Big thanks to good ole Biodegradable for animating the Pokemon sequence. If I had to do that myself, this video would have come out next week. Check out Biodegrable here: twitter.com/BiodeEditable
Nascar need to go back to that idea of if we take the body panels off the race car and a road car they'd be almost identical. Pre aero wars and pre 90s
S1apSh0es what u see as Buick over there in the 🇺🇸 We over in the 🇬🇧 see them as vauxhalls When i opening the vid and I said “that’s a vauxhall” if u look up Vauxhall Astra they are basically the same models but they rip Buick off the badge and put a vauxhall badge on it
Pretty sure Buick’s demise was when they were kicking the Corvette’s ass in the 80s and Chevy cried to corporate about a grandma car outperforming their sports car.
Buick had interesting stuff in the 80's outside the turbo Regal/Grand National. The "new" FWD LeSabre had IMO distinctive "aero" styling with compsoite headlights, a cool clamshell hood, thing was you needed to know how to work the option sheet. Order the blackout package, vinyl top delete, alloy wheels with blackwall tires, they looked very modern/european. Google 1988 LeSabre T-type, it looks SO MUCH better than the 95% of Lesabres that came with chrome rockers, wire wheel covers and whitewalls. Leave all that crap for the very similar Park Ave, the LeSabre should have came minimally ornamented to compete with the sleek Taurus.
@@michaelskoomamacher5652 GMCs are pure profit for GM. It's a Silverado with nicer interior. If you combined Silverado and Sierra sales, they'd knock the F-150 off its "best-selling truck" perch decades ago. GM would be stupid to axe GMC. It prints money.
"Yeah that brand of grandma cars accidently coughed up the second fastest production car, in the world, out of thin air" Why is this quote so danm funny to me?
@@craigpainter337 I think it was and they just got ahead of it and said it wasn't. Kinda like they tried something else only to get that result and said fuck it run with it 😂😂😂
“We sell rebadged Opels, Vauxhalls, and Holdens in the United States, except they’re called Buick’s and they have different names!” “Also Holden’s gone but no one cares because we are obviously better”
Buick: The official car of your conservative grandparents that have enough money to afford a Cadillac but don’t want to seem to flashy in the church parking lot. The official car of your uncle Carl, who’s house looks like the clearance shelf at Walmart, lots of random clutter that nobody else wanted.
Except for the Grand Nationals. That's the car for your older cousin that is "alternative" despite (or probably because) their aforementioned conservative parents. You catch up with them every once in a while and despite their angsty exterior appearance they are one if the most friendly people you know. I too watch RCR.
I had a 1986 GN. But some owners didn't know it's secret. (Those that tried using it in drag racing, ugh.) The stock GN transmission combined with the turbo that kicked in at a very specific RPM range, actually allowed the car to accelerate faster from 60-120, than from zero-60. (There was speculation that this was purposely designed to emulate a NASCAR running start. But that is another story.) I used to enjoy playing with this a lot at highway speeds, where I can easily challenge another car [already at the speed limit] and beat the pants off of them. I did manage to outrun 2 particular cars of the time. The Corvette, and the rare Taurus SHO. Lots of fun.
“I got the Grand Nat running in the alley outside, now Michael run like you hungry and get your ass in the ride” El-P Yankee and the Brave by Run the Jewels
@@MrTaterNubbz I've only had the pleasure of seeing it one time before, while in Queens, NY. In the space of 30 seconds I saw a Merc AMG GT, Supra Mk.4, and a GNX. Needless to say I was hyped wayyyy more by the GNX than anything else.
@@williehill47 Swap an RCF engine into a Camry. Or swap an ISF engine into a Camry. Nah hang on a second, what if we took the engine from a Land Cruiser and......
Buick: For the man who is a GM loyalist and Chevy is too utilitarian, and Pontiac is just too flashy, their motto should have been "we invented niche market"
@@eclipsegst9419 Nah disagree. You're not buying a sports team and using it to do stuff. You watch their games and hope they win. Plus they usually represent an area you're from. Being a brand loyalist, to me, implies you think they make the best stuff at the right price, and that that's almost always the case for any product they make. There's no one to root for or a title to win, just a product to buy. Now, for car stuff, I more understand being a fan of a company's engine designs from an enthusiast perspective, divorced from the reality of actually driving their cars, but most car brand loyalists mean that's the brand they always buy, and a lot of them haven't made great cars since like.....ever.
Very true. Yet still there will be people who ask why we don't get the "good Euro GM" designs, all while forgetting the GTOs, the Chevy SS and the entire Buick line.
@@Cody-ch2lc EmpLemon didn't even make that music, so it's not stealing from him. It's "stealing" (if it even is stealing) from Nintendo, Sony, Square Enix, and some oter companies.
Fun fact about Charlotte Speedway S1ap, my mom's old house when she was young lived in in eith her mom, but what she didn't know was right after it was built is when Charlotte Speedway was abandoned a little while back, however my mom (who's now 56 years old) found out a month ago that her mom's house was built right next to where the track used to be on Barry Dr., the house was built on the outside of turns 1 and 2 and next to I-85. My mom and I were so shocked to find this but my mom was even more shocked because her mother didn't tell her anything about it because she didn't know about it. The house is demolished now and there is no outline of the track, however my dad told me when he took a trip to the house (when demolished) he noticed in the backyard in the woods of how the ground started to drop because the backyard itself was going uphill but in woods it dropped down a bit. Then I told him, "It could be the banking of the track". Now idk how many degrees of banking the track had, but all I know is that it had banking according to my dad. Now S1ap if you have to you can try to visit the area of the track but it'll be difficult to get to, all I know is turns 1 and 2 are in a bit of trees but the rest of the track is a business area but if you dig through bushes and trees where my mom's old house used to be you could find where 1 and 2 were, hope you look at this funky fun fact lol. Btw I love your vids👍
I've suggested that Slap carry on up I85 to Salisbury to look for any signs of the "track"at Salisbury speedway - _i.e._ the _actual driving surface,_ because the area has been partially developed with a concrete panel factory and some self-storage units, but the location of the track is quite clear - because the grandstand is still there! It was repurposed by building brick curtain walls all the way up to the roof and is, as far as I know, still to this day used as a warehouse - a very odd looking warehouse, with a roof that slopes in one direction! LOL
@@jameswilson8820 Opel uses the Vauxhaul badge to trick the British they are buying a local vehicle. In the rest of Europe the Cars are using the Opel brand.
@@Corvin152 Well are they having the same design as the old Holden/Vauxhall/Opel cars? Because I liked to see them here in Europe although they are way and were way tooooo pricy in company to Mercedes or Audi.
Back when GM brands used to compete with each other instead of being the same car with a different badge! Who wouldn't wanna see Buick in NASCAR again?
Chevy killed GMs innovation by being a bunch of big crybaby bullies everytime another division caught the public eye for even a second. Screw Chevy and screw GM for cancelling Pontiac. I'll never own another GM that isn't a used Pontiac.
I STILL LOVE BUICKS!!! My first car I ever owned as a teenager was a '91 Buick LaSabre and I love that box boat. I spent all my money turning that thing into a "Nascar". Unfortunately I crashed ot out of turn 4 off the 55 south in California when a SUV flipped in front of me..... i miss that car.
I have a 90 lesabre coupe and its a stunner. I've owned a lot of vehicles over the years, from old 350's to LT1 and LS powered vehicles and even a Mercedes CLA AMG but this is my last go fast project and im all in on it. Went back to what I liked from the jump. The short of it is the H body lesabres can be made to look pretty good and custom suspension, brake conversions and an engine swap does wonders for the car (just like any other car).
My first car was a 1994 LeSabre. After a year pulled the 3.8 and put in a 3.8 from a park avenue. Then swapped the blower for one off a Pontiac GTP. It was fun to have a granny boat that boogied.
My first and current car is a 2004 Buick LeSabre and I love it, but cant shake the feel of a young guy like me driving something like a LeSabre and not getting the occasional odd eye look. Only compliments I get are from older folks lmao
I've come back to this video at least 15 times. Incredible insight in Buick's weird history in NASCAR. This channel made me fall back in love with my memories of NASCAR earlier in my childhood. Thanks for opening up my eyes to the big boom and some oddities of this crazy motorsport.
“Buick has never built any timeless classics” Wow, this boy just slipped the finger to the GNX, Roadmaster, and GSX. Fuck, any Buick from the 30’s-50’a were gorgeous.
I have no clue why, but the showing of those winless years and the choice of music in that bit is almost emotional for me. Major kudos to the music on all your pieces, Slap.
Proud owner of a '14 Buick Regal AWD here! Took it to my first SCCA Track Night in America at Gingerman Raceway in Michigan last month. By far the most reliable and fun-to-drive car I've owned. You can imagine my utter disappointment when I learned GM is killing off the Regal and leaving Buick with nothing but lame-ass crossovers now. 😒 #SaveTheSedans
They won't bring back the cars, even Chevy is cutting back their car models. Part of that is international sales, where crossovers are more popular. Part of that is apparently that sedans are classed as sports cars by some insurance companies (I know Hyundai Elantras are apparently sports cars in Canada) where crossovers aren't, so they're cheaper to insure. And a big part of that is that the average new-car buyer is the single dumbest person you will ever meet in your life, and the salesperson selling it to them is the second-dumbest. I've worked at a dealership for a good while now, and cars have been steadily getting worse over time because the idiots buying them have been demanding features that make the cars worse.
That does suck their losing the Regal I've always loved the Regal and people just don't know about Buick because they've always stayed in the shadow and when they did come out people know about it
1:01 Never EVER stop using the Trigun OST until you get Tsueno Imahori himself showing up at your door. It fits too well to not keep putting it in these glorious videos you make
3:38 "Give them the best driver with the best team around them and they'll still find a way to snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory." In other words, Scuderia Ferrari...
"...neither timeless classics, or modern masterpieces." What S1ap tried to say, is that Buick just can't find "THAT" essence that makes a brand feel special. They basically tried everything. From doing supercars with the handling of a semi (with their road muscle cars), elegant designs in the 30's~50's and 70's~80's, complete air knifes in the 80's, rebrand some of the best cars GM ever had, and even tried to make some good cars for young people in the 2000's. And i can guarantee you, that even petrolheads confuses some of the best cars ever made from Buick... as their Chevrolet counterparts. Nothing worked for them. As i said, Buick just can't find *"That essence"* .
That is not what timeless means when alplied to automotive desirability. You need to revise your understanding. Timeless actually refers to how the vehicle appeals to people across generations regardless of the change in styles and preferences. In that regard, the GNX is timeless.
interesting biproduct of Chinese culture. it's a big taboo to have anything perceived as equal to or better than what your boss/ employer has. when their economy was booming (& they knew nothing about cars), all bigtime execs & CEOs etc. were buying Cadillacs because again, they knew nothing about cars & in their mind Cadillac was the pinnacle of luxury. all the guys high up, but not at the top of companies were making tons of money too, but effectively weren't allowed to have Cadillacs due to the culture. so what's the next best thing to a Cadillac? a Buick.
Funny enough Chinese and Japanese cultures LOVE American made stuff, especially vehicles. Harley Davidson motorcycles and clothing is HUGE. My girlfriend used to work at a Harley dealer, and she said Foreign exchange and wealthy Asian students from the local college with no clue would come in and spend hundreds; if not thousands on clothing even though they didn’t even own a Harley. Or they would buy a cheaper sportster, even though they didn’t have a driver or motorcycle license.
@@arachnonixon that is a bit mis understanding. GM used Buick as launching brand in China; a very smart strategy to have coustomer dig into the brand history . The first prime minister of modern China Mr. Zhou uses Buick for commute. You will be surprise how many chinese goverment fleet order Buick has over there. And what GM is there sure is GM what is not in North america. GM is flexible, inovated, and listen to coustomer. They make Japanese brand run for their money in China even in the realm of IQS. As a person following both market, I just dont understand how this is one company at the two extreme of coperate spectrum.
As a foreigner who isn't too knowledgeable about Nascar, can someone answer me a question. In the late 80s/early 90s there was 5 brands racing in Nascar. Ford Chevrolet Oldsmobile Pontiac Buick Of the 5 brands racing in Nascar, 4 of them were General Motors brands, 4 brands of GM all fighting against each other. Why? How? Seems rather strange to me.
GM technically owns each of them, but racing was one of the best marketing strategy. People love winners. These GM brands were all once independent manufactures, so even after GM acquired them, they each had their own leadership group wanting to sell more than the other guy. The Pontiac GTO was created in the late 60s because GM didn't allow John Delorean and Pontiac to build race cars that competed with the other GM race cars, so they built the GTO to be a race car on the street. Conclusion, GM owns these brands, but they don't make decisions for all of them.
People had a lot more brand loyalty to cars in those days. My grandfather on my mother's side only drove Oldsmobiles, for example, while my Dad's Dad was a Buick man. Even though both makes were very similar to each other under the hood, GM kept on making them under different badges--since men like my grandfathers would sooner die before switching brands. Of course, by the 2000's, a lot of those customers DID die out, and foreign automakers had a much larger presence... which meant redundant brands like Olds and Plymouth finally had to go.
I’m guessing because it’s a good idea to diversify your investments, in other words they have multiple brands of different designs of one owner who can increase their chances of winning a championship and more race wins.
@@microcar14 That's half of the story. The other half is that Chevrolet is GM's golden child who gets preferential treatment above the other brands aside from Cadillac. The brand independence largely died when GM killed off most engine programs in 80/81 that weren't Chevy or Cadillac. Buick got to keep their 3.8L and Olds got to work on retrofitting a gasoline engine for diesel fuel, but most GM motors were sacrificed at the altar of cost management. This was, notably, the beginning of the end for Pontiac which had been the muscle brand for several decades. And god forbid you made a car that outpaced the Corvette...thats an immediate death sentence under GM. First turbo luxury coupe, Olds? No one needs to see that. Oooh, a turbo Trans Am, Pontiac? LOL IT NO LONGER EXISTS. Oh, hi, Buick! Thats a nice Grand National you have their....shame if something were to happen to it..... I will go to my grave hating Chevrolet. That they make shamefully cheap junk and wrap it in the flag just to cater to some false commercial patriotism only solidifies that hatred.
@@snappy452 Yes the corvette is the golden child. GM even killed off chevy cars which would outpace the corvette in any way, such as the camaro in the early 2000s. The camaro was getting too close to corvette performance for much cheaper with the same engine (which can be bought and tuned easily to be same or more powerful than the corvette for cheaper than the price of the best corvette). Not only that, the interest in muscle cars was also dying. The ONLY reason the camaro was brought back was cuz Ford bought the mustang back with the retro styling and was selling like hotcakes, and was getting all the profits (This is also the reason the challenger came back.) The camaros of today still use the same engine as the corvette, and just like before, you can buy it and modify it to be more powerful than a corvette for cheaper than buying a corvette, but due to the profits coming in, the camaro is still here. Even some of the factory models of camaros are close to corvette performance. But corvette being the golden child, if the camaros (or sports cars in general) start to have bad sales, the camaro will be killed first.
I've always wanted to build a Buick LeSabre with the 3800. Cause you can make 5-600hp fairly easy with a turbo. And that would be a hell of a sleeper. And a comfortable one at that lol
Damn I want a Buick now. They seem pretty good cars for the price...and I want them to return to NASCAR,that flat front end and slopes rear would be good for drafting on the Superspeedways. Almost like Fords front end...
@@Zulfburht Um, Mercedes in the shop, BMW in the shop, higher prices but higher parts and labor as well.... I don't find luxury riding through a garage parking lot for a few thousand grand extra tacked on...
They don't have much in common with Cadillac actually. Starting in the late 80s they used one of the most reliable engines Chevy ever made. The good Ole 3800.
I never really thought about it, but I guess I have a lot of friends tied to Buick. My friend I go to Indy with every year, used to race Buick in NASCAR, although I have no idea what years. And one of my dad's good friends was in charge of the Buick IndyCar program. I forget how much more power they made over the competition, but it was substantial.
I have a soft spot for Buick though, the first (and so far only) car I have restored is a 1970 Buick Electra 225, it rolls down the street like a dream and I will always appreciate the brand
The Century from the early-mid 90's is the oldest car on the roads in large numbers up here in Cleveland (a harsh environment for elderly autos, with the road salt and huge potholes in winter). I see them all the time. They're considered practically 'unkillable', and have outlasted many a tougher-looking car or truck from their era. It might've once been "Grandpa's car" , but today the grandkids are driving their kids around in it.
@@dsnodgrass4843 yeah I can't believe how many of the mid nineties Buicks are still driving! Centuries, Park Avenues, Lesabres and occasionally a Roadmaster... and up in salt country too...
My first car was (and still is) a 2000 Century. Old grandma cars are great for finding reasonably nice low-mileage cars for cheap. $2000 for 63,000 miles when I bought it, still going strong today. And it still gets the 20 city/30 highway mileage it did when it was new.
I choked up when I heard that track in this video and I was taken back almost 20 years ago. I beat that game in 105 hours and it remains one of THE BEST games I have ever played. We wore out our first PS2 and had to get another. (We also wore out our first original Playstation and before it died it would only work if upside down.)
This was a very well put together video! Definitely learned a lot about their NASCAR history! I had no idea they had such a long dry spell while still competing.
I love this comment from Donut media's grand national video, "I swear Buick is the strangest car brand, they've built their identity on making fairly conservative, boring cars for regular folks but every once in awhile they slam their veiny, three shielded dick down on the performance car market table as to say 'this isn't even our sort of thing, but this is how you make a fast car'. Smashed everyone in 1970 with the GS 455 Stage 1, the fastest muscle car of the era (appropriately named the 'Hemi Killer'), and then, as said in this video, used a then near unheard of engine configuration (V6 turbo) to make the second fastest production car at the time. I don't really understand you, Buick, but I look forward to whatever you come up with next." based on that record in 10 years they'll release a hyper car getting fastest in the world for a few years then dip back to family cars
Not only was the 455 Stage 1 faster, it held the record for highest torque output of a production engine for a staggering 21 years, until the first-gen Dodge Viper released in 1991.
Look up "Old Yeller II" it was a road racing car that was hand built by a guy named Max Balchowsky and his wife Ina in the early 60's that was powered by a 401 Buick Nailhead engine, it beat every high end European sports car thrown at it, every Ferrari, Jaguar, Aston Martin and even the Maserati Birdcage which was supposed to be the most advanced race car in the world at the time, it sent them ALL packing back across the Atlantic with their tails between their legs. Max had a shop in West Hollywood and he's the guy who set up the two Mustang's and three Charger's used in the movie Bullitt along with too many other famous movie cars to list. There's a fantastic video from back in the days of Speed Vision from their series Behind the Headlights here on RUclips about Max and Old Yeller II, I believe it's under the title "The Max Balchowsky Story", and there's also an online article from Road&Track titled "Old Yeller II, the Junkyard Dog that Beat the World", check both of them out and I'll guarantee you that you won't be disappointed. Max used to allow other drivers to run the car that didn't have a ride so they could get the points, Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, Billy Krause and Phil Hill are just some of the famous drivers from back in the day who raced that car, once a reporter ask Krause what the most potent race car was that he'd driven and he replied "Old Yeller II", and Max never trailered the car to the races, he drove it on the street from his shop to the track and then back home after a race. Max Balchowsky is the unsung hero of American road racing.
I have a Buick Verano and it's been more satisfying than any of the 20-some cars I've owned over the years...some of which were significantly newer and sold.
Pontiac: (Has all time classic cars that are still remembered to this day, *dies)* Oldsmobile: (Does quirky new things to help reinvent motorsports as we know it, *dies)* Saturn: (Also kinda tried the same thing as Oldsmobile but for the consumer market, until they didn’t. Not much of a surprise here for that context, but still, *dies)* Hummer: (Basically GM’s attempt at Jeep’s, *dies,* and is only now recently kind of making a comeback with the EV… I say kind of because it’s fake and still just a full blown GMC with the Hummer branding. They aren’t even trying to hide that) Buick: (Was never special, no one cares about, and is about as expendable as one dollar you use every year, *is somehow worshiped in China which wasn’t even its market to begin with and is still alive to this day)* *What the fuck!?*
Even though the vid is 4yrs old and still runnin', I enjoyed it. Glad the algorithm shuffled it in for me to find. I also like your use of music from GT4 and FF. Thanks
06:04 to 06:18 - The God Emperor strikes again with that aesthetic. When I say to people that this is why this era of RUclips is still amazing, flaws and all, it's little things like this that I refer to. Just amazing.
6:28 A lot of people din't/don't know how BIG this era of car was. I remember the first time I saw a Earnhardt Lumina...damn thing barely cleared my waist.
I think of the entire GM brand line-up to be like that one single teacher in a kinder-garden where every kids is attached to and whenever that one kid has a advantage over the other kids for example, the teacher praised one of the paintings, and everyone will get jealous and try to beg the teacher to praise there's too.
This is really interesting. I currently drive in the Nascar Legends series in iRacing and I’m running the ‘87 Monte Carlo. It was fun to learn a little more about them. Thank you
That Bobby Allison '88 Buick brings back memories of my childhood basement. My dad had a light-up sign that was just a display of Bobby Allison's #12 1988 Buick. I'll never forget it or that paint scheme.
My 1st car was a 1967 GS400 ... drove it until I was 27... one badass old car... everyone had a Camaro or Chevelle.. I had the GS 400 and would blister lots of cars.. best car i ever owned.
You know some one told me how Buick stays afloat by sales overseas in China, but I never took the time to research that rumor, but you confirmed, and as mentioned, weird as hell, but it wouldn't be Buick if it weren't.
Even though I am a diehard Ford Guy. Damn I just love the Looks of the 1987-1989 Buick Grand National and GNX. They are on my bucket list of cars and trucks to own at one point in my life. Fun fact about the Buick Grand National GNX it was a joint venture between Buick and McLaren. McLaren mostly did the tuning of GNX motor.
as Keith mentioned, different Mclaren. They both have ties to Bruce Mclaren, but the Mclaren involved with the GNX has roots in CanAm racing, while the Mclaren in Europe was always the F1 Mclaren. By 1980 they were independent companies.
@@KyleP133 glad someone else knows the ins and outs besides me. Love the car so I naturally watch everything i can on it, jay Leno brung a dude on his car show with a show room floor quality one thats been on the show room floor barely drove at all. Its also not a dig that it isn't the same McLaren because they done the motor right.
Thanks for listing the songs you used in the description, knew that was a track from FF but forgot which one. Love the vaporwave track after it as well 👌
My best friends first car was a late 80s Skylark coupe his grandfather bought of a guy for a case of Yuengling. We called it the Flylark. Also my dream car is a white 1997 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon with the faux wood paneling on the side. I have no idea why I love it so much. Maybe because I relate to it being big, fat, ugly and stupid
I had a Buick LaCrosse when I did Route 66 for my honeymoon. Absolutely lovely car to drive. Far, far, far nicer and better than the Ford Mustang I swapped it for to drive from Las Vegas to LA. Would love to get a LaCrosse in the UK!
Nice video. At 4:02 Junior Johnson is standing in front of a 1956 PONTIAC. In the 60's my grandfather graduated from Pontiac (a sweet 58 Star Chief in 2 tone green with power everything and chrome everywhere) to Buicks. Something like a 65 Wildcat (i.e. LeSabre with the biggest V8 available) which I broke a motor mount when I was 16, later a 73 Centurion, same idea, LeSabre with a 455. Also, one of my high school buddy's brother in law (not for long) had a 65 Riviera with something like a 455 with dual quads.
Awesome information on Buick in NASCAR (couldn't wait for you to get to the GNX, one of my top 5 favorite American production cars ever). Extra cool points for the fact I hear a Teedra Moses track in the background, when most people don't even know who Teedra Moses is or any of her music.
4:09 earlier today I commented on the youtube upload of this song that I’d heard it in Emplemon’s and FitMC’s videos, and now less than a day later that comment’s already outdated lol... not complaining though, it’s an awesome song, glad you included it :)
Thats a good question. Since neither Chevy, Buick, nor Ford make cars in their model lineup this year I think either GM will be racing Cadillacs and Ford Lincolns or nascar will go SUV.
It's weird. Consumers don't want sedans anymore but they still want their car to feel and act like a racecar... but we're still not racing SUVs so who knows...
@@hunternegron336 How's desert off-road racing doing? I watched that a lot back in the 80's. Dominated by pickups, but there must be SUVs , too. Would seem like a good thing.
Dad had a burgundy 92 Buick Regal GS car still going strong different owner now, the point is every time I see a Buick or the Buick name I get nostalgic great video 👍
That 88 Buick in Bobby Allison’s gold miller look will always be my favorite looking stockcar ever, thing looks like it could do 230 around Daytona if it wanted to and was allowed to and if it could not spin out. It along with the thunderbird LOOK like the only cars that Talladega couldn’t stand to handle if left raw.
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Big thanks to good ole Biodegradable for animating the Pokemon sequence. If I had to do that myself, this video would have come out next week. Check out Biodegrable here: twitter.com/BiodeEditable
Nascar need to go back to that idea of if we take the body panels off the race car and a road car they'd be almost identical. Pre aero wars and pre 90s
I have a Buick
S1apSh0es what u see as Buick over there in the 🇺🇸
We over in the 🇬🇧 see them as vauxhalls
When i opening the vid and I said “that’s a vauxhall” if u look up Vauxhall Astra they are basically the same models but they rip Buick off the badge and put a vauxhall badge on it
That's Gran Turismo's menu theme? Thought it was Yakuza 0's Real Estate music
only memorable buicks are the GNX and regal
Pretty sure Buick’s demise was when they were kicking the Corvette’s ass in the 80s and Chevy cried to corporate about a grandma car outperforming their sports car.
Exactly. Buick was horsepower and speed capped by Chevy for the Grand National dogging the Vette in every measurable stat
So was GMC with their Typhoon and Syclone, and is only around since GM has no one else to fill in the light-medium industrial market segment.
Oh please 🤣 corvette was always gonna be the faster car an if you wanna get down to it, Pontiac was whooping everyone’s ass not just the rest of gm.
Buick had interesting stuff in the 80's outside the turbo Regal/Grand National. The "new" FWD LeSabre had IMO distinctive "aero" styling with compsoite headlights, a cool clamshell hood, thing was you needed to know how to work the option sheet. Order the blackout package, vinyl top delete, alloy wheels with blackwall tires, they looked very modern/european. Google 1988 LeSabre T-type, it looks SO MUCH better than the 95% of Lesabres that came with chrome rockers, wire wheel covers and whitewalls. Leave all that crap for the very similar Park Ave, the LeSabre should have came minimally ornamented to compete with the sleek Taurus.
@@michaelskoomamacher5652 GMCs are pure profit for GM. It's a Silverado with nicer interior. If you combined Silverado and Sierra sales, they'd knock the F-150 off its "best-selling truck" perch decades ago. GM would be stupid to axe GMC. It prints money.
"Yeah that brand of grandma cars accidently coughed up the second fastest production car, in the world, out of thin air" Why is this quote so danm funny to me?
because it wasn't accidental
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@@craigpainter337 I think it was and they just got ahead of it and said it wasn't. Kinda like they tried something else only to get that result and said fuck it run with it 😂😂😂
Damn if only Saab was introduced into nascar lmao
@@chronus9083 Buick is greatest NASCAR manufacture participation of all time
Buick be like: "Hey we exist and can do things sometimes!"
"Ill be what i wanna do!"
“We sell rebadged Opels, Vauxhalls, and Holdens in the United States, except they’re called Buick’s and they have different names!”
“Also Holden’s gone but no one cares because we are obviously better”
Buick is not a good brand reapply and that's sad.
A la Grand National
Considering they sell more cars in China then any other manufacturer...
Pretty sure they are known.
Buick: The official car of your conservative grandparents that have enough money to afford a Cadillac but don’t want to seem to flashy in the church parking lot. The official car of your uncle Carl, who’s house looks like the clearance shelf at Walmart, lots of random clutter that nobody else wanted.
Except for the Grand Nationals. That's the car for your older cousin that is "alternative" despite (or probably because) their aforementioned conservative parents. You catch up with them every once in a while and despite their angsty exterior appearance they are one if the most friendly people you know.
I too watch RCR.
Rcr?
@@HeyItsJonny ruclips.net/video/6u8xlg-q5Xc/видео.html
@@MrSourceMan oh duh, love this guy.
I bet a Buick wild cat can out run a Chevelle
I had a 1986 GN. But some owners didn't know it's secret. (Those that tried using it in drag racing, ugh.) The stock GN transmission combined with the turbo that kicked in at a very specific RPM range, actually allowed the car to accelerate faster from 60-120, than from zero-60. (There was speculation that this was purposely designed to emulate a NASCAR running start. But that is another story.) I used to enjoy playing with this a lot at highway speeds, where I can easily challenge another car [already at the speed limit] and beat the pants off of them. I did manage to outrun 2 particular cars of the time. The Corvette, and the rare Taurus SHO. Lots of fun.
Grand National GNX is my favorite car. Yup, a Buick. I want a Buick.
“I got the Grand Nat running in the alley outside, now Michael run like you hungry and get your ass in the ride” El-P Yankee and the Brave by Run the Jewels
I got to drive one, a guy I was delivering to had one for sell and let me take it for a spin.
Unforgettable, and definitely lives up to its hype
@@MrTaterNubbz I've only had the pleasure of seeing it one time before, while in Queens, NY. In the space of 30 seconds I saw a Merc AMG GT, Supra Mk.4, and a GNX. Needless to say I was hyped wayyyy more by the GNX than anything else.
I would kill for a clean GNX
@@Macccaroni that must drive AMG owners mad
S1apSh0es: “The cars of the late 70’s didn’t look much like their showroom counterparts”
Me: *Laughs in V8 Camry*
V8 RWD Camry lol
V8 Camry? Hells yeah, boyz
The reason that the late 70s cars didn't look like the street cars because the street cars shrank.
@@williehill47 Swap an RCF engine into a Camry. Or swap an ISF engine into a Camry.
Nah hang on a second, what if we took the engine from a Land Cruiser and......
@@mitchell-wallisforce7859 Yessir
Buick has never built anything crazy:
“What about The grand national”
“Oh shit you right, Buick has 1 fast car!”
*crys in 70 stage 1 GSX 455*
Makes me wish the Stage 2 would of make it to production
*GT4's '62 Buick Special laughs in the background*
@@maddoxwca
And isn't a 66 Chevelle body a repackaged 64 Skylark?
I have a 67 Skylark. It's beautiful
maddoxwca I thought the stage 2 was an engine package that came in the trunk of the car and it was up to the owner to install them
Buick was definitely not the popular kid in the class but one of this kids that just got along with everybody
Sounds like me
And the guy that the popular kids hated because well, they were actually cool 😔
Buick: For the man who is a GM loyalist and Chevy is too utilitarian, and Pontiac is just too flashy, their motto should have been "we invented niche market"
I don't understand why someone would be a loyalist to any giant brand. The old days were a wild time, apparently
@@gamemeister27 nah, it didn't ended tho... Check out the wars between Ford, GM and Chrysler (Now Stellantis group) trucks.
@@M4V3R1CK_13 also all the stickers of Calvin pissing on another brand. I hate those
@@gamemeister27 why would anyone have a favorite sports team? Same logic.
@@eclipsegst9419 Nah disagree. You're not buying a sports team and using it to do stuff. You watch their games and hope they win. Plus they usually represent an area you're from.
Being a brand loyalist, to me, implies you think they make the best stuff at the right price, and that that's almost always the case for any product they make. There's no one to root for or a title to win, just a product to buy.
Now, for car stuff, I more understand being a fan of a company's engine designs from an enthusiast perspective, divorced from the reality of actually driving their cars, but most car brand loyalists mean that's the brand they always buy, and a lot of them haven't made great cars since like.....ever.
0:44
"Oh, this is a Buick? HUH, never would have guessed"
They ain't Buicks, they're rebadged european Opel/Vauxhall cars.
Very true. Yet still there will be people who ask why we don't get the "good Euro GM" designs, all while forgetting the GTOs, the Chevy SS and the entire Buick line.
iDriveDaily GTO was a Holden and SS was a Holden
@@iDriveDaily The GTO and SS are Aussie cars tho, although there was a Vauxhall version of the GTO
hahaha!
Yeah the Chevy SS is just a Holden Comodore
Love that Gran Turismo music in the beginning
Then a little Trigun, some un-remastered Final Fantasy X, and some Pokemon Gen 2. Lost track on the last few.
Yas
Stolen straight from EmpLemon. How original
@@Cody-ch2lc EmpLemon didn't even make that music, so it's not stealing from him. It's "stealing" (if it even is stealing) from Nintendo, Sony, Square Enix, and some oter companies.
@@OOZ662 Basically two thirds of my high school CD wallet.
Fun fact about Charlotte Speedway S1ap, my mom's old house when she was young lived in in eith her mom, but what she didn't know was right after it was built is when Charlotte Speedway was abandoned a little while back, however my mom (who's now 56 years old) found out a month ago that her mom's house was built right next to where the track used to be on Barry Dr., the house was built on the outside of turns 1 and 2 and next to I-85. My mom and I were so shocked to find this but my mom was even more shocked because her mother didn't tell her anything about it because she didn't know about it. The house is demolished now and there is no outline of the track, however my dad told me when he took a trip to the house (when demolished) he noticed in the backyard in the woods of how the ground started to drop because the backyard itself was going uphill but in woods it dropped down a bit. Then I told him, "It could be the banking of the track". Now idk how many degrees of banking the track had, but all I know is that it had banking according to my dad. Now S1ap if you have to you can try to visit the area of the track but it'll be difficult to get to, all I know is turns 1 and 2 are in a bit of trees but the rest of the track is a business area but if you dig through bushes and trees where my mom's old house used to be you could find where 1 and 2 were, hope you look at this funky fun fact lol.
Btw I love your vids👍
That’s quite cool
Yeah that’s pretty interesting and cool
A_ BigAmountOfConfetti48 that’s cool
That’s pretty damn cool
I've suggested that Slap carry on up I85 to Salisbury to look for any signs of the "track"at Salisbury speedway - _i.e._ the _actual driving surface,_ because the area has been partially developed with a concrete panel factory and some self-storage units, but the location of the track is quite clear - because the grandstand is still there! It was repurposed by building brick curtain walls all the way up to the roof and is, as far as I know, still to this day used as a warehouse - a very odd looking warehouse, with a roof that slopes in one direction! LOL
"That's a Buick?"
No, that's an Opel. I know because they've been trying to dupe us Australians by applying the Commodore badge to that same car.
Soviet opinion here in the UK its a Vauxhal
@@jameswilson8820 Opel uses the Vauxhaul badge to trick the British they are buying a local vehicle. In the rest of Europe the Cars are using the Opel brand.
@@flightlinevr6302 yes very true
Yeah I was thinking that looked like a Holden!
Its sold as a Holden, Vauxaul, Opal and buick
The Grand National embarrassed alot of Mustangs.
A lot of ferrari and lambos too
it embarrassed everything almost as bad as the fire bird
It's not surprising. Buick fielded a V6 turbo Indy car motor.
The FBI had bought a lot of them. Allegedly, agents loved them and many refused to turn them back in for replacement when they aged out.
Even agents love fast cars
As a daily Buick driver, this is definitely a Buick moment
Bought a LaCrosse 2 months ago and I have no regrets
@@Corvin152 Well are they having the same design as the old Holden/Vauxhall/Opel cars? Because I liked to see them here in Europe although they are way and were way tooooo pricy in company to Mercedes or Audi.
@@Vixen1525 Kind of. They share the same characteristics I'd say. My LaCrosse is like a Opel/Vauxhall Insignia just wider and stretched so to speak
I had a 97 lacrosse with the indestructible 3.8 liter V6 and a very destructible transmission I had to rebuild at only 60k miles
Certified Buick moment, rebuilding my LeSabres motor in a week hehe
Buick: "Hey, look at me, I'm random!"
Oldsmobile: "Am I a joke?"
Olds had thr dang 442 Cutlass. The toronado was even a hot car
@@WebNstyne The Toronado was probably the only FWD muscle car too
@@skyscalllater cadillacs with the Northstar, lancia thema, and volvo s80s
Yes.
Yes Oldsmobile, you are.
Yeah I don't feel as though Buick is out of place or "random" especially as it is the oldest American automobile manufacturer.
Such a shame for Buick. They are America's oldest make and even Chevrolet himself raced them.
Nice use of FFX music.
Oldsmobile predates Buick by 11 years.
@@dukecraig2402
Oldsmobile:1897
Ford:1903
Buick:1908
I was looking for the FFX comment 👌
Duke Craig Maybe they meant “oldest currently existing make”?
@@DLBBALL Thats correct.
My dad was a huge Buick fan, bought a new one every 3 years. My first car was a 67' Buick Wildcat
The Stage 1 GSX Skylark from 1970 is a timeless classic.
Don't understand how this car was so forgotten
S1ap is gradually turning into EmpLemon & Internet Historian's comfier, more active cousin channel - the way I like it.
i could watch EmpLemon talk about any random topic all day.
"If the Universe is so big, then why won't it fight me?"
Back when GM brands used to compete with each other instead of being the same car with a different badge!
Who wouldn't wanna see Buick in NASCAR again?
I'd want to see them if they stopped selling rebadged Opel's and started making their own cars again.
@@PT94x take the modern Regal X tour wagon, throw a LS in it, put it in formula D.
They had a very good set of cylinder heads for them back then that made them very competitive.
Chevy killed GMs innovation by being a bunch of big crybaby bullies everytime another division caught the public eye for even a second. Screw Chevy and screw GM for cancelling Pontiac. I'll never own another GM that isn't a used Pontiac.
I STILL LOVE BUICKS!!!
My first car I ever owned as a teenager was a '91 Buick LaSabre and I love that box boat. I spent all my money turning that thing into a "Nascar". Unfortunately I crashed ot out of turn 4 off the 55 south in California when a SUV flipped in front of me..... i miss that car.
I have a 90 lesabre coupe and its a stunner. I've owned a lot of vehicles over the years, from old 350's to LT1 and LS powered vehicles and even a Mercedes CLA AMG but this is my last go fast project and im all in on it. Went back to what I liked from the jump. The short of it is the H body lesabres can be made to look pretty good and custom suspension, brake conversions and an engine swap does wonders for the car (just like any other car).
My first car was a 1994 LeSabre. After a year pulled the 3.8 and put in a 3.8 from a park avenue. Then swapped the blower for one off a Pontiac GTP. It was fun to have a granny boat that boogied.
My first and current car is a 2004 Buick LeSabre and I love it, but cant shake the feel of a young guy like me driving something like a LeSabre and not getting the occasional odd eye look. Only compliments I get are from older folks lmao
I love my 93 Roadmaster. Still running strong and smooth as ever! When this drive train wears out, LS swap may be in order.
My 96 roadmaster is the best
I've come back to this video at least 15 times. Incredible insight in Buick's weird history in NASCAR. This channel made me fall back in love with my memories of NASCAR earlier in my childhood. Thanks for opening up my eyes to the big boom and some oddities of this crazy motorsport.
When the auto generated caption at 6:55 says “they would always remain stonk looking:”
*s t o n k s*
Hmmm yes I look very S T O N K
I heard that and immediately had to check comments to see if anyone else had caught this. S T O N K S
The Buick GNX is one of the most timeless cars. Hell the thing was king when it was made.
Damn straight! I highly recommend RCR's take on it!
The GNX is one of the coolest cars ever made
It features heavy in the music video for Ooh La La by Run the Jewels.
“Buick has never built any timeless classics”
Wow, this boy just slipped the finger to the GNX, Roadmaster, and GSX.
Fuck, any Buick from the 30’s-50’a were gorgeous.
I agree. The young man need to revisit automotive history. The 70s were a good era for Buick as well
60s and 70s Buicks were something else
I have no clue why, but the showing of those winless years and the choice of music in that bit is almost emotional for me. Major kudos to the music on all your pieces, Slap.
Proud owner of a '14 Buick Regal AWD here! Took it to my first SCCA Track Night in America at Gingerman Raceway in Michigan last month. By far the most reliable and fun-to-drive car I've owned.
You can imagine my utter disappointment when I learned GM is killing off the Regal and leaving Buick with nothing but lame-ass crossovers now. 😒 #SaveTheSedans
They won't bring back the cars, even Chevy is cutting back their car models. Part of that is international sales, where crossovers are more popular. Part of that is apparently that sedans are classed as sports cars by some insurance companies (I know Hyundai Elantras are apparently sports cars in Canada) where crossovers aren't, so they're cheaper to insure.
And a big part of that is that the average new-car buyer is the single dumbest person you will ever meet in your life, and the salesperson selling it to them is the second-dumbest. I've worked at a dealership for a good while now, and cars have been steadily getting worse over time because the idiots buying them have been demanding features that make the cars worse.
The Ford Fusion even In Europe isn’t doing that well.
@@noahkoz6873 it's called the Mondeo here, the original name
That does suck their losing the Regal I've always loved the Regal and people just don't know about Buick because they've always stayed in the shadow and when they did come out people know about it
1:01
Never EVER stop using the Trigun OST until you get Tsueno Imahori himself showing up at your door. It fits too well to not keep putting it in these glorious videos you make
I've used a couple of tracks before. They always go well with the old school era of NASCAR. Thankfully, they're pretty lenient with their license.
@@S1apShoes cultured you are my friend. (salutes in weab)
@@S1apShoes Man, weird question, but what's the name lf the track that you played for the 89's part of the vid?
I’m cultured in a different way, but I enjoy a good soundtrack
3:38 "Give them the best driver with the best team around them and they'll still find a way to snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory."
In other words, Scuderia Ferrari...
Narrator: doesn’t make timeless classics
Grand National: Am I a joke to you?
Timeless means it fits into any period....the GNX doesnt fit that as it screams mid 80s
"...neither timeless classics, or modern masterpieces."
What S1ap tried to say, is that Buick just can't find "THAT" essence that makes a brand feel special. They basically tried everything.
From doing supercars with the handling of a semi (with their road muscle cars), elegant designs in the 30's~50's and 70's~80's, complete air knifes in the 80's, rebrand some of the best cars GM ever had, and even tried to make some good cars for young people in the 2000's.
And i can guarantee you, that even petrolheads confuses some of the best cars ever made from Buick... as their Chevrolet counterparts.
Nothing worked for them.
As i said, Buick just can't find *"That essence"* .
Regals too. And the lesabre was a modern masterpiece
Would like, but your at 69 so I can’t break the niceness
That is not what timeless means when alplied to automotive desirability. You need to revise your understanding. Timeless actually refers to how the vehicle appeals to people across generations regardless of the change in styles and preferences.
In that regard, the GNX is timeless.
S1ap and Foolish Baseball dropping content in the same morning? Yes, please.
best day of the month so far
Wait wait wait, Buick is a high tier luxury brand in CHINA!?
The weirdness never stops
Yep. That is where the sales are. Not here.
interesting biproduct of Chinese culture. it's a big taboo to have anything perceived as equal to or better than what your boss/ employer has. when their economy was booming (& they knew nothing about cars), all bigtime execs & CEOs etc. were buying Cadillacs because again, they knew nothing about cars & in their mind Cadillac was the pinnacle of luxury. all the guys high up, but not at the top of companies were making tons of money too, but effectively weren't allowed to have Cadillacs due to the culture. so what's the next best thing to a Cadillac? a Buick.
Funny enough Chinese and Japanese cultures LOVE American made stuff, especially vehicles. Harley Davidson motorcycles and clothing is HUGE. My girlfriend used to work at a Harley dealer, and she said Foreign exchange and wealthy Asian students from the local college with no clue would come in and spend hundreds; if not thousands on clothing even though they didn’t even own a Harley. Or they would buy a cheaper sportster, even though they didn’t have a driver or motorcycle license.
@@arachnonixon that is a bit mis understanding. GM used Buick as launching brand in China; a very smart strategy to have coustomer dig into the brand history . The first prime minister of modern China Mr. Zhou uses Buick for commute. You will be surprise how many chinese goverment fleet order Buick has over there. And what GM is there sure is GM what is not in North america. GM is flexible, inovated, and listen to coustomer. They make Japanese brand run for their money in China even in the realm of IQS. As a person following both market, I just dont understand how this is one company at the two extreme of coperate spectrum.
Buick is BIG in China. Cuz it's release by GM China.
Had an 02 Regal GS. Favorite car I've ever owned. Comfortable, classy and with a few very small mods I was wasting other cars off stoplights for fun.
I love my 1992 Buick Roadmaster. Dyna ride suspension in a big comfortable car with reliable 350 V8 power with a limited slip differential.
Keep it, it'll go up in value.
Me too! Mine's a 93 and I still drive it daily. Super comfy and smooth.
How’s the miles per gallon?
@@sludge8506 Not good at all, maybe around 12-15mpg but it's just one of my 7 cars and 3 motorcycles. I daily drive a Toyota that gets around 38mpg 😁
@@j887276 👍👍👍👍
9:14 I was today years old when I noticed all of the Cars of Tomorrow in the background
An European car, built in Korea, liked by the Chinese, with an American badge.
The mr.worldwide of cars
Now that's "global"...!
And sold in Australia as a commodore, that no one likes
most buiks are made in michigan
@@isaaccusack9202 they're rebadged Opels
As a foreigner who isn't too knowledgeable about Nascar, can someone answer me a question.
In the late 80s/early 90s there was 5 brands racing in Nascar.
Ford
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Buick
Of the 5 brands racing in Nascar, 4 of them were General Motors brands, 4 brands of GM all fighting against each other.
Why? How? Seems rather strange to me.
GM technically owns each of them, but racing was one of the best marketing strategy. People love winners. These GM brands were all once independent manufactures, so even after GM acquired them, they each had their own leadership group wanting to sell more than the other guy. The Pontiac GTO was created in the late 60s because GM didn't allow John Delorean and Pontiac to build race cars that competed with the other GM race cars, so they built the GTO to be a race car on the street. Conclusion, GM owns these brands, but they don't make decisions for all of them.
People had a lot more brand loyalty to cars in those days. My grandfather on my mother's side only drove Oldsmobiles, for example, while my Dad's Dad was a Buick man. Even though both makes were very similar to each other under the hood, GM kept on making them under different badges--since men like my grandfathers would sooner die before switching brands.
Of course, by the 2000's, a lot of those customers DID die out, and foreign automakers had a much larger presence... which meant redundant brands like Olds and Plymouth finally had to go.
I’m guessing because it’s a good idea to diversify your investments, in other words they have multiple brands of different designs of one owner who can increase their chances of winning a championship and more race wins.
@@microcar14 That's half of the story. The other half is that Chevrolet is GM's golden child who gets preferential treatment above the other brands aside from Cadillac. The brand independence largely died when GM killed off most engine programs in 80/81 that weren't Chevy or Cadillac. Buick got to keep their 3.8L and Olds got to work on retrofitting a gasoline engine for diesel fuel, but most GM motors were sacrificed at the altar of cost management. This was, notably, the beginning of the end for Pontiac which had been the muscle brand for several decades.
And god forbid you made a car that outpaced the Corvette...thats an immediate death sentence under GM. First turbo luxury coupe, Olds? No one needs to see that. Oooh, a turbo Trans Am, Pontiac? LOL IT NO LONGER EXISTS. Oh, hi, Buick! Thats a nice Grand National you have their....shame if something were to happen to it.....
I will go to my grave hating Chevrolet. That they make shamefully cheap junk and wrap it in the flag just to cater to some false commercial patriotism only solidifies that hatred.
@@snappy452 Yes the corvette is the golden child. GM even killed off chevy cars which would outpace the corvette in any way, such as the camaro in the early 2000s. The camaro was getting too close to corvette performance for much cheaper with the same engine (which can be bought and tuned easily to be same or more powerful than the corvette for cheaper than the price of the best corvette). Not only that, the interest in muscle cars was also dying.
The ONLY reason the camaro was brought back was cuz Ford bought the mustang back with the retro styling and was selling like hotcakes, and was getting all the profits (This is also the reason the challenger came back.) The camaros of today still use the same engine as the corvette, and just like before, you can buy it and modify it to be more powerful than a corvette for cheaper than buying a corvette, but due to the profits coming in, the camaro is still here. Even some of the factory models of camaros are close to corvette performance. But corvette being the golden child, if the camaros (or sports cars in general) start to have bad sales, the camaro will be killed first.
Go fast with Class... Loved my 87 Grand National!
Olds, Pontiac, Saturn, and Buick are my favorite GM brands.
I've always wanted to build a Buick LeSabre with the 3800. Cause you can make 5-600hp fairly easy with a turbo. And that would be a hell of a sleeper. And a comfortable one at that lol
The Gran Turisno songs are so nostalgic
Damn I want a Buick now. They seem pretty good cars for the price...and I want them to return to NASCAR,that flat front end and slopes rear would be good for drafting on the Superspeedways. Almost like Fords front end...
Roger Dodger Cadillac’s are budget luxury.
@@Zulfburht Um, Mercedes in the shop, BMW in the shop, higher prices but higher parts and labor as well.... I don't find luxury riding through a garage parking lot for a few thousand grand extra tacked on...
Basically like driving a Cadillac for less
@@goodnightcharly5135 And based on JD Power and Consumer Reports, a more reliable Cadillac. Maybe the people in China are onto something about Buicks
They don't have much in common with Cadillac actually. Starting in the late 80s they used one of the most reliable engines Chevy ever made. The good Ole 3800.
I never really thought about it, but I guess I have a lot of friends tied to Buick. My friend I go to Indy with every year, used to race Buick in NASCAR, although I have no idea what years. And one of my dad's good friends was in charge of the Buick IndyCar program. I forget how much more power they made over the competition, but it was substantial.
I have a soft spot for Buick though, the first (and so far only) car I have restored is a 1970 Buick Electra 225, it rolls down the street like a dream and I will always appreciate the brand
After I saw the Kendrick Album I came here, we ready to see Buick popularity increase by 100 % these days
My first car was a 1996 Buick Century. I might be a bit biased (for Buicks and shrimps), but I loved this video.
The Buick Century (1982-1996 generation) was a very good car.
The Century from the early-mid 90's is the oldest car on the roads in large numbers up here in Cleveland (a harsh environment for elderly autos, with the road salt and huge potholes in winter). I see them all the time. They're considered practically 'unkillable', and have outlasted many a tougher-looking car or truck from their era. It might've once been "Grandpa's car" , but today the grandkids are driving their kids around in it.
My first car was an 1988 Century custom.
@@dsnodgrass4843 yeah I can't believe how many of the mid nineties Buicks are still driving! Centuries, Park Avenues, Lesabres and occasionally a Roadmaster... and up in salt country too...
My first car was (and still is) a 2000 Century. Old grandma cars are great for finding reasonably nice low-mileage cars for cheap. $2000 for 63,000 miles when I bought it, still going strong today. And it still gets the 20 city/30 highway mileage it did when it was new.
S1apSh0es used a melody from my favorite video game of all time (Final Fantasy X) in a video. 4:07
This is the icing on the cake
Same. Pretty sure I was on Besaid for a while there.
Thank god someone else caught it! But if you follow is instagram you would know Slap is a weeb and is probably hoping for us to catch it!
@@jpumbaa1 you mean Kilika? ;)
@@jpumbaa1 Thats deff Macalania Woods I thought lol
I choked up when I heard that track in this video and I was taken back almost 20 years ago. I beat that game in 105 hours and it remains one of THE BEST games I have ever played. We wore out our first PS2 and had to get another. (We also wore out our first original Playstation and before it died it would only work if upside down.)
This was a very well put together video! Definitely learned a lot about their NASCAR history! I had no idea they had such a long dry spell while still competing.
As an Australian, in 2001, seeing my then-girlfriend's late-90's LeSabre.. The idea of LeSabre's racing in NASCAR will never not be funny to me.
8:40 Thank you for unlocking that core memory, man. Gold was such an early gaming memory for me.
welschid I was just wondering about it for a while, and suddenly, the Mighty SlapShoes blessed us again tonight.
I Remember Seeing A BUICK Competing In NASCAR Events.
"What's a Buick?" "I think that's what you call a used car...?"
When ur car breaks down so u buy a second car until it gets fixed
I just got an ad off to the side for a Buick. Thank you GM, very cool.
Buick Grand National:
"Am I a joke to you?"
I love this comment from Donut media's grand national video, "I swear Buick is the strangest car brand, they've built their identity on making fairly conservative, boring cars for regular folks but every once in awhile they slam their veiny, three shielded dick down on the performance car market table as to say 'this isn't even our sort of thing, but this is how you make a fast car'. Smashed everyone in 1970 with the GS 455 Stage 1, the fastest muscle car of the era (appropriately named the 'Hemi Killer'), and then, as said in this video, used a then near unheard of engine configuration (V6 turbo) to make the second fastest production car at the time. I don't really understand you, Buick, but I look forward to whatever you come up with next."
based on that record in 10 years they'll release a hyper car getting fastest in the world for a few years then dip back to family cars
I'd love to see em drop a twin turbo 6.2 is Lacross or something just because.
Not only was the 455 Stage 1 faster, it held the record for highest torque output of a production engine for a staggering 21 years, until the first-gen Dodge Viper released in 1991.
Look up "Old Yeller II" it was a road racing car that was hand built by a guy named Max Balchowsky and his wife Ina in the early 60's that was powered by a 401 Buick Nailhead engine, it beat every high end European sports car thrown at it, every Ferrari, Jaguar, Aston Martin and even the Maserati Birdcage which was supposed to be the most advanced race car in the world at the time, it sent them ALL packing back across the Atlantic with their tails between their legs.
Max had a shop in West Hollywood and he's the guy who set up the two Mustang's and three Charger's used in the movie Bullitt along with too many other famous movie cars to list.
There's a fantastic video from back in the days of Speed Vision from their series Behind the Headlights here on RUclips about Max and Old Yeller II, I believe it's under the title "The Max Balchowsky Story", and there's also an online article from Road&Track titled "Old Yeller II, the Junkyard Dog that Beat the World", check both of them out and I'll guarantee you that you won't be disappointed.
Max used to allow other drivers to run the car that didn't have a ride so they could get the points, Carroll Shelby, Dan Gurney, Billy Krause and Phil Hill are just some of the famous drivers from back in the day who raced that car, once a reporter ask Krause what the most potent race car was that he'd driven and he replied "Old Yeller II", and Max never trailered the car to the races, he drove it on the street from his shop to the track and then back home after a race.
Max Balchowsky is the unsung hero of American road racing.
@@dukecraig2402 Thanks for the info! Awesome history.
I have a Buick Verano and it's been more satisfying than any of the 20-some cars I've owned over the years...some of which were significantly newer and sold.
I feel same about the Lacrosse! I have two of them now.
My favorite NASCAR body style Generation 3 of all time 1988 thru 1993 Buick Regal and 1990 through 1993 Chevrolet Lumina it was perfect
Yes I’ve owned two Veranos and they are great!
Pontiac: (Has all time classic cars that are still remembered to this day, *dies)*
Oldsmobile: (Does quirky new things to help reinvent motorsports as we know it, *dies)*
Saturn: (Also kinda tried the same thing as Oldsmobile but for the consumer market, until they didn’t. Not much of a surprise here for that context, but still, *dies)*
Hummer: (Basically GM’s attempt at Jeep’s, *dies,* and is only now recently kind of making a comeback with the EV… I say kind of because it’s fake and still just a full blown GMC with the Hummer branding. They aren’t even trying to hide that)
Buick: (Was never special, no one cares about, and is about as expendable as one dollar you use every year, *is somehow worshiped in China which wasn’t even its market to begin with and is still alive to this day)*
*What the fuck!?*
Badge engineering.
GM stupidly tried to dominate the American market by supplying all types of cars possible
iirc buick is connected to modern china's history,massively too
I miss my 99 grandprix widetrack 💔
post 80s Buick is the living example of "Power of Bull5hit"
they became so random, to the point nobody bothered to end that.
Even though the vid is 4yrs old and still runnin', I enjoyed it. Glad the algorithm shuffled it in for me to find. I also like your use of music from GT4 and FF. Thanks
Just found your channel a day ago, and what hooked me was that trigun transitional music you used at the beginning. Thats it slap, youve got me
06:04 to 06:18 - The God Emperor strikes again with that aesthetic.
When I say to people that this is why this era of RUclips is still amazing, flaws and all, it's little things like this that I refer to. Just amazing.
probably the greatest stretch of youtube clip ever made, holy shit
I just wish he'd quit ripping off other people's ideas
@@Cody-ch2lc No chirping without reason, but can you give an example of this? Legitimately asking.
6:28
A lot of people din't/don't know how BIG this era of car was.
I remember the first time I saw a Earnhardt Lumina...damn thing barely cleared my waist.
I think of the entire GM brand line-up to be like that one single teacher in a kinder-garden where every kids is attached to and whenever that one kid has a advantage over the other kids for example, the teacher praised one of the paintings, and everyone will get jealous and try to beg the teacher to praise there's too.
This is really interesting. I currently drive in the Nascar Legends series in iRacing and I’m running the ‘87 Monte Carlo. It was fun to learn a little more about them. Thank you
That Bobby Allison '88 Buick brings back memories of my childhood basement. My dad had a light-up sign that was just a display of Bobby Allison's #12 1988 Buick. I'll never forget it or that paint scheme.
4:06 Nice choice of music. Taking a page from EmpLemon's video on that feller from Kannapolis with a nice mustach, whatever his name was...
That statement at the beginning ain't true. My wife for some odd reason loves Buick. She ditched he '91 bmw 535i for a 96 le saber
yeah i agree i lost my 95 century because of the intake gasket rotting up, best car i had next best to oldsmobile.
She knows what a reliable car is......
@@alm4132 its reliable but the oil looks like it got glitterbombed
A 535i for a le saber, that does not seem like a good trade
Buddy had a 1969 Skylark in high school. It even had flames(bought that way and super faded)
Thanks mate for the incredible voice you have for our sport and the depth of your passion.
My 1st car was a 1967 GS400 ... drove it until I was 27... one badass old car... everyone had a Camaro or Chevelle.. I had the GS 400 and would blister lots of cars.. best car i ever owned.
Buick hit its NASCAR peak in 1981-1982. Those two years, of the 61 NASCAR Cup Series races run, Buick won 47 of those.
8:40 i love that Pokemon reference
Buick Grand Nationals are timeless classics.
You know some one told me how Buick stays afloat by sales overseas in China, but I never took the time to research that rumor, but you confirmed, and as mentioned, weird as hell, but it wouldn't be Buick if it weren't.
Lol all my memories of Buick are from my uncle's regal, and he rallied it in people's yards and random fields. That thing somehow kicked ass.
What year was it?
Even though I am a diehard Ford Guy. Damn I just love the Looks of the 1987-1989 Buick Grand National and GNX. They are on my bucket list of cars and trucks to own at one point in my life. Fun fact about the Buick Grand National GNX it was a joint venture between Buick and McLaren. McLaren mostly did the tuning of GNX motor.
Different McLaren then the super car maker
That same motor, a bit detuned, also went into the 89 Turbo Trans-Am.
as Keith mentioned, different Mclaren. They both have ties to Bruce Mclaren, but the Mclaren involved with the GNX has roots in CanAm racing, while the Mclaren in Europe was always the F1 Mclaren. By 1980 they were independent companies.
@@KyleP133 glad someone else knows the ins and outs besides me. Love the car so I naturally watch everything i can on it, jay Leno brung a dude on his car show with a show room floor quality one thats been on the show room floor barely drove at all. Its also not a dig that it isn't the same McLaren because they done the motor right.
Weirdly after watching this, Buick has become one of the most recognizable car manufacturers to me. I see them everywhere now
4:07 Calm Before the Storm! I can't be the only nerd to have noticed that.
Thanks for listing the songs you used in the description, knew that was a track from FF but forgot which one. Love the vaporwave track after it as well 👌
Your music choices are *chief kiss* perfection
I try my best
My best friends first car was a late 80s Skylark coupe his grandfather bought of a guy for a case of Yuengling. We called it the Flylark.
Also my dream car is a white 1997 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon with the faux wood paneling on the side. I have no idea why I love it so much. Maybe because I relate to it being big, fat, ugly and stupid
Ohhh Yahhh, the good old Buick Toad Blaster Estate wagon.
I had a Buick LaCrosse when I did Route 66 for my honeymoon. Absolutely lovely car to drive. Far, far, far nicer and better than the Ford Mustang I swapped it for to drive from Las Vegas to LA. Would love to get a LaCrosse in the UK!
Front wheele drive v6 is the basis for better than mustang....said nobody
@@WebNstyne Drive the two cars yourself, then come back to me.
Nice video. At 4:02 Junior Johnson is standing in front of a 1956 PONTIAC. In the 60's my grandfather graduated from Pontiac (a sweet 58 Star Chief in 2 tone green with power everything and chrome everywhere) to Buicks. Something like a 65 Wildcat (i.e. LeSabre with the biggest V8 available) which I broke a motor mount when I was 16, later a 73 Centurion, same idea, LeSabre with a 455. Also, one of my high school buddy's brother in law (not for long) had a 65 Riviera with something like a 455 with dual quads.
Awesome information on Buick in NASCAR (couldn't wait for you to get to the GNX, one of my top 5 favorite American production cars ever). Extra cool points for the fact I hear a Teedra Moses track in the background, when most people don't even know who Teedra Moses is or any of her music.
Grandma's grocery getter
Gnx: "I beg your pardon"
i imagine buick when making GNX be like : whoops! the fastest production car lmao
Second fastest car
Well it was Mclaren that did all of the work
Buick Regal s(80s) were my favorite bodystyle, then Torinos.
Allison's 12 car and Rudd's 26 are among my favorite paint schemes of all-time
4:09 earlier today I commented on the youtube upload of this song that I’d heard it in Emplemon’s and FitMC’s videos, and now less than a day later that comment’s already outdated lol... not complaining though, it’s an awesome song, glad you included it :)
My father in law drives a Buick.. a 1970's Buick GS, fun car.
Will there still be NASCAR if more people want SUVs and fewer people want sedans?
Thats a good question. Since neither Chevy, Buick, nor Ford make cars in their model lineup this year I think either GM will be racing Cadillacs and Ford Lincolns or nascar will go SUV.
It's weird. Consumers don't want sedans anymore but they still want their car to feel and act like a racecar... but we're still not racing SUVs so who knows...
@@hunternegron336 How's desert off-road racing doing? I watched that a lot back in the 80's. Dominated by pickups, but there must be SUVs , too. Would seem like a good thing.
What about a NASCAR with SUVs that would be interesting
Ford and Chevy had to switch for their pony cars for this reason.
The Buick grand national / regal was the nicest looking nascar in the 80s.
"wait that's a buick"
me, from the UK: "preeeetty sure that's a vauxhall"
Dad had a burgundy 92 Buick Regal GS car still going strong different owner now, the point is every time I see a Buick or the Buick name I get nostalgic great video 👍
That 88 Buick in Bobby Allison’s gold miller look will always be my favorite looking stockcar ever, thing looks like it could do 230 around Daytona if it wanted to and was allowed to and if it could not spin out. It along with the thunderbird LOOK like the only cars that Talladega couldn’t stand to handle if left raw.
Buick: "It's a car!"
Buick is actually quite big in China
Yep. They are making a pretty penny over there
I believe China is the only reason why the brand still exists.
@@nathanherrold2806
Which is why _they_ get most of the good models and sedans.
@@nathanherrold2806 Yeah without those Chinese sales Buick would've been canned right along with Pontiac.
Yeah. He even mentioned in at the end