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The Pontiac Spotlight:
1979 Grand Am Husrt Edition

The Pontiac Spotlight will feature a different Pontiac each month. If you have a Pontiac that you would like featured here please email me your details and a few pictures to share.

I will start off April early with this fine Grand Am from Joseph A. Fuccio. It is a rare (1 of 233) 1979 Grand Am Hurst 4-speed. I'll let Joe tell you the story:

"It was December 1978 - I walked in to McKenzie Pontiac in Omaha, Nebraska looking to order a Trans-Am. Bill Upton (Friend of the family and salesman for McKenzie Pontiac) took out a Factory Brochure on Nascar Limited Edition Hurst Pontiacs.
The Brochure said Limited Edition Nascar Hurst Pontiacs. Of course there were only two cars in the brochure. The Grand-Prix Hurst run on the Nascar Circuit by Richard Petty and the Grand-Am run on the Nascar Circuit by Geoff Bodine. I've Attached a Picture of Bodine's Nascar Grand National White Grand-Am.

Bill said "Sweet isn't it". I said "Can this car be ordered". Bill responded with "Yes you can, but it will be the first one ordered by this Dealership". Well I ordered a new 1979 model and it took a little over two months before she came in.

I picked the Two Tone Black and Gold exterior with Carmine Burgundy Red interior. She came standard with the Trans-Am Drive Train of a Pontiac V-8, Big Rochester QuadraJet 4-barrel carburetor, plus a Factory Hurst 4-Speed Shifter. The package was called WS6 Hurst Edition.

Well I have owned the car for now for 23 years and I still get wound up just looking at her. I really enjoy entering her in shows and parades. But, there is no better feeling than driving her down the road, shifting gears, on a winding stretch of road. Taking her down to the local Dairy Queen with the wife and cruising some of the car corals in our area. Pictures - Pontiac Owners Association Car Show and at a local park gathering."

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Joseph A. Fuccio

Click here for Previous Spotlights:
1979 Hurst Grand Am
1998 Trans Am WS6
2000 Grand Prix Pace Car
1969 Firebird HO Ram Air
1978 Firebird Sky Bird
1977 Trans Am
1980 Trans Am
1968 Firebird Ram Air I

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