First year of the last generation of the rear wheel drive Pontiac Bonneville is making its last stop here. The 7th generation lasted from 1982 through1986
This is a revision of the 78 gm a body on the 108 inch WB. It shares platform with Malibu, regal and cutlass supreme brougham. This is a rebadged lemans. Gm produced 25 million 3.8 liters between 77 and 2002. This is the transition car between the 81 b body Catalina /Bonneville rear wheel drive with the full frame and the small fwd unit body 85 Bonneville which shares platform with 98 and Electra. This is one of the 77-92 gm cars which owes it's styling cues to the 75 Seville. I believe it is also one of Roger smiths cost cutting examples with the fixed rear side windows. The company saved money by not installing window hardware and giving you a tiny ventipane. It is conventional red with a frame and I'm guessing 14 inch rims over front dis rear drum. I think this was used by Jackie Gleason in smokey and the bandit 2.
You've got a few things mixed up there. The 1985 and up "C" body cars didn't have a Pontiac version. That was Buick, Cadillac and Oldsmobile. The Lake Orion, MI (which still operates today) was built to start assembling those vehicles. The 1985 Bonneville was still a "G" body RWD car. The Bonneville would go FWD in 1987 and be the "H" body. The Bonneville (actually "Bonneville Model G") name was applied to the 1982 models as a stop gap because Pontiac dealers complained to GM management that they didn't have a true full size car to compete with both the other GM divisions and their competitors, so in 1983, the Parisienne came back as the full size RWD "B" body offering.
I assumed Bonneville shared it's c letter designation with 86 fwd LeSabre and 88. Also the a body designation for rwd full frame cars moves to the 104" WB fwd Ciera, century, 6000 and celebrity for 1982, correct? G body expands from two door coupes only to cover the four door regal, cutlass supreme brougham, Bonneville/lemans and Malibu for 1982.
@@user-mp3hw9bm3n The "G body" existed prior to 1982 on some GM models (most notably the Monte Carlo and Grand Prix). By 1982, the "A" body was the Century/Celebrity/Ciera/6000 and the RWD models became G bodies. The FWD Bonneville was an "H" body and started in 1987. No Pontiac "C" body, that was an upper level thing (Buick/Olds/Cadillac). You're mixing apples, oranges and grapes here and confusing yourself. LOL.
This is a revision of the 78 gm a body on the 108 inch WB. It shares platform with Malibu, regal and cutlass supreme brougham. This is a rebadged lemans. Gm produced 25 million 3.8 liters between 77 and 2002. This is the transition car between the 81 b body Catalina /Bonneville rear wheel drive with the full frame and the small fwd unit body 85 Bonneville which shares platform with 98 and Electra. This is one of the 77-92 gm cars which owes it's styling cues to the 75 Seville. I believe it is also one of Roger smiths cost cutting examples with the fixed rear side windows. The company saved money by not installing window hardware and giving you a tiny ventipane. It is conventional red with a frame and I'm guessing 14 inch rims over front dis rear drum. I think this was used by Jackie Gleason in smokey and the bandit 2.
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You've got a few things mixed up there. The 1985 and up "C" body cars didn't have a Pontiac version. That was Buick, Cadillac and Oldsmobile. The Lake Orion, MI (which still operates today) was built to start assembling those vehicles. The 1985 Bonneville was still a "G" body RWD car. The Bonneville would go FWD in 1987 and be the "H" body. The Bonneville (actually "Bonneville Model G") name was applied to the 1982 models as a stop gap because Pontiac dealers complained to GM management that they didn't have a true full size car to compete with both the other GM divisions and their competitors, so in 1983, the Parisienne came back as the full size RWD "B" body offering.
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I assumed Bonneville shared it's c letter designation with 86 fwd LeSabre and 88.
Also the a body designation for rwd full frame cars moves to the 104" WB fwd Ciera, century, 6000 and celebrity for 1982, correct?
G body expands from two door coupes only to cover the four door regal, cutlass supreme brougham, Bonneville/lemans and Malibu for 1982.
@@user-mp3hw9bm3n The "G body" existed prior to 1982 on some GM models (most notably the Monte Carlo and Grand Prix). By 1982, the "A" body was the Century/Celebrity/Ciera/6000 and the RWD models became G bodies. The FWD Bonneville was an "H" body and started in 1987. No Pontiac "C" body, that was an upper level thing (Buick/Olds/Cadillac). You're mixing apples, oranges and grapes here and confusing yourself. LOL.