This is what I call "mechanicals exercised"
GN The twinz are going to auction again
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Those twinz are great icons, but with nothing used on them, there's probably some scary dry rot on those things in many places. Hell, they won't even wash them. That's probably doing far worse damage to the paint than getting a good coat of wax or sealer on them to protect the paint.
I guess people just want huge model cars to look at. Spend about 80 bucks and get one of those 1:18 scale metal models or something.
I guess people just want huge model cars to look at. Spend about 80 bucks and get one of those 1:18 scale metal models or something.
Supposedly the latest owner finally got them detailed. However, there’s still some plastic rot on some of the filler panels.
http://www.gm-efi.com/news/video-the-twin-grand-nationals-an-epilogue/
http://www.gm-efi.com/news/video-the-twin-grand-nationals-an-epilogue/
I think we can all agree the ideal outcome would be this-
The "no reserve" auction backfires on them and they end up selling super cheap to some redneck, who sells one of them to one of his idiot redneck relatives (who immediately wraps it around a telephone pole), thus permanently separating the twins, beats the balls off of the one he keeps, and eventually blows up the motor, begins to swap a SBC in it and never finishes, so the car sits on blocks half covered by a tarp for eternity.
Ahh, to dream...
The "no reserve" auction backfires on them and they end up selling super cheap to some redneck, who sells one of them to one of his idiot redneck relatives (who immediately wraps it around a telephone pole), thus permanently separating the twins, beats the balls off of the one he keeps, and eventually blows up the motor, begins to swap a SBC in it and never finishes, so the car sits on blocks half covered by a tarp for eternity.
Ahh, to dream...
I actually feel relieved to own a model that nobody particularly cares about, because they won’t yell “sacrilege!” when I drop an LS in it.
"Twinz?" Really?
No offense to anyone, but I was never impressed by the sequential VINs. This pair of cars only serves two purposes:
1. To prove you have enough money to burn to buy and store not one but two identical cars.
2. To prove that cars are, indeed, built on assembly lines.
They're a physical representation of excess and overblown reputation.
"They were faster than Corvettes, you know!"
"Buick embarrassed Chevy and you can't have thAaAaT!!"
'80S CORVETTES HAD SUBPAR ENGINES BUT THEY WERE STILL SPORTS CARS. GBODIES ARE PASSENGER CARS AND HANDLE ACCORDINGLY.
THE TURBO V6 HASN'T BEEN CUTTING EDGE IN OVER 30 YEARS!!!! GET REAL, PEOPLE!!!!
Okay; I feel better now.
No offense to anyone, but I was never impressed by the sequential VINs. This pair of cars only serves two purposes:
1. To prove you have enough money to burn to buy and store not one but two identical cars.
2. To prove that cars are, indeed, built on assembly lines.
They're a physical representation of excess and overblown reputation.
"They were faster than Corvettes, you know!"
"Buick embarrassed Chevy and you can't have thAaAaT!!"
'80S CORVETTES HAD SUBPAR ENGINES BUT THEY WERE STILL SPORTS CARS. GBODIES ARE PASSENGER CARS AND HANDLE ACCORDINGLY.
THE TURBO V6 HASN'T BEEN CUTTING EDGE IN OVER 30 YEARS!!!! GET REAL, PEOPLE!!!!
Okay; I feel better now.
This is just one aspect of the classic car following. You may not like it but there are more than enough people to support it or it wouldn't happen.
Perhaps. You make a good point, but there are some that simply live for this sort of thing. At least SOMEONE was wise enough to know that either the FIRST or LAST VIN cars, or back to back last model year run GN cars coming off the assembly line might be worth something someday. Could you imagine if these were Ford Pintos? They probably would have blown up years ago. Even so, nobody would care. I've never met a Ford Pinto lover.
GN's carry a mystique that lives on just like the 68-69 H/Os. They were built as a luxury type toy, and turns out they weren't all that and a bag of chips when compared to cars just a few years down the road newer. I mean, you could take a '70 W-30 auto and it would be effectively the same type of go equipment as a comparable 69 Hurst/Olds. GN's case was that there wasn't ANYTHING to really compare to in its class until around 10 years later. At the time, the GN was the sh it in G-body land. Today, the 4 cylinder turbos in the Camaros are pushing out 275 HP and 295 lb-ft of torque. That's more 30 HP than the GN and only 60 lb-ft of torque less. And that's with 2 less cylinders.
And believe it or not, there are people out there that have NO earthly idea what a GN is/was. If nothing else, this is a good history lesson for some. And G-bodies aren't forgotten completely.
This is simply a case of a different aspect of the car collector's saga. Someone thinks it's cool, someone else is willing to pay for that coolness feeling. I might have thought it was cool when I was much younger, but now it's not such a huge deal. Interesting? Yes. Something I'd pay a premium for? No. Unless they were the LAST two VINs of the G-body GN.
Closest I've ever even got to back to back VINs was when the wife and I used to have almost matching '02 Camaros we bought new. They were built about 37 days apart IIRC, hers in end of Feb '02 and mine the first week of April. Both Pewter with black hard tops. Hers was auto Z28, mine was manual with SLP SS option. It was a lot of fun taking the cars to car shows as a duo. I mean, what better way to share the car show experience? At the time it made sense. She wouldn't be wanting to drive mine all the time.
We're DINK: Double Income, No Kids......helps out a lot. Moneywise, anyway.
But if the wife isn't home, I have nobody to hand me that 1/2" wrench. Nor having to wonder why one of my good screwdrivers is sticking out of the middle of a fire ant mound. Stuff like that. So there are downsides. 🙂
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