[OG68]

Makes you wonder why they put so much effort into the 68 GP with the 69 on its way.

[thews]

Originally Posted by OG68

Makes you wonder why they put so much effort into the 68 GP with the 69 on its way.

There were 33K made in 1968 and 112K in 1969.

[thews]

67 Firebird convertible with 48K original miles at $40K BIN in Texas. It shouldn't last very long. No engine pics.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/26655629221...Bk9SR5760L2JYw

[north]

Originally Posted by OG68

Makes you wonder why they put so much effort into the 68 GP with the 69 on its way.

I believe the 69 was a rush job so they 68 was designed before they had decided about the new idea for 69. The big investment in the 68 GP was an attempt to reverse declining sales in the GP since the 1963 peak.

I’ve seen pictures of the planned 69 B body Grand Prix. A neat bit of trivia is that apparently the reason the 69 Bonneville was the first year that a Bonnie got unique grilles (previous years had the standard Catalina grilles) as well as that rear bumper pad is that those items were designed for the cancelled B body 69 GP. Once the G body 69 GP was green lighted they decided to use those already engineered parts on the Bonnie instead.

[thews]

Originally Posted by north

I believe the 69 was a rush job so they 68 was designed before they had decided about the new idea for 69. The big investment in the 68 GP was an attempt to reverse declining sales in the GP since the 1963 peak.

I’ve seen pictures of the planned 69 B body Grand Prix. A neat bit of trivia is that apparently the reason the 69 Bonneville was the first year that a Bonnie got unique grilles (previous years had the standard Catalina grilles) as well as that rear bumper pad is that those items were designed for the cancelled B body 69 GP. Once the G body 69 GP was green lighted they decided to use those already engineered parts on the Bonnie instead.

69 Grand Prix in white and red is one drop dead sexy beast.

https://www.motoexotica.com/vehicles...iac-grand-prix




Best seats in a Grand Prix is 1971 in green IMO.

[thews]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

Yep...
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...%2Fim%2Fm1%2F2

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[thews]

71 Lucy blue Formula 400 4-speed Firebird at $40K BIN in Pennsylvania. Needs about 15 psi removed from the air shocks, but a nice looking car. Rebuilt engine with Ram Air added and highly optioned.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18620265413...Bk9SR9iP1YmKYw

[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by thews

71 Lucy blue Formula 400 4-speed Firebird at $40K BIN in Pennsylvania. Needs about 15 psi removed from the air shocks, but a nice looking car. Rebuilt engine with Ram Air added and highly optioned.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/18620265413...Bk9SR9iP1YmKYw

Same car just went through BaT as a no sale.

[Cammer-6]

what was high bid?

[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by Cammer-6

what was high bid?

$28,000

[thews]

If this isn't a scam, it looks like one of the best deals I've ever seen. 64 Grand Prix CA black/yel plate car in CA at $6400 BIN.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16649183331...Bk9SR_TRnuWKYw

[71GP76TA]

I almost hit the buy it now until I studied the pictures and read the description. The car is local so it would've been an easy deal.

[Gastiresandoil]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...c-e9f722320b8c

I've seen the ad for that grand prix before. Not a bad fixer upper if you're into metal work.

[thews]

57 Super Chief in NM at $28.5K BIN. One hot rod mod on this car that I never understood, which is fake side pipes. If you had side pipes that aren't hooked up, you wouldn't know whether or not they were hooked up, When the pipes are capped, you know it's fake. Before my time, and I'm old.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35528071056...Bk9SR9qWyryLYw

[johnta1]

If you had side pipes that aren't hooked up, you wouldn't know whether or not they were hooked up, When the pipes are capped, you know it's fake. Before my time, and I'm old.

The original concept is the pipes you see capped are straight thru exhaust. (open headers)
They have the underneath pipes with mufflers for street use and quiet.
You uncap the side pipes for more free flow of the exhaust for more POWWAH! (the Humbler system on 70 GTO about the same theory but they used a vacuum valve to open the exhaust)

[Scarebird]

^^^ This man knows of what he speaks.

Such a post would earn a Foghorn-Leghorn beatdown on the HAMB....

Posted with Alaska Air Wifi with Straightaway Oregon Old Fashioned assistance - upgrades are the shiat.

[thews]

Originally Posted by johnta1

The original concept is the pipes you see capped are straight thru exhaust. (open headers)
They have the underneath pipes with mufflers for street use and quiet.
You uncap the side pipes for more free flow of the exhaust for more POWWAH! (the Humbler system on 70 GTO about the same theory but they used a vacuum valve to open the exhaust)

I learned something new today. Interesting. You only see these on older hot rods, but a worthy mod if you're at the track.

[einstein]

"Lake pipes" vs "lakes pipes" discussion:

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-pipes.755033/

[thews]

Originally Posted by einstein

"Lake pipes" vs "lakes pipes" discussion:

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...-pipes.755033/

Interesting read

One other thing made those lakes pipes disappear was the sound they made when the long pipes were uncapped. You would think it sounded like the short exhaust cut outs, but they made a sound like someone was squeezing their throats and sounded awful. We would hear 6 cylinder 53 Chevy sedan going down the road with different mufflers.

The sound they made definitely was a 6 cylinder sound and these long pipes had created the similar sounds when uncapped. So, the powerful v8 motors sounded like rat-tat-tat of a 6 cylinder accelerating. That was definitely not cool. Easy to cap or open, but the sound they made was awful. Plus the fronts usually scraped ruining the nice chrome pipe. Sometimes it was the diamond shape exhaust caps that scraped first.

[OG68]

Dad had Lake Pipes on his 56 Victoria and 60 Starliner. Not hooked up but more for styling. As an eight year old, I was impressed.