Pearson Air Museum

1977 Pontiac Grand Prix

Here we have a 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix model J, the bastard child of a NASCAR flavored Monte Carlo and some sort of slutty Italian thing.  It has a 2 barrel low compression 301 Pontiac V8 with a TH400 3 speed automatic transmission.
As loathsome as many of these malaise era cars can be, this one drives quite well. With a freakishly tall rear-end gear ratio (~2.07:1?) it also gets surprisingly good gas mileage (~22mpg) and handles pretty well on 265/50r15's in front and 275/60r15's in back on 8" and 10" wide wheels respectively. With only 54k miles on it in the last 35 years it steers nicely and with the RTS (Radial Tuned Suspension) handling package it corners quite flat.
 Ditching the stock single exhaust for a cat-less dual exhaust made a huge difference.

Also,I'm including a pic of a 1959 Jaguar MKIX that I just replaced the rear springs and shocks on, just because it's pretty. Had to have custom leaves built locally at Benz Spring Co. because the originals had rusted to the point of snapping and are NLA.