What is it about your Turbo Buick that makes you enjoy it?

[turbobuickltd]

Well for me it is getting lost in it.  Whether it is working on it, driving it, seeing the smile on my 8 year old sons face when I give it a little boost or even being frustrated by it.  My Buick helps me escape from the Bullshit life likes to hand out.  In 9 plus years of ownership it has always been a way to escape from reality for a while.  I enjoy owning one.

[Scoobum]

Making it to the final four in Sportsman division...and putting the big tire cars on the trailer. The look on their faces...pricel ess.

[Steve Wood]

Making it to the final four in Sportsman division...and putting the big tire cars on the trailer. The look on their faces...pricel ess.

And making those idiots that believe all the hype about having to have a roller cam, or FAST, etc. to run fast look like the idiots they are!

[TexasT]

I think it is the respect it gets. When I bought it , it was the mystery. No one seemed to know what to expect. It was either super easy or incredibly hard to get a street race in the early years.

[daveismissing]

I can cruise 500 miles at a stretch or I can put my foot into it- and I can pick either or something in between.

[good2win22]

For me it's several things. 


First and foremost, it's GN but in my favorite color and I was sick as kid not having one in high school. All the rich kids driving around in their parents GN or IROC.  I really envied them. Maybe it's a midlife thing for me. I've had two TR's in the last 5 years. I'm keeping the limited.


In the barn, it's a zen thing.  Throw the tunes on and get lost in the project at hand. I can stay there sometimes as long as I wish and sometimes just to escape.


As for the whole fuel injected, turbo methanol little V6 thing, it's a overcoming my ignorance of it all.


And lastly, I do enjoy what little success I've had with the car and the compliments I recieve.

[Be4u]

Forums.

[278CIKILLER]

It suck's having to much car for the street.  

[motorhead]

That someone else owns it now.

I tease.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, was cooler to me about my Buick than the way it sounded when it was started.  There is just something about hearing the LC2 come to life - from the engagement of the starter, to the turbo spinning into a light whistle, to the clatter of the lifters (probably because two are running on flattening lobes), to the ticking of the injectors, the thump of the exhaust through the thin headers, and finally when it settles into a burble as it transitions from open to closed loop.

Seriously do miss that car.

[1 RARE T]

The "holy shit, this thing is fast" reaction I got from anyone who went for a ride.

[phil_long]

Definitely the compliments I receive about it, even with all of the defects and imperfections. Somehow, initially, people don't see all the rust. They just see a classic that they hadn't seen seen in a while.

[Just a Six?]

All of the above plus I can drive it to the track, line up & pull off low 11's & then drive back home without much stress on the motor & trans unless I do something stupid.