A Deam Car - The Buick Grand Sport

The Buick GS started life back in 1965, as did many General Motors intermediate muscle cars. From 1965 through 1972 there was a lot of fine tuning to make the Grand Sport become one of the most popular and best muscle cars of all time. A collector’s item today, many grandfathers wish they still had their Buick Grand Sport.

The Buick GS was a very popular car during the late sixties and early seventies. Many changes happened each year to improve the car, but 1970 saw the greatest Buick Grand Sport of all time. Each year showed improvement with not only body style, but motor ability and performance. With the lift of the 400-cid limit in 1971, this made for some of the quickest automobiles ever produced in Detroit. Each year performance of the Buick Grand Sport improved with bigger horse-powered motors.

The year 1971 was the official beginning of the end of the muscle car era. With government regulations becoming stricter, the rising insurance rates, and the price of gasoline, the auto industry agreed that all its engines must run on low-lead gasoline. The cost to manufacture these cars was too costly. Sadly, the Buick Grand Sport era was dying.

True Buick Grand Sport production ended in 1972. The Buick Grand Sport performance would not surface again until the turbo-charged Buicks of the mid 1980s. Still, it was nothing like the Buick Grand Sport that many enjoyed in the late sixties and early seventies, but it was still a great car.