No More Pontiacs

[Foofoogal]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_goodbye_pontiac

TransAm, GrandPrix. :eusa_doh:

 

[Silver Dollar]

I hated this when I first saw it. Is nothing sacred anymore?

 

[Talbot]

How the mighty have fallen, sigh....

 

[Talbot]

 

[Red Diabla]

I hated this when I first saw it. Is nothing sacred anymore?

They lost their way rather thoroughly.

I had a 1996 Grand Am GT that I loved dearly...it was a pretty good car, but unfortunately it met an early demise four years ago, and at that point I looked at what Pontiac was offering and my reaction was, "EUGHGHGDFJKGHERITYIGH". Which is not good.

I wish Pontiac maintained its edge, but the teeth were taken out of that marque long, long ago.

RD

 

[Talbot]

A friend of mine picked this up off Craigslist a while back.

Sort of a one man attempt at reviving the marques earlier image:


> "OK, let me start off by saying this Pontiac is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout chest hair and a five o'clock shadow, this GTO would look like Tom Selleck. It is just that manly.
>
> It was never intended to drive to the mall so you can pick up that adorable shirt at Abercrombie & Fitch that you had your eye on. It wasn't meant to transport you to yoga class or Linens & Things. No, that's what your Prius is for. If that's the kind of car you're looking for, then just do us all a favor and stop reading right now. I mean it.
> Just stop.
>
> This car was engineered by roughneck, crocodile killing, dingo screwing, shrimp on the barbie Fosters drinking Aussies to serve the needs of the man that cheats death on a daily basis. They didn't even consider superfluous nancy boy amenities like navigation systems (real men don't get lost), heated leather seats (a real man doesn't let anything warm his butt), or On Star (real men don't even know what the hell On Star is).
>
> No, this brute comes with the things us testosterone-fueled super action junkies need. It has a 410 RWHP engine to outrun the cops. It's got special blood/gore resistant upholstery. It even has a first-aid kit in the back. You know what the first aid kit has in it? A pint of whiskey, a stitch-your-own-wound kit and a hunk of leather to bite down on when you're operating on yourself. The GOAT also has a six speed transmission so if you're being chased by Libyan terrorists, you'll still be able to shoot your machine gun out the window and drive at the same time getting 23MPG. It's saved my bacon more than once.
>
> It has room for you and the three hotties you picked up on the way to the gym to blast your pecs and hammer your glutes. There's a tow hitch to pull your 50 caliber anti-Taliban, self cooling machine gun. I also just put in a new windshield to replace the one that got shot out by Al Qaeda.
>
> My price on this bad boy is an incredibly low $15,900, but I'll entertain reasonable offers. And by reasonable, I mean don't walk up and tell me you'll give me $5,000 for it. That's liable to earn you a Burmese-roundhouse-sphincter-kick with a follow up three fingered eye-jab. Would it hurt? Hell yeah. Let's just say you won't be the prettiest guy at the Coldplay concert anymore.
>
> There's only 59,000 miles on this four-wheeled hellcat from Planet Kickass. Trust me, it will outlive you and the offspring that will carry your name. It will live on as a monument to your machismo.
>
> Now, go look in the mirror and tell me what you see. If it's a rugged, no holds barred, super brute he-man macho Chuck Norris stunt double, then contact me. I might be out hang-gliding or BASE jumping or just chilling with my ladies, but I'll get back to you. And when I do, we'll talk about a price over a nice glass of Schmidt while we listen to Johnny Cash.
>
> To sweeten the deal a little, I'm throwing in this pair of MC Hammer pants for the man with rippling quads that can't fit into regular pants. Yeah, you heard me. FREE MC Hammer pants."

 

[Foofoogal]

Absolutely 100% hilarious. Love it.

 

[CharlieB]

So sad. My first car was a 1974 Pontiac Catalina. So big, you didn't park it, you DOCKED it!

 

[StraightEight]

Pontiac has cheated death a few times in its life when management didn't know what to do with it. Finally, the weakest appendages had to be amputated so that the rest of the body can go on. A wide-track salute to the Chief.

 

[Silver Dollar]

So sad. My first car was a 1974 Pontiac Catalina. So big, you didn't park it, you DOCKED it!

I know what you're talking about. When I lived at home while I was in school, I was driving a 68 Bonneville. When I see pictures of one, I still can't believe how big it was. You could put more stuff in the trunk than you could with a small SUV. The car was totalled in a rear ender. The moron that hit it knocked off the rudder and the main mast too.

 

[CharlieB]

Silver Dollar, that's sad about the Bonne' But you are right about the room. You could lie down across the back seat, and not touch either side of the interior!

 

[RadioWave]

Pontiac built the first functional transparent (plexiglas) car for the NY '39-'40 World's Fair. This "ghost car", one of two built by GM, is the sole survivor.

Read all about it: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/07/the-tin-indian-that-wasnt-rm-to-offer-see-through-pontiac/

 

[Gregg Axley]

At least it helped if you had a leak in the engine.
Warm in the winter, MUCH warmer in the summer!
Great post.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

That's how cars are supposed to be. Pontiac's wide-trac boats were amazing cars. I miss boats. They were killed off this year with the demise of the Ford Panther Platform. Long live the land yacht, even if they're not producing them anymore. I will keep fixing and fixing them until the day I die.

So sad. My first car was a 1974 Pontiac Catalina. So big, you didn't park it, you DOCKED it!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

First Oldsmobile,.and now this.
I think GM owes us bigtime,...time to bring back LaSalle or something.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Don't forget that the Ford guys lost the Mercury. Ironically, I drive a Merc and my brother drives an Olds.

First Oldsmobile,.and now this.
I think GM owes us bigtime,...time to bring back LaSalle or something.

 

[MisterCairo]

Mercury is gone (has been gone from Canada since 99 except for the Grand Marquis (and the St. Thomas Ontario plant is closing this year - bye bye Grand Marquis, Crown Vic and Lincoln Town Car), Plymouth (gone from Canada at least), Oldsmobile, Saturn has been put to sleep, I hear Hummer has hummed its last tune.

The times they are a' changin, but in the end, nothing new here: Hudson, DeSoto, Studebaker, Nash, etc., etc....

 

[scottyrocks]

A friend of mine picked this up off Craigslist a while back.

Sort of a one man attempt at reviving the marques earlier image:


> "OK, let me start off by saying this Pontiac is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout chest hair and a five o'clock shadow, this GTO would look like Tom Selleck. It is just that manly. . .

Two of my favorite cars were a '67 Impala and a '73 Delta 88, both exquisitely cosmetically challenged, but ran like nobodys' business.

The Impala blew its crankshaft, and the Delta, rustbucket that it was, had to go when I moved double the distance from my job back in '95, when it cost me, at 1995 gas prices, $60/week in gas to get back and forth to work. Today, with present gas prices, my car costs me less money to cover the same distance.

 

[MisterCairo]

^^^ Scotty, do you ever watch the show "Supernatural", with a 67 Impala as the third star? My nephew would kill for one of those!

 

[Gregg Axley]

Yeah, we've done this discussion on another thread, but I think it bears repeating.
Simply that cars today have NO lines IMHO, they all look alike.
I wanted to see the G8 develop further.
Oh well...