Hi There! New to the group with my 1973 Mach 1

Welcome from So Cal. Where are you in Ca? You’ll get lots of help and advise from this great group of 71-73 owners. Will be following your build thread.

OLE PONY said:

I love the 64 Bonneville's! My first car was a white 64 Bonneville that my parents bought new. A drunk driver hit me head-on on a country road. The Bonneville protected me very well. No injuries, but my watch band broke. My parents bought the Bonneville back from the insurance company and gave it to me. I found a 1964 Grand Prix with a frozen engine. We transplanted the Grand Prix front end onto the Bonneville. This was before the Pontiac Grand Ville was introduced in 1971. I probable had the first Grand Ville before they were introduced. If I recall correctly, it had a 4-speed automatic. It was fast off the line with the 389 engine! I ended up selling to a friend in the 70's and he got a lot of use out of it.

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Neat story!!! Coincidentally, I also have a Nocturne Blue 1964 Grand Prix, fully-restored (AACA Senior National 1st-place). Pontiac was ON FIRE in the mid-60's!! Great cars, stupendously cool interiors.

rybo said:

Wow what a beautiful car! I really love the color on it! Thanks for the tip, I would 100% prefer to keep the original fender on it, as it would be the only non stock body part on the car if I replaced it. I have some PDR buddies so ill ask around and see if we can find a guy around here that can get it close enough. It just sucks it got dinged up right on the body line like that.. I appreciate the help and advice!

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I was hoping you'd stick with the original colors (which I really dig), but if you decide to go different, I'll toss out there that 1973 Mach 1's could be ordered from the factory in a color called "Light Pewter Metallic" (color code 5A), which is very similar to the Eleanor gray you mentioned in another post, only better looking in my opinion. Better looking, and factory-correct, you can't go wrong with that.

I used to have a 1973 Mach 1 that was all original, Light Pewter Metallic with Ginger deluxe interior (which is what your car has), and it looked absolutely DYNAMITE. I can highly recommend that combination. My car was a Q-code with power windows, a/c, pretty much every option possible including rear window defroster, and I even had the power driver's seat and power deck lid release (all cribbed from a junkyard Cougar LOL). Sold it years ago unfortunately.

I failed to keep any photos of that '73, but I've attached a photo of my 1971 Cougar XR7 that's the same color, Light Pewter Metallic, just so you can see it...