My first car was a '55 Pontiac dark blue 2 door post with a 261 automatic. I made a "Y" at Beal to split the exhaust, chrome reverse rims. It was a good car.
i had some pontiac's in the way back when days starting with a 49 torpedo back for a winter beater, guessing in 66-67. had a lot of romantic fun in that car. funny what you remember about some things eh, lol. i think it was a 50 buck car plus the 25 dollar hit me insurance. the next memorable one was actually a nice 56 that i took to the strawberry field festival in mosport with some friends aboard in 1970. a 100 bucks if i remember right.
a real memorable one was this one and i can't remember what i paid for it but it was in 72.
there were a couple of more but this is back when we were going through cars. the last one was a 60 4 door h/t parisenne with the lip over the back window. it was in rough frame and body shape but it ran and all the trim was there in reasonably good shape. that would of been about 2002-03, paid 150 bucks and sold it to a pontiac guy for 400 2 or 3 months later as he wanted it for the trim and original power train.
yea i had some pontiacs and some more memorable than others, they were definitely a classy car but not much get up and go until the 61 389 car. thanks for the morning memory test wagu. lol
p.s. you could make this topic, "classic oldies we use to have" into a old-timers memory test. lmao
I had a 1970 pontiac strato chief 2 dr hdtop blaco black with 350 sbc and 3 spd std . Canajun version built on Chev frame . It was 4202 lbs with fuel and me in it . It would go 88 mph at 16.66 at Cayuga . It had a horrible on the floor shifter . Ground second every time if you tried to shift fast . It would start to just float the valves a bit at about 5400 rpm . and that was about 50 ft from the finish line and if you shifted to third times would actualyy drop a bit . So I,d just leave it in second ha ha . Originally a 2 bl it had a garbage edlebrock intake and eddy carb on it and chrome rocker cover an a stock hei dist . Motor had never been apart
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I,m as cool as Milner , but axeually a bit more like Beckwith
i used to have 3 at the same time, 58 pontiac, 2 laurentian one pathfinder althrough i had plans was to finish one still have parts left over ....i drive a 2007 pontiac suv
