From the March 1999 issue of GM High-Tech Performance: The 1986 and 1987 Buick Regal Grand National set the performance bar high in the 1980s, not with a V-8 but with a turbocharged intercooled V-6.

The following story originally appeared in the March 1999 issue of GM High-Tech Performance magazine, which I edited between 1995 and 2002. The story’s Detroit-based author, Jim McCraw, was a Motown ...