As I am posting this I realize that i must seem like the bigest loser in muscle car history...Anyway. Going back to about 1996 or 1997 a friend of mine and I are driving down Francis Lewis Blvd (local racing hangout, before the cops ruined it) in his 1967 Firebird. His car was pretty fast with at the time a early 90's vette 350 (l98 out of a 91 i think) M21, cam, headers, intake, and holley. We come up to a light and these two guys pull up next to us in a mid 80's regal (g-body). The car was pirmered gray, had a large ski rack on the roof and was the plain jane model regal body (no GN or turbo regal badges or taillights). Anyway, the car was really quiet and hard to hear over the firebird (which is a convertable btw), but he starts reving it and inching to the light. The light drops and my buddy launches the car. The regal however has transformed into the loudest strangest sounding car i have ever heard. By the time my buddy shifts to second the regal is a car and a half ahead. By the time we reach third he if 4 to 5 car lengths ahead. We stopped for a red light (we managed to make two greens at the previous intersections which allowed us to runs through 3 gears) and the regal kept going. We tried to catch up to those guys but we never saw them again. Fortunatly it was 3 a.m. on a thrusday night and nobody saw us get our asses handed to us, but man that car was fast.
Glad to see that you made it over from the Kawasaki Triples board to here, lots of good floks here to help you out with info!!
I hope you won't be offended by this in any way at all, but aren't you glad you got beat by a buick, than an import? And you aren't a loser, all you did was get beat by a buick, which I'd rather be beat by than any other kind of car.
Don't feel bad. Back around '88 in my old '66 I got my doors blown off by one of those things too. I always thought those 6 cyl. cars were a joke, having been working as a mechanic and driving them. Some of them barely moved. I never drove a GN, but was sure surprised when the one I was racing spun his tires when he was already going 30 MPH next to me. I heard that turbo kick in and it was all over for me. I thought I ran out of gas or something when that thing passed me like I was standing still. :shock: I've beaten Corvettes with that car, and don't remember ever getting creamed like that before.:bglasses:
Well, we know the five letter name that used to make GN's, don't we?:Brow: I was raised around 6 cylinder cars, even though most of my older family meembers said that back in the "older days" 6 cylinders were slower than 2 horses and a buggy, and now, look what people are driving. Look what buick is doing to their newer cars. Buicks main focus for now is V6's. So are a lot of other cars. I own a buick, and its got a little 231 V6,(which i know a lot of other buicks could smoke, since it is a non turbo 6), and it gets down the road good for the power it has(which isn't that much), but i mean what do you expect, it's a buick, every buick i have rode in has had tremendous speed. The town i live in only has one GS(Rob's Dad, which is one of my friends), a few early 80's lesabres, and newer other buicks, and I have seen an 84(?) GN with illinois license plates. My buick is the second oldest one in town, besides rob's dad. But that's what i think is unique about living in keokuk, is i have the second oldest car. But the point that im getting to is that now days super-charged(and some turbo-charged) V6's are the main focus for the present. but the buick ones are pretty sleak and fast:3gears:
On my way to work on those long county highways w/no cops, I let my little v6 open up. I'd have it floored the entire way. Must have maxed that speedo hundreds of times and with the slope of the nose and hood on that regal ('81), it would just get lower and lower to the ground, got pretty good gas mileage too.
I wish I knew whether the car was a 6 or an eight, but i never saw it again. My buddy says he could hear the turbo whine as the car went by, and i have to trust his hearing as the car was on his side (we were in the right lane) and he has spent more time around those cars (his cousin has a gn). Ths car was really the ultimate sleeper, flat hood, black steel wheels, the only thing that was visually different from some beat stocker was the car appeared to be lowered slightly. I always liked g-body cars since a kid at my high school had a really fast early 80's malibu but they didn't have the look i wanted at the time, now as i have gotten older the cars look better to me every day. I tell you the car that got me liking buick g-bodies was not a gn but a buddy of mine's 86 regal. He was a roommate of mine for a year at the university of rochester and he inherited a grandma green regal. The funny thing about the car is that it had a turbo t-type motor. Apparently his grandfather wanted the top of the line regal (the t-type) but wanted it in this 1970's pea soup/avacado/old lady green metallic color that was offered on the standard regal. The dealer swaped the t-type motor into the car in 1986 and off they went. His family told me the story and they are not car people at all so I put a lot of faith into what they said was true.Flash foward to 1997 the car was severly rusty, the old man has passed on, and the gradmother could no longer drive. My friend who needed a car took the car to use. He was not a car guy and he hated it becasue of the color but i used to tell him to keep it because it was a pretty rare car. We took a few trips up to canada in that car and man did it fly. I remember being on the canadian side of niagra falls with me him and four girls in the car (that we picked up in various bars) crusing up and down the main strip where all the bars were. Eventually i graduated and moved and his family junked the car when the trans went. I asked him recently if he remembers where they junked the car and he doesn't. Oh well some cars are better left a memory.
A friend of mine got a turbo regal (not a gn or even a t-type, just a turbo regal), he drove it as hard as he could until he blew it (it was pretty much dead when he got it tho, not a huge loss). Some guy bought it just for the turbo parts. At least someone is getting use out of it.
anyone know what the going price is for a gn? i want to find a daily driver and dust my freinds camaro...
