Posted on 04/10/2017 11:47:12 AM PDT by rktman
That’s one version.
There are others..............
You apparently didn't spend any time at the track in the early 90s. Mild tunes were pushing them well into the 12s.
Probably, but look at the bright side. You propped up the auto restoration society for a few extra minutes.
My brother in law had ine if those, and 15k doesn’t go very far for serious parts.
A lot of limited edition cars were being touted as collector cars to hype sales back then, from the supposed “last American convertible” El Dorado of the seventies, through special edition VW Beetles (Epilogue), on and on. Somebody bought two of them, and drove them very little.
Every drive one or get beat on the street by one? In 1987, I was driving in my Ford sedan with police package V8 and suspension and stopped at a light. Next to me was a brand new Buick Grand National. It was drizzling and the road was damp. When the light turned green, I stomped the go pedal and the car launched perfectly since it had a limited slip and big Goodyear Eagles. That Grand National had me by ten cars in about three seconds. There are now collectible enough that a pristine very low mileage GNX will do mid hundreds at auction. As I recall, they were in the high 20’s to low 30’s when first introduced. The only 60’s muscle cars that would keep up (stock, that is) would be 427 Corvettes, 454 Chevelles, hemi Mopars and, of course, the few real 427 Cobras. The original Porsche 911 Turbos would only catch and pass it over 100 mph.
I was a terrified passenger in one, once. Scary fast is right but this oldtimer worked that engine over some, too.
Dodge Daytona and the 426 for me but I wouldn’t kick that BNX out of bed either
But that could have happened at any point from the time the car rolled off the Triumph line. That was one of my highly-desired cars of my youth and later came to the understanding that I dodged a bullet that my dream didn’t come true.
I’ve only seen CJ6’s in pictures and old TV shows.
My Willys jeep and CJ7 are always works in progress. The K5 is the same.
I don’t believe those are the true GNX’s. There is no numbers on the dash. I think there was a little over 500 GNX’S made. All numbered on the dash. So these are just Grand Nationals.
547 GNX’s made.
http://www.gnxregistry.org/About-the-GNX/Interior-Mods
“1987” and “muscle car” should never be used in the same sentence.
I had a 1986 Mustang GT 5.0.
My neighbor had a Grand National.
He pulled up behind me one afternoon on the drive home from work.
I punched it.
He punched it.
I was doing 115 when he went around me.
The Buick Grand National was no joke.
correct
it only applies to years 71 and earlier
and beloved by garage owners.
From my understanding from a person who owned one, a stock Grand National is almost unheard of. You buy that car to mod it.
My Triumph is my daily driver.....said no one ever.
LOL! Good stuff to have because things never work right once you let the smoke out.
I don’t remember seeing a ref to them being GNXs. Now THAT would have been a find. To some anyway.
Do those hand grenades still have the pins installed?
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