Does look like new. 1982 Bonneville Brougham - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle... (craigslist.org)
Every time I see these cars I call them out for their tiny VENT ONLY back door windows. This car has the power version of that...
Yeah it’s a beauty. My aunt and uncle had an ‘83 with the same interior only a white exterior and vinyl top. Loved that car.
This is a very nice example. It does look like it is brand-new. When I was a kid we were having some work done on the Fury and were going to be without a car for a few days. Some family friends had one of these as a spare/second car, and loaned it to us so my Mom would have something to drive. I remember it was hot, and the car didn't have A/C. I was riding in the back seat and was dying from heat (certainly not being dramatic ) and wanted to roll the window down. I was shocked when I learned that there was no window crank and that it wasn't one of them fancy cars that had a button to make it go up and down. Mom said they built it that way on purpose. When I asked why, she said something about it being a safety feature to keep little kids from falling out the back window. I was probably only six years old at the time, but I remember thinking that this was by far the STOOOPIDEST thing I had ever heard in my ENTIRE life. I vowed then and there never to ride in one of these cars ever again and to never own one, no matter what. And for years to come whenever I would see one of these cars I would silently judge them for their lack of rear window rolling-downy-ness. To this day if I see a car of this design for sale, no matter how nice it is, I find myself saying "That's a nice looking car. But the back windows don't roll down..."
My dad had an ‘81 Malibu 4 door company car and I could tell you I wasn’t about to fall out of that back window. I just thought. Geeze. How cheap. I’m probably closer to the truth than your mom Jeremiah. Lol
I agree it was about the most attractive dash of the era, to bad the rest of the design was not so attractive to my eyes. I also do not like how they ride with the short wheel base and long front and rear overhangs, the couple I owned always seemed to "porpoise" when driving over uneven roads (read all of Michigan roads) I just felt the older 73-77 design drove better even if they were 800lbs heavier, almost as slow, and got worse mpg.
100% this right here. The 2-door version of this body style (Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, even the El Camino) drove great and were fun cars and quite workhorses. The 4-doors here just... I dunno I didn't like how they drove as you describe. Like the rear end is constantly trying to get in front of you and the front nose makes it more difficult to steer for that reason. As you say, the wheelbase was really just too short by about 8-10" for the size of the car. I never had that problem in a 2-door, besides them being SUPER light in the rear for snow\ice. The '73-77 A-bodies were probably the best mid-size car GM ever made from a design and safety standpoint, which is why the '77-90 B-bodies were so great since they were practically the same car but lighter.
