BUICK BEAST
BIG-N-BAD The ’70 GS was originally purchased as a bracket car with Lexan windows all around, fi erglass fenders and doors, and one racing seat. It took Justin just three weeks to refurbish this beauty back with steel doors and fenders, real glass, and full interior.
in the morning. I won, and was so tired I left ithout even picking up my money or trophy.” Co-owned by Justin and Harvey Cox, the Grand Sport was purchased in the late ’90s out of Cleveland, Ohio. “It was a full blown bracket car at that time, and started out with a 630 cubic inch BES Buick motor. I found the car
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in the Auto Trader back then and paid $10,000 for it in very good condition,” Justin recalls. “A couple years later we dropped an 890 cubic inch BES Buick motor in her, but we just couldn’t keep the big block Buick engines together. We went with a BES 565 big block Chevy after that, which we eventually blew up in 2010 at an 8.5 race in Georgia.”
november 2015 | RPM Magazine
Far from dainty, this beautiful VW Green Buick tips the scales at around 3,400 pounds. And at that weight has stopped the timers at a blistering 5.28 @ 137 in the eighth-mile while on 275 drag radials. Currently powering this machine is a 496 cubic inch stock block BES engine fed by an Induction Solutions Cross Bar nitrous plate.