has anyone ever heard of this car before?

[pontiacgp]

oldblue....that car has been on Kijiji for many months so if it is what he says it is I don't know why no one has picked it up....and I don't know if you've noticed it's up at Elliot lake...

and here's another of his adds on Kijiji

http://london.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles ... Z118785276

 

[joe_padavano]

Actually, its the predecessor to the G body-its an A body. From '78-'81 these cars were A bodies, then they became the G body in 1982. Its an interesting car for sure, but I'm forced to wonder how valuable it is without the original turbo engine & trans. It might make an interesting vehicle to use to swap in a later Buick GN engine & transmission. As for the rarity, I wonder if the seller might mean that it is 1 of 49 that was sold in Canada that year.

The name may have changed from A-body to G-body, but the cars were exactly the same. The only reason for the name change is that the new-for-1982 FWD midsize cars (Cutlass Ciera, Pontiac 6000, etc) were supposed to replace the RWD cars and thus inherited the A-body designation. When GM came to their senses and decided to keep the RWD cars too, they reallocated the G-body designation.

 

[pontiacgp]

When GM came to their senses and decided to keep the RWD cars too, they reallocated the G-body designation.

and it's too bad they lost their minds and dropped the rwd

 

[clean8485]

Thanks for clarifying the details about the GM changeover from A body to G body Joe, but I knew that.

 

[beermonkey9417]

i think it would be a nice light weight street/strip car. very good sleeper potential for that one. id buy it to mess around with if i had the money/time/place to work on it.

 

[SafariWagon]

Here's the car I was talking about in the earlier post. Found it on Craigslist today! Nice car but Holy $&it $8500 kind of steep.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1208926092.html