gn vs syty in resale

bshaw1979

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Re: gn vs syty in resale

Grand National are much more well known today and I bet they will hold their value better. (They were a cheaper car to begin with). Back in the day when they came out they had have reputation of being sleepers and earned their place as being fast. GN have two things going for them over a SyTy.

1- they are much easier to modify, it doesn't take a guru to make turbo regal fast. Turbo buicks are friendly to non-tuner types.
2- they are much more reliable. If you make a mistake with turbo regal it blows the heads gasket, a SyTy you make a mistake and the stock motor blows. They are also less temperamental and easier to work on.

Agreed
 

Baythan

SY2TY2SY2TY
Re: gn vs syty in resale

^ x3. PLUS...it's a CAR. And muscle cars will always appeal to more people than muscle trucks. We are a strange bunch in here. :cool:
 

NCTyphoonKid

93 Ty #1710
Re: gn vs syty in resale

I say give it time with the value. I have both and driving the Ty is alot more fun than driving the GN. If I take the Ty to a car show only a few people know what it is but it still gets right much attention. The GN if I take it pretty much anywhere everyone knows what it is.
 

green73

Donating Member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Thread Hijack WARNING!!!!

Question for you GN owners. How high is the seating position on the driver side?

I just got done redoing the interior of a friend's '85 GN. New seat cushions, and covers, carpet, door panels, etc... With the seat as far down as it will go it is still a bit high up even for my 5'1" body. Is this normal, or could it be the cushions being new/not broken in?
 

kmack

Donating Member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Numbers it's all about the numbers.
They never got widespread notoriety.
Most people don't know they exist
Mostly due to rediculously low production numbers
A few more Typhoons and Syclones need to cross the block at Barrett Jackson and I predict you will gradually see the prices creep up for clean low mile stock trucks.
If someone like Reggie Jackson or Jay Leno (WHICH JAY HAS DONE) were to buy and feature this truck in their collection people would start paying attention.
Time will tell :2cents:
 
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RealFastV6

@jb_and_his_coffee
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Numbers it's all about the numbers.
They never got widespread notoriety.
Most people don't know they exist
Mostly due to rediculously low production numbers
A few more Typhoons and Syclones need to cross the block at Barrett Jackson and I predict you will gradually see the prices creep up for clean low mile stock trucks.
If someone like Reggie Jackson or Jay Leno were to buy and feature this truck in their collection people would start paying attention.Time will tell :2cents:

Really dude?

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/trucks/1991-gmc-syclone-pickup-truck/index.shtml
 

tnsyty

Active member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

I bought my truck around 1998. I feel it is probably worth about the same as I paid back then. So very little depreciation in the past a 15 years, isn't too bad to me. I never bought it to make money on, but I do keep it around in case the value starts to go back up. Plus, there really isn't much else I could buy for less than $10k that would really be any more fun.
 

kmack

Donating Member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Yah (Really DOOOD)
You got the sarcasm market cornered or what.
Maybe a comment like "check this out " would have been appropriate. Geeeez
 
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Logan

Member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

I always knew what the SyTys were because my dad was a gearhead and he always tells me the story of almost buying a Syclone in 91 but not being able to swing it because of the divorce with my mom and yada yada.

Back to the point though, muscle cars have more of a following than sport trucks if you ask me. I think on average people associate trucks with work and SUVs with family type stuff and the sleek two door whatever gets the credit as being fast and cool. So the concept of a factory sport truck is lost on a lot of people because cars naturally make better platforms for racing. I don't know, I may be way off but hey I took a stab at it.
 

JKsSyclone

Active member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Give it time guys. Look at what C3 Corvettes are going for now. You couldn't give most of them away ten years ago. Look at how cheap you can buy a C4 for now. The values will go up in a few years.

In the meantime, I'm just waiting for them to get old enough to qualify for antique tags so I don't have to smog them & renew the plates every year. Insurance will go down too. All of that will save me a lot of time and money! :tup:
 

graham1524

Well-known member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Just look at the new hot rod magazine. They have a timeline of turbo cars and talk really nice about the gn but the article only covers cars. No syty
 

JAY

Donating Member
Re: gn vs syty in resale

Revisit an old topic.
NADA seems very high compared to the market.


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GEMELLI

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Re: gn vs syty in resale

Dang! There sure is a big difference between a Syclone and a Typhoon.

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