Jun 12 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Classic Pontiacs,Pontiac Advertising,Videos
Our “25 Greatest Pontiac Ads” Download
Short video with more info on our free download of “The 25 Greatest Pontiac Magazine Ads of the 1960′s”.
Archive for June, 2009
Jun 11 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Classic Pontiacs,Pontiac News,Trans Am
2011 Pontiac Trans Am?
With the Pontiac brand announced to be disappearing in 2010…what’s with announcing a Pontiac Trans Am for model year 2011? We’re not sure, but High Performance Pontiac has more details and an interview with the designer.
Jun 10 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Bonneville,Classic Pontiacs,Firebird,GTO,Tempest,Videos
Classic Pontiacs Through The Years
Jun 08 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Pontiac News
Better Than Nothing? GM Considering Turning Pontiac G8 Into a Buick
General Motors Corp. is having “discussions” about maintaining the highly regarded Pontiac G8 performance sedan, Automotive News is reporting.
GM is eliminating the Pontiac brand by the end of next year, but enthusiasts are hoping the automaker might keep the rear-wheel-drive G8 as a Chevrolet or Buick model. The G8 is built by GM’s Holden subsidiary in Australia and imported to the United States.
In an interview with Automotive News, GM product development chief Tom Stephens says re-badging the G8 as a Chevrolet model might give Chevy too many sedans. But it could draw younger buyers to Buick.
In the 1950s, Buicks were noted for sleek styling and strong performance. In essence, Buick then was what Lexus is today. In the 1960s and 1970s, Buick offered Gran Sport options on most of its models. Gearheads also will recall the outrageous 1987Buick GNX, which was claimed by some to be the fastest production car GM ever built.
Keeping the G8 as a Buick or Chevy model must be considered little more than speculation at this point. But several Buick-Pontiac-GMC dealers have told me they think GM will keep one or two Pontiac models for them to sell as Buicks. The G8, the midsize G6–Pontiac’s best seller–and the two-seater Solstice would seem to be the most likely possibilities.
Jun 06 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Classic Pontiacs,Pontiac Advertising,Videos
1935 Pontiac Advertising
Promotional video from Pontiac to their dealers describing their advertising plans for 1935.
An interesting snapshot of not only the bygone era of classic Pontiacs, by the rapidly by-going era of mass market print advertising media as well.
Jun 06 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Pontiac News
GM to Sell Pontiac Brand?
General Motors says it will consider ‘reasonable’ offers for Pontiac brand
Davison, Michigan — General Motors is saying “nothing is off the table” and that it will consider reasonable offers to buy the Pontiac brand, though the automaker previously has said the brand isn’t for sale.
GM dealer Jim Waldron of Jim Waldron Pontiac Buick GMC Inc. in Davison said he and five investors want to buy the brand, plants and equipment needed to make Pontiacs from the bankrupt automaker.
Jim Hopson, a spokesman for the Pontiac brand, said that Pontiac has fewer than 40 standalone Pontiac dealerships nationwide, which would make it hard to sell the brand. Typically, franchise agreements prohibit dealers from selling competing brands in the same showroom, Hopson said. In all, some 2,500 GM dealerships sell Pontiacs, he said.
“We’re not taking anything off the table and we’ll listen to any reasonable offer,” Hopson said.
“We can not see how it could be a viable business given the fact that it’s so interconnected with the other GM brands,” he added. Hopson said he doesn’t know if anyone at Pontiac is talking to Waldron. Waldron said he has meetings set up next week on the proposal.
Current GM plans are to phase out the Pontiac brand by the end of 2010. Dealers would wind down their Pontiac inventory by October 2010.
Jun 02 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Pontiac Advertising,Videos
New GM “Reinvention” TV Commercial
New television commercial from General Motors talks about their reinvention…alas, Pontiac is left behind…
Jun 02 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Firebird
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am: Quintessential 1970′s Car
1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
This Pontiac Firebird Trans Am was the star of the classic 1977 movie “Smokey and the Bandit”. The Firebird’s co-stars included Burt Reynolds, the hottest actor in the world at that time, along with his then-girlfriend Sally Field playing…his girlfriend. And who can forget the late, great Jackie Gleason as stereotypical southern Sheriff Buford T. Justice, in hot pursuit of the “bandit” for 87 minutes.
What could possibly personify the 70′s better than this car, CB radio antenna and all?
Jun 01 2009
Posted by Pontiac Editor under Pontiac News
Needless to Say–GM Bankruptcy Not Good News for Pontiac Dealers
On top of the 1,124 General Motors dealers that will be closed next year, the ailing automaker is reportedly going to announce another round of dealer closings on Monday when its bankruptcy declaration is expected. According to two Automotive News sources, 450 dealers will not see their dealer franchises renewed. For his part, Mark LaNeve, GM’s VP of North American sales, said the number would be “less than half that.”
