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1987 Buick GNX

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I have to admit I never saw the appeal of these. Sure the specs were good back in the day but plenty of modern cars are faster in a strait line and aren't completely hideous.
 
HAL9000 said:
OK let's compare it to this:

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Why?!

What's legendary about it, it's literally a box, it looks like someone has drawn it using only a ruler and a pencil.
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That car is beautiful, what does everyone have against straight lines? 80's supercars ftw.

That Buick... no...
 
again you have seen regular GNs or buick T-Types. The regular GNs aren't that rare. Use to see one of those driven by a little old lady at the grocery store fairly often.
 
Puddle Jumper said:
I have to admit I never saw the appeal of these. Sure the specs were good back in the day but plenty of modern cars are faster in a strait line and aren't completely hideous.
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Why would you compare it to today?

The appeal was in 1987.

You had to be there. Just the sound of it launching is fantastic. There was nothing like it at the time. Or even close.

It was literally, an "axe wielding barbarian" in black, on the roll.

It was like a grenade in your campfire.

It didn't handle that well, but not much else did at the time, really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDyj_gGtoAg
 
Someone just up the street from me owned one. I used to see it parked there for years. It disappeared recently and I are a sad panda. One of the great classic cars FTW.
 
Always lusted after that car like a supermodel.


Sometimes the stars align and a something special is created. This car was remarkable in its day and still is.

Styling was also underrated and actually works from street rod perspective.

Complaining about this car is like complaining about Dali because you have an underdeveloped aesthetic sense...
 
JulesMaximus said:
You'd have to be out of your f@cking mind to pay anywhere near that for this car.
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When you sell it for even more on 2-3 years, yeah, sure buddy.

I personally think the Buick is nice looking. It speaks to a different era. Ferraris are so boring looking lately. Or stupid, like the enzo.
 
most common GN mod? a GNX badge

not that GN'd and T-Types arent also awesome

friend had one that ran 11's so it was pretty tame and he didnt have that much in it
 
Always wanted one of the T-types or GN's, never had one though. 🙁 Had a buddy that had a few T-types back in the mid 90's though. Then I knew some twin brothers that had a pair of badass GN's in the late 90's that were far from stock, I always gawked at those. 😀

HAL9000 said:
I said "so would lots of cars" that don't require you suffering the hideous looks of this on.
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This is like the 3rd thread that you had to tell us about your hate for the GN now, over and over again. We get it. For us state side though, it was one of the quickest things around (there weren't too many F40's on the streets here, sorry) back in the late 80's, there's a bit of nostalgia there. Telling us you think it's ugly 5 times in every thread that pops up about em isn't serving any purpose.
 
Zargon said:
most common GN mod? a GNX badge

not that GN'd and T-Types arent also awesome

friend had one that ran 11's so it was pretty tame and he didnt have that much in it
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That's what I was going to say; I bet the vast majority of "GNX" sightings are really just GNs with a GNX badge.

I mean, how many of us have actually seen a real Civic or Integra Type R? How many "Type R" Civics even have a body style and color that match a USDM Type R configuration? As I understand it, there were only a few sold in the US, and only in a few colors, but every riced Civic since the early 90s has that badge.
 
HAL9000 said:
I said "so would lots of cars" that don't require you suffering the hideous looks of this on.
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Lots of cars could see nothing but it's rapidly disappearing tail lights in 1987. Very few cars could see anything else of it in a stoplight drag.

Saying it's hideous is meaningless. Looks are subjective. What you mean is that it's hideous to you.

It's boxy shape was common in the day. It did not look odd at all in 1987, save for the Darth Vader blackout treatment.

It looked menacing. It was menacing. It backed up the look.

If it showed up next to you in 1987, basically, you were already shut down.

By a V6 too, in the days when V8's ruled and anything else got no respect.
 
I wouldn't mind one... and I doubt that was a real GNX. I think they only made like 1000.

Seeing a Grand National in the snow is one thing. Shows you that the owner just enjoys the fuck out of his car (like I and many other people who drive their babies daily).

Seeing a GNX in the snow tells me the owner is an idiot.
 
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I could have bought one in 97 for 20-25k. I couldn't come up with that kind of money then.
Now I am kicking myself for at least trying to mug people in the park to make payments on it.
 
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