Back in 89 I used to hang out at a game room in Chicago. One of the guys who was a semi-regular bought a white Regal. I thought it was a pretty good lookin car. Then in 91, I had a 1970 Barracuda, and one of my neighbors from down the block drove by and saw me wrenching on it. He stopped and chatted me up for a bit then he looks at me and says, "you ever think you're gonna get something with some power in it?" Now, the Cuda had a Purple cammed383 Magnum, with a 727TF transmission headers & a six pak. I could make the guy on the next block pee his bed if I came home late. So, being young and having to defend my car I said, Oh yeah, that granny grocery getter gonna take a pure muscle car bub? He says he'll be right back. He drives off in a newer volvo wagon, and pulles up in what I think is a Black Regal. He tells me to get in and there is a $100.00 bill scotch taped to the dash in front of me. He tells me when he says go, if I can grab the bill, I can have it. NO DICE, he het the pedal, and i couldn't sit forward enough to get my hand on it. If you're guessing it was a GN, you got it. But I went to the track with him the next week-end and watched him put down a sub 10 on the quarter. The Cuda's best after three tries was 13 and some change. He swapped cars with me on the ride home. After seeing what it could do, and how well it drove, I wanted one ever since.
Now I drive a GP, and hope to build me a Turbo Buick after I finish the Goat. Thanks Steve, where ever you are.
