Pictures from the June 11, 2011 Michigan Widetrackers annual Spring Dust Off car show in Davisburg, MI.

Famous Royal Pontiac mechanic Milt Schronmack (yellow shirt) sits with his ’70 GTO race car and a ’64 Royal Bobcat GTO that he is restoring/building for a customer.

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A couple of rare H-bodys for you. My first car was a ’71 Chevy Vega, so this brings back some memories. First is a ’78 Sunbird with it’s numbers match even fire Buick V6, albeit supercharged. That is no V8!

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Next is a rare ’76 Pontiac Astre Safari Wagon. Only about 3300 Safari Wagons were built. This only has 27,000 miles on it. It is an unrestored survivor. It was purchased for a hardware store and it didn’t meet their needs, so they parked it away carefully all these years. This car won the John Sawruk Memorial Award. John would often award a trophy to someone who kept an unusual or unloved Pontiac like this. They also won their class award too.

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Tweaked 4-gen Trans Am with some humor.

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2002 Collector’s Edition TA convertible & a couple of G8s showed up

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One lone Solstice coupe GXP

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Here is another rare Pontiac you don’t see anymore. A turbocharged ’84 J2000. Imagine if the tuner craze started with these cars instead of Hondas and such?

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Uber-rare 1 of 669 ’69 Trans Am. This is an unrestored survivor, 1 of 50 with Ram Air IV and a 4-speed. This is a six figure car as it sits.

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A ’72 Formula 400 Firebird w/ a stick

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OK all you Grand Am lovers, it’s history time. Here is the first model year Grand Am. It was off the Lemans platform. It was introduced in ’73. It had a squeezable endura nose back in the day. These sadly rotted with time, this front end is a OEM replacement made from fiberglass. These cars came with 400s or 455s. This has the 7.5L 455.

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Here is one for the Canadian Pontiac lovers. A ’60 Pontiac Parisienne convertible! It sports a Chevy 327, but notice the valve covers.

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I am not certain if this is one of the authentic Royal Pontiac race cars from the day or an accurate recreation. Still it is a beautiful '62 Catalina, complete with a SD421.

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I took third in my class with the convertible. The ’73 Grand Am took second, and this Lemans with the OHC Spring 6 took first.

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Lots of RWD Grand Prixes, Bonnevilles, Catalinas and a couple of 2+2s were there. Only a single 3rd gen Firebird showed up, a Formula. Only 1 FWD Grand Prix (a ’96), no FWD Vibes, Azteks, Grand Ams, Torrents, or G6s showed up. We had a couple of pre-war cars, a ’36 and a ’39 show. A beautiful ’52 Cheiftain convertible and a ’59 Bonneville were also there.

I LOVE IT!

Im not sure why but I really like that little vert.

thanks for sharing

Wow! I would need a bib just to walk around that show to catch all the drool!

Very nice pics! I love the ’69 Trans Am, the color combo is just amazing! Too bad I don't have 6 figures to spend on it

Good to see a Solstice coupe GXP made it out, I love those little buggers too.

That Grand Am is in great shape for what I've seen a rare few.

so much to comment on I don't think I'll have time

Im not sure why but I really like that little vert.

That's the turbo J2000. Not a lot of them were convertibles. A buddy of mine had a black coupe back in the day. I have no idea how rare the turbo and convertible combination is, but I am sure it is pretty low.

Good show and great weather by the sounds of things.

This is a 1984 turbo J2000:

The car in your photo is a Sunbird GT, I know both by appearance and its badging. The GT Sunbird first appeared in 1986, including the hideaway headlights. They all came with the Turbo 2.0. Pretty rare cars because not many of them have survived this long. I saw a perfect representation of a 1988 Sunbird GT at the Fiero 25th Anniversary show in Pontiac, MI. When I talked to the owner he said it took him over 5 years to find the car because it's such a rare example. Low mileage, too.

That's me behind the car talking to the owner. I was drooling.

Seriously.

No rust!

That same body style continued to 1989, and in 1990 the Sunbird was changed to this body style:

(That's my roommate's Sunbird; it's an SE, not a GT. SE and GT had the hideaway headlamps.)

My grandpa has a 73 Grand Am, too.

/threadjack.

I love your photos and descriptions. It's nice to know a little history of what I'm looking at. Thanks!

Frosty,

I just had seen another Pontiac El camino in Port Huron. Maybe we need to do a road trip.

Thanks for the cudos guys. I just wish I could have made the POCI convention. Dang.....

notallthere - yeah the weather co-operated for a change. It was actually somewhat hot...and humid. I am up for a road trip period. I heard someone was trying to mimic the GA/El Camino that GM built. Both still exist as one is in the GM Heritage Collection and one is a private collectors hands.....still not certain how he got his hands on it.

I once saw someone take an El Camino and graft the 77-78 Trans Am front clip and interior into it. I only saw that car once. When I was in college back in the 80s, a buddy was part of the Explorer Scout group at Buick Motor Division. The scouts along with some of the fab shop boys took an El Camino and grafted a Regal T-Type front end on it, turbo V6 and all. That was a cool car too.

WOW....LOL Relative newbe here, but amazed to see pic's of my Sunbird on here already. Thankz for the great words. It'sa 1980. The last of that bodystyle. On to the J2000 era.