Mopar Muscle Association UK

buicks are soo cool

Not sure if this will interest many of you?????????????
You kidding???? ace write up and pix
Did you sell your blue Regal over there?????

Sandy, Like you we love the banter between marques, but come on!

That is excellent stuff and it's great to see different cars on the board,thanks for taking the time to post, fascinating.

Great whrite up Sandy did Chevy make any decent Monti Carlos with this motor in? or where the hot Chevys of the time still V8s?

Hi Tony,

Chevrolet never used the LC2 engine in any of their cars. The Monte Carlo SS had a 305ci Chevy small block and was, in fact, the last US car to have a carburettor.

GM was binning the rear drive G-body intermediate at the end of the 1987 model year, but the replacement front wheel drive cars were slightly delayed so the 87's ran on till, if I remember correctly, late November, 1987, effectively '88 models.

The Grand National is called the Grand National to celebrate Buick's two years of winning the Nascar Grand National championship (80 and 81 I think, or maybe 81 and 82). I think Richard Petty won his last Daytona 500 driving a Buick, and dexpite all the wing car hoopla, the Cheby V8 powered little Regal was his fastest ever Nascar winning car.

Coming back to Chevrolet, Buick had a problem in 1986 with the 235hp rated GN. Its advertised rating was 5 hp more than that of the Corvette, which was GM's 'hero' car. Chevrolet got seriously miffed about this, and added aluminium cylinder heads to the 350 for the 1987 model year and re-rated it at 240hp after some serious development work. The story is that the one guy who did chip work for Buick's engine management systems for the LC2 spent less than 10 minutes changing the fuel and boost coding on the PROM and upped the LC2 engine's output to 245 hp.

Chevrolet were seriously Bananarama! about this.

This was why, when GM put the later 3800 version of the V6 in the 4th Gen Firebirds and Camaros and Buick Power Train slapped their supercharger on it and got the 3800SC outputing more than the LT1 350ci V8, Chevrolet stamped their foot and the car never appeared for the public. No bent six Buick was ever going to outperform a V8 Chevy again.

All the best

Here is the TTA I got loaned by Tom for a few years, and the LBR I owned in the US.

Everyone in Kokomo called the car the LBR as it stood for Little Blue Regal.

Base Regal T without the WO2 blackout package. Chrome trim, chrome grille, blue cloth interior with buckets and floor shift.

Cheers, Sandy, I like those cars a lot. Predictably, I like them in black. Interestingly, there is an unmessed with (?) Monte Carlo on e bay at the mo, put a proper engine in it and its a nice car.
You decide what 'proper' is, though

Thanks for posting all the info and pics - interesting reading. IMHO the Buick I like best is the boattail Riviera; beautiful piece of design.

Hi Miles,

I just saw your post with, 1 hour to go.

The 'dealer' here in Glasgow had an SS when I had my Buick and I popped around to take it out for a test drive. I had to check afterwards just to make sure that all the plug leads were connected.

However, those GM G-bodies are superb driving cars. Good suspension, stable, nicely weighted steering, seat five adults in comfort and a large boot.

All the best

Sandy
I dont know if it's of any interest to you but many moons ago i had a 63 Buick Riviera with a 425 wildcat engine with 2x4 barrel carters from the factory. Barry Sheavills had it one stage, reg was 2 GYO.

I am interested, Mick.

Any photos ?

Just to complete this blah-blah-blah, I mention in one post that Buick did four Designer Series two tone paint schemes, but I only had photos of three.

Here is the 'missing' scheme. Very rare.

Sandy wrote: Here is the 'missing' scheme. Very rare.

Yes. I can see why.