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    1968–’69 BUICK GS 400

    Dec 27, 2019 4 minutes
    BY MATTHEW LITWIN
    PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY HEMMINGS ARCHIVES ILLUSTRATION BY JUDI DELL’ANNO

    BUICK HAD A VERY GOOD YEAR IN 1968. The storied division regained a competitive foothold across multiple markets with fresh styling, improved safety features, new engine packages, and a revised model lineup. These hardly qualified as groundbreaking industry developments, but it was enough to help Buick set a new Flint assembly line production record of 350,826 units (breaking a record of 309,946 from 1950). Combined with Buick’s other plants across the nation, the automaker built 673,655 car s— second best in division history (add Canadian production and output climbed to 698,454).

    Among that run were the GS performance models. The nameplate welcomed an expansion, now comprised of the California GS

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