Hemmings Daily: Showing just 68 miles, the last-built Buick GNX heads to auction

1987 Buick GNX, number 547. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To give the popular Buick Grand National a fitting end-of-production send-off, the GM division planned a production run of 500 "super Grand Nationals," ultimately named the Buick GNX. When demand for the GNX far outstripped supply, constructor ASC/McLaren agreed to build 47 more, upping the total production run to 547 units. GM was supposed to get the first and last examples, but when the quantity was upped the very last car, GNX 547, inadvertently ended [View in Browser | Subscribe] [Hemmings Daily] Thursday, January 5, 2017 [Showing just 68 miles, the last-built Buick GNX heads to auction] [Showing just 68 miles, the last-built Buick GNX heads to auction] Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1987 Buick GNX, number 547. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To give the popular Buick Grand National a fitting end-of-production send-off, the GM division planned a production run of 500 "super Grand Nationals," ultimately named the Buick GNX. 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