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Back in the 60s and 70s, the most luxurious muscle cars you could buy from General Motors came with a Buick badge, since the only GM brand that offered extra goodies was Cadillac, an automaker that didn't enter the performance race. And the Buick GSX rendering we have here comes to celebrate that.
In fact, while Pontiac, with the 1964 GTO, gets all the credit for popularizing the muscle car genre, Buick had used the recipe involving an overly potent motor and a mid-size platform for the Century, back in 1936.
However, the story of the model we have here actually stated with the 1965 Skylark, which wasn't all that keen on going fast. Well, this ended up receiving a Gran Sport performance package, which became a standalone model two years later and was followed by multiple derivatives of the sort.
The GSX is one of those derivatives, which makes for a performance, handling and appearance pack for the GS455, one that landed for the 1970 model. This brought along a 455 V8, but the optional Stage 1 performance package outsold the standard offering.
We're talking about an engine that was some 150 lbs (70 kg) friendlier to the scales than the 426 HEMI or the Chevy 454, while delivering 510 lb-ft (619 Nm) of twist, an American performance vehicle record that was left untouched for 33 years, until the 8-liter V10 of the Viper shattered this in 2003.
The GSX that now adorns out screens has been gifted with a custom treatment and you can regard this as an X-ray of the current muscle car modding realm. In other words, the virtual build follows multiple trends, starting with the widebody approach - both the front and the rear fenders flow into aero-style fascias.
And while the clean upper posterior (think: no wing) remains faithful to the factory model, we can see a quadruple exhaust layout with central positioning.
Then we have the slammed nature of the Buick, which comes thanks to air springs. Much to nobody's surprise, the said arches are filled by massive wheels, with these sporting a deep concave design.
Sure, the massive dome on the hood shows this Buick GSX means business and the roll cage adoring the cabin is there to keep things in one piece in any sort of scenario.
This pixel portrait was done by Yasid Oozeear, one the most skilled digital artists on the world wide web.
However, the story of the model we have here actually stated with the 1965 Skylark, which wasn't all that keen on going fast. Well, this ended up receiving a Gran Sport performance package, which became a standalone model two years later and was followed by multiple derivatives of the sort.
The GSX is one of those derivatives, which makes for a performance, handling and appearance pack for the GS455, one that landed for the 1970 model. This brought along a 455 V8, but the optional Stage 1 performance package outsold the standard offering.
We're talking about an engine that was some 150 lbs (70 kg) friendlier to the scales than the 426 HEMI or the Chevy 454, while delivering 510 lb-ft (619 Nm) of twist, an American performance vehicle record that was left untouched for 33 years, until the 8-liter V10 of the Viper shattered this in 2003.
The GSX that now adorns out screens has been gifted with a custom treatment and you can regard this as an X-ray of the current muscle car modding realm. In other words, the virtual build follows multiple trends, starting with the widebody approach - both the front and the rear fenders flow into aero-style fascias.
And while the clean upper posterior (think: no wing) remains faithful to the factory model, we can see a quadruple exhaust layout with central positioning.
Then we have the slammed nature of the Buick, which comes thanks to air springs. Much to nobody's surprise, the said arches are filled by massive wheels, with these sporting a deep concave design.
Sure, the massive dome on the hood shows this Buick GSX means business and the roll cage adoring the cabin is there to keep things in one piece in any sort of scenario.
This pixel portrait was done by Yasid Oozeear, one the most skilled digital artists on the world wide web.
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