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Any Pontiac Fans here???

When I was in High School in Tillsonburg, Ontario, I bought a 1959 Pontiac Catalina 2- door post sedan from a friend. This was a U.S.- built WideTrack car, and was a rarity, here, where Canadian Pontiacs were a modified Catalina body on a narrow track Chev chassis. I had worked all summer in tobacco harvest, and paid $500.00 for my Catalina in 1965. It was equipped with the 345/389, with TriPower and 3-on-the-tree. I could not keep clutches in it, and converted it to a 4-speed Hydramatic. It was a big car, but had big power. I likely should have kept this car, but it was just a Pontiac, not a Packard or Duesenberg.
 
I'll never forget watching a new 1970 Trans Am running an autocross at Penn State back in the day. Beautiful car, and the handling was pretty amazing. Then a local redneck kid in a 340 Duster beat the time. That guy could really drive.
 
A friend had a 68 Firebird 400/4 Speed. Manual brakes and steering. Copper color w/Black Vinyl top.


JesusChrysler. Don’t know why we are alive. I’d love to own that car today. A beautiful beast.
 
When my 69 Chevelle SS 4-speed was totalled by a friend backing into me the last week of high school (it was an $800 car), I immediately bought a 68 LeMans 4-speed for $800 so I could make it to the graduation parties. I would love to have a 68 or 69 LeMans or GTO to relive those days.

Here's a 69 GTO convertible 4-speed on BaT today, current bid is $26,500. I would buy it for that but with just over 3 hours left I think it has a ways to go. Also, it's in New Jersey which is not local to me. Local to me is this side of Dallas, TX.

1969 Pontiac GTO Convertible 4-Speed

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Edit: It bumped up to $27,500 while I was posting this.
 
My Sr high school car was a 1966 GTO. I bought for $200. It had a decent side dent in pass rear quarter panel. At a time those were tougher to repair. Especially by a poorer city kid. The clutch was crappy so replaced the diaphragm with a Borg & Beck 3 finger style (I believe a Mcleod) I then replace the choked up Carter carb and stock intake manifold with a used Eddy RPM and a rebuilt Holley 650 spread bore. And that car awoke. It was a holy terror to the rich kids late 70s early 80s Trams Ams and Cameros. I don't remember losing too many races.

I've posted before. I believe Plymouth and Pontiac carried their parent companies thru what I considered the greatest performance wars in US automotive history. The 1960s.

And what was the thanks they got?

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PlymCrazy said:
Dad bought a Trans Am new in 1979.
301, automatic car. I was about 5 years old. That’s dad on the right.

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Before that dad had a ‘67 Catalina with a 389. I was about 3 or 4 years old in this picture.

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And my DD is an ‘09 G6. Doing a little fender bender repair after a deer ran into the side of it.

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I hope everyone is boning up on this post..... a future quiz might be hidden amongst these pictures..... :lol:
 
kiwigtx said:
I hope everyone is boning up on this post..... a future quiz might be hidden amongst these pictures..... :lol:
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You mean like which American car marque had the very best looking rear spoiler?
 
I've had a few Pontiacs.

'68 Firebird with the sprint six and the three speed on the floor. - Sold it to put a roof on my first house.

'79 Trans Am with the anemic 301 with a four speed. - I traded it for a Ford 4 X 4.

'77 Trans Am with a dead Pontiac 400, it had a very clean body. - I sold it and bought a '72 Charger.

1960 Pontiac Star Chief four door - I paid $300 (in 1983?) for it and the 389 ran perfectly, the owner was selling it as a Demo car.

This was my early 80's party car.

I eventually sold it to a guy that had bought one just like it new in 1960 but wrecked it about a year later in 1961.

He fixed it up with new paint and interior and kept it until somebody decided to remove most of his head with a 12 gauge shotgun.

I lost track of the car after that.

I would love to have another 77 or 78 Trans am, maybe even a '79, but everybody seems to want E-body convertible money for them now.

I guess I'll stick with my 68-72 Charger projects...
 
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While we weren’t looking, cars from other manufacturers spiked up like our 1972 and older cars did.
I had a 76 Camaro that I sold for $3000 in 2003. Today, while it isn’t in the sweet spot of the musclecar era, would still bring four times that. I had an ‘84 Chevy 1/2 ton that truck guys are going bonkers for today.
Thanks Ams and Z28s rose in value for a good reason. They were still decent performers even as the market changed and the competitors faded away. There were no 1978 Barracudas or E body Challengers. The Mustang was a rebodied Pinto. The AMX and Javelin were gone. Nobody dreams of a 78 Aspen R/T except the guy that is tired of walking.
 
There's a lot of Pontiacs I crave. a G8 GXP 6 speed. A 2002 black Firehawk 6 speed. A '73 Trans Am SD 4 speed. Third gen GTOs, especially the '72 Judge. 3 Grand Am's still waitngi their turn to be restored.
 
This has been with the roadrunner for the last couple years. Got it in boxes. Lots of boxes. Numbers car with factory air. 70/Formula.

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Sometimes the Formula model was a better choice. The Trans Am sometimes looked a bit gaudy.
A magazine article writer that did a road test once said....Driving the Trans Am around is sort of like hanging around with Andrew Dice Clay. It might be a lot of fun but sometimes you find yourself apologizing for it.
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I think the G8 V-8 cars were the "sleepers" of their time. 4-door Aussie-built with a 365 h.p. LS motor in it. Kinda like the Charger R/T of its time. I talked a younger guy that I worked with into buying a used one, and then I had to show him how to do turnouts with it. It's nice to be a mentor with experience to show the newer guys useful skills! LOL
He later sold it, saying it got poor gas mileage (compared to the Mazda he was used to driving). Then, he missed the fun he had with it, and bought another one.
 
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