Details about this Model:
Car Name: 1987 Buick GNX
GMP Part Number: 8003
Vehicle Color: black
Interior Color: black/gray
Production Run: 8547
Release Date: Nov 1999
Window Sticker Included: yes
Envelope For Window Sticker: yes
Lithograph Made: yes
Lithograph Production Quantity: 547
Litho Autographed by: M. Doble (Mike Doble)
COA Included: no
Outer Box: yes
Part of a Set/Group: no
THIS is the 3rd car in the series.
This is the only car in the entire series that came with a plain brown outer box.
(not surprising, since GMP didn’t know at the time that customers would be thrilled to get a fancy styled outer box with later purchases!)
With a first appearance of a new envelope (EE’s doing) to hold the window sticker, it had Epitome Exclusives logo, which was stamped in green ink (which the color would end up being different for each new model released) and had the cars GNX number written on it.
Interestingly, when they printed the replica window sticker, they left out the last 4 digits of the VIN number!
This is the first car that Epitome Exclusives participated in.
They were responsible for the special lithograph (also the first litho ever created for this series) being produced, as well as starting up the Buick 300 Gold Club with this car!
The lithos came inside their own box, ink stamped on the top left with the EE logo (in green, same as the window sticker envelope), and showed the L/E production run car number handwritten on it.
The 11″ tall x 14″ wide lithographs were hand numbered to 547 copies, and personally autographed by Mike Doble, using a silver ink pen.
The Epitome Exclusives logo is shown at the bottom (in the center), with a picture of the GNX model & the car number stamped on the lower right side.
The model itself has the GNX turbo shield (with the word GNX printed on it), and correct appearing grill & trunk emblems, as well as (standard to GNX) fender vents & flares.
The chassis featured the special GNX-only rear end, and a sticker on the spare tire wheel well that stated “ee GNX 032” meaning: Epitome Exclusives, GNX (the car type), and 032 (the car number from this production run).
{this would be 1 of only 2 cars to receive a sticker like this, the other car being the next one in this series (8004; Autumn Maple T type). Apparently Epitome figured these weren’t necessary once they saw how the process was developing in this series, and later cars would actually have the car number printed on the license plate, making these stickers obselete}.
The interior of the vehicle shows a simulation of the ASC created dash, the correct tri-shield logo on the steering wheel, but no numbered dash plate like the real GNX has.
You could own a Buick GNX back in 1987 for the sticker price of $29,290! (that’s of course, assuming you could find a dealer that would sell you one at that price, since most dealers were charging a $10,000 premium over sticker at the time!)