Impending insurance tariffs as well as low demand is what made GM get out of the convertible business. Safety regulations that were supposed to be coming finished them off. With the rise of dependable air conditioning becoming a reasonably priced option and inner city vandalism, ie; cutting the top open and stealing the radio,etc was another factor. I well remember that car and all the hoopla in the press about it. I had 2 convertibles that summer. A 67 Firebird and a 68 Beaumont. Neither of them were worth saving at the time.
My former employer has one of these in his collection. It sat in the showroom at his dealership for a year and didn't sell so he kept it for his private collection. The car now has 1400 miles . I will try to get pics of his Pontiac Cadillac Buick's next spring .He is 89 years old and has approx 25 cars. He was a dealer principal for over 60 years.
I love this picture. The look on the guy to the right is priceless...these ladies don't belong on the line..they always just slow down production by distracting us!
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
A well heeled friend of mine still has the one he ordered in 75 and took delivery of in 76. It has very few miles on it and still looks like new. He was thinking it would be very collectible and valuable. I don't think it worked out the way a lot of those purchasers thought it would!
There was one not far from me in "Cooks Mills" a couple summers ago-for sale on a lawn-I get called to appraise it after the purchase-nice 73 light blue (faded) newer top-nice interior runs great-super clean under and a nice body-I say their not big money -like $4000-$5000 the guy says-he stopped the old guy came out said he wanted $1500 so he says $1500 !!! so the old guy says OK $1000 but no less-still floored at the $1500 he says no less ! sort of laughing at the unbelievable deal-then the old guy says bottom $800-this guy sends his wife to get the money and sits with the car !!!
