This is a beast! 

https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-rwd-swapped-1999-pontiac-grand-prix-is-a-diy-gto-with-a-five-speed-manual

Wild thang..

Hell yeah!

Great find Ringo! Kudos for the build! Always glade to see younger guys pickup the torch, to continue a God given gift!

Everyone’s approach may differ, but the results are what count & that’s what makes each of us unique. The young fella did a great job!

I’m way to old to start such a project like this now, but I had mulled this conversion 20 years ago! Mine was a little more straightforward, as things were different than & I’m old school. I was going to gut the whole floor, starting at the firewall. Cut it off at the rockers & at the backend of the trunk floor, as I did with my “69” & “74”. Build a full frame to fit with a configuration that would house a small block V8 & a 700R4, with a Jag independent rear end. Dump all the computer crap rewire the car. Keep the inside with the same interior, & we’re all good! But in the end I decided to build a FWD ground pounder since I had already done the whole full frame/floor etc. etc. thing twice before.

I also felt it was, for me, a bigger challenge to build a better FWD, with better weight distributed, superior handling/cornering performance & a facelift that tweaked that tasty muscle car look that only lasted for the length of the seventh generation GP.

I do have to agree that folks just don’t view any of the FWD cars in the same light as RWD cars no matter how aggressive they look & no matter how well they perform. The 1997-2003 Grand Prix was a throwback design to the “60’s” coke bottle look & the last, at least to date! It had one of the most aggressive looks of any FWDs with just a little work they could look just plain nasty. Remember this Pontiac & only Pontiac had a supercharger! The GTP’s performance rivaled most of the V8 performance numbers being produced at the time. While the 7th generation GP sold well, it has never been able to hold a candle, in most folks opinion, to the G8! Which is amazing if you look at just the statistics. And yet how many of those folks actually saw a G8 up close & personal? Actually drove one? To actually critique it’s handling & performance? Few! Since only 38,159 G8’s were ever built! In both years of production it never even came close to any of the previous year GP numbers & both years saw large quantities of unsold G8’s left in inventory. 

My daughter bought a 2008 G8 GT V8, I drove it, worked on it & while she loved the car, she had never owned any car with that type of power, so of course it would impress! Yet even she had to admit that the 2001 GP that she owned before it she liked better! Had a much nicer interior, a more muscle car look & when she drove the Indian she admitted it handle better, was nearly as quick up to about 60, had better brakes & was hands down more comfortable.