Someone mentioned the other day there were no articles in GM HighPerformance about are bleoved Buicks. I was bummed too because I have a monthly subscription and it's always about Camaros, ZO6, Firechickens.
Anyway today I was at Barnes& Noble and happend to pickup a Mag I usually never pickup the front cover was about the Boss 302 being back. So thumbing thru the pages come across a 4-5 page article with pics about the 1st GN's. The article starts off saying before all the NAYSAYERS say it was a Myth and start running off. The car was the Limited edition GrandNational made in 1982.5. it said most will argue that the car doesn't exist that the GN was produced between 84-87. That this GN next to the LaSabre GN it is the next RAREST GN.
Buick had I believe a company named Car and Customs build this special GN they were just going to make 100 but turned out to be around 210. The article Talks about the Day /Year of the Regal , How Richard Petty won one of his 7 Championships in a Regal at the Daytona 500 that year. That year Buick won something like 26 races out of 34 races that year. Won the Manufactures Award etc,etc...Talks about DW, Bobby Allison and all those guys who run Buicks actually more then half the field ran Buicks. The Buick wind tunnel coeffiecent kicked but back in the day.
Goes on and says NASCAR sued Buick because the GrandNational name was Copyrighted by them. Well the outfit that was contracted to make these GNs, come out/designed the stacked Grand National checkered flag emblem we now have with the power6 that design didn't infringe on NASCAR's copyright design.
Anyway the car is Beautiful this guys does in fact have a Turbo 3.8(less then 50 cars came with 3.8) a blow thru to Rochester the gearing is 3.02 or something like that the other engines,and the 4.1 came with a 3.23 in the rear, they all have T-Tops are SilverMist and Charcoal with handpainted red pinstripping, they have a rearspoiler and 3m decal that say Buick on the rear quarter.
They finish by saying when GN collectors realize there is such a beast out there that all GN's weren't Black they will be happy when they find one of these Rare 82 1/2 GNs.
Forgot the mag is Oct 2007 issue of Muscle Machines the front cover has a Pic of a 69 Boss 302 and a 2007 or 2008 Boss 302 cars are yellow with the distinctive stripping abd 302 badging. This maybe Old Shoe to some it was a good read though! Didn't have the cash on me to buy the Mag. so some of the details maybe off a tad. I read this article 3 hours ago and I can't remember what my wife told me 5 minutes ago.
Anyway today I was at Barnes& Noble and happend to pickup a Mag I usually never pickup the front cover was about the Boss 302 being back. So thumbing thru the pages come across a 4-5 page article with pics about the 1st GN's. The article starts off saying before all the NAYSAYERS say it was a Myth and start running off. The car was the Limited edition GrandNational made in 1982.5. it said most will argue that the car doesn't exist that the GN was produced between 84-87. That this GN next to the LaSabre GN it is the next RAREST GN.
Buick had I believe a company named Car and Customs build this special GN they were just going to make 100 but turned out to be around 210. The article Talks about the Day /Year of the Regal , How Richard Petty won one of his 7 Championships in a Regal at the Daytona 500 that year. That year Buick won something like 26 races out of 34 races that year. Won the Manufactures Award etc,etc...Talks about DW, Bobby Allison and all those guys who run Buicks actually more then half the field ran Buicks. The Buick wind tunnel coeffiecent kicked but back in the day.
Goes on and says NASCAR sued Buick because the GrandNational name was Copyrighted by them. Well the outfit that was contracted to make these GNs, come out/designed the stacked Grand National checkered flag emblem we now have with the power6 that design didn't infringe on NASCAR's copyright design.
Anyway the car is Beautiful this guys does in fact have a Turbo 3.8(less then 50 cars came with 3.8) a blow thru to Rochester the gearing is 3.02 or something like that the other engines,and the 4.1 came with a 3.23 in the rear, they all have T-Tops are SilverMist and Charcoal with handpainted red pinstripping, they have a rearspoiler and 3m decal that say Buick on the rear quarter.
They finish by saying when GN collectors realize there is such a beast out there that all GN's weren't Black they will be happy when they find one of these Rare 82 1/2 GNs.
Forgot the mag is Oct 2007 issue of Muscle Machines the front cover has a Pic of a 69 Boss 302 and a 2007 or 2008 Boss 302 cars are yellow with the distinctive stripping abd 302 badging. This maybe Old Shoe to some it was a good read though! Didn't have the cash on me to buy the Mag. so some of the details maybe off a tad. I read this article 3 hours ago and I can't remember what my wife told me 5 minutes ago.
