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Old Jul 6, 2007 | 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BuffaloSS
Call me crazy, but i don't like it one bit..."Super" or not. The rear is alright, but the front end is downright fugly IMO.

I guess you guys are a little older than me, b/c just about every Buick for the past 10-15 years screams "grandpa's car"...minus the late 90s, early 2000 Regal GS, maybe, but even grandpa had a hottie every once in a while.
Agree ...

I had a navy blue '98 S/C GS - very clean with the black trim / dark windows and the gray ground effects. Caught enough flack for the HUGE radio display, but the car had the power to put in down back then.

Had a ton of AARP mailings after I bought the car, wonder why?

I think Buick has missed the young crowd since then.
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Old Jul 7, 2007 | 09:53 PM
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Here's my stablemates. My LS4 still can't touch the V6 231
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 01:20 AM
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Correction... Very SWEET !!!!! GS Wolfgang. They just don't make them like that anymore.
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by bearl25116
Correction... Very SWEET !!!!! GS Wolfgang. They just don't make them like that anymore.
and they never did. The body panels, badging, etc show it to be a Skylark (with an incorrect Gran Sport badge slapped in the wrong place.) Don't get me wrong, it is a beautiful car (and very well may have been upgraded from the 350-2 barrel that 90%+ of them were built with to GS running gear), but not a very good clone, heck, did not even bother getting a GS ram-air hood.
I am a huge fan of the Buick's (the '69 GS400 is my favorite, you have not lived until you have whacked open the throttle on a high compression big block and fed it through a 4-speed to a 3.64 rear end). Hate to see them identified incorrectly. Anyway, sorry for the interruption, back to your regularly scheduled lives, I am late for that pesky work thing.
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 10:22 AM
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The rear of that thing is almost identical to a mercedes E-class
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