John just wants a GN cuz he’s too lazy to shift. :mamoru:
No I want a Grand National because since I was little kid before I even knew what Grand Nationals were all about for some reason I was in love with them. Growing up my love for them got bigger and bigger so I swor to my self that one day I will own a 1987 Buick Grand National and I am sticking to my dream…Even if it means putting off the 240sx project for a while.
And plus the word sleeper came from the Grand National, you never see it coming. It’s not the best designed car, and it doesn’t look too slick, hell it doesn’t even look fast, it only came in one colour (black), and it can hardly take a fast turn but I don’t care because that car is me. It’s perfect in the eyes of those who know it and a little rough around the edges for those who don’t, and if you ever doubt what it can do it will make you a believer.
I love these cars and one day (soon I hope) I will own one.
It’s not a car made like the 240 that can handle but it goes straight really, really …really fast!
Hopefully the one I see this weekend will be good, Im keeping my fingures crossed.
Good luck John. Hope it’s ‘the one’.
Sorry to hear about that, yes you did tell them and I guess this goes to show you have to babysit your car. It wont decrease the value though of it man, people understand you have to drill holes to properly spray the car. You could prolly go after them for full repair of the holes since you expressed before not to do it. Get a shop to plug them with metal and reshoot the jams.
^ I thought about that already, having them filled with metal, but then I have to start getting into body work and repaint and colour matching and blah, blah, blah I don’t want to go through all that it’s just more trouble, I just want to put this behind me and move on, it happend, it was unfortunate it happend to me but shit happens and that’s it. Fuck it at least now my car is properly sprayed I guess. I just want to put this whole thing behind me and forget about it because every time I think about it, it agrevates me.
OKAY so I go to look at this 1987 Buick Grand National on Saturday. The guy tells me on the phone “Oh yeah it’s in great shape, I never winter drove it, I treated this car like a baby, it’s in great shape blah, blah, blah”
I get out there to see it and this poor car was in rough shape, it had rust on both rockers, the drivers door had a hole at the buttom, the drivers side rear panel had rust on it, the hood was scratched, the front was killed with stone chips, the drivers seat had a cigarette burn on it, the windshield was cracked, the passenger side tail light was cracked and then he starts the thing and it’s ticking like crazy and hardly ideling right, so I ask him do you have a performance cam in it? And he is like no, it’s all stock. I then look at the turbo while it was running and I can smell burning oil, I look closer and there is oil leaking from the turbo area.
At that point I had enough I felt sorry for the car and I wanted to kill the guy for letting a car like that end up like that. I told him Im not interested and I told him next time not to tell people on the phone that it’s mint, because it’s terrible. He got offended and he sais “it’s okay man if you can’t appreciate it I will sell it to a real Grand National buyer who appreciates the value of these cars” I turned around and said to him “my friend you shouldn’t be selling this car you should have it p for adoption because this car reminds me of those dogs at the humane society that were abused by their owners and they weren’t treated right” Then he sais I treated it right, the guy before me didn’t" and then I said “you told me you were the original owner!”
This guy was full of shit so I just walked away, he told me to make him an offer so I totally low balled him with $4000.00 LOL and I walked away. As I was getting in my car he sais you can have it for $10,000.00
$10,000.00 sounds like a great price but out of experience I know this car would of needed about $5000.00 plus dollars worth of work to get it up to my standards and expectations of the condition that a well looked after 1987 Buick Grand National should be.
I hate when people pull that crap…way to call him out on it.