Best of both worlds
03-13-2010, 04:13 PM
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Best of both worlds
Seven years ago I sold my 1986 mint condition Buick Grand National to someone who wanted it more then I had money in it. Well I just found a true barn find. 1986 Buick Regal T-type. Orginal owner parked since 1994 with 89k on the clock. Going to take a little work to bring it back to perfect, but I'm so happy to be back with the turbo 6. No I'm not selling the Z, but this will be the family fast car. It;s a sleeper too, has bench seat with column shift. The kids of today have no idea what it is and they will get taking to the cleaners by a grandma car. Just thought I would share..
Those were bad cars.
03-13-2010, 04:47 PM
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St. Jude Donor '15
"In honor of jpee"
Yeah, I remember it well. One almost beat my '93 Corvette.
03-13-2010, 05:02 PM
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I had an '87 GN. I even burned my own EPROM (yes, they were EPROMS back then) for some of the spark/fuel/boost mappings. That was a loooooong time ago! And loooooong before EFI Live!
The GN was a GREAT car for it's time. Too bad the handling wasn't much better than the G-Body Pontiac GrandPrix of the same era. It will make a great DD! Congrats!
The GN was a GREAT car for it's time. Too bad the handling wasn't much better than the G-Body Pontiac GrandPrix of the same era. It will make a great DD! Congrats!
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03-13-2010, 05:09 PM
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I loved those cars. My (technically, my dad's) 84 C4 (stock) had its hands full in my "youthful" days against those beasts...never did lose a "spirited" run however.
Red Cell.
Red Cell.
03-14-2010, 07:10 PM
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Nice T-Type, I had an 87 GN was one of my favorite and fun cars I owned, I threw the whole belltech kit on it and a bunch of stuff from the atr catalogue back in the day, Yeah the breaks suck and the handling was marginal. But when the boost kicked in whoopee and hang on
