[Wareagle]

U47 For 1976 some were misses but overall Pontiac had some great designs from any angle - 76 T/A with 78 Wheels etc.

[U47]

Originally Posted by Wareagle

U47 For 1976 some were misses but overall Pontiac had some great designs from any angle - 76 T/A with 78 Wheels etc.

I guess we all see things from a different angle. I would also say Pontiac had a few, but overall there were too many misses with it's bread and butter cars which keep a car company ALIVE. The big cars and intermediates lost ground. The intermediates of the second half of the decade and the next were lost to Cutlass and Pontiac's version of the Nova never made a impression like Omega and Skylark did with what little they could do with most of the styling being already done by Chevrolet. I really wanted to buy a Phoenix, but couldn't get round that battering ram front end grille. Olds and Buick had a more Seville looking ft. end which was popular at the time. Seville is a great riding/not so much sport handling looking 11" stretch X body known as K body. It's problem is 1,000 lbs. more weight. But like I said afore, some of those parts just bolt into a X body which make it nice for people like me who think a car should handle and brake as well as it's ability to go fast. GM had a enormous parts bin to choose from, you just needed to know which parts were which and then make a good car even better.

[MikeNoun]

Pontiac always maintained selling around 500K to 900K cars each year. The sales record they hit in 1973 (breaking the 1968 record) was broken again in 1986. While the mid-1980's are usually not discussed much, Pontiacs were extremely popular during the latter half of the 1980's. Their biggest seller in 1986 was the 6000. You hardly ever see those anymore, yet they sold over 200,000 units in 1986 alone. By 1988, sales of the 6000 had softened, and the FWD Grand Am, Grand Prix, and Bonneville became the most popular.

[MikeNoun]

Here's a classic....

[U47]

Originally Posted by MikeNoun

Here's a classic....

I hope you mean the girl. Westy's are nice, but certainly not in the Classic Car Club of America's list of Classic cars.
Note that the camper and it's owner are at a motel

[GT182]

My 79 Formula.... God rest it's soul.

[johnta1]

This was in last Sunday's paper:

[FireJudge]

From my 1981 High School Memory Book.

[MikeNoun]

Cool pic, John! I have a whole bunch of ones similar to this where a celebrity or sports figure were being given the keys to a new Pontiac.

Here's a new one posted to the yearbook site. I cropped it to remove the dealer name, but it was Oakley Pontiac-Buick.



A new 1969 Firebird, but if you look closely, we can make out a few details:

- No hood scoops, but there's a short die cast emblem on the hood, so it's a Firebird 350.
- Looks like it has a vinyl top.
- Appears to have wheelwell trim and Deluxe Wheel Covers, probably was ordered with the Decor Group.
- Looks like the wider F70x14 white line Wide Ovals, which was an option on the Firebird 350 model.

[dataway]

I can still smell, in my mind, my Dad's 69 Firebird (OHC 6 4 bbl, 4spd and some very low ratio rear), the day he brought it home from the dealer.

[FireJudge]

Picture from 1986. 71 Formula/66 442/68 Camaro

[Drag Star Le Mans]

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[MikeNoun]

Drag Star LeMans, that's a GREAT pic of the 1964 GTO from Stephen Pontiac!!!

Here's a nice one...remember these days?

[MikeNoun]

"Hey there Mr. Dick Landy, you're supposed to be looking at the Hurst sticker...here...on the front fender...."

[60sstuff]

She was an Awesome Woman!

I couldn't take my eyes off of her.

[60sstuff]

Two tone 67 on a trip.

[U47]

Originally Posted by 60sstuff

She was an Awesome Woman!

I couldn't take my eyes off of her.

off them!

[60sstuff]

Originally Posted by U47

off them!

Dah.

[muscle_collector]

she was the bomb back then. a few years back steve hoog sent me a pic of her and then I started saving different ones of her. I think I have close to 120 of them saved.

[400 4spd.]

Here are a few hundred more. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/t...#post-11798301