New member from Sweden

to the wagon train Bonney66. That is a beauty! One of my all time favorite wagons. Glad you found us and thanks for the great pix!

 

Since you guys have our Pontiacs, can we have your Duetts? Welcome aboard.

mike

 

Bonneville 66

Nice

 

Welcome! This is a sweet place to be, even for us swedes. Amazingly how welcome and appreciated you feel here!

 

To make a long story short, "Grandprix63" is my internet-ID on a blog I have.
It comes from the car I owned until recently. It was a 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix.

You can take a look at the blog here: http://www.grandprix63.blogspot.se/

I write about and shows old pictures of 50's & 60's cars, ads, gasstations and other things I find interresting along with new photos from various classic carshows I visit.

The blog is in Swedish but you can always look or use Googles translation gadget, even if it's not that accurate.

Here's a pic of the old car, that I had for tvelwe years.



Here are all the posts on my blog labelled "Stationsvagn", the Swedish word for station wagon: http://grandprix63.blogspot.se/search/label/Stationsvagn

More wagons will be added

 

Anders, That is my favorite year of Grand Prix, I just love that body style and luxury interior design. What a beauty you had! I bet you miss it.

I know I would.

 

Well, I'm not missing it yet. Have been busy with the new wagon but I did have
a lump in my throat when I waved it goodbye when it rolled of the drive way.
At the same time I was glad because I was so tired of it I had to sell and buy another car.

 

I bet, did you have it a long time?

 

For twelve years. I bought it in may 2001. Drived it for one summer and took it apart and replaced
the engine, tranny, suspension and a few other things. Added the scallops and
some pinstriping after a few years but most of all I drove it
I added 55,000 miles to the odometer on the last seven years I had it
but I have a Volvo as a daily driver and in the six months of wintertime

 

Glad to hear you were able to get a lot of use from it. Your Bonneville wagon is really nice as well. So,, I guess it's okay. You sure know how to pick them. Nice Pontiacs...

 

Holy Smokes. That is beautiful Grand Prix. Best looking year by far.
Your blog is an awesome site. I love the design.

How hard is it to get these parts? I had a hard time finding suspension parts for my '64 and I am in the US.

 

Suspension parts is easy to get. We got a number of partsdealers who has a lot
of "wear and tear parts" (brakeparts, bushings, shocks and so on) on the shelf.
US import of course. Body parts and interior details is more difficult. But with the internet the tings
you need is only a mouseclick away. It's expensive though, import tax and
custom fees and so on brings up the prices.

And there are people who make hard to get parts, such as dashpads and steering wheels for Pontiac.

 

brother
dont ask me why...but ive always had a thing for the 66-67 Pontiacs

just always thought they were great styling