” ‘71 Buick GS-455.”
We called this “The Sleeper”
It’s funny, when you think of “Buick”, you DON’T immediately think muscle car...
Then you remember the GS-455... and the ‘85 Grand National... and the Wildcat...
That’s the thing about that time period - every American auto manufacturer had a muscle car, even AMC with their Javelin and AMX. Those bitches had 360s and 390s tucked under the hood...
It really WAS “the good old days”.. never thought I’d hear myself say that, but it’s true.
I look at these shapeless, personality-vacant aero-Jap-blobs that are all over the road these days, and they just ...suck. Plain out, flat out suck.
You’d see a Hemi Roadrunner coming down the street, or a 70 Nova worked, and you KNEW what it was immediately, and the growl under the hood told you it wasn’t f***ing around; it would melt the tires off the ass end.
Oh, there’s a few beasts out there now - Roush Mustangs, Camaros, CHallengers, Chargers, etc... and they’re sharp, handle well, corner well, straight-out-of-the-hole monsters... ..But WHO the hell can afford one?
I’ve had a LOT of cars in my lifetime - most of which, back in the day, all cost less than a grand each.
Shame that good things have to go away....