1984 Pontiac Parisienne Brougham for sale on BaT Auctions - ending January 26 (Lot #64,297) | Bring a Trailer
Interesting way they did the two-tone on these (It IS 'factory'.) I don't recall ever seeing a Parisienne wagon done this way, though....... Just did an image search.....not a single one. They're all either single color, or single color with woodgrain.
I am not too surprised by that, though a nice example, not many peoples dream car. I could see buying it for a summer DD but not as a collector car. I never knew what GM was thinking when they fell in love with that light gray Velour fabric in the mid 1980's. It looked good until you let a kid with a Slurpee or a just out of some sports practice ride in it. Then forever looked dirty and worn. And for some reason I never cared for the later Pontiac B-body gauge packages, large outer needs pointing down, and the inner ones pointing up always bugged me for some reason. All that said I still think this is a fine example, and I probably would not have let it go for under $10,000 either.
The other bummer about this car is the lame Caprice-style tail lights vs. the classy Bonneville ones they used in '77-81 and '85-86. It is a nice example though. The parking brake release cable breaking seems to be a more and more common thing I'm encountering on these cars lately, seems like everyone's cable is busted on the '71-76 big cars and now the '77-80s big ones too.
