1973 Pontiac Grand Am Dealership Sales Training Promotional Film ( Restored )

This 1973 Pontiac promotional film, titled " 1973 Pontiac Grand Am ", was sent to the Pontiac car dealerships to be used as an in-house Sales and customer training film. This film highlights technical aspects and features of the new model year. The film depicts a couple dressed in their 1970's best, awesomely funky outfits, participating in a rally race. The footage looks to be from the San Francisco Bay Area, maybe highway 1. If anyone can confirm the locations, I would love to add it to the description.

Thank you, Christopher Bostwick!!!
Christopher note, these all look to be Northwest Michigan (lower peninsula) locations, probably around the M22/Leelanau area. I think the start of the rallye is at one of the Boyne ski resorts. The boat launch ramp scene starting at 3:08 is at The public launch ramp at Northport, MI. “The Depot” is still there today. My grandfather was a producer/director for GM Photographic. I’m not sure if he was involved in this one but one of proud accomplishments was the 1969 Pontiac Great Breakaway promotional film for dealers.

If you look up a different film I posted, titled "1974 Chevy Selling Monte Carlo ", you can see a rare glimpse of the film cartridge viewer that was used at the dealership where the customers and personnel were to view these films. The machine was made by Technicolor and called the " Chevrolet Mini Theater System "

This film came from my personal collection. This film was not downloaded from any website and is not reused content. This restoration is my work. The restoration process started with removing the super8 film from the Technicolor Cartridge. After removal the film was cleaned, repaired, and spooled onto a standard film reel. This film has scratches and dust marks along some color fade. The scanning to digital process and basic color correction was performed on the Lasergraphics Scanstation motion picture film scanner system in 2k resolution. Excess film grain noise was removed and the images upscaled to 4K resolution utilizing Topaz AI software. Then in 4K, color restoration was performed in Davinci Resolve. Advanced noise removal was performed using NeatVideo. Then a second and final color restoration and Image sharpening in DaVinci Resolve. Finally, the film was downscaled back to 2k for uploading to YouTube. As I work on these films, I try to improve the process as I go along. Thanks for watching.