Buick Grand National Experimental Review // The Demon Of The ‘80s - YouTube
I had a poster of this on my wall as a kid, I wanted one so bad. Seeing it here makes me want one again.
But at original MSRP, not the $250k they said they go for now.....
These were impressive for the time, coming from GM.
But you could also turbo certain Japanese engines and mop the floor with them.
Nothing competes with the 2JZ in the 90s. Few things do today.
No, but their new-found rarity and demand has pushed people to explore other engines. There's many other options around now that are good enough. It's not even just K-swaps and LS swaps. There's enough info out there to build half the stock motors to something good enough. The Ford/Mazda Duratec series comes to mind
Yeah, you could turbo, tune, and mod to fit all the parts back then, or just go sign some papers at a dealer, and hopefully, the dealer was kind enough to include a roll of tp to go with it.
I had a buddy that I went to college with, was paraplegic and got a big payout from insurance, and so he bought one of these, got it fitted with hand controls, and we'd roar around the city in it.
I remember jumping one of those old rail bridges that went up at an angle, flattened out and then down at a steep angle on the other side, probably doing 120 km/h on a gravel road. I had to give him a hand welding the front spring towers back in the next day.