to the guy behind the counter go on and on about his "knowledge" of muscle cars, and most notably, his favorite.

The Buick International.

At first he just said "International" without the Buick and I'm rummaging thru my brain going "International didn't make anything remotely like that, I mean what the Scout? Surely not."

"Yeah you know, in the 80s they called it the 'Dark Knight' bc they didn't want to advertise how fast it was."

Oh, oh great.

"Yeah it was all black and the same kinda as the uh uh.. Monte Carlo yeah thats it. That one had a slope back and the International had a square back."

Sigh.

More of this fabricated Sinbad-esque diatribe continues but by that point I was tuning it out. Got to be my turn, I just feigned a smile and was like "sure, yeah." Got my battery and got the F out of there.

I mean, its one thing to not know your cars, pretty sure most people don't, but damn to just be so sure of your "knowledge" like this and just double down on throwing it out there.

What's the most messed up bit of car "knowledge" that's been shared with you... especially if it involves a g-body.

 

[pagrunt]

So it was one of these moments...

 

[WanaBa442]

Try bringing your Corvair to a car show sometime.....
" Ralph Nader banned those"
We had the four cylinder one......

Or my son getting gas with the Cutlass and was asked why he moved the filler to the rear😂

 

[Ernest]

Funny... i googled "buick international" just for the halibut, and low and behold, it actually showed the Buick Grand National.

 

[ssn696]

https://www.motor1.com/features/176834/general-motors-switzerland/

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Not G body, but with Crown Vics a lot of people believe the P71 Police models have special chips or engines they remove when retired, which isn't the case. The cop chip has become an in joke in Panther circles.

P71s have 11 more hp, but the engines are exactly identical to normal Crown Vics. The P71s just have bigger intakes, MAF, and a slightly hotter tune.

 

[doood]

Countless memes about big-box parts store employees, lol. It's fun to make fun. I have probably 10 vehicles in my ebay/amazon/autozone profiles just to get proper parts for things I've swapped out like brake pads (2000 GMC Jimmy RWD, 1976 Cadillac Seville), diff bearings (Grand International Buick /s), etc..

 

[69hurstolds]

Probably the worst case of "I'll show you just how light my knowledge of G-bodies really happens to be" is when people start spouting off with RPO production numbers, such as "this many G-bodies with T-tops/sun(moon)roofs were made"...or "only 6 were made with (whatever option code)". With absolutely nothing to back that up. While that information was somewhere in the bowels of GM, production numbers of cars with certain RPOs weren't generally broken down that far for public consumption. The only way Joe Blow would know for sure is to comb through all the build sheet records. One by one.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

One I heard a few times on other forums is: "I race muh G body with uh 500 hp motor on original 40 year old body mounts an no bracin."

 

[jcelk]

years ago i was working on a 71 cuda a guy asked if it was a 68 camaro i said yes, it was then he told me storys about his buddys camaro i didn;t have the heart to correct him