[TAKerry]

What a great car. Even the newest pontiac is old! That car is more than eligible for the AACA. You should look into that organization. That car would score very high. I bought a GP new around '89. Same era as yours with the larger headlights. Ours was white, had a velour int. but otherwise loaded. It did not have the Heads up, and I am not sure if it came out the year after our car was built? It was a dealer leftover because it was a 5 speed. Ours was not cheap I remember the sticker price was over 20k and we got it for about 15k. One of the nicest cars I ever owned.
As far as being THE pace car, I dont want to pee in your corn flakes but I would take that claim with a grain of salt. It very well may have been a festival car though. At these races the manufacturer will loan the track a hundred cars or more for vip use during the race. It may have been one of those. I was at Daytona when the SSR truck paced. The hotel I stayed in was using their grounds to park the trucks until GM picked them back up. There was at least 100 of them all lined up, many with pace car decals. Days of thunder claim, who knows? and probably not a lot that would care. I think the car stands on its own merit of being in the condition that it is for 35 years!

[twov8sandat4]

I love those cars. I wanted one ever since one beat my stock 74 TA on the highway 30 odd years ago

[unruhjonny]

These were a USA only thing (just like the Quad4-W41 Oldsmobiles) - I didn’t know anything about these GP’s till one showed up at a local Pontiac show several years ago;
Very cool!

My dad bought a new GP in ‘89;
At the time they seemed so futuristic - I loved that car.
Stuff like the little display at the front of the console only added to the “cool” factor to the 11 (or 12) year old.

Unfortunately he got rid of it, like every other car - he had it just long enough to lose a pile of money on it! ha-ha!

[MarkS57]

Originally Posted by unruhjonny

These were a USA only thing (just like the Quad4-W41 Oldsmobiles) - I didn’t know anything about these GP’s till one showed up at a local Pontiac show several years ago;
Very cool!

My dad bought a new GP in ‘89;
At the time they seemed so futuristic - I loved that car.
Stuff like the little display at the front of the console only added to the “cool” factor to the 11 (or 12) year old.

Unfortunately he got rid of it, like every other car - he had it just long enough to lose a pile of money on it! ha-ha!

My girlfriend now wife bought an 89 GP as well. Black coupe w/ silver around the bottom, gray interior, nice car. We traded it in on a 94 GP 4 door when our son came along. That was also a nice car.

[kingbuzzo]

[QUOTE=unruhjonny;6507876]These were a USA only thing (just like the Quad4-W41 Oldsmobiles) - I didn’t know anything about these GP’s till one showed up at a local Pontiac show several years ago;

Are you certain?

I seen tons of them back in the day...lusted after them as well...absolutely none now however

[thepontiacman]

I have Pontiac brochure with that GP in it .
Some of the brochures don't have it pictured, just a white GP. They must have updated the brochure when that GP became available.

Envelope with brochures and form letter.

Had to find it.


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[turbo69bird]

I always thought that was one of the toughest looking 80s Pontiac’s I drive one new for a couple days while my car was in the shop. My dad
S freind at Stephens nick pappas had it was a dealer brass hat car he loaned it to me. He’d do that I think hoping I’d buy one from time to time , did it w a 89 turbo TA shoulda bought that one.
Anyway I really liked that car and had forgotten all about them until this post. Great car happy your here in this boatf
With us , dint worry about how new we could use some differnt stuff here from
Time to time. I enjoyed seeing it

[Dave R]

They had some ultra cushy seats. I remember sinking into to them on a test drive. Price was too high though at the time. Around 25k in 91.

[67ozzyville]

Thanks for sharing, never heard of it , as a GP owner I need to do some homework.
Downunder we had GMH ,ozzie v8s, no 2 doors. Commodores and Statesman, boring times.

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