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A GN for a j30???? Wtf was that person thinking that is one of the ugliest cars built!


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Bad for him good for me! :D At the time I was looking for a 67GS, I just happened to run across the GN in the paper and decided to take a look. Still own the GN of course and never got my 67GS.
 
We were visiting my wife's family out in NW Iowa back in 1998 and I always check the want ads. Sioux City Journal had "1987 T-Type Regal for sale" was all it said, no price. I show my wife and she says NOOOOO more cars. It was a pawn shop in South Sioux City, Nebraska and the guy says he is asking $5K. I say for that price we have to go look even though it is 60 miles south. The car is in the back of a steel building with 1'' of dust on it and four flat original Goodyear tires. He says no one has looked at it for over a year and I'm the first bite in months, obviously not a car salesman. So he hoses it off and the car is gorgeous gun metal grey, perfect paint and trim, not a spot of corrosion, perfect rims. This was never driven in mid-west winters. I open the door and the interior is perfect. The door sills are absolutely shiny and the original floor mats look like no one ever put a heel on it under the gas pedal, the leather wrapped grey wheel is perfect too and the interior plastic chrome is bright. My wife whispers to me, "we have to buy this car"! I almost fainted as she never says buy it. I had my OTC 4000, hook it up, start it up and the muffler is completely rotten on the bottom from him starting it and the water building up but it runs perfect. It has 23K miles and I know that has to be accurate. So I pop the hood and it is just like new under there too and completely stock but the AC has no freon oh well. Still scrutinizing and mumbling to myself about the muffler and AC so the guy says look I have to sell this thing how about $4500? I would have gladly paid the $5000 but say OK with my wife nodding approval. I ask him if we can fill the tires and take it for a drive. He begins moving stuff and I fill the tires with a small pump he brings me. The car runs perfect and the trans shift so tight I could not believe it (I've never driven a new one or one with this low miles so it was a surprise). Brought the car to Florida and promptly sold it to the first guy to look at it for $15K and bought my white T for $10K from a friend and sold my beat 87 Designer T for $6K (exactly what I paid for it one year earlier).

Mikey
Sounds like a very solid deal. Right place right time right buyer



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Yeah, well........I had a "knowledgeable" buddy come to me a few years ago telling me that there's an '87 Grand National for sale in a used car lot for $2,500! He said it was in perfect condition........of course, I couldn't resist this, drove the 50 miles to the car lot and there it was! $2,500 sign on the windshield, Grand National emblems on the side, perfect condition...............a black Yugo!

Don't ask where I buried this "knowledgeable" buddy. Don't want to serve time.:mad:

Bruce '87 Grand National
 
Yeah, well........I had a "knowledgeable" buddy come to me a few years ago telling me that there's an '87 Grand National for sale in a used car lot for $2,500! He said it was in perfect condition........of course, I couldn't resist this, drove the 50 miles to the car lot and there it was! $2,500 sign on the windshield, Grand National emblems on the side, perfect condition...............a black Yugo!

Don't ask where I buried this "knowledgeable" buddy. Don't want to serve time.:mad:

Bruce '87 Grand National

Great story!!! lol

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