Pontiac Grande Parisienne 1968

Always thought it would be cool to be able to drive a right hand drive Pontiac on the roads here in Canada................. Without me looking, R 118,000 sounds like lots!! How much Canadian?

that seems kinda pricy?

The 1967 and 1968 Grands Parisiennes were only built in rhd for ZA (South Africa) and a 1967 was Tested by CARS magazine as well as an equivalent 1967 Chevrolet Caprice. Which reminds that GM South African also assembled 1967 and 1968 rhd Caprices, ex-Oshawa. The dash was the 1965 lhd Chevrolet dash transposed, from 1965 to 1968 in all rhd Chevrolet and Pontiac B-bodies. I have still to ascertain after all these years of searching what the very rare rhd Pontiacs had: lhd '69 Chevy transposed of '69 Pontiac? I can only eimagine that it was the fomer.

1968 was a pivotal year for Oshawa and St Therese, as the last rhd cars were exported CKD to Australia and New Zealand, though assembly was undertaken into 1969. ZA had the last CKD rhd cars in 1969 Model Year, though a very few '69s landed in the UK, and were sent out to Australia, say, built-up. imported by dealers. From 1970 Chevrolet-badged Holdens took over in ZA. Any UK cars were all lhd, e.g. a magazine Tested a 1970 Monte Carlo which they were not enamoured with!

Off topic, the last rhd Chryslers came out of Hamtranck Plant in 1969 with the last rhd Plymouth Barracudas, assembled in ZA as Valiant Barracudas. Australian-built Chryslers were sent all over the world including to the UK instead, and ZA built their own versions.

Totally OTT the next official rhd Chevrolets out of North America were Chevrolet Blazers out of Linden, NJ. 1999-2002. We had some and they flopped!

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-- Edited by Oracle on Saturday 15th of August 2009 08:13:25 AM

I might have one from CARS magazine...not sure where it is. GPs probably had a slightly more luxurious dash than Caprices. Rhd Pontiacs used to have for example, clocks which Chevs didn't.