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Pontiac Bonneville Special

Pontiac Bonneville Special
ManufacturerGeneral Motors
Also calledSO 2026[1]
Productionconcept - only 2 ever built
Predecessor1953 Corvette
SuccessorPontiac Club de Mer
Classsports car
Body style2-door canopy coupé
EnginePontiac I-8, flathead
Transmission4-speed automatic
Wheelbase100.001 in (2,540 mm)
Length158.3 in (4,021 mm)
Height48.001 in (1,219 mm)

The Pontiac Bonneville Special is a purpose-built concept car unveiled at the General Motors Motorama in 1954, the first 2-seater sports car Pontiac ever produced. Designed by renowned designer Harley J. Earl and hand built by Homer C. LaGassey Jr. and Paul Gilland, the "Special" is an experimental car, a two door, grand touring sport coupé that incorporated innovative breakthrough styling like an all-plexi canopy with gull-wing panels on a sleek fiberglass body. The name "Bonneville" was inspired by a trip by Earl toBonneville Salt Flats in Utah while observing speed trials there.[2] It was in fact the first car at GM to have been named after it, and would become Pontiac's top end performance platform for 47 years.

Two "Special" prototypes, one painted metallic bronze and one emerald green, were built with the intention of unveiling them simultaneously at the Grand Ballroom of theWaldorf in New York and the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1954.

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I think Pontiac looked back at this for the Solstice

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Patty, C'mon, stop cracking up and help me get this frikin front wheel drive thing unstuck... Lift, lift..

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I've seen the green one a couple times.



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dualquadpete wrote:

Didn't B-J sell one of these & the Olds equilivent a few yrs ago?? Olds one was Gold in colour, Pontiac may have been the green one?? Came from a Joe Borrillo??? car collection of "concept cars" he had gotten over the yrs. Hows that for an "old guys" memory????

 That's Right Pete, here is the green Pontiac and the Gold Holds biggrin

 

Barrett-Jackson Lot: 1304 - 1954 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SPECIAL MOTORAMA CONCEPT CAR

1954 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SPECIAL MOTORAMA CONCEPT CAR1954 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SPECIAL MOTORAMA CONCEPT CAR 1954 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SPECIAL MOTORAMA CONCEPT CAR 1954 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SPECIAL MOTORAMA CONCEPT CAR 1954 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE SPECIAL MOTORAMA CONCEPT CAR 

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Lot Number: 1304Auction: SCOTTSDALE 35TH ANNIVERSARY 2006Status: SOLDSale Type: NO RESERVEPrice: *$3,024,000.00Year: 1954Make: PONTIACModel: BONNEVILLE SPECIALStyle: MOTORAMA CONCEPT CARVIN: 50175932Exterior Color: EMERALD GREENInterior Color: EMERALD GREENCylinders: 0Engine Size: 0Transmission: 

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It's said that Harley Earl, director of GM styling, got the idea for a GM concept car while watching world speed records being set at the Salt Flats in Utah. It would be a sports racer called a Bonneville Special. That was when 1954 models were being readied for production and no GM car had ever carried the Bonneville name. Perhaps Harley Earl gave the assignment to Pontiac as the birth of its upcoming performance image. Under the direction of Earl, Hommer LaGassey and Paul Gilland were directed to build two Bonneville Specials. The bronze car would debut in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf in New York and the Green one in the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Green one would later tour major dealerships around the country. The cars were showbiz and beyond production but realistic enough for the public to identify with them and make them contenders for best remembered Motorama cars.
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Barrett-Jackson Lot: 992 - 1954 OLDSMOBILE F-88 GM CONCEPT CAR

1954 OLDSMOBILE F-88 GM CONCEPT CAR1954 OLDSMOBILE F-88 GM CONCEPT CAR 1954 OLDSMOBILE F-88 GM CONCEPT CAR 1954 OLDSMOBILE F-88 GM CONCEPT CAR 

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Lot Number: 992Auction: SCOTTSDALE 2005Status: SOLDSale Type: NO RESERVEPrice: *$3,240,000.00Year: 1954Make: OLDSMOBILEModel: F-88Style: GM CONCEPT CARVIN: E54S003701Exterior Color: GOLDInterior Color: WHITE/GREENCylinders: 0Engine Size: 0Transmission: 

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The XP-20 project, commonly known as F-88 was a pet project of Harley Earl (working with him was Bill Mitchell, Ken Pickering, Zora Duntov etc.). Four cars came out of the project, but only styling order #2265 (this car) survived. It was sold or given to E.L. Cord (Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg owner) in 1955. Hundreds of internal GM documents and original blue prints are still with this sole survivor.
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-- Edited by B-52 on Saturday 13th of October 2012 09:32:24 AM

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Didn't B-J sell one of these & the Olds equilivent a few yrs ago?? Olds one was Gold in colour, Pontiac may have been the green one?? Came from a Joe Borrillo??? car collection of "concept cars" he had gotten over the yrs. Hows that for an "old guys" memory????

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