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The original Pontiac Grand Am. Unless it is one of the bastard child Canada only ripoffs that only people from Calgary have ever seen.
These cars was so ugly, they were prohibited from being within 1000 feet of a school. :o
1973 Pontiac Crand Am is correct!
I thought they were kind of neat looking, at the time...
MG - I have no idea who you are talking about. Can't be me - I only work in Calgary, don't live there :P
That said I think they are kinda neat looking too. I saw a real nice one for sale, cheap too, sadly any additonal vehicle needed to be good on fuel.
I remember Car & Driver dissing the '73 Grand Am by saying that "...Now we know where all those Studebaker stylists went..."; but the general press was positive about the car. As I recall, it wa the first American car offered as a 4door with bucket seats and a console, not to mention a 4-speed manual. I would have loved a 4door with a 455 and a 4-speed, but I was a poor college freshman in the fall of '72...
Dan
Are those the ones with the squishy noses? Big deal back then, as I recall.
Yeah, the 5 mph bumper rule went in effect for the front ends of ll passenger cars sold in America in '73. It usually made for some really ugly cars at first, until the stylists could integrate
them into the overall designs. The Grand Am was a little different, it had the whole nose made of soft Endura plastic. It worked pretty well...I heard several stories of fender-benders involving them where the other vehicle would suffer damage that cost several times as much to repair.
The bumper and the grille were separate pieces, and were designed to "give" in a low speed crash.
The Grand Am, like all the other GM intermediates, was scheduled to be introduced for the 1972 model year, but the big GM /UAW strike early in the year set things back. The bumpers werern't nearly as pronounced on the few prototype pics I've seen, mostly Cutlass Supremes, but the cars were clearly designed with the '73 and beyond bumper rules in mind. I thought they looked better with them than without.
Also, the Grand Am stole a lot of thunder from the Grand Prix for a couple of years. This kinda rankled some GM types, and the car seemed to be downplayed after the first couple of years.
Dan
Yep - I used to give them a 'honk' when I walked by one. The Chevy Laguna S3 had a similar soft front end, but no proboscis.
Awww....once in a great while I am given to hyberbole. Except when I engage in hypobole. :lmao:
So how many does this make for me now. One? ;D
Quote from: MG on December 05, 2006, 06:47:08 AM
So how many does this make for me now. One? ;D
3, I believe.
Quote from: Ultra on December 05, 2006, 10:49:13 AM
Quote from: MG on December 05, 2006, 06:47:08 AM
So how many does this make for me now. One? ;D
3, I believe.
As usual, MG and Rich in a dead heat for the king of mediocrity...... ??? ???
Well, as Lyndon Johnson said when he nominated his old pal Clement Haynesworth to the US Supreme Court:
"There ought to be room for mediocrity on the Court."
I'm sure Mr. Haynesworth greatly appreciated The President's ringing endorsement! :hah: