GM is not even paying attention. Image a well designed, amazing family sedan from 87 bring in $250k, yet GM doesnt even try to do anything like that today. Bring back the Buick team of the late 60's-80's GM!
Yep and to use the 3.6 POS in it's place when they knew it had issue way back when it was a 3.1 liter in the Lumina goes to show they were worried about turning a quick profit by having the cars die sooner so you'd buy another one. This is not what the American taxpayer bailed them out for. @@joescott701
I had one. Worked at an ad agency on Buick and bought the only one in texas at dealer cost. Dealership was mad as hell. Fastest car I ever owned. Wish I still had it.
Lester Glenn Buick in Toms River NJ was one of the few dealers that actually got 2 of these back in 87. They sold the most Grand Nationals in NJ I believe to be able to get 2. Apparently they sold for a lot more than the MSRP that was on the sticker
@@joewearsadroolbib7347 What is so hard to believe about a dealer mark up on a vehicle price? Yep, they were doing in the 80s and 90s on certain cars like they have done in the 2000s. Don't be so quick to call bullshit. The Grand Nationals, the GNXs, the ZR-1 Corvettes and even the 94-96 Impala SS were prone to mark ups. The 2004- 2006 Pontiac GTOs were marked up and people were dumb enough to pay it.
Some people are so rich these days that $250,000 might be one weeks pay check. They can justify spending what normal people call insane amount. Crazy world we live in.
Meh, shallow envious statement. I invest in collector cars as it’s the only sure fire way to safely make small amounts of money while controlling snd enjoying your investment on a daily basis. I started with garbage and flipped my way into a small fleet. It’s not all rich yuppies.. some of us are just grinding blue collar grunts with nothing more than high school educations. The real twats are those who invest in art, falsely pump the value from juicing studios then donating snd selling the inflated piece for charity to negate paying millions in taxes for years to come.
@@StrictlyService905 idk, art and cars are the the same, people pump the up the price of cars too. Two examples are the Ford GT and Skylines, Vipers and Plymoth Prowlers are on rise to. All it takes is a flashy showcase and a celebrity to build up some hype and boom goes the value.
Here from Kendrick's album... If you look at the rims, compare it to Kendrick's GNX in the promo and IG pics..... this auction, is his EXACT GNX...this is Kendricks car.
My uncle had a regular Grand National. My dad use to race him in his 91 GT Mustang. Both stock. My dad would always get him off the line but my uncle would catch up and pass him once his GN got in to boost. Loved that car.
I would absolutely buy that beauty in a heartbeat! Doesn’t matter what the price. IMO that beauty is a priceless antique work of art. I would preserve it’s beauty too.
I know it's to preserve the value of the cars, but I find it sad how people will just buy cars to let them sit with the origional plastics in a vacuum chamber. It's probably what's happening with a lot of the new cars too. Most C8 ZO6's or Ford GT's are just gonna sit.
In '96 I was working for a beer distributor here in Atlanta. The owner's daily driver was a GNX. While I was there he sent a couple of the mechanics to SC and picked up a very low mileage one for his collection. Great to see Steve Magnate giving some of the details of the car while on the blocks.
I use to get picked up in one of these from middle school and still one of the funniest cars I've ever been in. It was the fastest production car on the planet in 87 . That's a hell of an accomplishment, especially for buick.
@@obriantomlinson2776 “funnest” isn’t a word.. Funniest because you didn’t expect a car like this to be capable of what it was capable of. People only envy this car because of its legacy, which back in ‘87 it did not have. So Yes funniest, because it looked like a commuter car and could smoke almost anything of its time.
Car is only worth what somebody willing to pay for it. I love when people say well , kelly blue book says it's worth 8,000.00 . Kelly ain't buying it, you are. What's it worth to you?
@Adam Baum Neither does what it sells for on these rich guys playgrounds either. I watched an auction on BaT get crazy because 2 bidders wanted it bad enough. It came down to who was willing to overpay more for it, and that is exactly what happened. KBB, NADA, nor Edmunds might not be buying your car, but the lenders and insurance companies use them to determine what to lend you and how to compensate you in a total loss. I went to my credit union to get arrange financing on a car and the lady spun her screen around and said we go by NADA and when she put everything in, NADAs bottom line was what they were willing to lend, no more. You can pay more for a car, but if you don't insure it right or can't get higher value coverage, you may find yourself on the wrong side of a bad deal.
Graduated HS in 87 and didn't have one GN in the parking lot. TONS of IROCS, Cutlass and Monte SS, a few 5.0 gts, oddly a bunch of 79 TAs and the gearheads with the "old" cars. Looking back....
Same here. I graduated in 88, and drove a 77 cutlass, then a 83 regal. The Regal was a money pit but I wish I still had the Cutlass. my buddy drove a beautiful 75 cutlass, then traded it in for an iroc z. Our other friend had a 79 TA. One of my close friends bought a 84 grand national which isn't the fastest of the 4 years but was the rarest. We had a lot of fun in that car, turning out the tires. He still owns it today. All of us learned to turn wrenches with these cars.
In my opinion… best G body ever made is the 87/88 Monte Carlo ss. Interior dashboard body lines bumpers everything.. don’t get me wrong this gnx is one hella of a car. And the ugliest g body is the Grand Prix 2+2 aerocoupe.. I don’t know why in the hell they build that car.
I have always heard that was the #1 reason that GM stopped making the GN and GNX... they didn't want to compete, lose sales, and put the corvette in 2nd place. Same thing happened with the GMC Typhoon and Cyclone.
@@surfncnow No he couldn't but it was a close race... He'd a been better off getting the LB9 5.0 liter 5 speed IROC-Z.. The 5.7 had a few more HP but id rather have the 5 speed.. Either way it was a close race
@@privateprivate1865 that's just dumb. It's not the looks that make this car special, but the fact that it was arguably the fastest production car in 1987, beating out Porsche and Ferrari, at the time. The way the looks factored in is you would never assume that a Buick that looks like this was even a fast car, much less the fastest. The fact that there were less than 600 of these manufactured makes it that much more of a unicorn. 💁🏻♂️🦄🚘
@@sparkplug1018 - Back turn they were seen and valued for what they truly are. Junky 1980’s American iron. What’s hilarious is that these are now “collectable” because they were quicker than any other American Iron at the time. Of course this was when a Corvette was lucky to break 15 seconds in the 1/4. Woo hoo my Buick can beat a smog dog Corvette! That certainly qualifies it as a $250K car. 🤣🤣🤣
@@danmyers9372 Someone sounds a little salty they scraped some of these cars from the 80's. Just like the folks that scraped stuff from the 60's and 70's. That being said, you clearly don't understand what makes a car collectible or not.
My brothers friends dad passed away in an accident. And left his son one of these. It just sitting in his garage. Damn near mint condition. I've seen him drive it maybe 4-5 times in like 5 years I knew him. Said he was never selling it.
Its just a matter of time, Those 80's babbies are getting old and these are our classics just like our pops and grandads pay hundreds of thousands for 50's 60's & 70,s corvettes and fords etc...Its our time now to get what we believe was classics as kids and this BUICK GNX is one of them.
@@jonathanjones1814 that’s well said I was born in 88 so a little late but I agree now cars are becoming classics from the ones we remember as kids and wanted. Not so much 50/60 era anymore.
I remember when these came out and at that time there wasn't a lot of hype about them. People just didn't realize how good of a car it really was. I think it had to do with the fact it didn't have a V8 in it. $250k is insane!
Trust me, people knew how good it was. The fact that there is one rolling across the block with only 8 miles on it should prove that. Someone knew they needed to snatch one up and hold onto it. Not only that, but there wasn't an American car released that year that could touch it and they used that fact in ad campaigns. It was hyped up from the get go.
@@vandersgarage4682 Agreed, I'm more of a European style guy But I now have new appreciation for the American styles of the 80's . But at the time I just didn't
@@dougg4633 I'm more of a drag racing type of car guy, so most of my favorites are cars that do well at the drag strip. G-Body GM's from the 80's are great at the track if you put a beefy anti-roll bar on the rear to get rid of the "G-Body Shuffle". I'd love to have the money to piss off the purists. I'd buy this car then strip that V6 out and drop a twin turbo LS in it. They would absolutely lose their shit. I would probably get actual death threats....lol
I had a '87 GN lightly modified. Bought it for $7000 firm, put $5000 into it then some jackass plowed into me and totaled it. The insurance company gave me $12000 and I sold it for $5000 as is. That car was a bullet, even my 85+ old mom loved to drive it.
I got locked inside one of these in the showroom when I was 5 years old. My dad was actually there to buy his GN and they had a GNX in the show room. I remember I crawled in it and looked around and suddenly the doors locked from the inside and the horn started blaring. The sales people forgot to disable it and then they had misplaced the keys. 😂 Anyway don’t let them fool you on the GNX they are bad ass cars but most of what the ASC package brings to the table over the regular 86/87 GN is in the suspension, planting the power better and preventing the torque from pulling the back of the car one direction over the other so it’ll go in a straight line. Other than that if you were the average Joe and knew enough to know what these cars actually were at the time, other than the exclusivity of owning a GNX, you were still in the mid 13 second club back then out of the show room and a chip away from running a high 12 with a set of decent tires. Pretty big deal back then.
These cars make so much power with minor bolt-ons. I have a Grandnational with a little bigger turbo, turbotweek chip, and a little methonal injection and I have 400 to the wheel horsepower. I could make more with head work and rocker roller and punch it 30 over but I'm good at the horsepower I have now. I also had to replace that God awful breaking system. Nothing like getting 20k of work done to a car then drove 20 miles and the brake light comes on. Spent another grand to do vacuum brakes and now everything is all good.
@@jdgreen214 I have a TT chip with 60# injectors, alky, hot wire kit with a racetronix 340 pump, RJC power plate and cold air with a LS1 MAF and translator. I'm running around 20# of boost but haven't had my car on the dyno but it hauls ass! lol
@@shadhord9502 I bet! Yours is more aerodynamic than the regals. I think of the 3.8 turbo cars the TTA was the fastest including the GNX. I also have a 92 gmc typhoon. Fast as hell for a "Truck" it's issue if they are modified is reliability. Unlike the 3.8 turbo engine the 4.3 is batch fired. The ecu is from a Pontiac sunbird or sunfire which are 4 cylinder engines. Since the injectors need to fire all at once any problem no starting. When the truck does perform it really performs. All wheel drive makes launches amazing. You have to put big money in them to make them super fast. That's why most people LS swap them. I'm trashing the ECU and going with the holley system which replaces the old wiring harness also. If I can get a reliable 13 second truck I will be good with that.
@@jdgreen214 I remember the Typhoon and Syclone. Used to be guys running the Syclone's back in the early 90"s when I had a stock cloth TTA and it couldn't hang with that all wheel drive in the light ass truck! lol
When they talk about the next generation of classic cars that will bring insane money like the yenkos and the Shelby mustangs or the super birds this is it and it’s finally getting the spotlight it deserves. I think it would be cool to see the grand national come back as an ev and dominate the competition just like it did when it became the first muscle car to have a turbo v6
I seen only two gnx in person. The last one I saw was 15-20 years at a mom and pop's dealership. At the time they were asking $80k. Only 1200 miles. That's a bargain today lol.
My favorite car of all time. But I've never had the money to buy one. A friend of mines could have bought one in 2002 with 1600 miles for $29,000. But decided to buy a Supra instead.
I love this car and always have. If I had crazy money to blow I’d buy this one for sure. But my dream was to buy a regular grand national and strip it out and put a custom new interior in it and racing seats.. such a beautiful car
I had an 87 Cutlass Supreme all black shaved door handles with an 86 GN engine in it, with the GN interior, rims, and drive train with like only 36k miles on it! I bought it for 3k back in 2001...man that thing was so fast and so cool lookin, and it was definitely a sleeper, but because it wasn't original things kept braking and nickel and dimming me and I just didn't have the $$$ to fix it..i was just a teenager at the time! I think I sold it the same day I paid it off... Definitely wish I didn't!!
What A Mint example of how a little push rodded boosted V-6 made the entire car community shamed itself, when the GNX was christened the fastest car of 87 made in America and most of the European market as well. SMFH! Sad day in history for everything else when grandmas grocery getter blows your twin turbo porch away or your newer corvette. The car was the first car I've ever lost a street race to growing up, no wonder why? It was the perfect sleeper and when you said it was only a 3.8V6 a whole 229 cubic inches VS a 406 Chevy small block with roller cam and aluminum Cantfield head's in a 86 Old's Cutlass 442 the match was on. I had almost double the cubes and about the same weight overall with the aluminum top ended V8 opposed to the V6. I thought there's no way I could lose? LMFAO! Yes what a dumb thing to think?! I was thinking to myself I have this from Start to Finish until I heard him power braking the engine and the 2 step system he had plus the stall converter. I had no clue what I was in for? He was on 9" street slicks and I was on 11 in radials aired down a little BF Goodrich TAs at the time. Let's just say when that light turned green we launched, and immediately I knew it was over! Cuz all I saw was those Buick regal taillights just a head of me where I could almost reach out my drivers window to touch the damn thing's. I trailed that car all the way to the next light a 1/4 mile away but with a bit of a traction issue there was just no way of catching up, let alone pulling ahead..... I learned something that night, don't mess around with Buick Grand National's especially when the drivers are a little bit cocky! I know I had the numbers on the track to beat a stock GNX, but ones that have been heavily modified??? I found out afterwards I was up against a high 9 second car which blew my mind. He had all kinds of internal work done to the little 3.8 from heads to cam and pistons to the GNX Turbo being replaced by an even bigger Garrett to a custom single 3+ inch exhaust, the trans was done, and a 2800 stall converter he said along with a ton of computer mapping. She left a trial of black smoke so she was a little on the richer side and still it was fast as hell! A bigger intercooler also I recall as well as injectors. So yeah a mid 10 second G body is still no answer for a nicely built Buick Grand National! That night we found out that there is a replacement for displacement! It's called a Turbo Charger. I guess when you can ram in more than double it's displacement in volumetric pressure that's your replacement for displacement, keeping it together is the next biggest problem, but it is clearly apparent Buick bottom ends could handle it!
I liked my 85 GT with t-tops that ran in the 12's and would bury the 155 mile an hour speedometer, it wasn't stock but man was it fast and fun to drive....driving these cars is the fun part, 250K to garage it and never drive it is a little insane or you just like wasting money
i have always thought they were way over rated but holy crap this is insane mind you i am a true muscle car guy having had 1969 roadrunner 1970 boss 302 and a 70.5 split bumper z28 damn i wish i had kept all of them whats the cousin of this worth then the typhoon
While people’s taste for most classic cars seems to be more or less the same across the globe, the GNX is a model that is absolutely slept on in Europe. 🇪🇺 Despite its appearance in the F&F franchise most people wouldn’t even recognize it, let alone pay 6-digit numbers for it. It’s never been sold here when new, but the same goes for most other muscle cars that are highly sought after nowadays. Maybe that edgy notchback plays a role which is regarded a somewhat weird design cue here in the Old World. 🤔
My grandmother in law boyfriend was an old Oil Wildcat. While visiting once he ask would I go to his house and drive his Buick because he getting too old and couldn't handle it. We got there and it was a black Buick GNX. I drove the hell out of that car with him in passenger seat grinning ear to ear. I said the law was going to get us. He said don't worry I got ya covered. The fuel? He was an oil man.....high octane!
The ol'e girl is absolutely gorgeous 🥰🥰😍😍😛😛. I had my driver's license for a year when these gorgeous machines rolled off the assembly line and I wanted one sooooo bad but at the time the part time job I had wasn't going to cut it. So in the immortal words of mick jagger "you don't always get what you want", maybe one day I'll have one in the garage. 👊👊🤙🤙👍👍✌✌
@@ShooterSanoff or a T-Type WE4... all black, just has solid color seats not the black and gray. T-Types also had aluminum wheels which were lighter, technically they were just a little bit lighter and faster then the GN.
What I never understood is why they never put that HURST Lightning Rods In the GN like they did the Hurst Olds, it’s that same body style if I remember
That's a lot of money. Something that many people don't think about is: yeah it only has 8.7 miles but it's still over 30 years old. Things (especially electronics) will quit working due to age alone. It's still not quite as good as a truly brand new one in 1987.
Really hope the new owner drives it and enjoys it. What's the point of hiding cars you love in a garage. Especially considering combustion engine cars will be banned in 20 years or less.
Hugely doubt internal combustion will be banned in 20 years or less . But i do think fuel will be so expensive only the elite billionairs and politicions will be able to afford fuel.
Dont think they will outright ban them but they will become very scarce and gas stations will be hard to find.ICE vehicles will probably go the way of the horse drawn carriage.
Jay Leno had one on his website program, if you want to know more about this car. Not sure if it was the same car, but it was one the dealer never sold
I remember when these babies came out and in '87 I bought a T-Type instead. If I knew how rare they would be wish I spent a little more on a GN or on the GNX when it was available at the time. My bad.
When the Buick Grand National first came out Buick under estimated the horsepower ratings so that the younger owners could purchase it for insurance purposes but so many where being wrecked the insurance industry forced Buick to post the correct horsepower numbers.
I think It was rated at 245-300hp and I remember reading one of the car magazines stating that the HP was underrated, I’ve never been a fan but when they came out ppl went crazy over them!
When this car ends up getting caught in one of those famous California wildfires, who’s gonna lose their mind? 😂 New owner, rip the plastic off that motherfucker and drive it! ✊🏿
Grand National's have never been my thing. But, I definitely appreciate them. And, I am sure this very rare example will fill some GN fan's with a ton of happiness. Also, so crazy to think that a car, that's basically 35 years old, has less than 10 miles on it!
This is exactly what my 04 TORCH RED TERMINATOR all original with just 29hundred original miles on it and completely stock.I knew the GNX was a money killer and I KNOW my Terminator and my all original SVT 93 cobra is next.Everyone get money ready.
It’s all relative people , some make 50 K a year , some make 100 K a day. Person wanted it and paid for it , great for some of us who collect cars , it’s a thing of passion , but good to protect our investments..
The 100k a day guy will likely continue to preserve it in it's original condition, whilst the 50k a year guy, if he were lucky enough to own it, is more likely to rip out the interior and AC, tub the rear end and just destroy it at the track.
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GM is not even paying attention. Image a well designed, amazing family sedan from 87 bring in $250k, yet GM doesnt even try to do anything like that today. Bring back the Buick team of the late 60's-80's GM!
Sir, the majority of the team is probably deceased or deep into retirement.
Gm lost me when they killed both Pontiac and the 3.8 engine. The 3800 engine was bulletproof as it gets.
GM would rather sell Quantity than Quality...
Yep and to use the 3.6 POS in it's place when they knew it had issue way back when it was a 3.1 liter in the Lumina goes to show they were worried about turning a quick profit by having the cars die sooner so you'd buy another one. This is not what the American taxpayer bailed them out for. @@joescott701
It’s not what the market wants. Sedans sell horribly these days
I had one. Worked at an ad agency on Buick and bought the only one in texas at dealer cost. Dealership was mad as hell. Fastest car I ever owned. Wish I still had it.
Was curious $29,000 in ‘87 is approximately $69,000 today. That’s insane. What a gem this GNX is!
29 k sticker price, the dealers we’re screwing people for premiums, actual street price around 50k.
My brother owned 2 of them.
@@Angelo-fo8de ... I call bullshit !
Lester Glenn Buick in Toms River NJ was one of the few dealers that actually got 2 of these back in 87. They sold the most Grand Nationals in NJ I believe to be able to get 2. Apparently they sold for a lot more than the MSRP that was on the sticker
@@joewearsadroolbib7347 ...nope, I personally witnessed one of these sell new for $49K in 1987 at a Buick dealer in Raleigh, NC.
@@joewearsadroolbib7347 What is so hard to believe about a dealer mark up on a vehicle price? Yep, they were doing in the 80s and 90s on certain cars like they have done in the 2000s. Don't be so quick to call bullshit. The Grand Nationals, the GNXs, the ZR-1 Corvettes and even the 94-96 Impala SS were prone to mark ups. The 2004- 2006 Pontiac GTOs were marked up and people were dumb enough to pay it.
Some people are so rich these days that $250,000 might be one weeks pay check. They can justify spending what normal people call insane amount. Crazy world we live in.
these days? been like this forever.
It's probably PPP funds that were supposed to go to his employees
Its not worth bill gates time to pick up 1,200 dollars on the ground because it would take to many seconds and he makes 1,300 a sec.
Meh, shallow envious statement. I invest in collector cars as it’s the only sure fire way to safely make small amounts of money while controlling snd enjoying your investment on a daily basis. I started with garbage and flipped my way into a small fleet. It’s not all rich yuppies.. some of us are just grinding blue collar grunts with nothing more than high school educations.
The real twats are those who invest in art, falsely pump the value from juicing studios then donating snd selling the inflated piece for charity to negate paying millions in taxes for years to come.
@@StrictlyService905 idk, art and cars are the the same, people pump the up the price of cars too. Two examples are the Ford GT and Skylines, Vipers and Plymoth Prowlers are on rise to. All it takes is a flashy showcase and a celebrity to build up some hype and boom goes the value.
This is such an engineering marvel. It's beautiful to look at yet sinister on the streets. Magical times gone by....
Here from Kendrick's album...
If you look at the rims, compare it to Kendrick's GNX in the promo and IG pics..... this auction, is his EXACT GNX...this is Kendricks car.
My uncle had a regular Grand National. My dad use to race him in his 91 GT Mustang. Both stock.
My dad would always get him off the line but my uncle would catch up and pass him once his GN got in to boost.
Loved that car.
the fbi would use the grand national because how fast they were
I imagine your dad lost off the line because of the turbo lag?
@@csbartonorgan83 well he won off the line with the GN turbo lag. but then would lose once the GN came into boost.
I would absolutely buy that beauty in a heartbeat! Doesn’t matter what the price. IMO that beauty is a priceless antique work of art. I would preserve it’s beauty too.
Almost all of those miles are from going across the auction block over and over again….
Sad life
@@dogs4778 One mans lose is another mans treasure.
I know it's to preserve the value of the cars, but I find it sad how people will just buy cars to let them sit with the origional plastics in a vacuum chamber. It's probably what's happening with a lot of the new cars too. Most C8 ZO6's or Ford GT's are just gonna sit.
Man the temptation to drive it when they bought back in 87 must of been crazy... I would've failed
Failed, sure...but regret, nope.
From the sound of the description it was bought as a display piece, so guessing no love lost not driving it.
I wanted to drive it when I brought it back to Denver so i feal ya
They probably bought a T type or a regular GN as a daily driver
The corvette killer lives on! This is the ultimate drag car of the 1980s.
It was killing the Lambos too!
In '96 I was working for a beer distributor here in Atlanta. The owner's daily driver was a GNX. While I was there he sent a couple of the mechanics to SC and picked up a very low mileage one for his collection. Great to see Steve Magnate giving some of the details of the car while on the blocks.
Guess that’s why they call it a dream car…I can only dream that was me they were hammering for. Beautiful Buick. Drive it in good health my friend.
I use to get picked up in one of these from middle school and still one of the funniest cars I've ever been in. It was the fastest production car on the planet in 87 . That's a hell of an accomplishment, especially for buick.
@@obriantomlinson2776 “funnest” isn’t a word.. Funniest because you didn’t expect a car like this to be capable of what it was capable of. People only envy this car because of its legacy, which back in ‘87 it did not have. So Yes funniest, because it looked like a commuter car and could smoke almost anything of its time.
It was NOT the "fastest." It was the quickest 0-60. It was nowhere NEAR the fastest.
@@sidefx996 type in "fastest production car in 1987" on google and see what comes up
Incredible. I’ve haven’t seen a real GNX. Drove a Grand National once.. amazing performance for a G Body!
I have one, #069 out of 547.
Car is only worth what somebody willing to pay for it. I love when people say well , kelly blue book says it's worth 8,000.00 .
Kelly ain't buying it, you are. What's it worth to you?
Kelley blue book is a joke,if i had a dollar every time i heard some one say that(kelley says its worth)
it's not worth $275,000 in my opinion..next
@Adam Baum Neither does what it sells for on these rich guys playgrounds either. I watched an auction on BaT get crazy because 2 bidders wanted it bad enough. It came down to who was willing to overpay more for it, and that is exactly what happened.
KBB, NADA, nor Edmunds might not be buying your car, but the lenders and insurance companies use them to determine what to lend you and how to compensate you in a total loss. I went to my credit union to get arrange financing on a car and the lady spun her screen around and said we go by NADA and when she put everything in, NADAs bottom line was what they were willing to lend, no more. You can pay more for a car, but if you don't insure it right or can't get higher value coverage, you may find yourself on the wrong side of a bad deal.
@@RG-no1ng How do you determine what a vehicle is worth?
Bored people with too much money
Graduated HS in 87 and didn't have one GN in the parking lot. TONS of IROCS, Cutlass and Monte SS, a few 5.0 gts, oddly a bunch of 79 TAs and the gearheads with the "old" cars. Looking back....
High school parking lots in the 80's would be a car show today.
Same here. I graduated in 88, and drove a 77 cutlass, then a 83 regal. The Regal was a money pit but I wish I still had the Cutlass. my buddy drove a beautiful 75 cutlass, then traded it in for an iroc z. Our other friend had a 79 TA. One of my close friends bought a 84 grand national which isn't the fastest of the 4 years but was the rarest. We had a lot of fun in that car, turning out the tires. He still owns it today. All of us learned to turn wrenches with these cars.
@@louofm1 Good times Lou. Wish I had a time machine..
Best looking G-Body ever made...
Correct
True that
If you've ever really drove 1 or at least ridden one, you never forget it
In my opinion… best G body ever made is the 87/88 Monte Carlo ss. Interior dashboard body lines bumpers everything.. don’t get me wrong this gnx is one hella of a car.
And the ugliest g body is the Grand Prix 2+2 aerocoupe.. I don’t know why in the hell they build that car.
I had a 87 IROZ with the 350 Corvette engine and never could outrun a Grand National, they were fast.
I have always heard that was the #1 reason that GM stopped making the GN and GNX... they didn't want to compete, lose sales, and put the corvette in 2nd place.
Same thing happened with the GMC Typhoon and Cyclone.
@@surfncnow No he couldn't but it was a close race... He'd a been better off getting the LB9 5.0 liter 5 speed IROC-Z.. The 5.7 had a few more HP but id rather have the 5 speed.. Either way it was a close race
@@messageinmybottles3767 yes GM did everything to protect the image of the corvette thats why they axed the GNX and cycle typhoon and the 89 turbo ta
Here after listening to Kendricks album.
If you look at the rims, compare it to Kendrick's GNX in the promo and IG pics..... this auction, is his EXACT GNX...this is Kendricks car.
Out of all muscle cars , this is one that should've hit millions , it's literally the unicorn of muscle cars
No v6 is a unicorn of muscle cars.
No. It's ugly. Rich dealerships are doing this on purpose, to make people think it makes sense to pay out the butt for ugly old cars.
@@privateprivate1865 that's just dumb. It's not the looks that make this car special, but the fact that it was arguably the fastest production car in 1987, beating out Porsche and Ferrari, at the time.
The way the looks factored in is you would never assume that a Buick that looks like this was even a fast car, much less the fastest. The fact that there were less than 600 of these manufactured makes it that much more of a unicorn. 💁🏻♂️🦄🚘
It's "LiTeRaLLy" NOT the "unicorn" of muscle cars. There are MANY muscle cars that are way rarer and more special than this thing.
@@sidefx996 not really , nor are they faster .
That's right 87 the year I moved from Tampa Florida to Merced California, the southwest connection, and yes a Grand National! Need this one for sure!
What a beautiful machine! Damn that looks amazing
😃👀💎🕺✌😎
Wut.
@@truantray exactly. That car is not amazing looking. It's boxy and boring. Cars havent been cool since the 70s and you can't beat he 50s and 60s.
@@privateprivate1865 🤦♂️
Kendrick makes me want this car.
i can barely watch this video i love this car that much..it's completely untouchable.
It's not untouchable. You just watched someone buy it.
Crazy,crazy,crazy $250k,s few years ago you could buy a clean one of these for $50k-60k all day long,maybe not a zero mile one but a very nice one.
Just get back to the late 90's early 2000's a lot of these $250K cars were almost worthless for a time.
@@sparkplug1018 - Back turn they were seen and valued for what they truly are. Junky 1980’s American iron. What’s hilarious is that these are now “collectable” because they were quicker than any other American Iron at the time. Of course this was when a Corvette was lucky to break 15 seconds in the 1/4. Woo hoo my Buick can beat a smog dog Corvette! That certainly qualifies it as a $250K car. 🤣🤣🤣
@@danmyers9372 Someone sounds a little salty they scraped some of these cars from the 80's.
Just like the folks that scraped stuff from the 60's and 70's.
That being said, you clearly don't understand what makes a car collectible or not.
My brother and I had the original GNX number 547 at our dealership in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Jerry Mcdonogh
My brothers friends dad passed away in an accident. And left his son one of these. It just sitting in his garage. Damn near mint condition. I've seen him drive it maybe 4-5 times in like 5 years I knew him. Said he was never selling it.
80's baby's rejoice!
Yes Sirrrrrr, Its slowly becoming our time for great classicsv and for sure BUCIK GNX is defintly one of the greats
Great car. One of the best cars to come out of the 80’s and probably the best Buick ever made. However it has no business being that expensive
Its just a matter of time, Those 80's babbies are getting old and these are our classics just like our pops and grandads pay hundreds of thousands for 50's 60's & 70,s corvettes and fords etc...Its our time now to get what we believe was classics as kids and this BUICK GNX is one of them.
@@jonathanjones1814 that’s well said I was born in 88 so a little late but I agree now cars are becoming classics from the ones we remember as kids and wanted. Not so much 50/60 era anymore.
Well…….$250k homes have no business being $500k homes but that’s the way it is now I guess. Def the best Buick ever.
It’s has 8 miles on it and it’s rare. Of course some collector is going to spend big.
Oh that is where you’re wrong young grasshopper. The GNX has all the business on planet Earth being that expensive. Best GM muscle car ever assembled.
I remember when these came out and at that time there wasn't a lot of hype about them. People just didn't realize how good of a car it really was. I think it had to do with the fact it didn't have a V8 in it. $250k is insane!
Trust me, people knew how good it was. The fact that there is one rolling across the block with only 8 miles on it should prove that. Someone knew they needed to snatch one up and hold onto it. Not only that, but there wasn't an American car released that year that could touch it and they used that fact in ad campaigns. It was hyped up from the get go.
I simply thought they were ugly.
Fast yes but no style
@@dougg4633 Just proof that style is subjective. I think they are one of the best looking cars ever made, right up there with the 70 Cuda.
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Agreed, I'm more of a European style guy
But
I now have new appreciation for the American styles of the 80's .
But at the time I just didn't
@@dougg4633 I'm more of a drag racing type of car guy, so most of my favorites are cars that do well at the drag strip. G-Body GM's from the 80's are great at the track if you put a beefy anti-roll bar on the rear to get rid of the "G-Body Shuffle".
I'd love to have the money to piss off the purists. I'd buy this car then strip that V6 out and drop a twin turbo LS in it. They would absolutely lose their shit. I would probably get actual death threats....lol
I had a '87 GN lightly modified. Bought it for $7000 firm, put $5000 into it then some jackass plowed into me and totaled it. The insurance company gave me $12000 and I sold it for $5000 as is. That car was a bullet, even my 85+ old mom loved to drive it.
;; those DAMN Jackasses
$275K for a Buick?
Sure, why not.
It's not your grandma's Lesabre, this my friend was definitely not your typical Buick.
I got locked inside one of these in the showroom when I was 5 years old. My dad was actually there to buy his GN and they had a GNX in the show room. I remember I crawled in it and looked around and suddenly the doors locked from the inside and the horn started blaring. The sales people forgot to disable it and then they had misplaced the keys. 😂
Anyway don’t let them fool you on the GNX they are bad ass cars but most of what the ASC package brings to the table over the regular 86/87 GN is in the suspension, planting the power better and preventing the torque from pulling the back of the car one direction over the other so it’ll go in a straight line.
Other than that if you were the average Joe and knew enough to know what these cars actually were at the time, other than the exclusivity of owning a GNX, you were still in the mid 13 second club back then out of the show room and a chip away from running a high 12 with a set of decent tires. Pretty big deal back then.
I have an 89 TTA, #466 of the 1,555 built that year.
These cars make so much power with minor bolt-ons. I have a Grandnational with a little bigger turbo, turbotweek chip, and a little methonal injection and I have 400 to the wheel horsepower. I could make more with head work and rocker roller and punch it 30 over but I'm good at the horsepower I have now. I also had to replace that God awful breaking system. Nothing like getting 20k of work done to a car then drove 20 miles and the brake light comes on. Spent another grand to do vacuum brakes and now everything is all good.
@@jdgreen214 I have a TT chip with 60# injectors, alky, hot wire kit with a racetronix 340 pump, RJC power plate and cold air with a LS1 MAF and translator. I'm running around 20# of boost but haven't had my car on the dyno but it hauls ass! lol
@@shadhord9502 I bet! Yours is more aerodynamic than the regals. I think of the 3.8 turbo cars the TTA was the fastest including the GNX. I also have a 92 gmc typhoon. Fast as hell for a "Truck" it's issue if they are modified is reliability. Unlike the 3.8 turbo engine the 4.3 is batch fired. The ecu is from a Pontiac sunbird or sunfire which are 4 cylinder engines. Since the injectors need to fire all at once any problem no starting. When the truck does perform it really performs. All wheel drive makes launches amazing. You have to put big money in them to make them super fast. That's why most people LS swap them. I'm trashing the ECU and going with the holley system which replaces the old wiring harness also. If I can get a reliable 13 second truck I will be good with that.
@@jdgreen214 I remember the Typhoon and Syclone. Used to be guys running the Syclone's back in the early 90"s when I had a stock cloth TTA and it couldn't hang with that all wheel drive in the light ass truck! lol
When they talk about the next generation of classic cars that will bring insane money like the yenkos and the Shelby mustangs or the super birds this is it and it’s finally getting the spotlight it deserves. I think it would be cool to see the grand national come back as an ev and dominate the competition just like it did when it became the first muscle car to have a turbo v6
"THAT BELONGS! IN A MUSEEUMM!!!!"
There is one in California that is still owned by original dealer. Never been sold.
One of my all time faves
Not a real Buick fan. But this one is pretty slick looking. Wished we could hear this start up.
SHE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BUICK!!!
Gorgeous, just... Gorgeous 💖.
I wonder what my neighbours is worth. He still has a the window sticker on it.
I seen only two gnx in person. The last one I saw was 15-20 years at a mom and pop's dealership. At the time they were asking $80k. Only 1200 miles. That's a bargain today lol.
Those cars were so damn fast.
My favorite car of all time. But I've never had the money to buy one.
A friend of mines could have bought one in 2002 with 1600 miles for $29,000.
But decided to buy a Supra instead.
If that’s a TT Supra with a manual he still made a very solid decision.
@@axe2grind772 Yes it's a 93 Turbo 6 speed.
I remember watching BJ a few yrs ago.
Anyway it went for $100,000....
That's when I knew the GNX Model in future
Would go up big time.....
Amazing Win! 🏆
I wish Barrett Jackson and Mecum were on Roku! Can't find them anywhere!
Agreed
I love this car and always have. If I had crazy money to blow I’d buy this one for sure. But my dream was to buy a regular grand national and strip it out and put a custom new interior in it and racing seats.. such a beautiful car
AKA the Corvette Eater Worth Every Penny
Insane numbers for a car that will never see the sun or the road.
All depends on who bought it.
Now everybody with a rust bucket grand national thinks they’re holding onto gold. 😂😂😂
It's always been that way
RUSTED GOLD
The new generation of collectors cars
I had an 87 Cutlass Supreme all black shaved door handles with an 86 GN engine in it, with the GN interior, rims, and drive train with like only 36k miles on it! I bought it for 3k back in 2001...man that thing was so fast and so cool lookin, and it was definitely a sleeper, but because it wasn't original things kept braking and nickel and dimming me and I just didn't have the $$$ to fix it..i was just a teenager at the time! I think I sold it the same day I paid it off... Definitely wish I didn't!!
These cars are just stupid fast. I drove an ‘86 T-type with a 3.8l turbocharged and it was hard not to keep my foot into it. Fun to drive.
It looks so Regal!
Holy shit! 1/4 million for a GNX?
I cloned my 1987 Buick Grand National into a GNX & boy did I accomplish EVERYONE LOVED IT & It looked exactly like this..... NICE
What A Mint example of how a little push rodded boosted V-6 made the entire car community shamed itself, when the GNX was christened the fastest car of 87 made in America and most of the European market as well. SMFH! Sad day in history for everything else when grandmas grocery getter blows your twin turbo porch away or your newer corvette. The car was the first car I've ever lost a street race to growing up, no wonder why? It was the perfect sleeper and when you said it was only a 3.8V6 a whole 229 cubic inches VS a 406 Chevy small block with roller cam and aluminum Cantfield head's in a 86 Old's Cutlass 442 the match was on. I had almost double the cubes and about the same weight overall with the aluminum top ended V8 opposed to the V6. I thought there's no way I could lose? LMFAO! Yes what a dumb thing to think?! I was thinking to myself I have this from Start to Finish until I heard him power braking the engine and the 2 step system he had plus the stall converter. I had no clue what I was in for? He was on 9" street slicks and I was on 11 in radials aired down a little BF Goodrich TAs at the time. Let's just say when that light turned green we launched, and immediately I knew it was over! Cuz all I saw was those Buick regal taillights just a head of me where I could almost reach out my drivers window to touch the damn thing's. I trailed that car all the way to the next light a 1/4 mile away but with a bit of a traction issue there was just no way of catching up, let alone pulling ahead..... I learned something that night, don't mess around with Buick Grand National's especially when the drivers are a little bit cocky! I know I had the numbers on the track to beat a stock GNX, but ones that have been heavily modified??? I found out afterwards I was up against a high 9 second car which blew my mind. He had all kinds of internal work done to the little 3.8 from heads to cam and pistons to the GNX Turbo being replaced by an even bigger Garrett to a custom single 3+ inch exhaust, the trans was done, and a 2800 stall converter he said along with a ton of computer mapping. She left a trial of black smoke so she was a little on the richer side and still it was fast as hell! A bigger intercooler also I recall as well as injectors. So yeah a mid 10 second G body is still no answer for a nicely built Buick Grand National! That night we found out that there is a replacement for displacement! It's called a Turbo Charger. I guess when you can ram in more than double it's displacement in volumetric pressure that's your replacement for displacement, keeping it together is the next biggest problem, but it is clearly apparent Buick bottom ends could handle it!
"It's fast."
"We need faster."
"Get McLaren on the phone."
I liked my 85 GT with t-tops that ran in the 12's and would bury the 155 mile an hour speedometer, it wasn't stock but man was it fast and fun to drive....driving these cars is the fun part, 250K to garage it and never drive it is a little insane or you just like wasting money
GT? Do you mean GN?
Bud of mine in high school in the late 80’s to early 90’s had a Grand National.
I have never cared for the interior , I feel its too plain for such an awesome machine
And the Buick turbo is getting better and more expensive
My favorite car ever
Everyone wants a slice of the past in whatever guise look at our present and future class car good luck to the new owner 👍
$250,000 on a car you'll never drive ??? Must be nice to have that kind of spare change
Make it happen my man..gotta have faith and drive to get it
I don't think he'll ever lose money on it. Investment if anything. I'd be shocked if this was the owners only GNX.
Sickest car ever made
MUSTAAAAAAAAAAARRRD!
I loved driving this car in Forza horizon 3
If I could afford that car, I'd make it my daily no joke. I don't want to look at a car, that thing would be awesome to have out on the road.
I just happen to have a 1987 GNX #069 with 1000 miles on it.
That's assinine. Just buy a GN and lightly mod it and it'll blow the doors off this thing for a fraction of the price.
8.7 miles.... what a shame, can't even drive it.
I know it’s ridiculous. 8.7 miles is sorta cool being it’s an ‘87. I’d sure be tempted to drive it up to 87 miles.
I bought a gn off a collector few years ago, had 40k on it, he said at that point just drive it around lol.
Disconnect Speedo cable and have some fun.
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i have always thought they were way over rated but holy crap this is insane mind you i am a true muscle car guy having had 1969 roadrunner 1970 boss 302 and a 70.5 split bumper z28 damn i wish i had kept all of them whats the cousin of this worth then the typhoon
I saw 1 go for $75k.
While people’s taste for most classic cars seems to be more or less the same across the globe, the GNX is a model that is absolutely slept on in Europe. 🇪🇺 Despite its appearance in the F&F franchise most people wouldn’t even recognize it, let alone pay 6-digit numbers for it. It’s never been sold here when new, but the same goes for most other muscle cars that are highly sought after nowadays. Maybe that edgy notchback plays a role which is regarded a somewhat weird design cue here in the Old World. 🤔
To think you could by a nice used one in the 90's for about 35k!!!
My grandmother in law boyfriend was an old Oil Wildcat. While visiting once he ask would I go to his house and drive his Buick because he getting too old and couldn't handle it. We got there and it was a black Buick GNX. I drove the hell out of that car with him in passenger seat grinning ear to ear. I said the law was going to get us. He said don't worry I got ya covered. The fuel? He was an oil man.....high octane!
It's time...drive the beast! Let her run!!! It was built to hit the road!
The ol'e girl is absolutely gorgeous 🥰🥰😍😍😛😛. I had my driver's license for a year when these gorgeous machines rolled off the assembly line and I wanted one sooooo bad but at the time the part time job I had wasn't going to cut it. So in the immortal words of mick jagger "you don't always get what you want", maybe one day I'll have one in the garage. 👊👊🤙🤙👍👍✌✌
Love this car man
I owned 3 GNs and 2 T-types looking to get back into my sixth one right now.
Whats the difference ? Which ones better
@@ma.higiniablancoblanco1380 GNX is the best then the Grand national,T-type and Limited T-type all run the same but look different
@@jeshicks9947 gotta have the grand national for the all black tho
@@ShooterSanoff I hear ya. 👂
@@ShooterSanoff or a T-Type WE4... all black, just has solid color seats not the black and gray. T-Types also had aluminum wheels which were lighter, technically they were just a little bit lighter and faster then the GN.
What a beautiful unique car
Buick was the garage that GM had. Ever.
So beautiful.
I always wondered with such low mileage, what is the condition of the gaskets, internal hoses and any moving components?
What I never understood is why they never put that HURST Lightning Rods In the GN like they did the Hurst Olds, it’s that same body style if I remember
I agree if hust had installed the lighting rod shifter like the 83 84 hurst olds it would have been a epic sweet combination for the GNX
That's a lot of money. Something that many people don't think about is: yeah it only has 8.7 miles but it's still over 30 years old. Things (especially electronics) will quit working due to age alone. It's still not quite as good as a truly brand new one in 1987.
Really hope the new owner drives it and enjoys it. What's the point of hiding cars you love in a garage. Especially considering combustion engine cars will be banned in 20 years or less.
Or there could be a world ending event and they all get destroyed. Who knows 🤷♂️
Hugely doubt internal combustion will be banned in 20 years or less .
But i do think fuel will be so expensive only the elite billionairs and politicions will be able to afford fuel.
Dont think they will outright ban them but they will become very scarce and gas stations will be hard to find.ICE vehicles will probably go the way of the horse drawn carriage.
They aren't going to ban them, they might mandate conversion to alternative fuels, but they won't ban them.
@@sparkplug1018 why do you chuckle heads keep bothering me just to contradict yourself. If they force alternative fuels they are banned.
Jay Leno had one on his website program, if you want to know more about this car. Not sure if it was the same car, but it was one the dealer never sold
A quarter million and worth every penny. 🤘🏻
I remember when these babies came out and in '87 I bought a T-Type instead. If I knew how rare they would be wish I spent a little more on a GN or on the GNX when it was available at the time. My bad.
So basically gm could tool up and throw in air bags and sell a remake for 45k ez.
they have forgotten how to make cars, and comfortable seats. its a shame
When the Buick Grand National first came out Buick under estimated the horsepower ratings so that the younger owners could purchase it for insurance purposes but so many where being wrecked the insurance industry forced Buick to post the correct horsepower numbers.
I think It was rated at 245-300hp and I remember reading one of the car magazines stating that the HP was underrated, I’ve never been a fan but when they came out ppl went crazy over them!
Buick/GM NEVER posted the actual HP numbers & they were always under stated! 87’ was the last year and the highest output of any of the GN’s.
When this car ends up getting caught in one of those famous California wildfires, who’s gonna lose their mind? 😂 New owner, rip the plastic off that motherfucker and drive it! ✊🏿
Grand National's have never been my thing. But, I definitely appreciate them. And, I am sure this very rare example will fill some GN fan's with a ton of happiness. Also, so crazy to think that a car, that's basically 35 years old, has less than 10 miles on it!
This is exactly what my 04 TORCH RED TERMINATOR all original with just 29hundred original miles on it and completely stock.I knew the GNX was a money killer and I KNOW my Terminator and my all original SVT 93 cobra is next.Everyone get money ready.
Only 8.7 miles but how many hours on the engine just idling 🤔
Kendrick Lamar brought me here button ⬇️↙️↘️
Fastest buick, but still a
$50k car. Congrats to the new owner.
Wooow 250k!!! Damn... its a nice car
It’s all relative people , some make 50 K a year , some make 100 K a day. Person wanted it and paid for it , great for some of us who collect cars , it’s a thing of passion , but good to protect our investments..
The 100k a day guy will likely continue to preserve it in it's original condition, whilst the 50k a year guy, if he were lucky enough to own it, is more likely to rip out the interior and AC, tub the rear end and just destroy it at the track.
simply the best!