Joined a few days ago!! Bought my first GN yesterday

[bumpinregal]

Hey Guys just wanted to brag a bit New to the forum and Bought a 87 GN yesterday!!! My first Turbo Buick. Love the forum and the Car. look forward to getting tons of advise from you guys!!!!

 

[SGRIM]

Welcome and I hope you enjoy the car and the board!!!

 

[Boost231]

welcome. post some pics

 

[bostonjim]

welcome to the world of buick GN.lets see the pictures.where are you from?

 

[bumpinregal]

Thanks guys!!! I have the car in the booth today getting the roof and trunk painted. It sat in the sun for 4 1/2 years and turned white. I will post pics tomorrow. Its my first one a 87 WE2 oringal paint, 30lb injectors and a chip. I am from Osseo WI which is close to Eau Claire WI. If anyone is around here post up I would love to meet up with some other buick guys and cruise!

 

[Carr]

Welcome to the Buick community. What got you into buying a Grand National?

 

[bumpinregal]

Welcome to the Buick community. What got you into buying a Grand National?

Well when I was 15 I got a Camaro IROC-Z. I was working at my dads shop at the time. about a year later my dad went out on a Tow and came back with a 1985 buick regal. The thing had a blown motor and the guy payed my dad 50 bucks and gave him the car to tow it off the highway He was gonna scrap it but I made a deal with him he could have my IROC if he gave me the Regal and Helped me restore it. Well he agreed and We got started. This thing was junk... It needed quarters rockers doors. yeah we should have scraped it but I was in love. After the body work was done we painted it... of course black. But my dad wasnt a plain jane painter.. He threw some maroon pearl with some purple pearl over that. A little history on my dad. He is one hell of a body man and painter. I know people say that crap all the time but i really mean it. He can do some of the coolest stuff. anyway. The thing looked insane. I will try and post some pics. I changed all the interior to maroon and she was done. Other than the chevy 305 i installed in it. Well i got quite a bit of respect for that car in high school. One day a kid asked me if it was turbo charged? Ah well now dont judge for this but I didnt know about gn's or any turbo charged buicks for that matter. I did some research and fell in love all over agian. My goal was to have a gn someday. I worked at a local electronics store when I was 18 and had the joy of driving a customers gn once!! Boy o boy that didnt help my addiction at all. Over the years I owned several buicks and never a gn or any turbo buick. Due to buying a house when I was 18 and fixing it up on one income, and getting married at 23 and having two kids.. it was hard to afford much other than what we needed. I finally found a gn locally and I just so happened to have sold my 38 chevy the day before. It was the best car day of my life driving away in my dream ride.
So thats my story. Im a buick guy for life.

 

[Carr]

cool story, post some pics of your rides.

 

[bumpinregal]

Ill try and get some pics up tommorrow. I know I have pics of at least 3 of my regals. Maybe 4? Im off the old mans shop to do some painting. See ya
oh yeah as long as a have some attention is it normal to lose my power brakes every now and then. My boost gauge reads vacume but at random times they are hard to press? Thanks guys

 

[qwks6]

are they stock breaks or has somebody done a vac conversion? These cars didn't come with vacuum breaks. Sounds like you have the stock breaks and the accumulator ball is going bad. Very common, but very scary. Do a search on vacuum breaks conversion.

 

[bumpinregal]

Thanks for the info on the breaks I will look into it tomorrow!!

 

[DIAZ 87]

Thanks guys!!! I have the car in the booth today getting the roof and trunk painted. It sat in the sun for 4 1/2 years and turned white. I will post pics tomorrow. Its my first one a 87 WE2 oringal paint, 30lb injectors and a chip. I am from Osseo WI which is close to Eau Claire WI. If anyone is around here post up I would love to meet up with some other buick guys and cruise![/QUOT

Welcome,but we need pictures of the car.Glad to see that you are in the Midwest.Don't forget to check out the Midwest section Of this forum.Once a year for the past 4 years we had a Midwest Meet which plenty of guys around the midwest meet up.last year we had close to 70 gn/t-type's

 

[bumpinregal]

Pictures of my gn finally

Here are some shots right after we got done painting and buffing the backhalf.

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[bumpinregal]

I have no idea what im doing sorry about that if this doesnt work alittle help would be great hehe

 

[bumpinregal]

Ok one more try make fun of me if you like Im and Electrical Designer and I cant figure out how to post some pics..

 

[bumpinregal]

I did it man im slow

 

[bumpinregal]

pics of my old Regals

Here are some pics of my old regals. The Engine pic is a 350 hp 355 in the silver regal. The green one is a before shot of the black one. That is one in my story. Sorry i dont have better pics.