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Originally Posted by OG68

Makes you wonder why they put so much effort into the 68 GP with the 69 on its way.

I believe the 69 was a rush job so they 68 was designed before they had decided about the new idea for 69. The big investment in the 68 GP was an attempt to reverse declining sales in the GP since the 1963 peak.

I’ve seen pictures of the planned 69 B body Grand Prix. A neat bit of trivia is that apparently the reason the 69 Bonneville was the first year that a Bonnie got unique grilles (previous years had the standard Catalina grilles) as well as that rear bumper pad is that those items were designed for the cancelled B body 69 GP. Once the G body 69 GP was green lighted they decided to use those already engineered parts on the Bonnie instead.

[thews]

Originally Posted by north

I believe the 69 was a rush job so they 68 was designed before they had decided about the new idea for 69. The big investment in the 68 GP was an attempt to reverse declining sales in the GP since the 1963 peak.

I’ve seen pictures of the planned 69 B body Grand Prix. A neat bit of trivia is that apparently the reason the 69 Bonneville was the first year that a Bonnie got unique grilles (previous years had the standard Catalina grilles) as well as that rear bumper pad is that those items were designed for the cancelled B body 69 GP. Once the G body 69 GP was green lighted they decided to use those already engineered parts on the Bonnie instead.

69 Grand Prix in white and red is one drop dead sexy beast.

https://www.motoexotica.com/vehicles...iac-grand-prix




Best seats in a Grand Prix is 1971 in green IMO.