What I was getting at with the interior styling was it seemed too generic (like most GM vehicles of that period). Other than the red lighting and the fact that the radio looks like it's out of the early 90s you couldn't tell it was a GP by looking inside. My 01 Monte has it's own flavor even compared to the Impalas, let alone any other Chevys from the time period. The interior of my Monte is just as nice as that of an 04+ GP I've been in, except it doesn't have a digital temperature control.

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98 GTP (RIP 11-5-09); 73 Z28 Camaro (350, TKO 600);01 Monte Carlo SS (L36, L67/L32 hybrid in the future)
"Death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back"

interior wise i perfered my 2000 Grand Am GT over the 97-03 GP. the grand am actualy resemsbled more of the trans am interior witht he round dash vent balls and the guage pods

only thing the GP has going for it was HUD and the DIC.

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

My very first car I bought shortly after boot camp back in 01 and burried in Guam. I actually traded it for a 92 camaro 25th aniversarry that I siezed the motor on.


My current DD, 2007 GT. I love it, have been in plenty of earlier gens, and even earlier years of the 04+ and the 07 seems to have little accents that make a big difference at least for the GT trim level.



My current toy

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Nice Bird! What's the specs on that bad boy?

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68? by the nose and lack of vent windows

pretty cool looking

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

Yup a 68, the nose is the same though other than the wrap around signal lights on the 68. But yeah no vent windows is the easiest way to tell between the 67&68.
It is a nice lookin Bird! I have a carousel red 69 myself but the GP is quicker, mines been in the family since 74 and been restored to original and will never be beat on.

5 here

1978 - Grand Prix
1997 - GTP Coupe - Green
1997 - GTP Sedan - Black
1997 - GTP Coupe - Black
2004 - CompG - Black

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Under Construction

[quote="Mater"]1982 Grand Prix LJ Brogham Diesel F41 perfomance handling package with a '69 olds 350 from a W-31 ram rod


My first car was an '81 Brougham with a 265 Cu In Pontiac V-8. Second was an '81 Brougham with a 350 Olds diesel that now has a '67 400 Pontiac with '66 Tri-Power feeding it, sitting in front of a TH400 transmission. It resides in a climate controlled shop to this day with my name still on the title.

the 265 was the small chevy, the small pontiac was a 301, and the small olds was a 280

i still greatly miss that car. do want to get another one. heck i would sell every car i own to get that one back but it's probably being used to make priuses now

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

1st.
1997 GTP bought for 6500 sold for 3000 to my brother with hail damage


2nd.
1999 GTX bought for 5500 sold for 5500 with 50k more miles on it


3rd.
2001 GTP Special edition bought for 6200 traded for 4750 a yr later


4th.
1998 GTP bought for 900.00 drove and ran fine. "NIC cam build" sold car with just the trans for 700.00 and sold the motor separate for 600.00


5th.
2001 GTP bought for 2300 with top end apart. modded it to a 12sec car and sold it for 5500.00


6th.
1998 GTP bought for 700.00 demodded it and sold car with only trans for 500.00



Coming Soon.
LARGE turbo build

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Dave's Hocus Pocus Tuning of South Dakota

You're possibly thinking of the 267. It was a Chevy motor. The 265 v-8 I mentioned was a pontiac motor, though, in my first '81 GP. No idea on the Olds you mentioned, but the Olds in my second GP was a 350 diesel with factory dual exhaust.

Yeah, those are nice looking cars - glad I kept mine.

pontiac never had an engine smaller then 301ci. and yes i was thinking of the 267ci back then GM had a few engines areound 4.3L-5.0L v8s for fuel conomy

my '82 was a diesle with the factory 3" single catless exhuast with transvers dual outlet muffler like on the F-body with the F41 perfomance suspention front rear big sway bars, lower springs, heavy duty shocks, and re-inforced frame, aluminum rear drums like those found on GNs, and larger front discs. it also had the larger 10bolt rear instead of the 7.5" all factory

it was a mexican export car the US cars could not get all that fun stuff

-- Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:32 pm --

never mind pontiac only used it for 2 years 1980 and 1981 becuase it was not a vary reliable engine. interesting

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

I'm going to assume we are talking v8's only here as the Pontiac 4 cyl(195 c.i.) and the OHC 6 were both smaller than 301 c.i.
As far as Pontiac v8's go there was a 287 c.i. "strato streak" in 1955 and the 265 c.i. v8 that was offered in 1980-81 which was based on the 301 c.i. engine but had a smaller bore.

[[/quote]
I'm going to assume we are talking v8's only here as the Pontiac 4 cyl(195 c.i.) and the OHC 6 were both smaller than 301 c.i.
As far as Pontiac v8's go there was a 287 c.i. "strato streak" in 1955 and the 265 c.i. v8 that was offered in 1980-81 which was based on the 301 c.i. engine but had a smaller bore.[/quote]

Thank you.

All I have 2 silver gps.

April 2008... that day I brought my DD...... left 2003 show car and right 2001 dd car


Both cars have been changed lot since that pictures. Mod bug got carried away

Right now.
DD (April 2008 to current year) I just paid my off around 4 weeks ago.

Show car (April 2004 to current year)


Geez you couldn't tell there are not same cars from 2008. lol Well DD is little bit change but big change is 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix cloth seat set.

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Pat it looks like you got some junk in the trunk of the show car. That or you have some really saggy rear springs.

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DIY intake-HV3-3" catless dp-180 tsat-DIY shift kit-murphy custom tune

I think I gas it too hard and picture was taken to make my car look like jump or whatever lol

It look fine to me from same picture.

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laat line in the post you queted i mentioned this

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

I would have guessed that but i didnt think the 3.1 had enough power to do that

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DIY intake-HV3-3" catless dp-180 tsat-DIY shift kit-murphy custom tune

lol this car was tuned and little faster than my dd

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it's a W-body so i will also add the 95 cutlass with all it's 3.1 liters of ninja like fury

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92 LeBaron Convert: Turbo 3L 97 Grand Prix GT 4dr "Frankenstein": L67 4t65 swap
97 Grand Marquis: Summer DD 99 Grand Prix GTP: Top Swap Beater

Even with +200,000 miles on the ticker, my old '93 with the 3.1 was no slouch. Still being used by its new owner as a daily driver, too.

i am currently on my 3rd grand prix

1. 94 Grand Prix SE
2. 97 Grand Prix GT
3. 98 Grand Prix GTP

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i need to do a his and hers sig like that for sure..


glad to see this thread kicken a little bit yet too

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock