Lol, indeed... A big body just suits my needs much better. Still love the GP... It just doesn't suit my needs at the moment. My fiancee has developed a serious attachment to it; it may be in the family a bit longer.
what made you decide to get a GP?
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Lol, indeed... A big body just suits my needs much better. Still love the GP... It just doesn't suit my needs at the moment. My fiancee has developed a serious attachment to it; it may be in the family a bit longer.
OldFart
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Sh!t Luck! LOL
A pretty good story:
Our 2nd vehicle was a 97 Caravan that was on it's last legs. It got me to work and back and I was gonna drive it until it died. One day a coworker told me that he was selling his 2nd vehicle, a 2001 Grand Prix, and wondered if I, or anyone I knew was looking. I joked that my van could die any day but until it did I was going to keep driving it. As luck would have it, I left for home that night and 1 block later, at a stop sign I heard the most godawful sound. It was the tranny. I pushed it back into the work parking lot and got a ride home.
Next day I found my coworker and said; You jinxed me! Still have that car for sale? After work and went and had a look and his GP turned out to be a GTP! Absolutely clean vehicle and it even had the sunroof. 190K Km (120K miles) on it - not bad. I took her for a spin and was hooked! I did have a look to see what else was available but the price was right and I didn't see anything else that came close.
I was also sold on the 3800 engine having owned an 87 Olds Royale Brougham and a 92 Olds Park Avenue.
The car has been rustproofed every year and has had impeccable maintainence and I intend to keep it that way. Hopefully for many years to come! The only other owner was a GM executive who drove it for the first year. It's a daily driver but will only will get 10K Km (6800 miles) or so a year on it. Thinking about some mods but not until spring rolls around.
Now I have a 2nd vehicle that I actually LIKE to drive. No more trying to wrestle the keys to the Jeep away from the wife.
A pretty good story:
Our 2nd vehicle was a 97 Caravan that was on it's last legs. It got me to work and back and I was gonna drive it until it died. One day a coworker told me that he was selling his 2nd vehicle, a 2001 Grand Prix, and wondered if I, or anyone I knew was looking. I joked that my van could die any day but until it did I was going to keep driving it. As luck would have it, I left for home that night and 1 block later, at a stop sign I heard the most godawful sound. It was the tranny. I pushed it back into the work parking lot and got a ride home.
Next day I found my coworker and said; You jinxed me! Still have that car for sale? After work and went and had a look and his GP turned out to be a GTP! Absolutely clean vehicle and it even had the sunroof. 190K Km (120K miles) on it - not bad. I took her for a spin and was hooked! I did have a look to see what else was available but the price was right and I didn't see anything else that came close.
I was also sold on the 3800 engine having owned an 87 Olds Royale Brougham and a 92 Olds Park Avenue.
The car has been rustproofed every year and has had impeccable maintainence and I intend to keep it that way. Hopefully for many years to come! The only other owner was a GM executive who drove it for the first year. It's a daily driver but will only will get 10K Km (6800 miles) or so a year on it. Thinking about some mods but not until spring rolls around.
Now I have a 2nd vehicle that I actually LIKE to drive. No more trying to wrestle the keys to the Jeep away from the wife.
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SnowDrift
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To me, a Grand Prix isn't a choice, but rather, it's a condition. I've had a GP since before I had my license, and am on my third consecutive generation with my '99. Still have the one I had in high school. I always loved the '77-'78 Trans Am and I've had a '93 and '94 that had the similar cat eyes look. When the previous body style came out in '97, I thought Pontiac had outdone themselves. I just think they're nice looking cars. I'm not a huge fan of the latest body style, but have seen a few that I actually like.
BadAssGTP02
BrokeButRuns
Had a 95 volkswagon jetta never got to drive it cause my dad got it for me and the tranny was junk and I was still in school so I couldn't pay to get it fixed, so I told that to my school year later my bf asked his grandfather what he was doing with his old car a 95 ford taurus, rusted out exhaust system broken doors so they wouldn't close sometimes or wouldn't open depending on the day, needed struts rack and pinion and well ect, its a ford we are talking about here, but he gave it to me for free, and I didn't want to drive it because it was a death trap and well wicked uncomfortable. But little did everyone know after or or on lunch breaks I was going and searching car lots hopeing to find a car, then I saw and 04 burnt orange grand prix and I was like holy **** that is one sexy beast, so I started looking them up and I liked the 97 to 03 body style and I searched until I found my 03 gt, I wanted a two door gtp but its like extinct in my area so did what I had to to get her! 
NR92
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after owning eight 99-02 mercury cougars, one as my DD always having to fix stupid crap on them and getting made fun of for driving a girls car, i was weeks away from dropping a 3.0l and a 5speed into it when i drove by a dealership and saw a 04 gp gt, for some reason it caught my eye.
went home and did my research (already knew about the 3800 and that it lasted forever) found i wanted a gtp with the comp g package,
so i sold my car and started searching craigslist, found one a good 250 miles away that was exactly what i wanted down to the color so i drove out and bought it.
the part i find funny is when i went to look at the car, i had a check in hand for a price we agreed on, the seller knew i was going to buy it and i had never even driven a 04-08 gp before let alone a gtp
went home and did my research (already knew about the 3800 and that it lasted forever) found i wanted a gtp with the comp g package,
so i sold my car and started searching craigslist, found one a good 250 miles away that was exactly what i wanted down to the color so i drove out and bought it.
the part i find funny is when i went to look at the car, i had a check in hand for a price we agreed on, the seller knew i was going to buy it and i had never even driven a 04-08 gp before let alone a gtp