{"id":39853,"date":"2023-01-08T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39853"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:03:45","slug":"junkyard-gem-2007-pontiac-g6-gt-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39853","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 2007 Pontiac G6 GT Convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"

GM’s<\/a> Pontiac Division sold its first convertibles<\/a> during the 1927 model year (just a year after the division’s creation), then proceeded<\/a> to offer<\/a> memorable drop-tops<\/a> for most<\/a> of the following<\/a> 83 years. The best-selling convertible to bear Pontiac<\/a> badges during our current century was the retractable-hardtop-equipped G6<\/a>, available from the G6’s introduction in 2006<\/a> through the second-to-last model year of 2009 (the Sunfire convertible<\/a> was available just through 2000, while the Firebird<\/a> convertible vanished with the demise of the slow-selling Firebird itself<\/a> after 2002). Here’s one of those G6 GT convertibles<\/a>, found in a Denver-region boneyard<\/a> after a crash ended its driving career.<\/p>\n

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Mashed right front, popped airbags<\/a>. This sort of damage might have been worth repairing<\/a> in 2009, but not today.<\/p>\n

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The 2007 G6 was available as a coupe, sedan, or convertible. All the convertibles had the GT trim level and the 3.5-liter V6 and its 224 horsepower.<\/p>\n

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The MSRP on this car was $28,750 (about $42,325 in 2022 dollars), making it the most expensive G6.<\/p>\n

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The power hardtop roof folded up into the trunk<\/a>, leaving 1.8 cubic feet of trunk storage space with the top down.<\/p>\n

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This Karmann-designed roof system made the interior much quieter than that of a traditional soft-top convertible.<\/p>\n

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All G6s were built at Orion Assembly in Michigan, where Chevy<\/a> Bolts are born today.<\/p>\n

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The G6 was built through the 2010 model year<\/a>, making it one of the very last Pontiac models (the Vibe<\/a> also made it to 2010, though it was really a Toyota Matrix<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

In hindsight<\/a>, 2007 turned out to be an ominous year<\/a> for GM.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM’s Pontiac Division sold its first convertibles during the 1927 model year (just a year after the division’s creation), then proceeded to offer memorable drop-tops for most of the following 83 years. The best-selling convertible to bear Pontiac badges during our current century was the retractable-hardtop-equipped G6, available from the G6’s introduction in 2006 through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}