No Reserve: 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix for sale on BaT Auctions - ending January 12 (Lot #63,292) | Bring a Trailer
Wow, 3.8 V6 powered GP with 2-tone paint & Rally IV wheels. Nice looker, but I would not like driving it! It also needs bucket seats. The V6 was way more common in the A/G Body cars than the larger B-bodies. But they were not any faster. Interesting to see what it bids to as it is a no reserve auction. $5000.00 when I typed this.
I wonder how well they would've performed if GM had adapted the 3.8L SEFI engines to these, rather than the carburetion they had?
It probably would have helped quite a bit, but I don't know if they had a non Turbo version of the old 3.8 V6. in just a few years they had the greatly improved 3800 V6 with EFI, balance shaft, and bullet proof reliability to go along with its 200 hp in non supercharged versions. But I don't think they cam out until the 1996 Model year so a full decade after the RWD G-bodies where made. And until the 87 model year they usually made less than 5000 Grand Nationals a year. So they were a limited production engine, compared to the 500,000 or so normal 3.8 V6's they produced a year.
Actually, the SEFI 3.8L was an optional engine in the FWD A-body cars (although I don't know if it was available starting in 1982), and it would only have needed the RWD block for it to fit, and the intake rotated 180°. Oh, well.
Actually in 85/86 about 1/2 of the GP's made those model years seemed to have the gauge cluster with clock. I once found a V6 GP in a yard with a 6 cylinder Tach! I still have that gauge cluster in the parts stash. But I sold the Tach years ago. I agree it is an oddly optioned car. I suspect it was ordered to look pretty in a dealership showroom.
That's interesting. I had a 1986 Grand Prix LE that I got in 1988 - great car. It had almost all options including factory sunroof - but no gauge cluster.
Probably well bought, I bet it would have gone for a couple more K if it had bucket seats & a floor shifter.
