1966 Pontiac Gto Base 6.4l on 2040-cars
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Up for sale is my 1966 Pontiac GTO. It’s a great car that I bought out of South Georgia about a year ago. Non-matching 400 engine from a 1978 Trans Am professionally and recently rebuilt by NAPA in Bainbridge, GA. Original automatic transmission and rear end. Engine was dynoed at 430 HP. It’s a little cold-natured but starts, runs, shift, drives and stops great. I drove it 250 miles over Thanksgiving and oil pressure, temp, etc. were great and steady. The car is very solid with only surface rust underneath except for 1 thumb sized hole in the passenger floor pan. The body is great as well and I don’t think it has any bondo to speak of. There are a couple of rust bubbles in the bottom front door corners and on the front cowl near the bottom of the front windshield. Paint is good. It has one small rubbed place on front right fender that needs attention. New Cooper tires and new 15” wheels. Interior is good including seats, dashpad, carpet, headliner and hat rack. Driver seat has a crease from front to back. Chrome is good. Glass is perfect except for a single “star” in front windshield. Original AM radio in dash, but has aftermarket radio attached underneath. Heat, fan, controls, etc. work as they should. Power antennae does not work. Needs weather stripping around windows. Needs plastic dome light cover. Car is currently registered in Alabama where they don’t title cars that old. Will be sold with bill of sale and registration. Car is for sale locally and I reserve the right to end auction at any time. Winning bidder should plan on picking car up within two weeks of auction end.
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This 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 pace car could be yours
Fri, Jan 29 2021Hopefully, the fans of GM's W-body '80s/'90s intermediates can forgive us, but we had pretty much forgotten — or had never really known — that one of the ways that era's Pontiac Grand Prix bathed itself in glory was by serving as the pace car for the Daytona 500. In fact, the Grand Prix paced NASCAR's marquee race every year from 1988 to 1992, and again in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003. That first year, 1988, the Grand Prix was all-new, making its debut on the W-body platform. It was also Motor Trend's car of the year. The 1988 Daytona 500 marked the 17th year in a row that a Pontiac was chosen to set the pace but the first time a front-wheel-drive car was so honored. The '88 Grand Prix followed a spate of Pontiac Trans Ams. This '88 Grand Prix, for sale right now on eBay Motors, is presented as an actual pace car, although fans could order a complete set of pace car decals for their very own GP. The pace car is based on that year's top-spec Grand Prix, the SE. In place of the standard car's 2.8-liter V6, however, the pace car uses a modified 3.1-liter V6, which is hooked to a five-speed manual transmission. This Grand Prix is otherwise largely standard fare excepting the roof-mounted light bar, the switches for which are located next to the radio. The mechanical odometer tucked into the digital instrument cluster shows just over 5,000 miles, and presumably, not all of them were acquired on the high-banked oval. With four days to go in the auction, bidding sits at $4,000 with the reserve unmet. Although the reserve is unknown, one clue is that this Grand Prix had been listed by a classic-car dealership in Pennsylvania for $18,500. Besides the debut of the W-body Grand Prix pace car, the 1988 race is also notable for its final lap: Bobby Allison held off his son, Davey Allison, to take the checkered flag, with the father-son duo enjoying a 1-2 finish. Now, who wants to re-live those Grand Prix glory days? Get on your Pontiac and ride!  This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings.
Lutz says Washington killed Pontiac, next G6 was to be ATS derivative
Tue, 29 Oct 2013How many people think Buick or GMC should have gotten the axe instead of Pontiac? You can't see it, but I'm raising my hand. Autoweek reports that former Vice Chairman of GM, Bob Lutz, has indicated that things didn't have to end up the way they did.
"The Feds said, 'Yeah, how much money have you made on Pontiac in the last 10 years?' and the answer was, 'Nothing.'"
In a talk given at the Petersen Automotive Museum for the Inside the MotoMan Studio series, Lutz says "The Feds said, 'Yeah, how much money have you made on Pontiac in the last 10 years?' and the answer was, 'Nothing.' So, it goes. And when the guy who is handing you the check for $53 billion says, 'I don't want Pontiac, drop Pontiac or you don't get the money,' it doesn't take you very long to make up your mind." Lutz even added that the next-generation Pontiac G6 would have benefitted from the rear-wheel-drive platform of the Cadillac ATS. How awesome would that have been?
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