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Patina / rat rod movement is huge. I actually prefer it in some instances, esp for stealth street racing. I see something like this and just as often, I don't think 'Boy that'd be pretty with a 200HP 292 and a fresh paint job'... I think 'Boy that'd be nasty with clean glass, some tire and a 550HP 427'.

572 BB turbo'd. Aiming for mid 6's in the quarter ~ Went 170 MPH in the 1/8th mile, then coasted to a 7.2-sec 1/4-mile at 156.

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Someone spent a lot on that, but couldn't paint it? Looks like a pile of shit..

We've all had a say in what this particular automotive journalist suggested Buick should do with what appears to be his dream. I reacted the way I did because I too, would have loved to experience a Buick muscle car renaissance. I shared that automotive journalist's opinion myself. Its just that I had that opinion and wanted it to come true 20-25 years ago. I opened up my restaurant in 1996. I dropped out of university (had half a year or so left to get a degree in economics and in political science) to venture in the restaurant world. A couple of years in, and the restaurant was making money and I was still living at home paying no rent and no real expenses (did that until I got married in 2003), I was never quite happy with the cars that were available to buy in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Sure, Id love a Trans Am, could have bought one. Maybe not a Trans Am, but a less expensive Firebird Formula V8. The restaurant was still young and I didnt want to fully indulge in expensive luxury. Not that I do that nowadays either. Its all about putting money on the side...but Im digressing. Anyway, back in the 1997, 1998, 1999 world, I wanted to feel like a young entrepreneur, not a young punk. I wanted a pseudo luxury car, a 2 door coupe, speedy, but not too speedy, sporty, new, that defined who I was without breaking the bank. There were not too many choices. Firebird Formula V8 was too speedy and not enough luxury and perhaps making me look like a young punk. Nothing at Chevy. Nothing at Buick, maybe the Riviera, but the Riviera was too expensive anyway. I really really wanted to buy an Oldsmobile. Like the Riviera, the Aurora was too expensive. I really like the Intrigue. But it was a 4 door. I would have bought a Pontiac, but the Grand Prix was too sporty and not enough entrepreneur/restauranteur luxury. So I bought the Alero. PERFECT car for me. But it was NOT what I wanted out of an Alero... I really really wanted an Olds Cutlass Supreme. Coupe. Either as a RWD G Body or a FWD W-Body. And the Intrigue that replaced it, did not come that way at all in either form. I didnt want ANY Bimmer, but I kinda admit, a 3 Series coupe would have fit my criteria. Thanks but no thanks. Because I wasnt about to become a Eurosnob prick either... So this is where a Buick GSX or Olds 442 revival come in. If not a FWD Cutlass Supreme, I really really wanted a true blue muscle car. But GM wasnt making any. None of the Big 3 were. I had bought the Motor Trend magazine when they revealed this RWD Monte Carlo based on the F-Body Platform, reskinnned with Chevy Lumina Coupe panels... https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/1995-chevrolet-monte-carlo-ss/ And dreamt of modern Olds 442s and Buick GSXs. Especially when Mopar also teased us with a RWD Charger in 1999. So my dream of a Buick GSX comes from a long time ago. But Ive realized that it is not meant to be for Buick. Chrysler with the 300 came close for me to buy something like a modern, luxury muscle car in a modern luxury Buick GSX kinda way, but in 2005, I bought a FWD supercharged Impala SS instead. Weird how that has happened.... And Oldsmobile no longer around, Buick only a CUV maker and Chrysler on the dumps fearing of going the way of Oldsmobile.

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