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The Buick Regal Grand National was one of the hottest performance cars of the dark days of the 1980s, and its performance is still very respectable even by today's standards.
The Grand National Lays the Groundwork for the GNX. At the start of 1982 Buick took advantage of its recent championship win in NASCAR—which was often referred to as “Grand National” racing—to...
For 21 years before NASCAR started selling naming rights in 1971, its top stock-car racing championship was known as the Grand National, and the name lingered in public usage long after the...
Faster than a Testarossa for half the price of a Corvette, let's investigate the history of the Buick Grand National. What started as a youth outreach program in the '70s eventually became...
The result was known as the Buick GNX, short for Grand National Experimental. A total of 547 GNXs were produced, and each began life as a fully-optioned Grand National. So, what's the difference between a Grand National and GNX? Read on as we take a detailed look at the '87 Buick GNX specs.
The first Buick Regal Grand National was introduced at Daytona International Speedway on February 10, 1982. This car marked a revival of the high-performance image that the Skylark Gran Sport models had fostered in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
Behold, the Buick GNX, the ultimate version of Buick’s NASCAR-winning, Darth-Vader-styled Grand National. With its roots in the humble Regal coupe and only six cylinders instead of the...
Along with a whopping 75% increase in horsepower by way of a new 3.8-liter V6, the Grand National had also come into its own visually as well, sporting a murdered out look that would help the Grand National and GNX become performance icons of the era.
Colvin’s article on his 1987 Buick Grand National, the last G-body General Motors car to be built, from the March 10, 1988, Old Cars Weekly. He was a longtime GN fan, having owned a GNX and raced a turbo Regal T-Type.
Thanks to a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 that cranked out as much as 245 horsepower and 355 pound feet of torque, the Grand National soon proved capable of embarrassing cars costing significantly...