Had a guy try to convince me he was selling GNX number 47 out of 50 one day. It had a dealer installed 5 speed manual from an F body. He had refined the story pretty well with SOME accurate info. I acted pretty serious about buying it and wanted to go see it (because you never really know what some people have rotting in their garages) but he got defensive and said it was not cleaned up enough yet and blahblahblah. Then he moved on to talk about the rest of his "collection". You could tell he was full of $#!+ but he did have some TR knowledge.
I get a kick out of the people who act like the GN is the pinnacle of automotive engineering and the holy grail of collector cars. I was leaving a venue on the power tour this year, and out of this group of guys on the corner a guy spins arouns and yells "WHOOOO THAT'S A GRRAAAAAAAAAND NATIONAL! THAT'S THE BADDEST MOTHER****ING CAR HERE!" As if the high end cars in front of the sponsor tents and the other 2000 cars were all crap compared to my car. At a small local show I idled by a group of lawn chair spectators and one of them stares it down and finally says "Oh wow that's a real one". I didn't know we had a bunch of GN clones running around this area but apparently we do. I suppose it's better than the monte comments though.
I get a kick out of the people who act like the GN is the pinnacle of automotive engineering and the holy grail of collector cars. I was leaving a venue on the power tour this year, and out of this group of guys on the corner a guy spins arouns and yells "WHOOOO THAT'S A GRRAAAAAAAAAND NATIONAL! THAT'S THE BADDEST MOTHER****ING CAR HERE!" As if the high end cars in front of the sponsor tents and the other 2000 cars were all crap compared to my car. At a small local show I idled by a group of lawn chair spectators and one of them stares it down and finally says "Oh wow that's a real one". I didn't know we had a bunch of GN clones running around this area but apparently we do. I suppose it's better than the monte comments though.