Highly Original 1974 Pontiac Grand Am For Sale: Video
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The Pontiac Grand Am was envisioned as a competitor to the increasingly popular Mercedes and BMW imports that combined both luxury and sporting elements in their offerings, a concept not common in American cars. The name for the A-Body model came from a morphing of the luxury Grand Prix and sport-oriented Trans Am. The Pontiac Grand Am was built on the Colonnade body intended for the GTO (the GTO would become an option package on the compact Ventura in 1974), but with the Grand Prix interior and the Endura impact-resistant front bumper.
For the 1974 model year, the Pontiac Grand Am received a revised rear fascia, with vertical taillights, a relocated license plate that hid the fuel fill neck, and alternations to meet the new five-mile-per-hour crash standards. Powertrain offerings included the two-barrel carbureted 400 cubic-inch V8 with a single exhaust, rated at 190 horsepower, two variants with four-barrel carbs that produced 200 or 225 horsepower, and the top-of-the-line 455 cubic-inch equipped with a four-barrel carb that made 250 horsepower. Engine displacement was emblazoned on trunk emblems, expressed in liters.
Pontiac Grand Ams boasted a Radial Tuned Suspension (RTS), radial tires (rare for GM cars at that time), and sway bars front and rear. Interiors could be had in either vinyl or cloth.
Our feature Pontiac Grand Am is painted Cameo White with a white vinyl top and an Oxblood Red cloth interior. The exterior finish looks to have aged well. Panel gaps are fair, but nothing out of line for GM products of the mid-1970s. There is no rust visible on the body panels. The front Endura fascia and painted bumper is still in good nick, but the rear chrome bumper has ample pitting showing through.
Inside the Pontiac Grand Am, the deep Oxblood Red cloth interior presents well, with slight wear noted on the driver’s side seat bottom. The dash features a full Rally gauge cluster between the speedometer and factory tach. The Grand Am is equipped with air conditioning, power steering, power brakes, AM/FM stereo, cruise control, power Strato bucket seats, power windows, power locks, tilt steering, tinted glass, and a rear window defogger.
Under the hood is the numbers-matching 455 cubic-inch V8 topped with a four-barrel carb, producing 250 ponies. The engine bay is tidy, and appears to be largely original. The air conditioning compressor does not currently have a belt driving it. Moving the power from the engine is the Turbo Hydramatic 400 three-speed automatic transmission.
This Pontiac Grand Am is being offered by Volo Auto Sales for $25,998.
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As a 12 year old I always wanted to like this era of Grand Am…on first look it seemed so much more sophisticated than its sister cars. Love the front treatment and the interior. Then all is lost when you look at the profile and see that the back has a chrome bumper that sticks out at the sides. How does the front and the back belong on the same car? Even a zit faced middle schooler thought it was sloppy work.
It was the malaise era. When I grew up, these were rusty hulks still on the road, reminding us of how ugly cars were in the ’70s.
Reminding us of how ugly cars of the 00’s were and still are. There fixed that for ya
No, sorry, this car was ugly in the ’70s and it’s still ugly today.
Everything got dorky in 1973. Mostly cause of gov’t mandates on bumpers. Leave it to gov’t to mess things up. That said, these body styles have grown on me after all these years.
Thanks Joe, I agree with your comment, cars today have no style…….Those cars had a lot of style back then.
I was never that bothered by the larger bumpers but do prefer the slimmer ones from the earlier 70’s. These IMO were better looking than what Ford or Chrysler were pumping out for their mid size cars during this time era bar the odd example of course. And the power figures were certainly a lot better than those two considering it was 1974 when emission systems were coming on strong and lowering output each year. These types of cars had there flaws and MPG in the 9-11 range was pretty much the norm. Still I wouldn’t mind having this car in my fleet.
70s American cars show had been no larger then GM A bodies at the time as seen with the fuel crisis excessive dinosaurs weren’t the way to go.
Another overpriced lump that should be in the boneyard. Why are they featuring these hideous vehicles that are better left forgotten?