30 Years Later
 

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Hard to believe that original article was 30 years ago already as I remember when it came out like yesterday..........time flies.

Jake

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X2 [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Dan

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That article generated a boatload of &quot;Letters to the Editor&quot; of that magazine for many months.

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It still is generating a lot of hatred on a Mopar board. :-)

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I am just young enough to have missed that article, but I do recall when the magazines were writing about Grand Nationals being faster than the Corvette and GM shutting them down. Buick has some history of serving up humble pie!

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I remember it well. I worked on and drove a 71 GS 455 stage 1 car and they are really quick. It is hard for the Mopar folks to believe there beloved Hemi got beat. But believe it. There are cars and engines that are a lot of hype. I have a first gen Z28 and know they are &quot;remembered&quot; to be greater than they really are. Numbers separate fact from fiction. That also sparked the 50 fastest list and the ringers. That helped push our car hobby/ addiction and helped legitimize it.

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I remember that article like it was yesterday too. It caused quite a stir before the internet. Imaging what a bruhaw it would cause today??!!

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What kind of rear gears were those cars running?...the Buick looked like it was flying down the quarter. Now I know why my grandfather always had a big Buick Wildcat [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

wilma

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I would be curious too Tom. I've never known Buicks to run 4 series gears. For Buick a 3:55 was like a 4.56 to a Chevy. Most had 3.0X gears and ran hard with all that torque.