Black Air is the Buick Grand National documentary we always wanted

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New York filmmaker Andrew Filippone Jr. has chosen a righteous topic for a documentary: the Buick Grand National, the factory hot-rod that kept hope alive of a real renaissance within General Motors — rather incorrectly, in hindsight.

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So far, the promo has a few grandees and graybeards of Detroit talking over the arrival of the GNX into the moribund world of mid-80s Buick dealerships. This makes us want to see video of GM's great turbocharged hope that much more.