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RARE AUTO SELLS BIG IN ONLINE AUCTION

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(Fox News) – A rare 1987 Buick GNX muscle car with just 8.5 miles on the
odometer sold in an online auction on Friday night for $200,000, nearly
setting a record for the model.

The black coupe is number 480 of the 547 cars like it that were built, with
the last of them sold in 2017 for $220,000 after covering 68 miles in its life.

The GNX was an evolution of the Grand National with a turbocharged 3.8-
liter V6 officially rated at 276 hp, but suspected to put out much more, that
made it one of the quickest cars in the world.

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A look under the hood.

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IT MADE HISTORY ON THIS DAY

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MIKE GRACIA

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During the Civil War on this day in 1862, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN.

The Union capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee–
Kentucky border opened the Cumberland River, an important
avenue for the invasion of the South.

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Ulysses S. Grant (Hiram Ulysses Grant)
(April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)

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ROSS SIMPSON

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On this day in 1898, the USS Maine sank when it exploded in Havana Harbor for unknown reasons. More than 260 crew members were
killed.
The episode escalated tensions between the United States
and Spain and contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American
War two months later.

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FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG ~

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The "St. Valentine’s Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL on this
day in 1929.
Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were
killed.

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Gangster Alphonse Gabriel Capone 
(January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947)

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The section of the bullet-riddled wall as it stands today in the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.

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