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Old 01-30-2021, 01:59 PM
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Default 74 Grand Am SD455 value

Recently picked up a 74 Grand Am SD 455 car, swivel buckets, and all the option that you could order on the car, even the flat chrome valve covers, Pontiac II rally wheels, white exterior, burgundy interior., 67k original miles, nice no rust car.

I know the SD455 option is rare on these cars, just looking or a price range or value

Thanks Tom


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No photos, no way to place a value.

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NO SD 455 came in a Grand Am from factory! (or anything else other than Firebird)



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Agree on the SD455 not being available (notwithstanding that one promotional photo that shows a Grand Am with SD455 decals on it.) Were swivel bucket seats available in Pontiacs? I thought that was just a Chevy option.

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Yep no SD Grand Am

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It would be awesome to see pictures of the car you have.

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I will get picks later not get it ti the snow has stopped

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I believe there was at least on 73 running around in the Florida area about twenty years ago with a SD455. I like the GAs, and I saw one for sale with a SD bottom end topped off with a 72 HO intake. I believe the car was also a 4-spd, but I'm not sure if it was converted or was originally manually tranny car.

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Many years ago remember reading about someone building "correct" tribute car. maybe HPP?

Wasn't there a White publicity car that did not actually have an SD but was used for press pics before the idea was nixed?

" I know the SD455 option is rare on these cars, just looking or a price range or value"...

Agree with everyone that says No SD-455 was ever factory built and sold to the Public in an A body

Love to see the Pics to. Especially Of the heads center exhaust Ports.

Still a Valuable and Neat car, especially if it really has an SD-455 actually in the engine Bay


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Gregg Peterson and Herb Adams (of Pontiac) had the SD GA in Florida and ran it in the NASCAR race I believe. It was an engineering car. Both of them drove it back from Florida to MI. But the Grand Am was never offered the SD or any car except the TA/Formula.


This article has one being demonstrated by car editors.


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Were swivel bucket seats available in Pontiacs? I thought that was just a Chevy option.
Also available on the Olds Cutlass. But agreed - I've never seen them in a Pontiac from the factory.

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Somewhere on Facebook there was a lucerne blue 1974 Grand Am 4 door with white interior offered as a part out, and the owner indicated the car was available for $800.

If I had the resources I would have definitely bought it and eventually given it an SD455.

Hope someone with greater resources had that idea and acted upon it. Looked really good to my eye with that color combo.

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I know it sounds like piling on at this point but:

1.) The SD-455 engine was only available in the Trans Am and the Formula in '73 and '74. If this '74 Grand Am you've found has a SD-455, it was owner installed.

2.) Swivel bucket seats were not an option on the Grand Am in any year. These seats were only available in the Chevelle/Laguna, Monte Carlo, and I believe Cutlass (although I've never personally seen a Cutlass with them).

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I know it sounds like piling on at this point but:

1.) The SD-455 engine was only available in the Trans Am and the Formula in '73 and '74. If this '74 Grand Am you've found has a SD-455, it was owner installed.

2.) Swivel bucket seats were not an option on the Grand Am in any year. These seats were only available in the Chevelle/Laguna, Monte Carlo, and I believe Cutlass (although I've never personally seen a Cutlass with them).
Yes, Cutlass had them. The seat in my 69 GP dirt car was from a 73-74 Cutlass that I personally pulled from the car. With the swivel base removed, it made a great mounting point to tie it into the roll cage, something that a conventional automotive seat isn't very well designed to accomplish.

I never realized it, but it was also a option on El Caminos. Looks like Cutlass, Monte Carlo, Laguna, and El Camino, from 73-77. I've never seen a El Camino with them, but there are pictures on the net installed in El Caminos too, said to be OEM parts, not added after manufacture.

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[QUOTE=Brian Baker;6220774

2.) Swivel bucket seats were not an option on the Grand Am in any year. These seats were only available in the Chevelle/Laguna, Monte Carlo, and I believe Cutlass (although I've never personally seen a Cutlass with them).[/QUOTE]

My first car (purchased in 1982...) was a 75 Cutlass S that had them. It was a cool feature.
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I had a '76 455 442 Cutlass that had factory swivel buckets.

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Back in the day. The article about the Grand Am that never was. Was built by Jack Hoffman. A true version of what was suppose to be but never made production.

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The white '73 Super Duty Grand Am test mule was featured in the November 1972 issue of Road test magazine. Despite rumors that it made its way to the public, Tom Goad told me that the car was crushed.

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Back in the day. The article about the Grand Am that never was. Was built by Jack Hoffman. A true version of what was suppose to be but never made production.
I know this car very well, have tuned it and driven it. It's currently owned by an old friend, Phil Griffith. I went with Phil when he bought the car from Jack back around 1996. Jack explained in detail how the order process went, and how delivery went, when he bought it new. Jack retained all of the original dealer paperwork for the car, which Phil now has.

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I've visited Jack a few times in the past. He is a great Guy. I hope he is still around ? I have memories of sitting in his shop and talk about the good old days..

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