balthazar

It's not common for someone mid-aged to still have the first car they ever bought. I picked up this '64 GP in '86, it was 22 yrs old then. Still got her, 34 years later, and she's now 56 years old. Thankfully, she's basically the same shape as when I got her, as opposed to having degenerated in the time in-between. Very nicely optioned for '64: heater/defroster, power steering, power brakes, AM-FM, power antenna, power windows, A/C, Electro-Cruise, tilt wheel, Cordova vinyl top, automatic. Standard were the 4bbl 389 V8, dual exhaust, bucket/console, padded dash. Regarding the tilt or the AM-FM, one is a first year option, the other is 2nd year. I think tilt is first year. When my buddy asked me to borrow $100 to buy it, I said 'let's go check it out'. It was parked with 2 other cars for sale: 1963 Buick LeSabre 2-dr sedan, 150K miles, painted white with a ROLLER. $150 1966 Pontiac Catalina 4-dr sedan, 125K miles, no keys, gold, $125. and this triple-black Grand Prix Sport coupe was just $100. Needless to say- I lent him the 100, with the caveat that he give me first dibs when he decided to sell it (inevitable, and on a short time span based on past history). Now, the car was bought in '86. The inspection sticker in the window was dated from 1971! So it had already sat for 15 years. Owner said he started it regularly, but the alternator always gave him trouble so he parked it. Odometer the day of purchase said 55554.5 My buddy then (we were young squirts) basically only bought cheap old iron to use as daily drivers. Went thru them fast & furious. Even though we rebuild the carb one night at his gas station job, the tank had enough gunk in it that the car continually stalled out while driving. Why he never dropped/cleaned the tank I don't know. I think it was mere months later when he offered it to me for the same $100. I accepted, August 21, 1986.

Name: 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix Category: Vehicles Date Added: 2020-07-17 Submitter: balthazar 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix

^ Inevitability.

1939 market share of GM: 42.7%

General Motors had 1,287 dealers in NY State in 1939. In 2019, the total was 179.

Big fan of Vice Grip Garage. I know- the above episode is an hour 5 mins long, and you think you won't sit & watch it all, but you will.

^ Mostly dust. Patina is minimal. More will buff out. Lookit the shine still in dem flanks : Yes- the plan is to get running again.

First time under the sky in maybe 26 years:

Still working on this list- pecking at it here & again. Still finding new-to-me dealers. Current numbers are approximately : 4400 coded Pontiac dealers, 7800 total Pontiac dealers

And we all know how well the baja did sales-wise.

Clean F’em-250, I think these are early ‘80s: Anachronistic WWs on a square body:

There also no VW elbow on sale right now, but here we are talking about it. ? With VW vowing to go all EV ASAP, seems reasonable that this would at least be a consideration for the US.

‘They’ say it’s tough to beat a Jersey tomater.

My comments (price, sales potential) were solely couched in the realm of a U.S. version. No idea how well/poorly the Opel sells in Europe.

OK- so $50K to start, or about 12 grand more than a Bolt. That should work out well.

Econo-car interior. I’ll guess it starts at $60K, that give it space price-wise between it and it’s sibling; the e-tron.

Turkey Hill used to be my fav but I think Blue Bunny eclipses it.

Corolla cross isn’t a so-called ‘crossover coupe’, and good thing; they sell terribly compared to the regular CUVs. Look at BMW...

I think his name was Joe something.

In our garden yesterday. I don’t care for tomatoes in their natural form, diced small is OK, but all other forms are fine.

Some very rare data on the costs associated with retro-fitting an EV powertrain into an older vehicle. Still wildly expensive if you want something engineered as a package.

Those are some expensive taxis; i-Paces start at $70 grand, then you have to retro fit the charging hardware. Oh well- just up everyone's taxi fares AND property taxes; probably no one will notice it costs $50 to take a 4-block taxi ride. Also not sure of the statement that 'each charge provides 6-8 minutes of energy' - doesn't the pad keep charging as long as the vehicle is over it? 6-8 mins is not much of anything.