This Guy Just Bought A Pontiac 6000 He Left A Note On 14 Years Ago

[dishdude]

Pretty cool car and story! Too bad it's not an STE.

https://www.motor1.com/news/522898/pontiac-6000-bought-14years-note/

 

[john_pifer]

That’s definitely a BITOG special, but what a cool story!

 

[Dogman]

Great story.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Sweet car!!

 

[CKN]

They were not great cars when they were new......

 

[dishdude]

They were not great cars when they were new......

A bodies were pretty solid, especially the later ones. I still see them on the road and they haven't been made in 25 years. Just saw a Ciera today.

 

[CKN]

A bodies were pretty solid, especially the later ones. I still see them on the road and they haven't been made in 25 years. Just saw a Ciera today.

The interior look like a big plastic slab-with plastic buttons. I had a couple. The 3.1 were solid motors-but again not great cars. OK-maybe.

 

[loneryder]

I had 2 6000 STE’s. They were finalists in Motor Trends COTY Several times. The car magazines loved the handling. It was the first American car to get close to BMW handling. I loved those cars, put a lot of miles on them and never had any trouble. They also had a great exhaust sound.

 

[blufeb95]

A bodies were pretty solid, especially the later ones. I still see them on the road and they haven't been made in 25 years. Just saw a Ciera today.

I see a couple around on occasion, but like most GM cars of that time frame they could only survive so many winters in the north before they rusted out, my Grampa managed to get 20 years out of his 89 Celebrity with the Duke, although at one point he had to disconnect the wiring to the lockup solenoid or something because the car kept going into lock up or staying in lockup when it wasn't supposed to disengage and the car kept dying at stoplights, and he figured out how to disable it because he wasn't going to pay a shop to fix it.

 

[02SE]

I can see the steering rack going bad from here...

 

[daves87rs]

Always had a soft spot for those 6000s…….

 

[slo town]

Colleague of mine had one of these back in the mid to late 80s. I always thought is a nice car. Really good looking for the era.

Scott

 

[CharBaby]

Great story indeed. Numerous friends & family had the sister cars(non-AWD) from Chevy & Olds; the Celebrity & Cutlas Ciera respectively. They were surprisingly tight cars(body structure & handling) as I remember.

 

[captno4]

Pretty cool story. I had a Celebrity of that era and it was not a bad car. It did have a steering rack issue and would chew up tires pretty quick but did not have any rust or driveline issues.

 

[pcoxe]

The mechanic who owned the car probably corrected all its shortcomings.

 

[earthbound]

my friend in high school had one, which was his fathers at first then a hand me down. that thing never broke down and took us everywhere.

 

[Tahoe4Life]

Had a company 6000 back in the day. It was also my take home vehicle. It was a problem free vehicle. Had nice ice cold air t-boot.

 

[Andrew1972]

My college roommate had a Pontiac 6000 Diesel I presume a rare bird also.

 

[SatinSilver]

What engine was in the STE? My favorite pick would be an '89 TA with 3.8 turbo from Buick. I think they only came in white.

 

[Jack Watts]

really cool! Ellensburg...thank goodness they had a garage.