With only 547 examples made, the Buick GNX is easily one of the most sought after American cars of yesteryear. The GNX had the performance to go along with its devilish good looks, packing a 276 horsepower turbocharged V6 under the hood – which made it faster than even the Corvette at the time. These all-black monsters are hard to come by in good shape, which might explain why this mint 1987 GNX fetched $106,000 at Barrett-Jackson’s recent auction in Scottsdale, AZ.
The car just so happens to be the lowest mileage GNX in existence, having only traveled 11 miles since the Miller Beer Brewing Company bought it and stashed it away in 1987. Prior to its sale at Barrett-Jackson, it was part of the Michael Jenkins Collection. Sporting serial no. 442, this GNX looks like it has been stuck in a time capsule since 1987. It still has the original window sticker, as well as the original invoice and purchase order. It hasn’t even been washed since it left the dealership more than 26 years ago.
The GNX might just be the coolest car Buick ever made and ever will make. That is, unless they produce another black two-door wearing the GNX nameplate, which they trademarked once again back in 2012.
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Such a waste not to drive a car like this. Some people think low mileage has real value They are wrong. Someone who really valued this car would’ve put 1000 miles on it in the first week.
“Some people think low mileage has real value They are wrong.”
Say that to the guy who sold the car for 3.5X it’s sticker.
Low mileage matters, even more so on limited production cars. It’s a genuine, quantifiable, metric of the amount of wear a car has endured, and nobody is going to ignore it when they buy a car; be it a GNX or a cruddy Dodge Caliber.
So many people put cars away anymore hoping to have the next Shelby and this is one of the few that has paid off.
The truth is there is a lot of value in a low or no mileage car anymore as so many of these cars are very difficult, too expensive or just impossible to restore anymore. There are really repo parts for a car like this and also they are only original once.
Often people who put them away are collectors and speculators so it really matters little if they drive it or not.
The real shame is for the guy who bought this as if he drives it the car will lose the one value it can never get back little to no miles. I saw a guy pay $16K for a 84 Fiero that if he drove it the car would be just another average Fiero with little value. In this case it would still be a GNX but not a six figure one.
It is in all just what you want.
I would rather have a 89 Turbo Pace car anyways. This has been one of the real sleeper cars of the 80’s that will see big increase in value later on. It has a lot going for it. The GN engine in a F body and a pace car all in one.
I agree cars should be driven not sitting in a garage!
oh, it was driven… .5 inches in that garage, and in reverse to rollback the odometer.
Beautiful Auto ! I have a question , did Buick put those vents on the top rear of the fenders or did someone put those @#% AWFUL stick- on fake plastic vents on it ? I gotta believe the owner would do such a thing !
those gawdawful vents were used to allow the heat out because of the turbo under the hood as for horse power its “officially” the gnX was rated at 285hp. when in reality on the dyno it did 300 hp. i believe the 276hp was for the “regular” turbo
you believed wrong…
it was to protect you from higher insurance rates.
There was nothing and I mean Nothing that was gawd awful about a grand national!
no there isn’t… the grand is a truly sweet lookin mean machine.. i was responding to another post about awful vents and the author about hp ratings
The fact is the vents while stated for cooling really were more to set the car apart from the normal GN just as the fender flairs and bigger tire package.
What is sad is the HP on this car today is so average. I remember back in the day this was the killer car to have and today my 2.0 4 cylinder HHR has 14 HP more and even more torque.
This is not a knock but the truth is we really though the higher HP in the 80’s was such an improvement over the 70’s and never imagined GM with engine like in the V sport CTS etc. Hell even the base cars today have more hp then the early 80’s Corvettes with only 2.5 liter 4 cylinders.
I am just glad Buick fixed the Turbo engines as the early years were a mess with the non water cooled housing. It was like clock work a T type or Turbo Monte Carlos would puke a Turbo bearing at 30K-35K. The water cooling and intercooler should have been there from the start.
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