omairtheman1

Did it really do 0-60 in 4.7 seconds?

cantsleep

i saw this car for sale couple years back on ebay

Squirtle

Same can be said of most Datsuns.

But not by me, I love Datsuns.

ahrmike

The TTA with the GN/GNX engine is sex on wheels.

Faster than the corvette of its time, it was underrated so the vette engineers wouldnt be pissed off. 3.8Ls, boosted.

I love the GN/GNX just because not much people know about it. Ultimate sleeper

azn akira

I don't get the appeal of a car that can go fast in a straight line and do nothing else.

KonaMan

It was actually the GN that pissed the Vett boys off when they intercooled it in '86... they tried to kill the car then but GM let them build it one more year since they had all that Grand National crap laying around and they were going to the FWD platform in '88... they actually built a mule or test 88 GN w/RWD but in never flew...

They still had a bunch of GN motors laying around so then changed the heads so it would fit the TTA and made a few more than 1500 of them...

They were what they were and pretty much ruled the out of the box point and shoot world for a few years... extra points if you tweaked them... they were very fast and, for the record, the spit out more that 247 hp stock... that too was a myth to blind side Chevy.

ahrmike

Kona, did you have the TTA in hawaii? If so, do you know who has it? How much did you let it go for? I saw a T type in the local junkyard too.

When I was looking at buying my F-bodys, I wanted the TTA/GTA but I could never find a good priced GTA and I never once came across a TTA. The 3rd gen F-bodys werent that bad in turns either! It was light (for an american car) so I actually liked driving it...

UmarS2K

Wow, 0-60 in 4.7 seconds? That's impressive even for today's standards.

ltswb

30 grand was a ton of money in 87. Most mid-price vehicles back then sold for around 12-15. An '88 Monte Carlo SS was priced at 14,300. I once saw a GN lay parallel tracks for a mile.

KonaMan

No... they all reside somewhere here in Florida... The T-turbo T, which apparently was a pretty rare car, was sold back to my friend who got me into the Buick thing so I could get the TTA... For whatever reason I had to have one of the "black ones" and some local guy bugged me, and bugged me, etc. until I finally caved and old it to him about 10 years ago... think I got $15,500 for it... pretty much a mint car too...

Sad... the turbo Regal wound up being a full-blown drag car, painted purple, and ran in the 10's... that was the one to keep... very rare and coveted by the Buick crowd....

Funny to read some of the comments about these cars... I had only owned MG's, a couple of Porsche's, Hondas, etc... wouldn't even think of buying an American car... when I decided couldn't live without the ISF and sold the 87 GN the ISF deal fell through so I went out and bought the S2000.... the Buick guys thougt I was nuts... something about torque, or lack there of... man, out of all of them, I miss the Honda... they are great cars.