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Last Grand National ever built?
When did production end? I'm reading H 11 D (last week of Nov. '87)
That had to be pretty late in the run I would think.
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Steve Allen- '87GN "survivor" |
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Re: Build date/month from VIN?
The last Grand National was actually the last G-body, and last RWD car ever made at the Pontiac, Michigan assembly plant. The car was built on 12/11/1987 and the VIN ends in 65288. It was ordered by Bob Colvin whose family owns Springhill Motor Company in Springhill, Louisiana.
The car has several pieces within signed by line workers as it was built such as the turbo shield, up pipe, coolant reservoir, washer fluid tank, etc. The car is kept in indoor storage and never driven. It has been featured in a Steve Dove book, and some very rough video of the car in the dyno cell at the end of the assembly line and being delivered on January 5th 1998 can be found at http://www.gnttype.org/media/LASTGN15.MPG and http://www.gnttype.org/media/LASTGN17.MPG The attached picture appeared in Hemmings' Muscle Machines in February 2008.
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Scott Keller - GNTTYPE Founder & Moderator
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Re: Last Grand National ever built?
Good info, thanks Scott.
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Steve Allen- '87GN "survivor" |
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Re: Last Grand National ever built?
i have the book on that car...
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Re: Last Grand National ever built?
Cool Info!!
I bought my GN on 11/27/87 and it still had bumper padding on the front bumper from the transport trailer on it. At the time I did not think of it as one of the final GNs but I'm thinking it had to be pretty close...neat. |
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Re: Last Grand National ever built?
I looked at this car as recently as 01/2009. Bob is a VERY nice guy and has some very nice cars. He was cool enough to let me come by his house and take some pics of the final GN as well as tell me some cool stories about how he came to be able to get the car.
Here are the pics I took (This will take several posts since I am limited to 4 pics per post): |
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Re: Last Grand National ever built?
Any idea how the sequential (last 5) numbers in the vin were issued? Were they GN specific or applied to G body in sequence? I have a GN built 12/8/87 which I would be interested how close it was to the last GN built.
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