For all you Buick GNX fans...

1987 went for a cool $200K on BaT just now.  Only 8 miles on the clock.

8?! That makes me has a sad.

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Only 8 miles on the clock.

That's 32 passes

Robbie said:

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Only 8 miles on the clock.

That's 32 passes

Getting picked up at the far end of the track? Now thats the royal treatment! 

Hopefully a lot of running in reverse. 

RossD said:

Robbie said:

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Only 8 miles on the clock.

That's 32 passes

Getting picked up at the far end of the track? Now thats the royal treatment! 

Okay, 16 passes.

RossD said:

Robbie said:

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Only 8 miles on the clock.

That's 32 passes

Getting picked up at the far end of the track? Now thats the royal treatment! 

Buick is fast with class

RossD said:

Robbie said:

Ovid_and_Flem said:

Only 8 miles on the clock.

That's 32 passes

Getting picked up at the far end of the track? Now thats the royal treatment! 

Go fast with class.

thats big money. i miss my 86 turbo T

Not to be pedantic, but the GNX was only made in 1987.  

Had an 87 GN back in 1998 or so.

In reply to Harvey :

And probably the majority of them have ultra low miles.

In 1987 people knew that this was the last of the old school GMs, and musclecar values were starting to really climb, so a large percentage of GNXs were bought by speculators.  

Once I saw how much they were "worth" 20 years ago, I lost all interest. Probably the same reason I don't bat an eye at aircooled Porsches. 

  I miss all my old cars, but I miss my Buick GN the most. Small upgrades made it a blast .

Wow. I have seen a few sell for/be advertised close to $100,000. Is this a GNX record? 

In reply to David S. Wallens :

I believe the last one made sold for $220k not too long ago, so this one wasn't a record, but close.

So, I decided to see what Hagerty says about GNX values. Over the past 3 years, they show a softening: from a high of $150,000 in May 2016 to a high of $123,000 today. 

And just to calibrate everything, Hagerty is talking about No. 1 cars. Here's their definition:

Condition #1 vehicles are the best in the world. The visual image is of the best vehicle, in the right colors, driving onto the lawn at the finest concours. Perfectly clean, the vehicle has been groomed down to the tire treads. Painted and chromed surfaces are mirror-like. Dust and dirt are banned, and materials used are correct and superbly fitted. The one word description for #1 vehicles is "concours."

I have never even seen one in the flesh.  They are black unicorns.  Typically when speculators grab something up, the effect is the opposite of what they desire.  Had these all been used up on racetracks and beaten into the ground via general hoonery, the market value would be multiples of what it is now.

There's one in the Flint Museum with fewer miles.  And all Xs as a VIN.  It was a pre production model that the GM collection was going to crush.