The 1980 Pontiac Grand Prix - Dealer Film (GM125)

[@TVHouseHistorian]

There was no car on the road that rode like a Grand Prix LJ. Lots of body role and jiggly suspension. I will never forget how comfortable the leather bucket seats were in these. Such a rare car now. I would love to own one.

[@static_Tricolor_camry]

This takes me back to my childhood day's. My Dad had a Gray 84 Grand Prix with Front Bench seats, it had Black Leather seats. I was with him when he bought it from an older guy in beginning of the 90's I really liked that car.

[@averyparticularsetofskills]

Is that a _BARGE_ at the end 🤣 The effin 80's !! I LOVE this stuff

[@joanzen]

My Dad bought the '80 Grand Prix with the two-tone black/gold paint. That car was all over Pontiac brochures at the time! I was in high school and all my friends loved it when we would go cruisin' in it, especially with the t-tops out! My mom was never a fan of the two-tone paint; she always referred to it as Ole Ugly! These videos are great!

[@bertram46]

I absolutely love these videos. And when I was young that's all I had were Pontiacs. In high school I had a brand new Grand Prix LJ with buckets and a 301 V8 I loved it. I had a grand LeMans before that a 78 with a 6-cylinder I didn't like it got rid of it and bought the Grand Prix. My mother had and I wish I still had this car a black and silver 77 Pontiac Bonneville hardtop with buckets and a console 350 w a 4 Barrel only wish we would have spent the money for the aluminum wheels instead of the wire hubcaps. What a beautiful car without the vinyl top. Came from Walker Pontiac and Mount Lebanon PA. Sad, cars today are nothing but a toaster. An appliance. I do have a Porsche Panamera 4s. Love it. However it's not a good old dinosaur.

[@monaonassis6346]

Same. My dad worried for GM and always bought Pontiacs - mostly Grand Prixs and a few Bonnevilles.

[@bertram46]

@@monaonassis6346 the only sad car of the bunch which I didn't mention after my mother's Bonneville she bought a Pontiac Phoenix LJ it was horrible it was reliable but it was just a crude car. The first mistake was the four cylinder. I think it was called The Iron Duke. I thought LJ stood for luxury junk LOL with that car. I think of all the GM lines Pontiac gave the most bang for the buck you weren't driving a base Chevrolet you had all the Chrome and trim of a Buick or an Oldsmobile without the cost and the Pontiac had a little more Pizzazz even though it was second from the lowest on the totem pole

[@eddiestanley135]

The way that the opening scene of this is done; I thought it may be a bad seventies porno.😁

[@paulparoma]

@cockyhemi The Opening of Mrs. Beethoven is a classic.

[@georgepetrillo7316]

Loved those cars. My mother had a 79 Grand Prix in Glacier Blue, same color as the one in this video. Hers had the 301 2bbl v-8, bench seats, roll down windows, am radio and a/c. Always ran well. Might have given it one tune up.

[@terryleagan7390]

My father bought a 76 Grand Prix in 1976. Later, he gave it to me when he bought a 77 Cutlass. I kept it until 1989. It drove and rode great. Wish I still had it.

[@_NFCreative_]

I own a 79GP LJ, with the 301 V8, here in Austria. A absolute rare car here. Maybe 2 or 3 pcs on the roads, in good contition. I love this car!

[@severinjohn]

Keep these coming, Cory I'm giving them a thumbs up and hoping the algorithm will spread them to like minded folks. They're fascinating!

[@paulparoma]

The nicest dash, also shared with the LeMans. Attractive, functional and sporty, and every bit as nice as on the preceding model.

[@DM-hk8gz]

Thanks Cory for sharing this video! I owned an 81, with the awful 265 V8. Loved the car but hated that severely underpowered engine. Miss all my Pontiacs!

[@JohnnyAloha69]

They weren’t bad looking cars in their day, especially without the vinyl tops. They had a bit of the shape of a 68-69 GTO to them. Engines were all dogs and the turbo 200 automatic transmissions were very failure prone. The optional leather buckets made a great looking interior.

[@resetsetmefree478]

dogs? Wasn't v6 standard?

[@monaonassis6346]

Enjoyed this so much. Thank you for sharing.

[@marcodarko6941]

Nice to see one so pristine. Beautiful car and really like the advertisment. I am ready to sail away to Key Largo. It reminds me of the '83 Monte Carlo I was allowed to drive on my own at 13 during Summers out in the boondocks. That car drove so easy and nice, smooth. I can almost remember the feel of it again by watching that Grand Prix winding through the hills there. The Cutlass and the Grand Prix are my favorite ones of the body style then the Monte Carlo.

[@tobyl55]

What an ending. Love the effort.

[@hoonami139]

My first car was a blue '80, it was very worn out by the late '00s when I had it, wound up selling it and getting a '79 that I still have. They're sort of awkward step children G bodies but I love them, don't remember the last time I saw another one.

[@splender88]

I owned a 77 and a 78 at the same time. The only thing the two shared was the name one was huge and the other was the smallest GP up until that time. By 1980 the Grand Prixs were growing again and got even bigger in the 80's.

[@turkhawkins4619]

Salute cha Cory needed this motivation im 2 owner of a still rolling strong powder blue 78 Gp

[@joeseeking3572]

We had a 79 LJ with the optional 301 4bbl, top level RTS, bordello interior + 8 track, wires - solid black with no vinyl roof - it looked great, clean - very elegant and understated for the time. Much less common that the other G specials (Monte Carlo, Cutlass Supreme, Regal) and it really stood out. Packed visual punch above its price and for the era it was a decent performer and handled pretty well for what it was (205/70 was the top tire option - you couldn't even get 60 series rubber on a Firebird in those days!)

[@georgepetrillo7316]

Actually , the 79's could be had with the 305 4bbl. The 301 for the 79 Grand Prix was a 2bbl engine.

[@averyparticularsetofskills]

I absolutely LOVE the content on this channel!! I could (&have) watch for hours!!! 👍🏽

[@WhittyPics]

I miss my 84

[@marvinbenjamin.]

One car I been looking for the longest.

[@daviddaniel387]

My parents brought a 1981 grand prix brougham that was like ridding in a Cadillac

[@rudiknaus4139]

The 1978 - 1980 GM models were available here in Germany, too for a very low dollar / DM .. a big success! It’s called the US car invasion and I bought my first US Car, a Chevrolet Malibu Classic Coupé! 🏁🇺🇸👍🏼

[@turkhawkins4619]

Salute cha

[@arn7992]

I'll take the Grand Prix SJ. Looks the best of all.

[@swilkobarfingtoniii1642]

Love the twist at the end. I had a '79 GP- slightly different from this model. 301 Pontiac V8- I've read a lot of comments here about how 'underpowered' that car was, but mine- bone stock w/ 2bb;. carb- would do 100 on the highway all day. It wasn't a drag racing car, but it would put down a lot of easy miles. Anyways, always cool seeing these old commercials and dealer promos. Makes me feel nostalgic.

[@georgepetrillo7316]

I can attest to that as well. We had 79 as well, with the 301 2bbl v-8. It ran well. It was quick. We might have only done one tune up durin g the time we had it.

[@carloscastro-oy7rk]

Estuve a punto de adquirir uno de esos claro ya con estragos del tiempo pero Está hermoso! Ese carro 79 y 80 muy bonita la línea Pontiac por aquí conservo un 84! Brougham!

[@nathanpeck5155]

Perfect for an elegant dinner on a barge floating aimlessly out to sea

[@merkcityboy834]

Man why can’t they make cars like this anymore I get the cost but man..

[@uhill74]

Government

[@darryladams519]

@@uhill74 yeah government screws everything up so they can stuff their pockets

[@resetsetmefree478]

​@@darryladams519ikr and I did a double take at 1:30. A standard V6??? They actually used to give you that kinda power even in base models then???

[@grocerygoat06]

I would be distracted monitoring all those gauges, lol.

[@resetsetmefree478]

sure as hell would rather have that than these dumb screens 🙄

[@grocerygoat06]

@@resetsetmefree478 Touche

[@marcodarko6941]

Screens SUCK. I love physical gauges.

[@snowleopardgarage]

These are so sexy. Its like a Pontiac became a Cadillac.

[@merkcityboy834]

Disco Disco 💃 🕺

[@kellanhills1972]

Every person who owns a 1980 Grand Prix lives in a giant house is young and beautiful and rich! I want to own a Grand Prix too. 😢

[@georgepetrillo7316]

We had a 79 Grand Prix, but didn't have a big house. Grand Prix's were not that expensive, Ours was $5200.

[@kellanhills1972]

@@georgepetrillo7316 it’s called sarcasm George. If you watch the commercial they make it seem like a rich persons car which as you explained it is not. Just weird GM marketing.

[@georgepetrillo7316]

@@kellanhills1972 Not really sarcasm. It's just a looks and lifestyle commercial That's what Pontiac is selling. Don't know if you have been in the TV production industry, but I have and with a good amount of years. Those commercials do very well at capturing that target market.

[@kellanhills1972]

@@georgepetrillo7316 do you know what the target market Pontiac was selling at? I always thought Pontiac was more down market. It kind of looks like a Cadillac commercial. Interested to know if Pontiac was really marketing to the higher income bracket.

[@georgepetrillo7316]

@@kellanhills1972 Yes, 30 + crowd.

[@67marlins]

These A-Special bodies ( coupes only ) got much better-looking for 1980- 1983, I think. I always thought the first down-sized design of 1978 & 1979 ( despite selling well ) were malproportioned. Especially the 1980 Cutlass Supreme 'shovel-nose' front end improved it tremendously....and that seemed to uplift the Regal and Gran Prix styling too. Longer and more flowing. The Monte Carlo stayed ugly, as always.

[@joserafaelgrangefuenmayor7744]

Me gusta el carro

[@DxntSimp]

😍😍

[@SolamenteVees]

That voice… sounds like the voice from Disney’s Haunted Mansion

[@kingnillvwell381]

I’ll take it if it had the 5.7 letter only .

[@grandam]

You'd have thought that intro was to a porno.

[@resetsetmefree478]

that was 1979....just about everything had some elements of it😁

[@grandam]

@@resetsetmefree478 🤣🤣🤣

[@resetsetmefree478]

@@grandam notice the list at 1:30 and what came standard....different times for sure. so I take it you're a grand am owner?

[@grandam]

@@resetsetmefree478 Grand Am. 4 Regals. An Adrenaline. Brand new Honda Accord. Mazda Protege and just recently sold my Silverado and trying to make up my mind for a replacement for it.

[@resetsetmefree478]

@@grandam beautiful cars 👍

[@mvnorsel6354]

One barge on a barge.