V8 Swapped: 1985 Pontiac 6000
The Pontiac 6000 was a mid-sized mid-market front-drive offering from GM’s “sporty” Pontiac brand that shared its plebian underpinnings with GM’s other A-body machines like the Buick Century, Chevy Celebrity, and Olds Cutlass Ciera. The 6000 sold relatively well and did the job of shuttling around the kids, but it wasn’t in the least bit sporty (although there was a Special Touring Edition STE that added a high output option to the V6 pushing the original 112 horsepower up to 135. Anyway, the builder of this next car shoved a small block Chevy up front and the result is going to be some wicked front-wheel-peelage. Find this 1985 Pontiac 6000 offered for $6,700 in Mahopac, NY via facemelt merklebrook. Tip from Cory.
From the seller:
1985 Pontiac
$6,700
Vehicles
Listed 6 weeks ago in Mahopac, NY
About This Vehicle
Driven 3,000 miles
Automatic transmission
Exterior color: Silver · Interior color: Red
Fuel type: Gasoline
2 owners
This vehicle is paid off
Seller’s Description
6700 or best offer 1 of a kind car custom built by 1 of gm engineers has 350 v8 in it will trade for something cool or motorcycles make offer worst can say is no. Also has ice cold a/c
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That’s an impressive find: If it’s not a real GM engineering test mule, it’s a very convincing fake. Sure looks like a factory production study.
Not built by a gm engineer, but if you are good at reading fuzzy print, the details are here.
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/p180x540/209227392_10158148266800965_762948203805794182_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-4&_nc_sid=843cd7&_nc_ohc=69RyR2orZ5QAX-vS6Wk&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=5ad1499c360f8d1ac9199bfb0530c790&oe=61393F5F
The (cool) rims look like Mercedes Monoblocks, which as I recall, came out later in the 80s or early 90s! Is this where AMG got the idea?
They are 96 Chrysler Sebring wheels
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:95-96_Chrysler_Sebring_Coupe.jpg
Pronounced may-a-pac. My old stomping grounds. Where the high dollar euro cars of Westchester begin to merge with the redneck garage builds of upstate NY.