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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
Very stylish.
K
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well of course, the design is by Pontiac
Reg Harris is probably best known in the Pontiac community for his work throughout the 1990's promoting the very successful Firehawk as Marketing Director for SLP (Street Legal Performance) Engineering. But back in 1991 Reg was Pontiac Manager of Media Relations Sales & Marketing working out of One Pontiac Plaza in Pontiac Michigan.
Recently, I had the honor, privilege and thrill of speaking with Reg about the 30 Millionth Pontiac event.
One story that Reg recalled about the event was regarding the commemorative t-shirts. Of course, this is of great interest to me. Reg recalls that one day shortly before the event, during his lunch break he went to get a hair cut at a barber about a block away from (what he refers to Pontiac's head office as) the "admin building". As he was getting his hair cut he noticed a faint chemical smell and asked the barber what was making that smell. The barber said it was from the printing shop next door. After his haircut Reg went next door to check it out, turned out it was a small "mom and pop" minority owned print shop, doing things like printing custom signs for church sales, custom t-shirts for local sports teams, etc. Reg asked them if they could do an order of 5,000 custom t-shirts. The owners just about collapsed in shock, in their total business to date they probably hadn't done that many t-shirts. Reg says the Pontiac graphics department came up with the designs for the front and back of the shirts and the print shop went to work. Pontiac paid about $4 per shirt, so the deal was worth about $20,000 to the shop. It came down to the wire, but the shirts were completed the day before the event and were loaded into a van which was driven to Wentzville Assembly the evening before the event.
Don't know how many have survived, but this is one "factory original" survivor t-shirt.