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Buick "Darth Vader" "Bad to the Bone"

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  The Grand National had humble roots beginning in auto-racing. In 1978, because the energy extremity demanded additional svelte platforms, the elephantine 17-and-a-half-foot-long Buick imperial lost a bottom of length and a brace of cylinders. With this everyday base erected on the G- body platform associate degreed an mechanics plan in 1981, the Buick came a significant contestant in NASCAR , with Richard Petty winning the first race of the season — the‘81 Daytona five hundred — in his imperial. The imperial steamrolled the competition. 1981 - 1982 saw Darrell Waltrip skilled worker a imperial to win the Winston Cup steeplechase Championship succeeding.However, the machine swept  the manufacturer’s crown, with a imperial within the winner’s circle in a very gorgeous forty seven out of sixty two races, If that was n’t enough. In 1982, Buick moved  to subsidize on this success and introduced the steeplechase , named for the Winston Cup Championship it had simply won. the first Buick
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When Modified Muscle Car So Car Rally

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Crazy and wild ideas have become the daily life of American society. One of them is a change on the Oldsmobile 442 car . How not, a car that is actually musclecar type and usually pitted in a straight track aka drag race , now forced to join the rough desert rally . Just look at the figure of a blue car made in 1970 that nicknamed Olds Grabber this. Although still apply the original body of two-door sedan, complete with bumpers and lights and the original grille, but desperate in the runway in the desert at the Baja 1000 championship . But in order to be on the runway on the offroad track, of course the legs of Olds Grabber must be changed . To that end, high suspension with a furious alloy of tire hoe also applied . Increasingly, the V8-type 410 aluminum-block engine. Kitchen runway Olds Grabber is claimed to produce power up to 508 dk . In addition, there is a coupling device application from Moser with TH400 transmission from Hydramatic . In order no
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