Click Here. I'm bored, so this is thread for all things Grand Am.

The rear drivers are my most favorite, but that little black baby with the tinted windows and no evil spoiler looks cute.

How can anybody start a thread with 70's midsized Pontiac photos and not include a photo of the 1977 Pontiac Lemans Can-Am? I know it's a Grand Am thread and all, but man, these things are pretty neat!

Funny that of the proposed 5000, only anywhere from 1100-1377 got out the door before General Motors killed the run. Why, you ask? Because the mold for the "duck tail" rear spoiler broke and nobody felt like fixing it. I hope whoever made THAT decision got a big promotion! </sarcasm>

I've only seen one of these in person, in passing in Southern New Hampshire a few summers ago; I thought it was just some cheesy 70's stripe package like all the other "Decal GT's" of the late 70's; it wasn't until I went home and looked it up that I found out there was something behind all those stickers!

Edited January 23, 200620 yr by XP715

See, to me, that model just looks like a very confused Boattail Riviera. Like maybe it has natural boattail urges, but its parents were very conservative and raised it to believe that boattails were bad, and so it doesn't know what to do about them.

Edited January 23, 200620 yr by Enzora

Ocn... Spoilers aren't evil, silly! They're high on life!

Besides, the only reason you like the RWDers better are because they are RWD. Otherwise, they're nothing special style wise, and being so closely related to the Lemans sort of takes away from it. Speaking of which, XP, this is for all things Grand Am, not Lemans Can Am. Very naughty of you to post that...

Anyways, my decision is final. If I can find one cheap enough, I'm going to try to get a 5th gen. Probably not even close to being likely unless I get more out of my current GA, so it all matters on how cheap I could find a relatively good running Quad4. Again, Ocnblu or others, any help would be appreciated since I'm too lazy and too without transportation to do anything.

BV: try calling the local junkyards for prices on a good running low-mileage Quad 4. Some of the more reputable yards may even offer a short warranty on it. I guess the next step would be to get the car and the engine in a shop where you can do the swap.

Alternatively, you could look for a master rebuild kit for the Quad 4 you have now, and have your dad overhaul it in his garage. It should include all the gaskets, seals, rings, bearings, etc. Obviously you'd still need to pull the engine.

From when I was looking a while back, the rebuild kit cost almost the same as a used engine from the junkyards. I think the swap would probably be easier, but you're taking a chance on an unknown quantity. By tearing apart your engine you'd be able to see how the internals look, and replace whatever doesn't look right.

Good luck, either way. I hope you get back on the road soon enough.

Wow...cool pics, BV.

I guess GM did a number on the Grand Am name, too ... heh. Odd that I hadn't realized (it seems) that the Grand Am was, in the "early days" anyway through the 1980s, Pontiac's version of the Chevrolet Malibu...at least, I see some resemblance in the pic of that silver late 70s/early 80s GA. Heh...interesting .

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Yeah...

As for my GA... Well, could you call the junkyards for me?

A Can Am sodl at Barrett Jackson for like $30,000. It was MINT! Excepot they attributed the low production figures to "slow sales" and lack of enthusiasm for performance in the late 70s.

Then again the announcer said at one point that 1954 was the last year for the Blue Flame in the Corvette so they're not geniuses.