CHRIS’S 1972 Pontiac Grand Ville convertible
Click me to enlarge The car is a 1972 Pontiac Grand Ville convertible. I've had it since 2002 and used it as my daily driver since bringing it home. I started looking for a car like this in 2001 as a present for myself for my 40th birthday.

The criteria I wanted was 1. Pontiac 2. Convertible and 3. Left hand drive. Other considerations were a reasonable amount of power options like power windows. I can't really see the point of owning a ragtop if you have to walk around the car and windows down after dropping the top.
I located the car in Western Australia in the town of Mandura. The bloke I bought the car from had imported it from the USA in 1995, and it had been on the road in WA since 1997. Click me to enlarge When I brought the car home on the 19th of March, 2002, it had 99,500 original miles on it. I was able to get it blue slipped and registered in NSW the same day, all within about 5 hours of picking it up from the TNT depot.
Since then, I've put an additional 112,000 miles on it, including numerous trips to country NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Last Christmas, I had planned to drive it to Perth and back, however, I discovered that the front end was worn out, so I stayed home and rebuilt it.

I was able to get all the components in Australia, including a new drag link and was able to buy most of the stuff at Pontiworld, straight off the shelf.		 Click me to enlarge
Click me to enlarge Having been in the american car hobby for over 28 years, I've owned a '68 Firebird, '62 Laurentian, '64 Bonneville Brougham, '79 Trans Am '66 GTO and a '68 Bonneville, all of which have been used as my (or the ex Mrs.) daily transport. After owning all these cars, I decided to get a ragtop. I also wanted a 'left hooker', as I'd had enough of fixing crappy RHD conversions and just wanted things to work properly for a change.
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Click me to enlarge Click me to enlarge Click me to enlarge It's been a great car and I hope to get a few more years out of it yet.