Children Of The 1960s And 1970s Saw America Through The Back Windows Of A Full-Size Station Wagon, Battling Unrestrained Siblings On A Flat Bench Seat, Playing License-Plate Bingo Or "I Spy" (In-Car Movies Were Decades In The Future), And Whining, "Are We There Yet?
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From iconic to the endangered species list and now back on the road to recovery, the full-size American sedan continues to amaze and amuse critics and fans.
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From iconic to the endangered species list and now back on the road to recovery, the full-size American sedan continues to amaze and amuse critics and fans.
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At the height of the "golden era" of performance, the Buick name brought recognition and status. Unlike today, a world where there is little to differentiate one brand from another, choosing a GM product in the '50s and '60s meant finding your place in the hierarchy. At the top level of opulence and
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Automotive Machine and Performance builds a buick engine - Engine Masters
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Check out this 1986 Buick T-Type that is commonly reffered to as the "Great Pumpkin," and has an array of high performance parts including a Turbonetics Y2K 82mm turbo inside GM High-Tech Performance Magazine.
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Read about the this 1987 Buick Grand National that has 19lbs of boost inside GM High-Tech Performance Magazine.
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Few cars make more natural mild customs than '50s-era Buicks. These big, bold cruisers have always had just a little extra style and panache than common, everyday Chevys and Fords. Beyond that, their relative scarcity today makes them all the more distinctive when plunked down in the midst of such a
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Master The MetalThe 14th season of Ron Covell's metalworking workshops is already underway, and may be coming to your corner of the country sometime soon. Consult the following schedule for dates, locations, and topics, and contact Covell Creative Metalworking (www.covell.biz, or (800) 747-4631) for
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Check out a 1986 Buick Grand National feature - GM High Tech Performance Magazine
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Model and performer Ice LaFox poses with this 1981 Buick Regal cover car. Read how it was created.
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Inflating Our BubbleI just received the January '06 Rod & Custom and I have to say, wow, what a cool issue! The Green Devil is an outstanding example of a hot rod. And let's not forget about the recreation of Ed Roth's Mysterion and the Roswell Rod. Both are
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Check out this turbo V-6 install in a 1987 Buick Grand National.
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Steel Is RealSteel is real, and when it's prewar and built on one of Henry's assembly lines, it can be worth real green. In the right hands, it can also approach art. Bruce Rossmeyer of Florida brought the boys of Hot Rods & Hobbies a '36 Ford five-window co
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Check out this 1987 Buick Grand National that has COMP cams, JE forged pistons, ATR Pitbull mufflers, and a PTE-72 Turbo with 32 psi inside GM High-Tech Performance Magazine.
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Check out this Buick Turbo Regal that is about to get stronger, Diamond pistons, and ARP bolts tht will make this car ready to go ten seconds on the track. Only at www.gmhightechperformance.com, the official site for GM High-Tech Performance Magazine.
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Buick's role in the new General Motors brandscape is to build quiet, luxurious, smooth-riding cars of the sort that Lexus specialized in before it mounted its current assault on BMW's driving machines.
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Upgrading the fuel pump for more fuel flow and and notching the framerails of a 1987 Buick Grand National to fit a larger tire for more traction.
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Read about a 1987 Buick Grand National that has a dual fuel pump instead of the one GM installed. The original fuel pumps that GM installed in Turbo Buicks were the 98-pound weaklings of the fuel system set. More inside GM High-Tech Performance.
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Buick is turning over a new leaf in China, offering a range of products that will soon include a rear-wheel drive LS2-powered hot rod with all the performance goodies copped from the Pontiac GTO - Popular Hot Rodding Magazine
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The Ayala brothers, Harry Westergard, Gene Winfield, Neil Emory, the Barris brothers, and other customizers of the postwar decade were masters at creating a timeless, classic style that has been influencing builders for more than half a century. In this case,
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Aiming for Lexus, hitting Cadillac.
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Replacing the Regal and soon-to-exit Century, the front-drive LaCrosse is Buick's new, younger-thinking midsize mainstay. Although it borrows heavily from GM's aging W-body platform that also underpinned the Regal/Century, the LaCrosse gains multiple improvements that enhance both its structural
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GM High Tech Performance covers the 25th anniversary of the Buick GS Nationals. Check out this issue for the extensive coverage and photos at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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It's over 90 degrees and hot in North Jersey. The air is cranked as Associate Editor Scott Parker and I pull off of the highway toward Basking Ridge. Any day spent photographing EFI GM musclecars is a good one, but this particular shoot is something special.
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