A 1987 Buick GNX with simply 759 miles is presently up for public sale on Carry a Trailer. On the time of publication, it had already attracted a excessive bid of $200,000 with seven days to go within the public sale.
As a refresher, the GNX was the final word model of Buick’s muscle automotive for the Eighties, the Grand Nationwide. A efficiency model of the Buick Regal, the Grand Nationwide used a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 to extract a stunning quantity of efficiency from Basic Motors’ getting older rear-wheel drive G-body platform.
The Regal’s inevitable swap to a brand new front-wheel drive platform meant the top of the unique Grand Nationwide, so GM labored with McLaren Efficiency Applied sciences/ASC (an American firm unrelated to the British automaker and race group) to develop the GNX as a one-year-only closeout particular.
1987 Buick GNX (photograph through Carry a Trailer)
Brief for Grand Nationwide Experimental, the GNX used the identical turbo V-6 and 4-speed computerized transmission because the Grand Nationwide, however right here it was tuned to provide 276 hp and 360 lb-ft of torque, up from 245 hp and 330 lb-ft. It may do 0-60 mph in a claimed 4.6 seconds and run the quarter mile in 12.7 seconds. That was faster than a Ferrari F40.
The GNX presently up for public sale is quantity 114 of 547 from the one mannequin 12 months of manufacturing. Other than aftermarket window tint, it seems principally inventory. The public sale itemizing would not explain its unusually low mileage.
Granted, this is not the one like-new GNX to come back up on the market just lately. A GNX displaying simply 8.7 miles was a part of a Barrett-Jackson public sale earlier this 12 months. An unsold GNX with simply 202 miles was listed on Carry a Trailer final 12 months, and in addition appeared on Jay Leno’s Storage.
