For those readers who may be unaware, this 1981 Buick Regal was built as a road-going tribute to Waltrip’s No. 11 Mountain Dew NASCAR racing machine, mixing race-inspired styling and performance ...

NASCAR is big business for brands who want to sell performance road cars, and in the 1980s Buick designed a car purely ...

Buick was part of NASCAR since 1949 but only find success in the 1980s with their Regal model. Today, we will talk about their history in this competition.

To give you a close-up look at these NASCAR Buicks, we selected what many consider to be the very best of the NASCAR machines—Junior Johnson's No. 11 "Mountain Dew" Regal, which is driven by ...

2012–2017 Buick Regal GS The turbo 2.0-liter in the GS pumps out 270 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque compared to the regular Regal Turbo, and in return notches a 6.3-second zero-to-60 time.

Five Buick Regal Grand Nationals Surface at Mecum Auctions Indy! ... 1968 Chevy Chevelle (Street Sweeper), 1975 Chevy Laguna S-3 NASCAR clone, 1968 Chevy Nova, and 1968 Plymouth Valiant.

According to Hagerty, a Concours condition '87 Buick Regal Grand National is worth $91,600, up 18.7% over the last year, while one in excellent shape is worth $68,200, a hefty 29.9% increase from ...

For 21 years before NASCAR started selling naming rights in 1971, ... Buick built just 2000 copies of its '84 Regal Grand National and 2102 for 1985—far short of demand. View Photos.

In 1982, Buick made a bold move. They introduced the Grand National trim for the Regal, celebrating their NASCAR Grand National Series manufacturers' titles and on-track success.

Three years later in 1981, the Buick Century Regal — now called just the Regal — entered NASCAR with the Junior Johnson team and won back-to-back championships, driven by Darrell Waltrip.

By the time the Buick Grand National name once again found its way onto the Regal’s order sheet, it was 1984, and a lot had changed. Sequential fuel injection, computer-controlled ignition, and ...