20 hours left 😩

Grandpa's getting his wheels back. It's a cool car and it's fast as hell but at the end of the day it's a Buick regal with some cool paint

Wish I could buy some and support you. Need some new shoes, but they dont offer 17 wide US shoe sizes, so I cant sadly. Back to the drawing board...

Sell out

@@kranduty4604 buying buicks don't pay the bills

I totally agree. I've been in the collision industry for over 30 years and everything his father was saying is spot on. That being said, this poor GN is one of the most molested and abused examples I've ever seen, but it seems like it may actually have some life left in it, which is a testament to the durability of the drivetrain. Hopefully this car gets the full restoration it deserves.

I know a friend of a friend that used to own and run his own bodyshop and he can pick out even really good body work it's insane. A good body man is a good body man. Unfortunately not all body men these days are created equal and some of it is just God given talent.

I could listen to his dad all day hearing his "theory's" and incites to bodywork.. Just something you don't find much anymore.

They do say experience is the best teacher..........

It's why I say to anyone getting on in years please write some of this knowledge and experience down. It's amazing how much is getting lost not just technical and skills but also history and social history.

Amen to that... I lost my dad almost two years ago! He was my best friend... :(

Lost mine just after the turn of the millennium, Mom in 95. The hours that we spent hunting, fishing, working the farm are now golden memories on my late years, even the times cussing each other out when the damn old equipment broke in the middle of baking hot 20 acre field trying to get the baling done before the storm rolled in. Lost my best friend the day he died.

My father passed away unexpectedly in 2017, I miss him every minute of the day.

@Crossroads Cuenot Reading all of these wonderful comments really brings this all together. Thought I was the only one that still grieves his father to such a deep degree. This young man has many priceless experiences with his dad and he appears to truly love and respect his dad. So nice to see that he isn't taking the time they have together for granted. Take care

Lost my dad when I was 11...35 years later time has healed some of it, but still miss him every day. Cherish every moment with yours.

Yes put the factory rims back on!!!

Id rather have the old sawblades on it than those ugly as fudge big rims everyone want to throw on everything....

@@Meantoy that is true , but those factory rims make the car worth more & their isn't alot of them .. But on the other hand he might have saved the original rims from getting rusty and wear & tear their probably in better shape than the car itself 👍

A bit of an old comment, but the '86 Grand National would have had a set of polished aluminum wheels, it was only the GNX that had the black cross-lace wheels.

Listening to you dad talk bodywork reminds me of listening to my dad talk about it. It brings back some wonderful memory's so thank you for including it.

I would love to see an entire series on bodywork, if your dad was willing to do it.

And his dad seems so humble.

I love the calm mannered voice

@@Randomeris1 soothing

Let's get this comment to the top! Let's see it

Thing is light AF there's a lot of engine swaps you could do, and have an inordinate amount of fun cheating death by driving it.

Yup, i owned one. 265,000 miles on everything original until a lady rear ended me with no insurance and totaled it!! That was a GREAT f'n car!! 😃 BTW, that thing could plow through snow! 😃

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Look at The Steve from Braden Carlson! Such a cool build even tho its since been crushed. It was a Zero F's given build

Where the heck is it now??

@@JunkyardDigs Long gone. Sold it back in 1990 after doing some mods on it that made it even faster. It started to be more than I could handle.

@@JunkyardDigs my brother bought a 87 also. Still has it. Ga car. Zero rust. All factory. 42k original miles. Sitting in his garage with 4 flat tires and a dead battery. He just parked it and there it sits.

Haha mint.

@@beckyumphrey2626 Wanna sell it? Lol

Okay thats fair😂

Meanwhile in the fiero

@@JunkyardDigs The Ron is good... The Ron is WISE! After the heck, he went through with his Fiero!

The world's foremost expert in every single thing that can go wrong with a gas tank has arrived! I swear I thought you were never going to get a decent tank on that Fiero. It only took a couple of deaths and some time paradoxes to fix, though.

@@quixototalis a new gas tank on a fiero is the least of the worries owning one...lol

what a determination he got. but all that payed off

Knowing how to spot bad body work is a good thing to know when buying older cars, I've seen quite a few that look nice unless you know the red flags. A lot of people see shiny paint and think it's a nice car but underneath that paint is 20lbs of bondo and a bent frame.

@@HorsepowerGarageVideos have you ever watched the videos uncle Tony's garage did looking over cars that were poorly doctored? He's found some real gems 😳

@@Beandiptheredneck Yeah I'm subbed to him

@@HorsepowerGarageVideos I have a newer car made in last 10 years that has the unfortunate luck of getting hit by people in parking lots over and over and its a meme with the car and the insurance company who paid for everything for the car and nothing on record but like its getting to be stupid at this point how many times someones nailed it lol.

I hope you one day find the opportunity.

In Southern California, I've seen them selling for over $16 for some real beaters...

I meant $16k....

Life has a funny way of making other plans for us. The older we get, the more plans outside of what we want life tends to make.

You will when you get older and it happens to you...trust me 🤦😅

I mean it might be that someone just let the car sit a little too long cause life made other plans and the car has long since stopped being your daily driver. Now it refuses to start because the gas might have gone bad. So you just let it sit because you still don't find time to fix it up. Yet the longer you wait the more time it would take to fix and at some point yea. You just don't have the time or energy to fix it even though it's your pride and joy. Ultimately leaving it to rot away.

Money

That car needs to be seriously detailed. Inhaling that mouse poop is really bad for your health. The car should have been detailed first.

A guy I worked with used to have one. I've seen some videos... Man that thing was fast

They weren't really that fast. there were a lot of faster cars, even when it was built.

@@shaggyduder there were no faster American made production cars in 1987. 0-60 4.7 seconds which was faster than the Corvette, Ferrari and Lamborghini. Even in 2001 the Corvette was 4.8 seconds 0-60mph. So, yes, for its time it was fast.

@@slowdaze because of the turbo, which no other car had.

@@shaggyduder hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha........ First not true, not true at all. Lotus Esprit, Chrysler Conquest, Porsche 944 and Pontiac Trans Am all had turbos at the time. Second what is your point? It was a fast for it’s time car which you very incorrectly said it wasn’t.

Yeah te

Don’t forget hurst olds

Don't forget the TTA!

In the name of love?

Or Poison by Alice Cooper

Last I checked it was “when the levee breaks”….. believe what you want

@@meabob is out

It probably had a speeding mixtape full of 80s arena rock.

You ever think maybe someone had financial issues or couldn't fix it due to issues? Like he mentioned?

@@GCF-Media well if he had financial issues then i could have sold half the shit he has lying around at his house

Maybe it wasn't that special of a car when it was parked? Things tend to get more special as years go by. There was no internet back then so I can understand how someone may not know what they have in there barn. Happens all the time honestly

@SHELLIE NUNEZ righto champion

It's kind of like looking at a blue sky and thinking it's never going to rain again. As you get older, there's a lot of plans that have to change and things you thought you'd never stop doing that you can now barely remember doing, plus things you thought you'd never do that you have to do all the time. Not sure what point I'm rambling my way towards... maybe that life is a beautiful piece of crap, and that getting old sucks.

Not a GNX, and not in really that bad a shape given it's age.

And of course he's also go the typical boomer tall tales about stuff like "YEAH I ADJUSTED THE BOOST GAUGE AND TURNED IT UP TO 20 POUNDS OF BOOST" and "IT'S GOT AN OVERSIZED TURBO" even though it looks like a _very_ stock turbo. You can pretty much guarantee the dude slapped a chip tune into it and made up the rest.

@@grug_son_of_thog you can manually turn the boost up with this litttle rod thingy on these do i belive him common things people did back theb

@@Supersix231 - you should see the one I was working on. The paint was faded and had a few chips but the body, underside, and interior was in good shape. The radio was stock and working. The power windows, seats, and antenna actually worked. The seats were noisy but they moved. The A/C had been converted to R134A and it worked too.

@@grug_son_of_thog - it does look like a stock turbo. I wouldn't have ever put those headers on it. It really cuts into the appeal and the value of it. But that's me and it's not my car.

Lol.

Alternatively known at home as a Ford Fiesta, crappy but not too bad as budget transport

@@NZMantaGSi festiva, made by Kia. Fiesta is an actual Ford.

@@ProjectFairmont cursed autocorrect! That's a Ford festiva in my country, not sold as a kia, even though yes they did make them

I cut the back of my Festiva off and made a truck. Now I'm shoving a van powertrain in the rear.😂

We had those in the UK as the Kia Pride. 3 and 5 door versions, and as I seem to remember, popular with older drivers.

Not so much as a response from Kevin? Yeah Jesse is the better son. Lol

@@hammeringhankaaron7468 harsh. But possibly true

@@hammeringhankaaron7468 Jesse has more time XD

I know right! I love when he looks them over like that

I'd love to see him do that with every barn or field find you guys end up working on.

He was "over" owning one of these?

@@bigbodyrydagarage5488 had it for 15 years. Built it twice, wrecked it twice, then blew the motor and trans. He put well over 30,000$ in it over the years, only to have it rust out under a tarp for the last 6 years. Yeah. He was over it. Too many bad memories.

@@danielmorskijr411 ouch 😔😔😔

@@danielmorskijr411 Sounds like he doesn't take car of his toys.

@@Watthead80 30,000 over 15 years doesnt sound like not taking care of his toys. We all reach a breaking point. He had had all the fun he could, and moved on. He sold it in good condition for someone else to have their fun. He didn't hold on to it dreaming of one day fixing it only to let it rot away. If anything, he did the right thing.

easy way to pick one up I suppose , especially 'back in the day' so to speak

Being a RARE classic /relic though--is worth saving for American auto history to me.. Not like your gonna find OEM parts for these anywhere now.. :( I know where there is one sitting n rotting outdoors here in Cincinnati--makes me sick to see it..

You and me both brother...

Grand National Experimental's, GNX's, are where it's at.

We have a classic car that my grandpa rewired to factory specs because he met a guy who worked at the assembly line that did the original wiring in the 40's problem is car is a 6 volt system so its a bitch to work on cant modernize it either without breaking the car or devaluing it as its so rare that you really want to leave it as is.

Maaaaaan I'd take the title and use it as collateral for a loan and have a frame off restoration...and keep it.

That man dont give a shit about that car if he did it wouldn't look like that stored in a barn uncovered for 15 years

Absolutely not true son. I’m not sure what hack told you that nonsense.

@@chrisreynolds2410 it’s actually a fact lol and makes perfect sense, it’s a fabric/ paper filter, compressed air coming out at a fast enough rate can cause micro tears.. causing more dirt and debris to get into the engine than it normally would, not saying your engine will die from it but not as good for it truly lol. And a master mechanic told me that and he’s been doing it for 40+ years and takes classes to stay up to date so I think I’ll trust that over some random dude on the internet telling me I’m wrong 🤣

Been blowing out air filters for long sense before I was born on the farm on tractors in some of the dustiest conditions you could think of and they have a second smaller filter in side the main filter never have we seen a issue with it ever in probably over 100,000 hours and probably 100 plus combined years of experience with it all the manufacturers tell you not to do it but their just covering them selves incase someone were dumb and blow one out at 100 psi and of course it makes them more money if you have to buy a new filter every time they plug. we blow combine air filters out every other day just about. never had an issue I say it’s a load of shit to sell more filter make more money and then covering them selfs if a engine ever were to get dusted do to an air filter. but in the real world where air filters cost $300 and get plugged with dust ever few days they get blown out.

Just stop with the internet nonsense......

I've got to sit in one it's the best car I've sat in it smells like grandpas small slice of grandmas house those seats even though I was 90 pounds it hugged me highly recommend

@@completefemboyr.n.g1308 90 pounds? Jesus Christ you could fly

@@rexjolles I privately race bmx and other bikes most of the time all terrain and I do have a outstanding airtime il have to try and catch it on video on day Mmmm what bike to use

@@completefemboyr.n.g1308 r/humblebrag

@@rexjolles virtual high five

Not everyone has the time to make a video everyday priority come before KZfaq in some cases

@@robz8989 think he meant the car

@@higu550 That's correct 👌

KZfaq as a full time it should be difficult but ir worth the wait

he carnt make it a daily as its not his he as got to give it back to the owner when done

Brother I know we're two is setting in the junkyard and they are mint but the guy will not part from him and it sucks.

Dayton road was where the serious stuff happened.

rite! I be happy with just the lift

He did follow that up with "it does make it easier"

Having a forklift to drop a full tank of gas would be way easier. I've heard stories where people would try to completely fill their tank because the car wouldnt start and the problem is the fuel pumps would be inside the tanks, not to mention these cars are basically siphon proofed. Why older cars rule!

@@VintageCars999 - I've dealt with that story too many times!!!

@@meabob the best part is when they think it's not really full so they fill it to the point where its leaking out of the filler neck area. Seen that at least once!

As long as it doesn't whistle some Diesel I'm goo

hell yah to that 👍

Sounds like your girlfriend wore the pants

@@craddock619 … LMAO! NOPE! She just had rich parents, and I didn’t. I’ve worked my ass off and paid dearly for everything I’ve ever owned in my life. Her Dad simply handed her the keys to a brand new car every year or two…

@BwayneAnnaLee … It did indeed!

Looks like a 73 if I’m not mistaken. I was wondering if someone would comment about it.

Actually, the 86 and 87 were FASTER than the Vette in those years. The GNX took the Callaway Corvtte's lunch money! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZZ2YLCVq6_Zf58.html