Neat find! I picked up a full 69 Canadian Pontiac Sales Album. It must have come from Quebec originally as about half the pages are french. Fortunately I can read french well enough to understand.
It includes separate sections for Canadian full size, Beaumont, Acadian as well as the imported Firebird, GTO and Grand Prix.
It included paint and vinyl top chips as well as interior malt samples for all models.
One interesting thing I didnt know is that Canadian built convertibles (parisienne, 2+2 and Beaumont) were only available with black or white tops, American made cars also had blue and green tops.
Sales albums are great as they cover all the models & details. They are also pretty scarce as there were few copies per dealer (if even that), unlike brochures. Lucky score!
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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
I don't judge a man by how far he's fallen, but by how far back he bounces - Patton
Here is a pic of the front cover. Unlike the US where the was a separate manual for colors and trim it looks like in Canada there was a single manual that included everything.
Nice album! Wish I could find a '64 Canadian Pontiac one!
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
two interesting tidbits include a Shift Lever, floor mounted floor shift (buckets and auto required), this option is indicated as only available in February. Not sure what it means since 2+2 came standard with floor shift and console when automatic was ordered and Grand Parisienne came with console and floor shift when buckets were ordered? There is a second option price list in this binder that doesnt include prices and it makes no mention of this option. (unfortunately these listings are not dated but it seems that the listings with prices are later-the GTO listing with prices shows the correct HP of the optional engines while the listing without prices refers to 68 spec 400HO and RA both at 360 horse)
F41 here is restricted to the 390 horse engine but the other listing shows it was offered with any 427 or the 396. In both cases the F41 wasnt available with the auto level option.
another restriction Ive never heard of is no 8 track on console cars with AC
optional axle ratios offered only on the six and the 250 horse V8
power seat with bench seat only, not offered with 4 speed
no power seat or windows on stratchief
no AC on six banger
the rear bumper insert was offered on non grande parisienne
no posi available on a taxi??
-- Edited by North on Thursday 2nd of April 2020 12:09:34 PM
Here is the relevant page from the second listing showing the different criteria for the F41, this second listing also doesnt show the rear bumper insert either.
Power train data, some French words Ive never heard of, Im sure the typical French Canadian sales man had no clue what some of these words meant either!
I found a notation in french that the sport shift option that is listed was supposed to be the 69-70 GTO-Firebird-Grand Prix rallye floor shift that allowed a push to the right to limit upshifts to one gear at a time. I suspect it never actually made it to production on the Canadian models. They would have needed to change the pushbotton on the knob to replace the PMD notation since Pontiac in Canada was definitely not a Motor Division
Another tidbit, Rallye wheels were not available on Grande Parisiennes or wagons. (also not offered with fender skirt option on Parisienne). Are they wider than the standard wheels or is it just the center cap that protrudes?
