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I always thought it would nice to have one of these, but this one's a little out of my price range.

At $165K, meet the most expensive Buick GNX ever sold

NBP04TL4ME

I just read that article before you posted it. Crazy money but incredibly low mileage. I knew a kid (douche actually) in college who had one. Amazing piece of machinery with absolutely tons of torque, but as I remember needed a better suspension (too soft)?

knight rider

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Somehow I'm not surprised. These things are getting rarer by the year. Especially ones in that good of condition. I predict that a small influx of rebuilds / restos will start to hit Barrett Jackson now that one fetched six figures.

2012wagon

The Cyclones will be next

Steven Bell

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Wow.....

neuronbob

te3point5

As cool as the Grand National was, I can think of so many other cars I'd rather have for $165k

Yeah, the torque was awesome, yeah, the Turbo was cool, and yeah, the fact that it only came in black was pretty bad ass, but in the end, it's still just an 80's muscle car...

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^^^^ Guessing the guy/gal who dropped $165K on the GNX has a few other rides in their garage............

CLpower

It's crazy what htese have done the last 8 years. GNX was the first car I ever drove, my dad and his best friend each bought one when they were released.

TL-GIXXER

I always enjoyed the mythical "FBI purchase of 1500 GNX's for pursuits" lol

6MTSSR

Its a GNX not your garden variety grand national.Hence the commanding price.Was 35k in 87.You can pick up a grand national for 8k-20k depending on condition.They made tons of grand nationals not the GNX.

robpp

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i was at the BJ auction and looked this car over.

gnx was a very linited edition...not every dealer got one.

i think 500.

and this one at the auction had the window sticker and was brand new.
less than 100 miles.

black label

That would have been all of them plus about 850 more.

That seems to be a common misunderstanding regarding the mythical 80's muscle car. The GNX was only produced in 87 and they only made 547 of them. I'm sure not all 547 survived, of those that did I'd guess not many were time capsuled like this one was.

This selling price reflects a car that was ridiculously rare in 87 when it was new and was essentially stored away straight from the dealer.

dallison

I remember driving a grand national when i was 16. that was one of the best drives of my life.

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Definitely an amazing car, especially back then.

Always wanted a Cyclone too.

Heck, IMO you're very lucky to have had one in the family let alone being the first car you drove.

That must have been pretty cool to have been there.

Agreed! I was a lot rat at a Buick dealership when I was 16. One of the salesman new how much I loved the car and let me take one for a drive, with him in the car of course. But it was still great!

2012wagon

There are some cyclones I see around

A guy who has a mint one. 38 original miles had a 1996 impala ss . He traded Impala for a new 2016 Chevy ss sedan with manual trans

His cyclone lives in the garage says that's his 401k

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38 Original miles is incredible! Not sure if even that nice of a Cyclone will constitute as much of a 401k though.

2012wagon

Yup agree with you about 401k but different people have different standard

His brother had a blood red first gen ford lightning with 7 miles

His dad made $$$$ by doing this with cars. He comes to cars and coffee

Chief F1 Fan

a guy I went to law school with from New Orleans had one--wonder if he still does?

damaged442

Absolutely love the GNX. That car was so nasty. It was the Grand National to end all Grand Nationals and was advertised as such.

The stock GN was between 235-245 hp in 87, the GNX was listed at 276 but was realistically between 300 and 350hp.

To you that think this is not a big deal, it WAS a big deal. This was 1987, and this car destroyed everything that was thrown at it. Chevrolet was less than pleased that a turbo v6 just blew the doors off its Corvette. Stock GNXs ran low 13s and sub 5 sec 0-60.

This engine made it into the 89 Turbo Trans Am and it is still the fastest T/A built.

Sorry, I'm an 80s kid. There was very little to be excited about when it came to cars during that decade. The GNX was something to be excited about!

165K is batshit crazy though! Makes you wonder if it'll actually be driven. Ever.

TL-GIXXER

GN's and "5.0's" were what I grew up racing.

The days of Down's Ford and Duttweiler Performance over at Atco were really friggin awesome

2012wagon

5.0 are what used to pull us over on ca highways

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