The GNX, that's interesting too. It pays to be at the right place, at the right time. It was the year of the monsoons in Bowling Green, I think 1998. Anyway, rained the whole week. Shin deep mud, cold, miserable, etc. I went into the Buick tent to escape some of the liquid sunshine. Buick had several cars in there as a display. I went over to the GNX on display and was looking it over. Humm....no GNX number on the dash. What's up with that? Touch control AC - that was NOT available on GNX's, only lever AC. Humm....look at the VIN, 10th digit (G) was for a 1986 model year. Now hold on, what the heck is going on here. Turns out Buick used a 1986 GN to make into a display car, much like the GSX Prototype. Metal finished bumpers, mile deep black paint, etc. It was used for photographs and sitting pretty up on a turntable at shows. There was an older gentleman standing near the car and I went up to him and asked him about the car. Turns out it was his. His name is Byron Scott and had recently retired from Buick. He was the engineer that wrote the supplement service manual for the GNX's and this was his retirement give to himself. We talked for a few, told him about the GSX's I owned and, when I was departing his company, I pressed my business card into his hand and told him if he ever wanted to sell to please call me first. 6 months later he called, named his price (which was very reasonable) and myself, Jodie and the kids took a drive to Charlotte to buy the car.
I never realized until now that the original Prototype did not have a space between the red pin stripe and black stripe.
That is a VERY old picture, taken before what we knew it should have been. There is a space of body color (pearl white) between the red/orange pinstripe and that is the way the car is now. When I bought the car, the car had NO stripes on the body, save the hood stripes and they were wrong. This was corrected when the car was restored by Dave Kleiner in 1994-96.
