Wish I did have a Nighthawk!
I don't remember all the threads but I have done some digging up so to speak. One of the best stories I think is when Bryan was contacted from Mr. P. Polasek from Switzerland. He bought a Nighthawk off ebay there that had low miles and wasn't real expensive for its condition. The car was found on the estate of a women who was the daughter of the last Emperor of Austria. She did not drive later in life because of her sight but kept the car. Only after she died the car was found and ended up on ebay.
Peter bought a resto pack from GM Canada and it really lacked any info about the Nighthawk option for his car. That was back in 2005 and it was after that when I found out the Sloan Museum had the production numbers for the 77 Skyhawks. Armed with this and other new info I contacted GM Canada and they corrected and sent a new resto pack to Peter. The new pack included the Nighthawk production totals and both RPO codes for the Nighthawk. If you haven't seen the resto pack before lots of us here can show you examples. I go often to the Mecum Auction in Indianapolis and a lot of cars have the resto packs displayed for proof of the car. Kind of cool if you like that sort of stuff.
One of the GM design studio guys gives credit to the prototype Nighthawk for influencing the Buick Grand National car for being all black. The pictures on Bryan's web site of the prototype are on the design studio patio which had turntables to slowly spin the cars around. The engineer responsible for blacking out his own Skyhawk and showing it to the brass has a Son-in-Law that sent us those pictures.
Better stop me now I could go on and on...... One other thing, on the cowl tag you will see 19L 19U 19A. Triple black with the 19A being a black stripe. You won't see that very often!
Here is a resto pack to check out. Where this one shows DX4 yours would say DX5 and Where this one shows WH2 yours would say WH6. Brian
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