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1987 Buick Regal GNX

Josue Iglesias, 21, takes a peek inside the never-sold 1987 Buick Regal GNX that resides at Boulevard Buick in Signal Hill. (Mel Melcon, Los Angeles Times / October 13, 2010)

1 posted on 12/13/2010 1:06:32 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Fugly....


2 posted on 12/13/2010 1:09:51 PM PST by r9etb
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I never understood the attraction to this car.

6 cylinders? Turbocharged? How much HP could it be?


3 posted on 12/13/2010 1:11:07 PM PST by RexBeach
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O know a guy with a 69 Impala that has less than 2000 actual miles. He bought it right off the line when he worked for GM and immediately put it into storage as a future show car.

Since then its been driven in parades and cruise night type stuff.


9 posted on 12/13/2010 1:12:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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DRYROT....


15 posted on 12/13/2010 1:15:42 PM PST by databoss
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My brother owns one of these...


23 posted on 12/13/2010 1:22:19 PM PST by GraceG
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Sounds like Buick has borrowed the Hell on wheels name from the 2nd Armored Division. Patton was it’s commander at Ft. Benning, Ga., at which time he named it the Hell on Wheels division. It fought in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe. Called the “Benning to Berlin” division, because it was the first American division into Berlin.


25 posted on 12/13/2010 1:25:47 PM PST by sasportas
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This is not your great-aunt’s Buick!

IIRC, it was quicker in a straight line than the Corvette of that era was.


26 posted on 12/13/2010 1:30:43 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Attn. GOP: Deliver the goods, or we'll do to you what we did to the Dems!)
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Smokey Yunick was involved in those V6 Motors.


30 posted on 12/13/2010 1:33:07 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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Friend's dad had one... damn thing was choice. Rode in the thing once in the late 80s/early 90s. You mashed the gas pedal down that thing jolted and took off... like a power band on a 2-stroke dirt bike. If you weren't ready for it, you could easily drive off the road, out of control.

That dude's dad also had a Ferrari 308 and a DeLorian... The DeLorian was a P.O.S., but that flux capacitor thing was cool.

37 posted on 12/13/2010 1:38:34 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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So this car is the Aztec’s father?


39 posted on 12/13/2010 1:38:55 PM PST by pogo101
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30 GRAND seems a little steep. Especially for 1987. Maybe that is why they couldn’t sell it?

How much was a Corvette in 1987?


45 posted on 12/13/2010 1:41:31 PM PST by dhs12345
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I had a 1986 Monte Carlo SS small block, the twin of this car. T-tops, and an incredible chick magnet.

It was stolen, TWICE. After the last time it came back in bad shape, and I traded it.

Joy-riding car thieves LOVED this car.


49 posted on 12/13/2010 1:46:13 PM PST by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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68 posted on 12/13/2010 2:31:44 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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A friend’s dad had one of these. With an aftermarket chip in it the speedometer needle was a blur. The car was very very fast. The car was holding me deep in the seat at a buck 20. With another cog in the tranny it would topped 175 easy,all with stock hardware.


81 posted on 12/13/2010 2:47:15 PM PST by rsobin
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I knew a guy who had one of these. He was one of the worst drivers I ever met. He claimed something snapped in the drive train (rear axle?), and that caused the wreck, but I suspect it was his own inability to handle the power.


85 posted on 12/13/2010 2:57:37 PM PST by Fresh Wind
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Compare it to my h.s. friend Richard’s 1973 Buick GS with a 455 cubic inch monster under the hood. It made the earth shake just idling (musta had a hot cam) and it could pass anything but a gas station. Fortunately, it was only about 28 cents a gallon. But we were making a buck sixty flipping burgers...

This car is a metrosexual version of a muscle car.


91 posted on 12/13/2010 6:32:11 PM PST by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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My friend had one new back in the day, at the time it was crazy fast, the dash had a set of lights for the turbo,It was hard for me to believe it was only a 6 Cylinder, so much fun.....
95 posted on 12/13/2010 9:45:45 PM PST by cmsgop ( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
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