The 1980 Pontiac Bonneville & Catalina - Dealer Film (GM125)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Pontiac puts their own special twist on the B-body with the '80 Bonneville & Catalina models. Buckets, console and RTS? Sign me up.
Digitized from laserdisc GM125B; audio has been enhanced.
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Bonneville Coupe with bucket seats... beautiful!
Bucket seats and a console in a 80 Bonneville, I've never seen one in the wild, I want one!
@@olddisneylandtickets so do I lol. Can you imagine how roomy and comfortable those generously sized front buckets must have been? I love it
Can you imagine how roomy and comfortable those generously sized front buckets must have been? I love it
I wish mine had buckets... but they weren't available on the Bonneville Brougham.
@@isaakwelch3451 1980 or 1981?
Love my ‘79 Boneville sedan with two tone red paint and bordello red crushed velour interior. 29,000 original miles with 350/350 engine and trans. Runs and drives like dream. Reminds me of my high school years-Moms would drop off their kids in these things. Back then I laughed at them and craved a Trans Am. Now this is the car for me. Super comfortable.
Funny, but I got dropped off in a rotted out VW Bug or Rabbit!
1977 to 1981 bonneville had so many variations in interior and exterior choices that the model you could build was personal.
Today any spud you want, virtually no personalization.
Gosh I miss my bonneville
Back in 1984 I was working at my dad's used car lot. He had 2 1980 Bonneville Brougham 4drs. on his lot. One was blue and one was maroon. Both had the 301 engine. Drove both of them. Absolutely beautiful driving cars. I wanted one so bad.
Crushed velour seats - I remember! A number of these cars would be painted two- tone - beautiful!
When GM downsized the B body cars in 1977, the styling of the Pontiacs came out the best of all of them. The Bonneville Brougham was SO nice inside and out. The dash came out well and offered FULL instrumentation, which is a huge advantage compared to dummy lights. The velour seats they offered were beautiful. These cars were so nicely trimmed with chrome and were elegant looking. These were actually nicer looking than the Delta 88 or LeSabre, which were more expensive models. Because of the fuel economy standards imposed by the government and because of the expectation that the cost of fuel was going to increase in the 80s (which wound up not happening), Pontiac did not offer a full sized B body car in 1982 or 1983. They brought it back in 1984 - 1986, but it was renamed the Parisienne. The only unfortunate thing about these is in 1980 and 1981, the engines offered in these cars were too small for the weight of the car. They got good gas mileage but were underpowered.
That is mostly correct. The Parisienne was sold in the US for the 1983 model year, not just 1984 and up.
82-87
Olds has 307 better then 301
Thank you for this great video. I enjoyed the video seeing this generation of Bonneville. I enjoyed the looks of this one. It was sold in Canada as the Parisienne. Then in 1985 and 1986, the Parisienne brought this styling back and the interiors.
Here in the United States, the Parisienne came in looking like a rebadged Chevy Caprice. Think they sold it here in the United States as such, maybe 2-3 years.
@@devinbiz It was a rebadged Caprice from 1982- 1984. That part is correct. It did not have Caprice seats because in the Parisienne Brougham in 1984 had Oldsmobile Eighty Eight Royale Brougham seats. They did bring back that 1980-1981 styling in 1985 and 1986. You can go look the car up here on You Tube you will see the styling that was still Caprice was the instrumentation panel and the front end styling with a Pontiac grille. In 1985 it changed to this 1980-1981 styling and those seats and the door panels returned. Before 1982, the Bonneville and Parisienne were the same car in two countries.
Love when they call these cars aerodynamic!
My first car was the Canadian version called Parisienne Brougham.
That Pontiac Parisienne was actually a Chevrolet Caprice, but with its distinctive two-toned paint. It was imported from GM of Canada
@@jayelbee1111 That particular model was sold between 1982-84.
Thanks for posting- I always enjoy these vintage films.
Their creativity and excellent writing respect the potential customer's intelligence, while gently trying to imply choosing these stylish cars is like entrance into a club of proud, accomplished professionals.
My Mom had an '81 Bonneville Brougham 4 door with the V6 engine. It was the same exterior color as the Catalina in the video, but it had a dark blue landau roof, and a dark blue velour interior. It was definitely slow, but it got 24 MPG on the highway. Engines were available up to a 401 cubic inch V8, and they only had one gas tank size, 25 gallons. My Mom lived in San Diego, CA, and we lived in Cedar City, Utah, a distance of 500 miles. Driving back to San Diego, which was mostly downhill, she would still have 5 gallons left in the tank, filling up in Cedar City. The mileage was not as good driving the other way, since it was almost all uphill going from sea level to 6000 feet. Eventually she bought another car, and we got the Bonneville. It was still a comfortable car even though it had over 100,000 miles on it.
The 400 V8 was last used in a Bonneville in 1978, 1979 400 engines were for certain Firebird and Trans Am models only. You could not get a Pontiac 301 in a 1981 Bonneville, it would have been a 307 Oldsmobile engine VIN code "Y", RPO code "LV2". The only Pontiac V8 used in a full size Pontiac in 1981 was the 265 V8 two barrel, VIN code "S" engine.
@@googleusergp You are so right! I was thinking about the 401 V8 Oldsmobile engine that GM used in a lot of cars.
@@garylangley4502 Do you mean the 403 Oldsmobile V8 engine that was used from 1977 to 1979?
@@googleusergp Yes, I guess that's it. I haven't thought about cars from the late '70's and on into the '80's for quite some time.
So many thanks for this video! It's a good reminder. At these days most cars built in the USA were big limos with also big capacity engines. Very comfortable and quiet in driving with mounts of torque at low rpm. And I also like(-d) their classy appearance.🎉
I have my Grandparents 1980 Bonneville Brougham sedan.
I have my grandparents 80 Bonneville brougham to. gold color 301 engine still runs good has we'll over 200 thousand miles I think it's gone so long because of the 2000 mile oil changes all it's life
Whoa! A 1980 Catalina with options! Never saw that lol
Beautiful cars.
Lots of beautiful models accompanying those beautiful Pontiacs.
Thanks again Cory for posting another awesome GM video! Although very underpowered, these pretty Bonnevilles and Catalinas were very comfortable and definitely worthy of being the flagships of the Pontiac brand! It's just sad that the oil crises of these years caused the " Widetrack People" to produce less than expected Pontiac performance to match these beautiful cars!
Nothing says elegance like a 1980 Pontiac.
Beautiful cars, now I want to own one 😂😂
I had an 80 Bonneville sedan with the 265 V8 in it back in the early 90s.
I had one too. That engine was too small for a full-size car.
@@BrianChappie It would have been better with a 350 gas for sure.
The background music sounds really similar to the love theme in the movie Airplane!
Fantastic video. The downsized B body Pontiac was one of the most perfect designs of all the 1977+ full size GM cars. Sadly the Bonneville was discontinued after 1982 and became a mid size G body, aka Malibu.
The B-Body returned to Pontiac during the 1984 model year when GM had Chevrolet offered the B-Body Caprice to Pontiac. The nameplate was called Parisienne
@@jayelbee1111 The Parisienne came back to the US market for the 1983 model year. This was due to Pontiac dealers complaining to GM that 1982 left them without a full size offering to compete with other car makers as well as other GM divisions.
I picture Mae West owning one of these cars, I can see her big tall yellow hair behind the wheel of one of these in the color powder blue! 👀
Had a 77 pontiac Parisienne brougham 2 door 350 Oldsmobile and an 81 Bonneville with the chevrolet 305 both most excellent cars
My first car! 80 Bonneville brougham diesel coupe. Nothing was more beautiful, smooth and quiet
I've got an 81 Bonneville Brougham diesel coupe. Such a fun car, and I love the economy of the diesel
Beautiful automobiles like this better than Delta 88 and Lesabre put together if you gave me 1980 GM B-Body car chose between Caprice or Bonneville but chose the Bonneville 4 door.
I love those Malaise Era cars! I wish they made them like that now.
Wow about time I seen videos about Pontiac bonniville /Parisienne always Cadillac or Chevys
Best. Movie. Ever. 😊
These coupes were as good looking as Cadillacs of the day. Or even better looking than the Cadillacs. Because there were lots of Cadillacs out there. But how often did you see a Bonneville Brougham coupe?
One used to drive past my house each day as I was waiting for the school bus. Black with black top. Gorgeous!
So are "Embassy" (leather) seats more comfortable than "Rich Corinthian Leather" seats?
The interior of the Bonneville Broughams were certainly comparable to Cadillac's D'Elegance, Elegante and Biarritz interiors from this era.
10 seconds in. who does that sketch on the wall look like ? i cant be the only 1 to take a second glance
!?Why did G.M cancel the Pontiac
Because of political interference from the US government.
Low sales
Thank you very much
You welcome
When the government bailed out GM in 2008, they insisted that they trim down divisions. GM made the fatal error of getting rid of Pontiac. Bad move.
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They were good looking cars for the time but engines were terrible in terms of performance and reliability. The new automatic trans was also a reliability disaster.
Catalina was base ..parisienee til87 nice
I just watched two commercials in order to watch a commercial.
#spacefuture
Oh dear...quality was not job one,but this was a beautiful car design.gms fatal flaw was cost cutting.gm is still marching toward extinction because it doesn't understand its brand
But why? I thought Pontiac was supposed to be GM's "sporty" division?
If I want basic transportation I'd get a chevy, if I want luxury I'd get a cadillac. Not bad looking cars but from only a side profile, it's hard to tell a delta 88 couple from a boneville couple from an impala coupe from a Lesabre coupe.
You got rid of Pontiac? But kept Buick?
Buick would've been my 2nd or 3rd cut right after hummer and saturn. WTF GM?
China is why they kept Buick and sales there. I understanding what you are saying and I think Pontiac and Oldsmobile should still be here.
This is the reality of pontiac. It was never the sporty division, it was entry-level luxury. Buick and chevy both had more exciting sports cars than pontiac, and pontiacs volume sellers weren't anything to write home about
Me gustan los carros Pontiac Bonneville/Catalina Brougham; me pongo a imaginar una bella muchacha; soltera, libre y sin compromiso; sin tatuajes, ni piercings en su cuerpo; ella es blanca, ojos azules oscuros, cabello rubio, la cara maquillada, los labios rojos y el cabello arreglado; ella viste una blusa blanca manga larga; minifalda azul oscuro, calcetines canilleros blancos, gomas blancas; ella manejando el carro yo voy en el asiento del pasajero; ella y yo nos vamos para Mérida por asuntos de trabajo; nos iremos para la Ciudad de Mérida por Curimagua, Cubiro y La Puerta solamente para pasear y descansar; cuándo nos vamos de día de campo para Las Cataratas de Hueque; llevar el refrigerio el almuerzo preparado, dulces, salados y unos refrescos; yo visto un pantalón largo con su cinturón; calcetines, zapatos una franela y gorra; ella viste una blusa cuadriculada manga larga, unos shorts calcetines, gomas blancas la cara maquillada, los labios rojos, el cabello arreglado con su cola de caballo; ella se vea cómo una exploradora; ella y yo pasamos el día de campo en las Cataratas de Hueque; saludos y buenas noches.
The first new car I bought was a 1980 Catalina
thats an awful sculpture 🤣
When did Pontiac’s Bonneville / Grand Ville become the Parisienne? I thought it was earlier than 1980.
I think it goes something like this though I haven't checked the specifics. With the 1982 introduction of FWD "downsized midsize" 6000, the "old" rear drive LeMans was given a facelift & perhaps a step up in luxury appointments & was re-named Bonneville G & the full size cars were dropped. Someone mentioned in a comment about more stringent fuel economy standards that never went into effect. As a result they wanted to bring back a full size Pontiac. Another commentor mentioned they wound up with the Caprice body with a minor facelift & re-badged as a Pontiac. I guess the name presented a new dilemma since they had used the Bonneville name on the mid-size car. Parisienne was the name long used on Canadian Pontiacs. Guess they figured that was the way to go. Canadian Pontiacs through the years looked like ours but under the skin were running almost entirely on Chevrolet running gear.
I'll have to check mid '80s Canadian Pontiacs & see exactly what they were selling there. Never thought about it. Maybe the quickest solution was to bring the Canadian car here. (?) Guess I'll do some research...
The Parisienne nameplate was always sold in Canada, it began being sold in the USA in 1983.