1977 Pontiac Grand Prix, Pontiac’s personal Luxury car 

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I owned a brand new 1977 Grand Prix in aquamarine blue with a white landau top and white leather interior. Smoking Hot. The hood was about a mile long! Fantastic vehicle. Probably my favorite, ever….. This was Pontiac’s finest moment.

I remember when this style GP came out. It was a real HEAD TURNER for sure. You mention the TBIRD and even though the TBIRDs 77-79 sold in record numbers I think this car had more class and luxury. The Cutlass was the number 1 selling car during these times.

The 77's were a good looking car. I'm really like the 69's and 70's. They could be had with a 400 or 455. I noticed this still had the smog pump intact. Couldn't tell which power plant was in this one. I know the 301's were somewhat reliable and not bad on gas, but I had one in my 79 Trans Am, and it was the slowest muscle car I ever owned. I think a 350 or 403 would make this GP respectable to drive.

Jay, the keyhole cover is not magnetic it's spring loaded. And it's pronounced Boca Ratone

“Disco era” indeed. I did my undergraduate studies 74 - 78 (Yes, I am ancient.) so disco remains a fond memory. I mention this only in that I dated a guy who drove a ‘77 Grand Prix and that car always provides fond memories. I never cared for the steering wheels on Pontiacs but you have to admit that massive hood was Freudian psychology at its finest. Thanks for posting! 👍

One wonders if, when factory fresh, all the interior materials matched in hue? Outstanding in Black/Red. Interior is classic 70’s plushy stuffy. Perfect. Thank you, Jay…..

Love your videos Jay. I was 14 when my dad brought a '77 GP home from the dealer where he worked. I remember admiring the interior gages, & the massive pointed hood. I was a car nut even then. I do like the '76 grill and outboard fender signals better though. He brought home Cutlasses and Monte's of the same era - loved them too. Ended up with a Cutlass! Keep up the great work.

Very cool What it's like. I got to see theses and the 77 Cutlass's being built at the Kansas City Leed's plant. One of the best field trips ever. Over the years I've owned a 73 and 2 77's. For a fairly big car they handled decent (compared to other cars in the class) and could be made to move rather quickly (built 400 poncho). The t-top option was cool, but they leaked like a sieve. Turns out sub frame connecters help control that. Look forward to seeing more great content 🍻

Love you videos. Regarding the interior, defined vinyl. GM wouldn't use leather in that era if their corporate life depended on it.They thought plastic and vinyl were luxury materials.😉

These used to be everywhere 😔, miss those days.

The last year Grand Prix designed by Jack Humbert for John DeLorean, in 1972. Beautiful car! The GM G-body of 1973-77 was for the Grand Prix, the Chevy Monte Carlo, the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and the Buick Regal.

The Pontiac 400 was available on all the GP's that year and was standard on the SJ, unless you lived in California or a high altitude area. Then you were stuck with the 403 Olds.

I really liked this generation of GP. I prefer the '76 over the '77, because of the front end treatment, but wouldn't kick the '77 out of bed for eating crackers. The markers at the fender corners should be lights, not reflectors. That law began with the 1968 model year. Another well done video. Keep up the momentum. Minor quibbles: 1) you mention Chrysler Córdoba but show photo of a Dodge Charger. The Charger does qualify for a spot in this category however. 2) The rear window is not referred to as a rear windshield. It does not block wind! It's my opinion only regarding the terminology. You did very well pointing out the various styling cues on the car. They work well to make this GP a styling masterpiece.

Those cars looked a lot bigger than those spects say. BAAAD CAR!

Something really special about a car with full dial instrumentation Jay, it is like telling you and everyone that you are a serious dude, when it comes to driving. I also noticed the small RTS badge, which GMH made such a big deal about in Australia in the 70s, Radial Tuned Suspension. By which time, I don't think you could even buy bias ply tyres anymore. These marketeer types are so full of shit. But a beautiful dash. In the late 80s I had A Ford Fairmont XD, which was the model between the Falcon and the Fairlane, with grey, body matching velour seats and carpets. I loved that car, it could be taken anywhere, even on our bloody awful dirt roads. (Ford did a much better job of making their vehicles handle our shitty roads than GMH, for some reason?) The Ford seats were so supportive and comfortable, they came out all the way to support your legs till where they bent, so you sat in and not on the seats. 1000KM (800ML) later and you didn't need to stretch, just a stop for food. It had the big 4.1 litre straight 6, which made some think you had a V8, even if you would not tow a big boat with it.

I really like this Grand Prix!!! In 1976 my boss bought his wife a new Grand Prix with red velour interior, the exterior was silver over black two tone, it was called the tuxedo edition; it was a sharp looking car as is this one!!! Thanks Jay for sharing another exciting video!!! 👍🙂👍

My favorite year of Grand Prix in the '73 to '77 years or Colonnade styling. One of the prettiest instrument panels made with functional gauges being a plus. Just wonderful. Thanks.

Jay, thank you for this video. I have owned four GP's with one being a base 1977 model. I love the body sculpting on these and the car I had was a very comfortable driving car and I enjoyed it. I have owned a total of seven Pontiac's over the years as I grew up in a Pontiac family. Thanks!

Given the oil fill tube in the front, I am inclined to believe this has the 403 Olds engine. Thanks for sharing this beauty. ~ Chuck

The button on the floor is a cover there is nothing there the head light dimmer is on the turn signal stock. You click it back like newer cars today. My 73 GP had that setup it's marked dim on where the turn signal switch mount to the side of the steering column.

I grew up in this era and I think 71-77 were some of the most beautiful and affordable cars on the planet. My favorite was the 1976 Gran Prix with the T-tops. I currently have a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible that is drop-dead gorgeous.

most beautiful pontiac ever! I think that it combines the 60s, 70s and 80s in one car: it is obvious that the overall design dates back to the 60s, was produced in the 70s and did not become obsolete stylistically until the mid-80s

Thanks for the video, it brought back memories of my '77 SJ I bought in '87 for only $300. Red on red with white vinyl top and pin stripes. I drove that car until the wheels fell off. Literally. The right rear wheel broke free one day. A few hours in the garage and back on the road. Until one day I heard the engine knocking over Bob Segar blasting out of my $400 Clarion. That's when I learned that idiot lights are for idiots that don't look at their gauges. I shut down Bob and saw the oil pressure gauge was on 0. I kept the Clarion to use in my next 2 or 3 cars. FYI, that's the second hand in the clock. It didn't have a tach. And the S below Drive (third) is Second gear with L being Low or first gear. Thanks!

Laser straight body & nice black paint , what a treat !

That's a nice one. However, I worked in a Pontiac/GMC/Honda store during that time in the service department. The warranty on these ran 1,200 a car, yep that was the average and GM was proud of that number. Paint, body fit, 403 engine issues, transmission issues, window regulators and window alignment issues and don't even start with T-Tops, a/c accumulator issues with POA valves, squeaks, rattles. Heck you name it. Nice trip down memory lane though, still like it's looks.

the ending was naughty...good job!

Had a 1976 Pontiac Grand Prix 50th anniversary gold t tops and white bucket seats and last year for 455 engine grand prix and parisienne were Pontiac's best cars imo

Its a light red interior, car looks excellent. I'd pay 25 for a puff low mileage car. I had the 71&73 GP,76 Monte Carlo &78 Cougar. 71 GP w/400 was the best car,fastest car & newest car I had in HS in 74.

What a cool car! Definitely 1970s disco style.

Another great video. You put some effort into the video. I liked the footage and the old catalogs/brochures and other video footage. The 1977 Grand Prix was one of the Grand Prix's I liked. When this car is fully loaded, it is nice. That front end styling ended up of the 1980-1981 Pontiac Bonneville/ Pontiac Parisienne. They used to pay attention to styling details.

Another great video. I owned two Grand Prixs through the years, and loved them both. My first was an '81 - downsized from the model shown - and I think my back seat was roomier. Cheers!

I had 2 Grand Prix's - loved them both! In this generation I really like the look of the 73 and always wanted one. IMHO the giant clock should have been a tachometer and a personal luxury car should always have a center console and floor shift. Love the red interior!!

Nice job as always, Jay‼GM's whole personal luxury car concept was that no one would be sitting in the back lol so don't feel bad. The view from the back seats show a red vinyl and it sure looks like an orange toned velour to me. I am excited about seeing your review of the 1961 Ventura 👏

All the contours were necessary to add rigidity to the body, and pleasing sculptures when done well. Better modern steel has brought us better vehicles, perhaps, but distinctive styling appears mostly in the plastic pieces now.

Beautiful Grand Prix!!!

It's so weird to see such a common car that was seen for years on the streets - on a classic car channel now! I mean, I used to see these a dime a dozen. Never thought of these as special because in the 70s us classic car nuts were still on a buzz from all the wildness of the last few decades! Time is trippy This example is in promo state! Looks brand new. This was the year I started to smoke and those tiny ashtrays would get stuffed. More than likely you'd be flicking out the window, totally oblivious to the pollution and fire risk! Crazy times, crazy habit (I quit the nasty things 8 years ago

I'm glad they provided ashtrays for the kids in the back! 😉

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Beautiful survivor. Unusually heavily optioned for a base Grand Prix. I would have expected to see those upgrades on an LJ or SJ trim level. Odd that they went with the standard 301 instead of the 400 considering the level of options. I had never seen a bench seat with that console. Again, I would have expected buckets and floor shift for this heavily optioned example. There must have been some interior upgrade included with the sunroof as this car has the chrome pedal trim which was part of the LJ model. I owned a 1977 Grand Prix base as well, but it didn't have near this many extras. Loved it though.

I thought on the trunk you could twist the emblem and it would click open and not quite rest on the key and when you twisted the key it would release the badge since you could then simply pull out the key and it would be basically even more of a little luxury than it appears. Loved the video!!

Burnt orange I use to think those 77 grand prix was ugly until i watched this there actually pretty good looking when you really start looking it over

It's a nice-looking car. Considering that many of your vehicles aren't in the "Complete book..." From here on in, just compile your own opinions as that's what a potential owner would do. Well done as always, Jay.

Boca Raton - snooty way that moneyed locals will insist is Ratone - as in postpone . Though some would argue Raton like 'baton' - you know, the relay stick thing. Either gets you closer than Rat-en :) Oh, and Astre is 'a-stra'. The GP was actually an A special body - wheelbase was longer than the A body coupes. Tooled around in an early SJ version of this gen back in the 80's and I can tell you that with a properly tuned engine it would surprise a LOT of stuff on the road back then. With up level suspension (don't think it was designated RTS in 73, but you did get radials with the SJ and heavier sway bar, etc.) it could handle pretty well too for what was even then a pretty big car. Learned about power oversteer and opposite lock in this thing - good friend had a fleet of vintage detroit sitting at the family home, and we'd just rotate em out. GP had style in those years, and the person (usually a man) who drove one had a personality.....

Awesome great car I had a 1977 d top I had bought it Dallas 1993 color gold and I like

Sporty, for the young adults and small children. You were expected to upgrade to the Bonneville, then Safari wagon in the future, and Trans Am was ready and waiting for the midlife crisis.

I think the style feature of the top of the body kicking up, in what I call a hip, along the top side, either at the rear door or just after on a coupe, were a special GM feature that everybody still uses to this day. It gives a more muscular stance to any car, which was GMs intent, and every carmaker liked its utility. If it wasn't GM, I'd like to know who started the style.

77 Grand Prix came mostly with the Pontiac 400. The Olds 403 came only in the cars bound for California for emissions reasons. There is no tach in that clock. Those numbers are the minutes of the clock. PRNDSL-the S stands for second gear, not super.

Pontiac always had the most beautifully distinctive exterior styling, and firmer suspension for better handling. Ignore the low NET HP numbers measured at rear wheels in the car from 1971 and up. Previous HP measurement was gross, at the flywheel, with not an alternator or even an exhaust system to hold it back. Torque is what made these cars move, and you could feel that power.

8 to 12 mpg city depending on how you drove & 12 to 14 hwy mpg. She was a drinker. T-Tops were the coolest.

77 is my FAVORITE year for the Grand Prix. I owned a 84 Grand Prix for about 15 years. You want the 400 in the 77 model. 301 was too weak for that big car

I had a friend who had a 1977 GP which she bought new in Michigan before moving out here to California several years later. Her car had the Pontiac 400 V8 with a floor-shifted TH400. I worked on this car multiple times. I don't remember the Olds 403 being available outside of California. In California, the Olds 403 replaced the Pontiac 400 for emissions reasons. They were also downgraded to the TH350 automatic and I've even seen the TH200 behind the 403. The Pontiac 301 was not available in California. Because of this, California didn't get the Turbo Trans Am, which used the 301.

The epitome of Pontiac style.

They called the color "firethorn"

I like Pontiacs, however being a Convertible nut, I like the Couger in the background better

The front looks similar to the 77' Chrysler New Yorker

Everybody knows the Chrysler Cordoba was better because it had fine Corinthian leather. Plus, they had a guy with a foreign accent trying to sell you an American car. How could Pontiac ever beat that? I honestly have to say that in my opinion, the year and these cars were some of the worst cars ever designed and sold by US. Automakers. A lot of people may disagree with me, but these things were big lumbering tanks with big engines that were choking and gasping for power and got abysmal gas mileage due to the federally mandated emissions standards. They are a fine example of why smaller quicker and more fuel efficient foreign cars were able to just kind of walk in here and take over the market. US automakers were doing themselves, no favors by making these big tanks.

Hi Jay, the pin stripes are interesting. I figure, they must be like stickers/transfers? On an RR, they were hand painted, so very expensive, but even so, it would be a time-consuming hand application of a stripe on the Grand Prix? (Nobody mispronounces Prix in America, or elsewhere.) Now no pressure Jay, but I look forward to starting my day with 'What it's like' every morning. The breakfast of champions.

The color of the interior is called firethorne red

The last big Grand Prix before the downsizing.

You didn’t even mention the Pontiac 400 V-8. THAT was the engine to have. Olds 403 was next. Marker lights are on the SIDES, parking lights & turn signals are in the FRONT. There are not ever marker lights in the front. The trunk keyhole cover is held open by a small metal tank, & it lets go when key is turned. The 301, though powerless, was a good engine. I had one, & knew people that had them. They were reliable. None of us had sensor problems. The clock has seconds on the inner ring. It’s not a tach. If it had the tach, it was in place of the clock. They didn’t have “post marker” lights. They were called “courtesy lights”. On the exterior of the post, were called opera lights, and were NOT usually on coupes.

Grand prix was a personal luxury car for grandma and papa and the backseat was not used except for the grandchildren on weekends and they fit in fine . Maybe they took thle little old couple.from down the street out to dinner and they would manage to get in and out fine.. the car was not ment for a family with 3 highschool football playing sons .

Jay, is that a 56 Ford Parklane Station Wagon behind this car?

the 77 I owned had a Pontiac 400 4 barr carb

I think Pontiac had a really nice-looking lineup for this model year. I was still a kid in the 70s but one who always noticed cars, and I thought these were nice, although they didn't strike me the same as some of the early 70s cars that I was around or rode in. We did have a family in the neighborhood with a car just like this, it was the burgundy color scheme, with wire wheel covers. It was nice but to me it wasn't as luxurious as one of our other neighbors car, which a '76 Cordoba that was white pearl white with super plush burgundy interior, that one I did ride in. I do think this model year of the Grand Prix was the best-looking. I liked the look of the look of the '78-'80 . I drove a couple of the next generation GP, an '81 that a friend had, and an '84, that a family member had, and I really thought they! drove well. Pontiac has always been one of my favorites, we had a couple of massive Catalina's in the early, they weren't really lookers in my opinion, and as a really young kid it was like riding in a huge bus or something. The interior does look exactly like that to me, like some hybrid deep red and burnt orange, or tomato. I do like that steering wheel option, although I think I like it better on the '73 Grand am. I think I would prefer the other steering wheel option for this model. Man I watched this too late. I probably would have gotten that song eventually.😊 I grew up with older siblings who had a lot of that type of music playing all the time in the 70s. Cool singing at the end 😎👍

Yeah, the '76 looked better ,I always thought

Looks burnt orange to me. Though we see colours different (LY) and even then, TVs vary too. (the LY is the adverb to the verb) Definitely one of the prettiest interiors of the era, I feel.

I’m was surprised that Pontiac sold the GP with that limp little 301 … The base 350 2-bbl from ‘76 was bad enough, but the 301 was downright pitiful …

Ah, the 70's! What a great time to be a teenager, aside from the lousy performance and dubious build quality of our cars. The seats were indeed comfy, but that velour burned like crazy for a smoker! And who wasn't a smoker in the 70's?

You know Jay, It has always confused me why the larger American cars had so little rear legroom, where is it all going? Every one of these vehicles with these sorts of wheelbases should be almost stretch limos, I feel. Instead, you're hurting for space? Crazy, as the allocation of space wasn't an objective, except for the front seats. Volumetric efficiency isn't that big a deal, when you, say, sit in an original mini minor, and find yourself swamped with space, it looks so unlikely from the outside dimensions, yet it can be done. I do wonder if it could have been the saviour of the American automobile industry, in terms of being a world leader? IE, money buys space. Which people know instinctively. A simple instinct to play to as a carmaker.

When I was a kid I thought this car was pronounced “Grand Pricks” .🤔 Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was actually pronounced “Grand Pree”! 😮

What a beautiful example! I'm not really much a fan of these, as they just look horribly bloated to me. This one sort of makes up with the condition, equipment and color combination.

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I had a '75 sj..exact color...455...

Just helping you out here...Boca Raton Florida is pronounced (Boca = Bo, then ca with the "a" making the same sound like the "e" in "the" = Boca, then Raton = Ra like the previous "a" sound and "ton" with the same sound as "on" like turn "on" the lights... Boca Raton.). Then for the Pontiac Astre, it is pronounced "As" as in Pass, then 'tre" with the "e" sounding like "a" in Boca.). At least that is how they are pronounced up in the Pacific Northwest, Spokane WA to be exact. 🙂

Love the 77 GP. Disco? Boogie? That was kinda like going back to World War Two. Pretty lame for the 70s but at least it was better than than Motown re dos and James Taylor's funeral dirges.

Need a T-top Car. Preferably 76

These cars had nice styling...but to drive them...the driver sits too far back and all you see is this big long hood "slinging" everywhere when you turn a corner. Someone I knew in the 1990's had one and as a passenger, that was my experience. My 1972 Oldsmobile has a better driver's position...it never felt like the hood was that long.

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The interior looks like a light rust color.

12:14 it's not a tach,it only shows time like 15 past one O'clock for (3) or 25 min past one O'clock for (5) on the shift indicator S stand for SECOND not super! second gear😁

General Motors cars in the 70s were notorious for n9t having great legroom for adults

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EWF with The Emotions (female group)

Family Guy episode Wasted Talent.

Boca Rah-Tone.....smh

7:22 "grill situation" ?? "bumper situation" ??. Do yourself a favor and stop saying situation.

no bucket seats and consule , no thanks

When you were mentioning the pinstripes going from the trunk lid all the way back up to the point on the hood.....it was not called a point - it was known as the "beak". I graduated high school in 1977 - but I always preferred the waterfall style grill and the non-medallion tail lights of the '76.

Almost $38,000 for this car? Get real.