Black Angel of Death..., What do you think of Grand Nationals? Options

[bigjiggy81]

Thinking about selling my 1g awd project and my 90 300zx and getting an 86 Buick Grand National, the black angel of death as some call them, and also picking up a decent small pickup for daily driving, have any of you guys ran into any GN's or raced any? There are 2 i am looking at, both around 8k and both with about 125k miles, I really want one, to take out to the track every once in a while and also take to car shows and all that, some people love em some people hate em, i kinda like the "joe dirt" look of them, how about ou?

[KOU In3]

now have 5k to spend on a 400ci block that'll really kick some tail versus your slightly modified turbo buick. My point being, unless you're going to buy one for the nostalgic value, there's other ways to make more power cheaper.

Umm, I'm not so sure about that. Have you ever seen Wortdog's 'TurboBrick'?

Those things are factory freaks and take very well to mods. I'll admit the buy-in is relatively high but but you'll put one in the 12's, 11's, and 10's more cheaply that the 400 powered Monte IMHO.