65 Pontiac Gto 4spd Project Car on 2040-cars
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Engine:389
Vehicle Title:Clear
Exterior Color: Blue
Make: Pontiac
Interior Color: Blue
Model: GTO
Number of Cylinders: 8
Trim: 2DR Hardtop
Drive Type: 124976
Mileage: 125,000
65 GTO 2DR Hardtop 4spd car. This car lived in CT its whole life and was sold to a family friend when the original owner died. It was garaged for some time when the original motor grenaded. The motor shown in the pics is a YH motor with date coding correct for this car. Pictures show the body on a rotisserie. Full floors inc truck floor, inner & outer wheelhouses and quarter skins have already been installed. The body has been media blasted and epoxy primed. The frame and suspension were also media blasted and coated with POR. The frame is very solid with some pitting on the top in the rear but no rips, holes or cracks that I could find. The 4spd and rear are the original to the car. Full set of stainless, all glass but windsheild, complete interior minus front seats, headliner, carpet and rear panels. I have the PHS and the last registration from the original owner. Overall this is a nice project for the right person. The doors are still complete and solid on the inside, needing small patch on outer lower rear corner. The fenders need patching at the bottoms. Hood and trunk lid are solid and pretty straight. Body still needs some patching and welding around windows and inner rockers. However the expensive and back breaking work has been done already. I build these cars for buisness and pleasure and would be happy to build this one to any level for a customer. I encourage you to come and see this car before bidding or answer any questions. Call or email Wayne 617 438-3044
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GM doing fine at retaining Pontiac owners
Fri, 28 Oct 2011This isn't the first time we've reported positive news about General Motors retaining former Pontiac owners. Get a few more stories like this latest report from Edmund's Auto Observer, and it will mark an ongoing positive trend for GM. Edmunds.com crunched the numbers to see how well the General is hanging on to customers after shutting out the lights at Pontiac, and it found that nearly 40 percent of Pontiac owners stayed with a vehicle from a General Motors brand.
The numbers are a little lower than an earlier R.L. Polk & Company study, but Edmunds says General Motors is keeping more former Pontiac buyers than it has since 2007. Most are turning to vehicles from Chevrolet, especially during January and February of 2011, when GM incentivized Pontiac owners to stay under the umbrella. Those moves seem to have worked, and 28.1 percent of Pontiac owners trading up made the jump into a Bowtie.
Buyers that have gone elsewhere have largely stayed loyal to Domestic automakers, with Ford picking up the most conquests from Pontiac, with 9.4 percent switching. Toyota and Honda picked up 7.4 percent of the pool of former Pontiac drivers. The numbers are defying any predictions that Pontiac buyers would completely exit the General Motors fold, and have climbed up closer to parity with the retention figures of other GM brands from a 2009 low of only 16 percent retention.
STUDY: Ford owns brand loyalty in 2009; Scorned Saturn, Pontiac buyers will look outside of GM
Fri, 16 Oct 2009Ford buyers appear to love their cars more than customers of any other automotive brand, returning back to the American automaker when it comes time to purchase their next vehicle. According to a study by Experian Automotive, six of the top 10 vehicles for customer brand loyalty wear badges from the Blue Oval. That includes the Ford Fusion (62.4 percent), Ford Edge (57.9 percent), Ford Five Hundred/Taurus (56 percent), Ford Freestyle (51.9 percent), Ford Escape (49.4 percent) and the Ford Focus (47.57 percent).
Other vehicles making up the top 10 include the Toyota Prius (52 percent), Chevy Impala (51.7 percent), Toyota Camry (47.8 percent) and Toyota Corolla (47.56 percent). This brings up an interesting question: With the closing of automotive brands like Saturn and Pontiac, where are those buyers to turn for their next automotive purchase?
Apparently, not back to General Motors. According to Experian, Pontiac owners are most likely to look to the Ford lineup for their next car or truck and Saturn shoppers will switch to Toyota or Honda - not particularly surprising given that Saturn was meant to compete with import brands. Experian predicts that GM's overall market share will fall from 20 percent to about 17.5 percent, with most of the slack being picked up by Ford, Honda and Toyota.
GM recalling 426,000 sedans over faulty transmission shift cable
Fri, 21 Sep 2012General Motors is recalling some 426,240 sedans that may have a faulty transmission shift cable, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report this morning. The recall concerns a fault within four-speed automatic transmissions equipped on 2007-2010 Saturn Aura models, and 2008-2010 Chevrolet Malibu and Pontiac G6 models.
The report specifies that tabs on the transmission shift cable may fracture and separate. Such a fault could cause a discrepancy between the actual position of the transmission and the apparent position of the shift lever.
GM is currently working to notify owners of the vehicles in question, and dealers will check and replace shift cables free of charge. Scroll down to read the complete NHTSA report.