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Banzai Buford in new Car Craft

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by Yardley, Sep 25, 2003.

  1. Yardley

    Yardley Club Jackass

    There's a bit about Tom and Debbie Jenkin's 72 GS in the new CC.

    It is a sweet ride.

    Are they on this board and/or BPG members?

    If not, anyone know them? We need people like that in our fold.
     
    Yardley, Sep 25, 2003
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  2. buickman69

    buickman69 Retired Buick Enthusiast

    Yeah, he his on this board and posted today. I just ran a search on his name.

    It's nice to see Buicks in the mags these days.

    I'm wondering something though.

    In that article they was calling these cars "TWEETERS" meaning cross between trailer car and street car. I was kinda offended @ that but that's not my point.

    It was comparing these cars, their build-up, performance and the cost. The Buick was the 2nd most costly, the '69 Cuda cost $50,000:jd: to build and wasn't the fastest (if I recall, to cheap to buy the mag)

    I remember their was a thread awhile back on cost of build-ups and the question of debate was "does it cost more to build a Buick??" According to the article the cost of Tom's car was $27,000 , so i'm wondering is that Car Crafts questimate or is that about actuall?? I'm just curious but I guess Tom is the only one who can answer that question.

    Congrads Tom on making the CC mag AND on your beautiful Buick:TU:

    Ronnie
     
    buickman69, Oct 2, 2003
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  3. TomGS72

    TomGS72 Silver Level contributor

    Thanks guys! That was an awesome experience.

    I guess you could call my car a tweener. I drive my car 4-5 days a week. I used to drive it to work everyday. My wife even drives it.

    About the cost of the build up....I had to come up with a rough number, that was hard. I've owned the car for 16 years. It was my first car. It is hard to come up with a figure when you own a car that long.

    The magazine came out 5 days after I took runner-up in Bracket 1 (11.99 and quicker) at the Midwest Buick Challenge at US41 in Morocco, Indiana. That was an awesome week.

    Tom Jenkins
     
    TomGS72, Oct 3, 2003
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  4. btc

    btc Tron Funkin Blow

    Actually it's " 'Tweeners ", meaning a car that's in between a street car and a race car, although "tweener" sounds just as cheesy as "tweeter". "Street/strip" works just fine for me. Oh and I think the reason the 'cuda cost so much was the dual-plug (kinda neat seeing TWO distributors) 528 cubic-inch, aluminum head, vintage magneisum cross-ram intake Hemi.

    One thing I noticed is that I think it said the intake was an SP2. They're 430 iron heads, so I'm guessing this was a typo ?
     
    btc, Oct 3, 2003
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