1987 Buick Grand National Twins Sell For $205,000
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Last spring, one hell of a barn find surfaced on Facebook. Two 1987 Buick Grand Nationals surfaced for sale after being found in a garage. The Grand National “twins” sat there for three decades untouched.
Aside from sagging headliners, the two cars featured consecutive VINs and remained in near-showroom condition. Now, the cars have moved on to a new owner for a cool $205,000. Both cars went up for sale on eBay and sold yesterday evening. The original owners, William Avila and Shawn Matthews, brought the cars home after making a three-hour journey to see the cars in person.
Avila told The Drive that Matthews, who actually paid for the cars with a $200,000 check, is a businessman and wanted to use the money for a new venture. Avila handled the sale of the twins for Matthews, and the former owner actually made a slight profit on the sale.
The two did agree that the cars be sold as a pair and they wouldn’t be separated. The cars have been together for 30 years, and an eBay listing wouldn’t change that. Aside from the incredible story, it’s even more mesmerizing that the two cars are truly in showroom condition. Avila said the new-car smell is even present inside.
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Cooler than anything GM sells today. They even seat 4 comfortably and you can see out of them.
Wrong! Today’s camaro would run circles around the grand national
The point isn’t that the GN would run circles around Camaro, of course it wouldn’t. The point is it looks fantastic, drives fantastic, and represents the very best of GM design and engineering from that time. I am not saying the Camaro is an engineering disappointment. It is world class for today. However, the style has become derivative and you absolutely cannot take 4 people anywhere in it.
If GM built a practical Alpha at a reasonable price, they would have a home run on their hands.
ATS – too small. CTS – too expensive.
GM needs an Alpha for Buick. It’s a shame the Avista was nicked but perhaps the timing wasn’t right. Perhaps the next gen Regal could ride on Alpha, it would still be a very competent platform to replace the Opel offering. And if they’re smart, I think they’d consider having both 2 and 4 door versions of Regal, as they have for most of Regal’s history. That makes the case for a 2 door GN much easier for the bean counters to agree to.
“Cooler than anything GM sells today. They even seat 4 comfortably and you can see out of them.”
The CTS-V will disabuse you of that thought.
Cts-v is a great car!
30 years from now nobody will dive a damn about a 2017 CTS-V .
Yes they will and they will be worth more money then
I promise you in 30 years no one will care about a cts-v cause I promise you if these 2 cars are kept as is and together that 200,000 will be taken to priceless museum pieces if you will take a look at the 1967 shelby gt500 supersnake one sold at auction for over a million now put 2 with side by side vins and the fact they are identical and in from what I can tell damn near mint condition sold together I put that price tag close to 5-6 million in 30 years that cts-v go for maybe half a million to the twins in 30years they will be priceless due to the fame and fact it is a true muscle car