New here, and my first Pontiac

[bchaffin72]

Hi all,

I always loved Pontiacs, and while I have driven a few over the years(including a 1980 Trans Am my friend loaned me once in a while), I never actually owned one until now. Our '02 Grand Caravan crapped out last week, and I was very impressed with a 2005 Montana SV6 Extended, So we bought it, and just took possession yesterday. Loving it!

[Ringo64]

cool beans! Congrats, those Montanas are pretty nice vans.

[[ChaosweaveR]]

Welcome to the forums!

Those vans are pretty decent. Killerspeed had one, he'll chime in eventually.

[Frosty]

Welcome to FP and the madness and to the Pontiac family. As Chaos said, Killer outta be along soon. Glad you like your Montana.

[Ghost]

welcome to FP!

[JUSTA6]

Welcome to the site

[bchaffin72]

All stock, and it will mostly have to stay that way, but I will have to add a few personalizing touches, here and there.

The performance is not bad and the handling excellent. Might get me in trouble if I don't watch the lead in my toes.

[markpetersonii]

Wow, that one is in great shape! Nice Montana!

[bchaffin72]

Yeah, it's in very good shape. Some wear and light stains on the front seats but otherwise, excellent. Maybe it will get some nice seat covers. While the Caravan was a decent vehicle, and served us well, the Montana makes it seem like a tinker toy, by comparison.

[notallthere]

Welcome, where are you at in Ontario?

[bchaffin72]

Near Stratford, in southern Ontario.

[notallthere]

Nice I am from Sarnia so the wife and I cruise to Stratford for drives once and a while.

[bchaffin72]

Well, we're not overly far apart then. I have never been to Sarnia, but do get to London fairly often, via the 401, and ocasionally(only if I can't help it. ) Toronto.

[bchaffin72]

I suppose one thing I could wish these had had were manual transmission options. I do love a good stick-shift.

[killerspeed101]

Welcome fellow ontarian ( im in the falls) and fellow vanner
this is my " great white"

[bchaffin72]

Thanks. That one looks pretty good too. I've been to the falls area, once. And yeah, I van it. We live a bit outside of town and haul a lot at a time, plus, my wife is disabled and I have a spine issue, so getting into and out of a van is much easier than a car these days. Even the last actual car we had was a station wagon. An '85 Nissan Maxima, with the 3.0 V6.