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Silver And Black Attack - 2005 Buick GS Nationals

The GS Nats' 25th Anniversary Celebration Is A Big One
By Rick Jensen
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When's the last time you saw this many GNXs lined up at a show? Behind them, super-rare burgundy, white, and green turbo Buicks, as well as hot-air and custom Buicks, were in attendance.
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Julio Don, out of St. Pete,... 
   
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Julio Don, out of St. Pete, was packin' a stock-block '89 Turbo Trans Am with Champion heads, a F.A.S.T. system, and a 64 turbo. Don't suppose your 10.9 TTA runs an alky system, Julio?
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Peer tech is an opportunity to check out the competition's combination; the crowd is pretty interested in this Anderson-built TSO car and its monster turbo. I think the word you're looking for here is "damn."
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Dave England's Gold TR features an awesome custom interior, but the motor is just as cool. This Akron, OH, denizen packs 250 inches of Buick power, backed up with a Buick crank, Carrillo rods, an RJC girdle, a solid-roller cam, T/A heads, and a Limit 70GTQ turbo. Imagine going 9.70s in this comfy interior.
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A thunderstorm, which dumped... 
   
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A thunderstorm, which dumped 1-plus inches of rain on Beech Bend, sent race goers for the tents on Thursday.
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Rude Drury Inn employees aside,... 
   
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Rude Drury Inn employees aside, the Nats is nothing, if not entertaining. This smashing scene was caught in the staging lanes. "I got a simple battery charge--and a good lawyer!"
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Beech Bend's starting line... 
   
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Beech Bend's starting line claims another victim.
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Not to be outdone by the wheels-up... 
   
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Not to be outdone by the wheels-up Buicks, TSM jockey Brett Rudbeck drives through a hella-big cart wheelie for our camera. Twin T88s are planned for next year.
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How do 10s from this RX-7... 
   
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How do 10s from this RX-7 hybrid grab you?
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Palm Coast, Florida-based... 
   
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Palm Coast, Florida-based Champion Racing Heads was one of many vendors doing good business at the Nationals.
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Think your EFI GM is fast?... 
   
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Think your EFI GM is fast? Try tripping the clocks in 7.58 seconds at 183 and change, and you'll know what a 1320 in Bill Anderson's rocket sled feels like. As you might imagine, Anderson dominated Super 16 Turbo.
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In the TSS finals, Jane Armstrong... 
   
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In the TSS finals, Jane Armstrong of Olmstead, OH, pulled up in her '87 T to face Corinth, MS-based Scott Coleman and his '87 GN. Both Buicks staged up, straining for the last yellow. But Coleman lit the red, and Jane was crowned the winner even before the 10.80/131.97 posted on the Trailer World board.
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Moving to the TSE battle,... 
   
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Moving to the TSE battle, it came down to a two-GN war. Olmstead, OH's Red Armstrong and Montgomery, AL's Bob Hinson. Armstrong knew (and rightly so) that if he let Jane show him up he'd never hear the end of it, and they both left hard when the tree came down. In the end, Hinson's GN posted a solid 10.03/137.20. But he couldn't hang with Red's 9.72/142.87, and Armstrong took the win.
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In another competitive TSM field, reigning champ Jason Cramer was knocked aside in the runner-up to the final round, where Dave Bamford of Dearborn, MI, and Bret Rudbeck of Muncie, IN, faced off. Bamford's new combination has set the bar for TSM going forward, and his GN was able to dispatch of Rudbeck's 10.12/133.94 with a more-left-in-it 9.74/140.20-sorry TSM guys, you may need to go 9.50s in '06 to win!
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Heavy attrition in the TSO... 
   
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Heavy attrition in the TSO ranks didn't stop Dan Strezo from laying down a wicked 8-second run for the win. The Wheatfield, IN resident flew out of the hole in an immaculate black T to collect an 8.96/156.26 timeslip. Otto Pernek of Straford, CT, took Second Place, his 10.26/142.87 well off of his GN's best.
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