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14 years ago in PONTIAC
There was a guy at a car show that had a 1979 Pontiac pickup that GM built that took a El Cameo & put Pontiac parts on it? Was told only 2 had been built?
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14 years ago
When ever I find a car book, I buy it. My wife calls my 1800 sq. ft. garage, my library. This what I found in a book that was sent to all the dealer principals in 1992 by Pontiac Motor Division. Pontiac had been involved in trucks and commercial vehicles for over 50 years with a partnership with GMC Trucks. This partnership started in 1926, ending in 1975. I will quote a paragraph from "Pontiac! They Build Excitement, The Story of an American Automobile Company, 1926 to 1992" by Thomas E Bonsall. Mr. Bonsall is a noted Pontiac historian. "One tantalizing footnote to the story was Pontiac's attempt to get a piece of the Chevrolet El Camino program. A Pontiac prototype of the 1959 El Camino was built, but never put into production. Another attempt to get into this market occurred in the late-1970's. In that instance, Pontiac and GMC was in cahoots. GMC , selling a badge-engineered Spirt version of the El Camino since 1971, something more distinctive; Pontiac just wanted to get in the game. The idea the two divisions developed was to build related versions of the El Camino using Pontiac trim components. The GMC version would use LeMans trim, while Pontiac would use a fancy Grand-Am based pick-up. Reportedly Fisher Body would have had to supply the bodies, scotched the scheme, but Chevy cannot be too happy about it, either. The 1978 Pontiac prototype survives at the division, abeit with a 1980 front end, and has recently been restored"
Sources: found in the fore mentioned book on page 139, column 3, paragraph 4
14 years ago
Geez thats odd--A friend of mine went to the Woodward ave Cruise and he saw one at one of the car shows on the strip. He asked me if I knew anything about them of which I replied no. It just seems odd that the same question would pop up within a weeks time. The way he described the car to me it looked like a Chevy El Camino with a Pontiac front clip. Wow feels like I'm the Twilight Zone.
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