Buick GNX -- the rest of the story from FoxNews
 

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/12/...buick-gnx.html

TAZ :headbang: :headbang:

I love those. Great article/interview. Man, what a rough job they had!
"We also had a fun development drive out west. We took off from Phoenix in three Grand Nationals and the two prototype GNXs. We were pushing hard going north toward the Grand Canyon, full-out all the way up through Nevada, where some local cops escorted us at high speeds. We spent the night in Vegas, then headed across to Santa Maria, California, and stopped at Death Valley. The difference in handling between the Grand National and the GNX was night-and-day."

I know, seems it was just "work work work" with them!

Great story.

I've always wanted one of them.

Is it known what happened to the two prototypes?

How cool is this!

I heard MANY of these stories from Tim Logsdon first hand-as I worked with him at RideNow. He gave me the model below when I bought my Chevelle-I think he was as happy as I was when I bought it!

He and I set up a lot of dealer bike demos. He had a great career at GM...worked with a bunch of cool folks. He told me he wished that he and I could have worked at GM together....he thought I would have done really well.

He also gave me one of the commercials that they did for the GN (Maybe the GNX) on VHS. I will have to find it and burn it to MP4...

I will try and reach out and see if I can get in touch with him...:headbang:

Have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2MrvWPByAA&t=3443s
Or this one in HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GacP0ap776Y

My Son's GN is in the Black Air movie. Look at 42.18 :)

We still do powertrain testing and brake development trips out west. Part of the motivation is to entice the execs out from behind their desks and into the product.

A few of those trips I probably shouldn't describe in writing.

K

"A few of those trips I probably shouldn't describe in writing." What? Soiled themselves?? LOL TAZ

I'm not sure what the statute of limitations are/were on some of our activities.

Although - I did have some participants that we did not allow to drive after they demonstrated their abilities.


K

Did I get into the wrong line of work or what?!? :beers:

My dad told me "you will never get rich working for General Motors".

I thought it was sort of a general observation; I didn't realize he meant "me" specifically!

K

LMAO!!! You've done very well Keith!

Are you on to a new project now & out of the skunkworks?

Still in the skunkworks but my time is running out. I signed up for three years, which will be complete in March.

After that - it's back to the salt mines...

K

HA! Like I tell my wife and my kids, "It's not the years in your life, but the life in your years." I'd rather slide in to heaven with a worn out body at 60 saying, "whew, that was fun", than tip toe through life and make it to 100.
Goes right along with, "money isn't everything...".

It's also why he kept his day job with GM and didn't race professionally as a career.

He said "...I like racin' too much to do it for a living".

K

I was able to contact Tim Logsdon, "The Boss" mentioned in the article linked at the beginning of this thread. I will try and get Tim to join the site....but here's his response to me sending him the link to the article (Thanks again for posting it Craig!) :

And now the real "rest of the story" ... great stuff, great car ... had a friend at Chanute AFB in Il that had one. To say it was quick was an understatement!! Craig

Some more info from Tim...This may be the commercial he gave me on video-as I haven't found it yet... :)

Dang it -- for some reason I seem to remember that commercial ... may have been on WLS in Chicago ... Craig

WLS always had cool commercials. Even had one in 1966 for Mr. Norm's Grand Spaulding Dodge done by The Buckinghams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVyKyJYhmPg