Win a 1987 Buick Grand National + $10,000 Cash

The last of the fast Buicks

For three years in the mid-1980s the quickest car General Motors built was not a Corvette. It was a black Regal with a turbocharged V6 and a boost gauge sitting in the dash where the clock should be. This is a 1987 car — the final year for the Grand National and for the rear-drive G-body platform underneath it — showing 71,849 miles and described by King Supply Co as garage kept.

The mechanical package is the whole story. A 3.8-liter (231ci) LC2 V6, sequential port fuel injection, a Garrett T3 turbocharger and, critically, an air-to-air intercooler — the 1986–87 addition that separates the genuinely quick Grand Nationals from the earlier softer ones. Buick's published figures were 245 hp at 4,400 rpm, which nobody has believed since roughly 1987, and 355 lb-ft at 2,800 rpm, which everybody believes instantly. Behind it sits the only transmission ever offered on the car, a 200-4R four-speed automatic overdrive, driving the rear wheels through a G-body chassis that weighs somewhere around 3,600 lbs. Monochromatic black paint, blacked-out trim, badging and wheels, bucket seats and a floor shifter. The GN's entire visual argument was that it refused to make one.

Why the mileage is the number that matters

Grand National headlines get written by time capsules. A 77-mile example brought $91,500, and a 7,000-mile car made $79,200 at Barrett-Jackson this January. Those are museum transactions, not car values, and they are not this car's market.

A 71,849-mile GN lives in a different and much healthier part of the price curve. Mecum sold a 59,000-mile original for $44,000 at Fort Worth last October; an 87,000-mile modified car brought $35,200 at Mecum in June. Hagerty pegs a #3 "Good" 1987 Grand National at $41,100. Draw the line between those points and you land almost exactly on the $40,000 that King Supply itself lists as the car's retail value in the Official Rules — a giveaway operator publishing a number that survives contact with the auction record is rarer than it should be.

What would move it either way: these cars are 39 years old and the details are expensive. Original paint versus a respray, an untouched LC2 versus a rebuilt one, and whether the fuel pump, the rubber lines and the famously brittle late-'80s GM interior plastics have been dealt with. "Garage kept" is a promising phrase, but no service records are published, and on a Grand National the records are worth real money.

The fine print worth knowing

The prize is a package: the car at a $40,000 ARV plus a $10,000 cash award paid by check, $50,000 total. That cash is less a bonus than a tax cushion — a $50,000 prize is ordinary income, and depending on your bracket the ten grand covers a good chunk of the bill but not necessarily all of it, before you get to title, registration and shipping the car home from New Jersey.

Entries run through merchandise. The rules set the base rate at one entry per dollar spent, with dated multiplier windows running across the promotion period, and the store starts around $30. There is a real free route, and it is a good one: a hand-written 3x5 card mailed to the sweepstakes administrator earns sixty entries, and the mail-in postmark window runs a day past the September 7 close for paid entries. The operator's exact wording is reproduced in the free-entry section of this listing — follow it literally, because administrators reject sloppy mail-in entries as a matter of routine.

One thing to go in clear-eyed about. The FAQ on King Supply's own site offers "a cash alternative equal to 1/3 of the prize's retail value." The prize section of the Official Rules describes no cash-in-lieu option; it states the vehicle is awarded as-is and is not exchangeable or transferable except at the sponsor's sole discretion. The rules are the controlling document, so treat this as a car giveaway rather than a cash one, and ask the sponsor directly if the cash-out matters to your decision. (That same FAQ sentence calls the prize "the truck," which it plainly is not — King Supply's earlier giveaways were trucks and the copy appears to have come along for the ride.)

On the reassuring side of the ledger: the sweepstakes is administered by a third party, Compliance Sweepstakes Services, rather than judged in-house, the sponsor is a named entity with a street address, and King Supply publishes eight past winners by full name — Robert Tomsett, Chad Sandefur, Caden Jenson, Samuel Gregory, Dawson Cooper, Austin Norton, Chris Mercier and Daniel Leonardis. That is more accountability than most operators in this space offer. The drawing is on or about September 18, 2026.