When did you fall in love with a Turbo Buick

[Anarchy]

well for me it was the year of 1993 my dad had one. a 1987 grand national t top. to me it wasn't much but a big black car. as time went by i saw my dad hurt a lot of mustangs and so forth.. then came my 17th birthday and i had to take my road test. and i got to drive dads grand national... i can never for get the dmv guy get in the car and look at me and tell me '' well son can you handle this car '' i told oh yea i can. and 10 min later i was a licensed driver. well times got hard for dad and he sold it... but i knew i had fallen in love with that car.. im now 32 yrs old and finally got one of my own. not a 87 but a 85 grand national... and i am in love once more... yea it needs a lil bit of work to get her running again I.G. needs a new turbo seal... dads long gone now but i know hes up above smiling cuz i got a TB. and thats how i fell love with the grand national... just thought i hear how ppl on TB fell in love with a Tb..

 

[MG8T7GN]

Feb 87, I'm at Phila airport waiting for my flight to Daytona. I was in the mood to buy a new car and at the time it was a MCSS fastback. I bought the Popular Mechanics issue with the GNX vs Callaway Corvette. After reading the article of the GNX spanking the Callaway, my mind was made up. Went looking to buy a GNX, but they all were way out of my price range. The local dealers were selling their GNX's to the highset bidders. Similar to today's prices for low mileage cars. I ordered a GN and it arrived in May 87. Still have ithem. Both the magazine and the car.

 

[t-typinator]

Feb 87, I'm at Phila airport waiting for my flight to Daytona. I was in the mood to buy a new car and at the time it was a MCSS fastback. I bought the Popular Mechanics issue with the GNX vs Callaway Corvette. After reading the article of the GNX spanking the Callaway, my mind was made up. Went looking to buy a GNX, but they all were way out of my price range. The local dealers were selling their GNX's to the highset bidders. Similar to today's prices for low mileage cars. I ordered a GN and it arrived in May 87. Still have ithem. Both the magazine and the car.

I have that magazine ,i was checking it out a couple weeks ago.
Maybe that is what made me buy mine in 87 too ,i don't remember.

 

[mongo]

1987 I was a senior in High School. We were out racing one night and this guy pulls up in the black car with a 6. No way he'll hang with any of these V8 cars. He proceeded to outrun a Mustang, Camero, and a brand new Corvette. One right after the other. I realized at that moment that I wanted one. It took me 23 years but I finally got it. My wife is still pissed, but I really don't care. She will never understand. And yeah its old, but like myself, it still gets the job done.

 

[1fast6]

summer of 1979. I was 9 yrs old and my dad bought a 79 sport coupe. was pretty quick for it's time.
I loved watching the boost light go from green to yellow to red. I ended up with the car when I
was 17. My brother and I did an olds 455 swap with it then I totaled it shortly after.

 

[K Beauchamp]

Spring of 1986, when I saw a high school senior (class mate) destroy, a new IROC and then a 5.0 mustang with his 1986 black T-type column shift. I've had two since then, one 1986 GN from 2002-2004 and my current 86 t barn find for a year now.

 

[Turbo Loyd]

In early 1988 I watched a 86 or 87 GN streak by as leaving one of our many toll booths here in the Chicago area. Was a gear head in high school, but later poverty while in College and then the Army forced me to drive economy boxes.

The black streak brought back the memories then the need for speed, so purchased my 1986 GN in September 1989. Very additive hobby with the GN a great ride for the past 22 years.

 

[1fast6]

I have that magazine ,i was checking it out a couple weeks ago.
Maybe that is what made me buy mine in 87 too ,i don't remember.

here is the video taken from that day at Milan.... poor corvette:biggrin:
YouTube - GNX vs C4

 

[t-typinator]

here is the video taken from that day at Milan.... poor corvette:biggrin:
YouTube - GNX vs C4

Hmm! didn't realize they had high def video back then.


Read the 5th comment down from the top on that video,it made me laugh.

 

[Dash65]

In the mid-80's I had read about the GNs in various magazines but didn't really see many of them around on the streets where I lived in So. IL.
I stopped over to see my mom one day in 1987 and she said she was thinking about buying another car. She was driving a T-Bird at the time. I asked "what kind". She said a Buick. I yawned.
Being a good son, I faked interest, assuming she was going to say "Skylark"...instead, she said "Grand National".
I said, "when are we going for a test drive?"
On the test drive, I warned her against punching it from a dead-stop as I had no idea what it would do. She gagged it from about 35 mph and run it up to about 100. We were back in the dealership minutes later and she bought it right then.
I fell in love with it, then and there. Mom had it until last May and gave it to me.
The 2 pictures are the day I picked it up in So. IL
and after a fairly extensive resto.

 

[Red C5]

When I saw Chris Chow's making some passes

 

[GNICETRY]

I had always wanted a regal or similar Gbody with T-Tops. That was what everyone drove back in the late 80's/early 90's. That was my dream car. I also like black out trim on cars. So when I finally saw a GN I fell in love. And to boot it had special interior and was fast as balls. It also made a different sound which I liked. They were so hot back in Queens back in the day.
My best memory is on Francis Lewis Blvd. I saw a GN that had a cemetery on the rear trunk panel with the tombstones of the other car brands. That memory is etched in stone. I think I saw that same car on Ebay some years ago.

 

[NyBlankets]

It was a street race that I witnessed that sealed my fate with the GN. A car named Out for Justice and a white SC Mustang ran one night on the streets of NYC in 1992 (150st). It was an epic battle, I mean the Mustang was pure Charles Mansion high on acid wielding a machete in a crowd of nuns. The Buick was quite during the burnout and seemed out of place racing the loud obnoxious Mustang.

They lined em up and I remember how tense the situation was, a few thousand $$$ on the line. They kept toying with each other, one would leave before the starters hands came down, then the other. This went on for a good 10 minutes....then finally the last line up and everyone knew this was it. The starters arms came down and the Mustang pulls a wheels up launch, the Buick spun for about 60 feet as it violently went left then right trying to gain traction but it was a losing battle the car went right then left after it shifted second, could he catch the Mustang that had at least 5 cars on the GN? FKN A he did, he ran that Mustang down and refused to let off the throttle nearly killing everyone in his way...that was an epic race and will forever be in my memories.

 

[troGNman]

1982.

I wanted a Regal Sport Coupe so bad!!! It took me another 4 years to finally get my Turbo car but it was definately worth the wait.

 

[GNgift]

I was a kid just a few years out of high school, I saw the ad's for these cars as they were talking about it's final production year of 87, I dreamed of these Black UFO's. Then later in life a friend bought an 86-T and man we had so much fun in that car racing anything on wheels. we won allot and lost a few, From that time a Black car was always near the top of my list. I knew I could never afford one. I was just a tow truck driver after all and these things were worth their weight in gold. Turns out I didn't need to buy one. Mine was given to me by a customer who bought it new July 22nd of 1987. I guess he thought I was a good guy and needed to return his 18,000 mile GN to its former glory. I did and look at me now. wooooohooo dreams do come true.

 

[2QUICK2B6]

some time in 02 after i did some bolton's to my camaro and a drag gn waxed me another 1 lol . I was on the phone the next day with procharger the lady was talkin like 6,500 for the kit i wanted an was going to have to get the carank keyed an everything on my low mileage car ... I told her ty but no ty ... an saved up for about 2 yrs an bought a bone stock 87 GN hardtop cash money ... best thing ive ever done. My dad liked it so much 7 days later he bout a 12k mile astroroof 87gn ... now he has a 87 gn an turbo T an i have 2 TTA's an a 87 GN

 

[paulg]

I fell in love with a die cast GNX in 2007, little did I know the real thing was 100X more beautiful. I had just bought my first car (86" El Camino 383 stroker) at the time. After seeing the die cast GNX my buddy had in his room i began reading up on Turbo Buicks and began to hate my 383 stroker. Sold the Elco and saved for a TR. Finally bought my first 87" GN 3 years ago at age 19 and just bought my second 87" T last December. And after my buddy with the diecast created my Buick obsession I found a 87" GN for him too last year. He's loving it as well.

 

[longball]

i was going to the lake to spend the day on my boat. there was a 87 grand national parked near it. I had never seen or heard of one before but........it was love at first sight. I went right out and bought one. still have it.........

 

["Turbo-T"]

G bodies were common for us kids to drive in high school in the 90's. Fast forward 10 + years later I decide on the spur of the moment to buy one, knowing it was slow as hell. Had plans to V8 it. Then I started reading on the turbo cars and being a V8 guy decided to try one instead of building another V8. Found one f/s and it's the one I have now. It wasn't quite all that fast when I bought it but some minor mods to allow a 9 lb increase of boost changed all that.

 

[TR87386]

Got into racing in high school, always loved the g-body. Really wanted an 78-81 malibu to hot rod. Got out of school and joined the Air Force and during my schooling for my career field I was staitioned at Aberdien Proving Grounds in MD. As it turned out one of my buds at school had a Stang with a few mods to it. At this time I knew nothing about street racing. Well surprisingly the delware area had some good street racing going on. My bud ran into a 87 t white with blacked out trim. Man we got smoked in the stang by it. Caught up with the guy later in a lot as he was swaping out radials for slicks for a real race. I begged my buddy to hang around and watch. He was running a big block chevelle that was nasty.(At least I thought it was:biggrin the T beat him pritty good. I could not belive it. As I learned more about them I wanted one more and more. A few weeks after that first race I saw the guy with the T again. He was a really cool guy and offered to take me for a spin. That was it, had to have one! I blabbed my plans to get one to my best friend who was not impressed with the V6 thing so I told him just test drive one. He did and had an 87 T in white that week! Man I was Pissed he beat me to the punch. Got the GN in may 95 and love it to this day.