By on November 21, 2016

2001 Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 Edition in Colorado wrecking yard, LH front view - ©2016 Murilee Martin - The Truth About Cars

General Motors created quite a few NASCAR-themed special-edition W-bodies during the first decade of our current century, complete with plenty of plastic cladding and racy-looking decals. Ordinary W-bodies clog up every junkyard in the country, and so it takes something special for me to deploy my camera on a W.

This very-rare-but-not-so-valuable Grand Prix Daytona 500 Edition showed up in a Denver-area yard, and I photographed it last week. (Read More…)

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