Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 11:09 AM
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 11:17 AM
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Wow that's cool how untouched it is. Strange how someone would buy a car like that and then not drive it.
Cool cars were pretty slim pickings in the 80s, but that was one of the few for sure...
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 11:20 AM
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Since people thought they were going to be the last muscle car ever the majority of Grand Nationals and GNXs are low mileage "time capsules". I remember working auto parts with a Buick fanboy and he told me he didn't feel they'd ever gain value because there were so many low mileage ones stored away.
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 12:47 PM
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I bet there are more than a few parked under car covers in garages next to '78 Corvette Pace Cars! That's another car where there seems to be no end to the number that turn up with low miles, or in some cases almost no miles, because someone bought it to store away new as an "investment". Time capsule-type GNX's have done very well price-wise, unlike the 78 pace car, the "last" convertible El Dorado, etc.
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 01:35 PM
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Can’t be to many low mileage survivors around. There were a ton of those cars back in the “ mustang vs grand national” days.
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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He must of pooched it on launch as actually they were harder to beat with our older stuff in the 1/8 then the 1/4. His time you posted was about .5 off most any decent run. I bought my first 86 after a friend who worked at the buick prep shop would come by and we would beat on the new 85-s that were ok. He came by with a new 86 and told me to get my 340 cuda out and it ran semi well and even from a 40-50 roll the gn would spin and hook, so I went and bought one. My 86 5.0 lx would run close but after a ford motorsport lower gear t5 and 3:70 rear gears id run dead even with the gn-s. Of course the weekend 12 second cars that were the norm then would get the gn-s but really they were few of them and alot of clapped out late 60-s early 70-s muscle cars and alot of mis matched cam/gears/vert cars and the buicks would take big advantage of that, as would the 5 speed stangs and 5 speed 85/86 vettes. We would at times put over 200 miles a night just out playing, cruising,racing in a group of about 50 of us hanging out in the jiffy lube parking lots. My car payments were 3x my house payments in the mid 80-s. But it was fun. I remember the last time I raced my 69 383 GTS I had the GN out of the hole by a bunch, then in the traps I heard this "wooshing" noise and that black streak flying by me. I ran a 14.91 and he a 13.96. Made up a whole second in the traps!
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 02:40 PM
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One GNX was traded in during Cash for Clunkers, if I remember correctly. that would have been a crazy move on the individual and the dealership to run it under cash for clunkers.. but the dealership could have just done a regualar trade in and give them the 3500-4500 the customer was expecting, and the dealership could turn around and sold it for major profit.
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 03:10 PM
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It was on the list of cars turned in as a 1987 Buick ASC, I believe. McClaren/ASC was involved with the GNX. I used to have the list of cars that were turned in, but have lost it over the years.
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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05/23/18 03:39 PM
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One GNX was traded in during Cash for Clunkers, if I remember correctly. that would have been a crazy move on the individual and the dealership to run it under cash for clunkers.. but the dealership could have just done a regualar trade in and give them the 3500-4500 the customer was expecting, and the dealership could turn around and sold it for major profit. Not to go off topic, but I THINK there was strict rules that threatened severe penalties for any dealership that didn't follow through with the insane C4C---not that it didn't happen and it was probably near impossible to catch a dealer doing it. Good god C4C was one of the dumbest acts in modern times.
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Re: Buick Grand National Time Capsule
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Time capsule-type GNX's have done very well price-wise, unlike the 78 pace car, the "last" convertible El Dorado, etc.
Agreed, and although some have brought some money due to the nostalgic factor, IMHO, they are still ugly 80s cars with hideously dated interiors. They may have been the best of the eighties but that is not saying much
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