The Valencia interior! The Pontiac Grand Safari was flagship station wagon hauling on in... | Hemmings
That article has some glaring issues with it - the 403 was available in California through 1979. The Grand Safari also only came with woodgrain to differentiate it from the Catalina wagon, it didn't have any special interior or Bonneville based interior that were standard (basic Bonneville interior was extremely bland, the Brougham was much nicer). The engine in the car is also not a 301, it's a 4bbl Olds engine (either a 350 or 403, likely a 403). Still nice, and that valencia interior was seriously cool and something you don't see much of that type anymore.
Author Matt Litwin should have consulted us first before submitting the article to his editor. Seriously.......
Also went to coil springs in the rear where he states they carried over leaf springs. None of that should surprise or shock anybody. What should shock and surprise everyone is the 2021 equivalent sales price of $26,119. Can you buy anything new worth half a crap for that much money these days?
I find that many online articles these days have woefully inaccurate info in them - this is just one example. At least the pics are good - we have seen this particular '78 before.
Those seats look nice. I almost feel like they're modeled after colors you'd see in a box of chocolates.
Pontiac routinely sold 13 to 14 thousand of these wagons right up to their last year in 1989 and the last year still looked like this one. For a few years in the early 80s worked for a Baltimore CPA firm that had a Pontiac dealer as a client. If I remember correctly the only Pontiacs with a higher sticker price than the wagons were high option Trans Ams.