Wonder why a 400 was not included?

Thats what I originally meant. 

65Camino wrote:

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Wonder why a 400 was included?

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 No 400. It was a cheap gimmick by a Pontiac dealer to sell a few more low line entry level cars.

Looks like Guido, the kid next door dreamed up and taped the graphics. They ruined a nice 2 door sedan. I'd be embarrassed to drive this hot mess. 

unruhjonny wrote:

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I wouldn't be embarrassed to drive this.


If that car had the original steering wheel there, and the original shifter, I'd think it to be much cooler;
But it is still a gimmick car, like the Judge started out...
In the day of air grabber hoods, and cartoon characters getting their own car (complete with horn that sounded like the character) - this car makes absolute sense.

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Plus one.  I love it because it's Canadian. Same for the Cheetah Beaumont. Cheetah emblems are awful but someone went to the effort to create something unique.

Pontiacanada wrote:

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I like it, but I don't "75 thousand" like it.

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 Amen to that!!

65Camino wrote:

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According to the brochures I found online a 330hp 400 was available. If they were trying to get around insurance this was the way to go.
Looks like this was a forebearer of the taped performance cars yet to come later in the Seventies.

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and that precisely is why the T-37, then the GT-37 came into being;
It was a car that could essentially be ordered like a (base in 1970) GTO, but without the GTO's sticker price...

Then for 1971, a GT-37 could be ordered with any desired GTO equipment - not just the base engine and same transmissions, but now exactly like a GTO, but without the insurance premiums.

Back to the Stampede Pontiac 'Jury' cars - These were made to attract people to the dealership - they were low price point cars that were flashy/gimmicky just like the Judge or Roadrunner.


I'd much rather a 1970 GT-37 with the 400(4bbl) & 3 or 4 speed over this car - but this is a dealer car that has some notoriety, which is why I suspect this seller is fishing for interest.


Frankly, even though it's not 'Canadiana', as fun as that car might be, I'd rather something like this car:

1970 Pontiac Tempest 'Magnum 400'

That package seemed to nail it where the 'Jury' package comes off a bit light - then again, Pontiac's hot ticket for 1970 was the D-port 400/4bbl backed with a manual transmission, as those engines got he RAIII heads (read: more compression).
Also the selling dealer made them to be hot cars, not flashy low price point cars.

I had understood that they were ordered that way with the intent of making them as "Jury" cars specific to that dealership (Stampede Pontiac; in downtown Calgary).
All in silver, all with base interior equipment, all on pillared(?) coupes (the lowest price version of the car).
I cannot recall if the spoilers were dealer or factory installed, but a local knows all about these cars - he even wrote an article for HPP many years ago about the cars.