[6 Grrrs]

#1 -- 1978 Pontiac Grand Prix - Red/Red interior, factory 231V6/3spd manual trans car with bench seat, no power brakes, radio delete, and no other options. This car in its final iteration had a 400sbc with a T56 6speed & 9" ford rear with 3.89 gears. It ran low 13s & was a daily driver. I put in a factory red cloth bucket seat interior & added many factory options to it. The floor was rotted when I bought it, so me & a buddy decided we could put a complete floor in from a '85 4 dr bonneville (gbody). It was never right after that & just became a beater. Someone else wanted the 9" rear, I sold the motor, exhaust, & some body parts off of it & then sold the shell to a guy who was racing dirt track. I saw it ready for it's first race, but never saw it again. This was probably one of the funnest cars I have ever owned/driven. It wasn't all that nice to look at, which made it easy to beat the snot out of it with no worries or 'ruining' it. I do regret junking it.

#2 -- My first car...1976 Grand Prix SJ - Red/Red denim/velour bucket seat interior, 400 4bbl/TH400, PW, Cruise, AM/FM, guages w/tach (it really wasn't a highly optioned car). I bought it from a salvage yard for $425, wrecked on the LF. I fixed it & drove it for 3-4 yrs (until I sideswiped a tree & tore the pass side up). I re-built a 400 with a RAIV cam, intake, & modified Qjet, as well as rebuilt the TH400. It ripped ass & sounded great. Someday I will own another 1976 Grand Prix SJ.

#3 -- 1967 Tempest Hdtp - 326HO with a 4spd, Black with blue interior with bench seat. Frame was badly rotted, as well as floor. Bought it from the original owner in 1986-7. Would have been a neat car re-done, but needed waaay too much work.

#4 -- 1968 Firebird - was a former drag car that a friend of my dad used to race. Had a cage, 4.56 gears, TH400, no interior, B&M shifter, & previously ran 11.60s in the 1/4 (about 1980). I put the 326HO from the tempest (as pulled) in it & was trying to get it ready for the track when I spun a bearing while doing a burnout at my father's shop. After this, the car sat outside for several years unitl it needed too much to make it safe for drag racing. My dad had a customer who needed some fbird parts & it got scrapped.

#5 -- 1976 Grandville 2dr Hdtp - Maroon with white interior. Loaded with options (incl climate control). 41K original miles, bought fromt the original owner in early 90's. I pulled the motor to install it in my 76 GP & parted the rest of the car out. Several people told me it was alot nicer than my GP & that I was crazy to scrap it. It was wrong to scrap the G'ville, but too late now. (no pics that I can find).

These are only a few of the cars that I have scrapped myself. There were more, but they weren't anything very interesting (2ea Camaro's, Chevy truck, 2 other Garnd Prix's, Grandville wagon).

I have helped my father scrap many classic Pontiacs, Chryslers, AMCs, Studebakers, Chevys, Buicks, & Oldsmobiles over the years. Most of the cars in the 80s & 90s were GTOs, LeMans & Tempests, and a few Pontiac fullsize cars too.