1976 Pontiac Grand Prix LJ

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    Seldom find big white cars with black walls all that attractive but I sure love this Pontiac. Wish I had room.
     
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    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    The WLT's look good on it with the added Rally II wheels. Looks like a very nice cruiser to me. Loaded like most LJ versions of the era where. I would have to look for a gauge cluster with a tach to replace the inop clock though.

    very clean for a Penn. Car. Heck it still has the little sliding plastic shoulder harness adjusting clips that usually fell apart in about 2 years of use! Very handy to keep the belts from trying to cut your head off. I need a set for my Astre!

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    SOLD FOR $26,500 ON 1/19/22
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    That was well sold! But a very nice example, and one of the last 455's built.
     
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    The 455 was a $63 option in 1976.

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    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    Yeah I saw that, seems like a pretty inexpensive upgrade, but the SJ (required to add the LJ option that year) option already included the 400, so that may explain why the it was that cheap. The base engine in 76 GP's was the 350 2bbl, 1st year a GP came with less than 389 cubes.
     
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    can one of you experts tell me what the various letters on Grand Prix got you? SJ/LJ etc
     
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    cammerjeff Longroofs Rule!

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    The SJ option package was the 400 4bbl engine, bucket seats with Center console, Custom (color matched to interior) seat belts, Many interior light such as glove box & trunk lights, Trunk carpeting and sideboards, extra or thicker sound insulation, and bright trim on the brake and gas pedals.

    The LJ Packaged add to the above features 2-Tone exterior paint (the original owner of the one on BAT ordered white/white so no 2-tone paint), thicker carpeting, rally gauge cluster, rear 1/4 courtesy lights, spare tire cover, and black velour trunk mat. Other than not being able to compare the carpeting with a Standard or SJ model, this car has all the other features, just visible in the upper left hand corner of the picture below the gauges is one of the 2 rear 1/4 courtesy lights.

    Just noticed the car does not have Cruise Control or a tilt Column, I think almost every 76 or 77 GP I used to own had those options, even the base model 350 or 301 2bbl powered cars.

    Link to the 1976 GP brochure
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