1967 Pontiac Grand Prix

400

Automatic

Up for auction is a very nice Grand Prix convertible! This is not a show car, but a very nice driver with everything working on it but the vacuum hideaway headlights. The fender skirts come with. I also have "GRAND PRIX" lettering for the sides. There are dents (see pictures) and scratches in the car so it needs body work. There is some rust coming through above the rear fenders (see pictures) The trunk and floor are solid. Interior is all original. The driver and passanger both have a "split" in the seat about a dollar bill length. The dash has no cracks. Glass is all 100% windows go up and down as they should. Power top works as it should and holds its own. (See pictures) Very strong running 400 4bbl with electronic fuel pump. Tires are fair/good. New breaks, tie rods, runs down the road hands free straight! This was going to be my restoration project, but after 20 years employed with the same company, I suffered a plant shut down and am now unemployed. Mama says the toys have to go. I can't argue I guess. This it the only reason I am selling!About the Grand Prix... During the pinnacle of the muscle car era, it was easy for certain models to get lost in the shuffle. Full-size muscle cars were especially overlooked, both when they were new and in the 1970s, years when a muscle car was about as welcome in your driveway as an IRS agent. Pontiac made one of the greatest efforts in full-size muscle, with 2+2 and the Grand Prix, but both cars remained neglected until just a few years ago.The Grand Prix, of course, had quite a following by 1967. Launched in 1962, the Pontiac Grand Prix was a new breed for the Tin Indian: a personal/sports/luxury coupe. Equipped with bucket seats and a floor shifter from the get-go, the Grand Prix aimed its guns at the Ford Thunderbird and the Chrysler 300, as well as cars under its own umbrella, such as the Olds Starfire. Out of the gate, it was a modest success, representing 5 percent of Pontiac's sales in its first year. And that's pretty much the way it stayed, right up until the 1969 model year, when the personal luxury coupe really took off.Pontiac had a lot of marketing gimmicks for what was essentially the same car, and sales had begun to reflect that. 1966 marked something of a high point for this marketing confusion, with the introduction of the 2+2 as an actual model, rather than a trim package on a Catalina. The following year, the 2+2 was out as a model, and in its place a newly redesigned Grand Prix debuted: Love it or hate it, it distinguished itself from every other Pontiac model.From the rear, the revamp wasn't so dramatic. The Coke bottle-shaped profile was a little more accentuated, but the conservative lighting treatment wasn't as "out there" as the field hockey stick taillamps on the Bonneville and Catalina. It wasn't until you got around to the front that the GP (the initials were cast on the badges and etched in the side glass) really staked its claim as the most dramatic Pontiac. Instead of stacked headlamps (one in the grille, one in the fascia) like the other full-size Pontiacs, the GP hid the headlamps under vacuum-operated doors in the grille; turn signals were housed in three slits in the fenders. The Batmobile had nothing on the '67 GP.The biggest news was the convertible top. The Grand Prix model had never before been offered as a convertible. Now that the 2+2 (which did offer a convertible) was gone, there was no sense in not offering it.Engines for the 1967 GP started with the 350hp, 400-cu.in. V-8, and ended not much further up the line with a 376hp, 428-cu.in. V-8.Despite its bold looks, Pontiac only held onto this GP body for the 1967 model year. A total of 42,981 GPs were built in 1967, so they're far from rare. For quite a while, you could pick up a decent Grand Prix for chump change. However, we're not talking about any Grand Prix here. This is a convertible, which only accounted for 5,857 of those 43,000 sales. It also features the top-of-the-line engine. Any questions? Pictures... Want to drive it! email me!! I have described this car the best I can. I will not intentionally mislead or misrepresent anything I sell. I want you to be 100% happy with the car! Honest! But... It is a 45 year old car, and the warranty ran out a long time ago. Buyer is buying AS IS.