Pontiac Cars
Pictures of Pontiac cars from car shows, car museums and classic car auctions across the U.S.
1969 Pontiac Trans Am Coupe
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 1999 Pontiac Trans Am Custom Show Car | 1999 Pontiac Trans Am Custom Show Car 1999 Pontiac Trans Am Custom Show Car Cops and Rodders Car Show March 20, 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson by Douglas |
 1962 Pontiac 421 Super Duty Catalina | 1962 Pontiac 421 Super Duty Catalina 1962 Pontiac 421 Super Duty Catalina This rare factory light-weight car included: Aluminum Hood Aluminum Inner and Outer Fenders Aluminum Front and Rear Bumpers Special Channel Frame Super Duty 421 cid, 405 hp engine Fewer than 200 of these cars were built in 1962. This is the Ted Ware Pontiac Catalina that was drag raced in the New England area in the early sixties. Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson Location: Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum in Sevierville, Tennessee. by Douglas |
 1977 Pontiac Trans Am - Smokey and the Bandit Movie Car | 1977 Pontiac Trans Am - Smokey and the Bandit Movie Car 1977 Pontiac Trans Am - Smokey and the Bandit Movie Car Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson Location: Star Cars Museum, Gatlinburg, Tennessee by Douglas |
 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible | 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible 23,500.00 USD Offered For Sale at the: Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction January, 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona Barrett-Jackson Auction Company 7400 E Monte Cristo Ave Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: 480-421-6694 Facsimile: 480-421-6697 Website: www.barrett-jackson.com 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible 23,500 LotNumber 1522 A beautiful convertible with bucket seats and console option. It has a custom made side trim and BOSS wheels. It has a 389 Pontiac V8 engine with a Hydro-matic transmission and power steering. This is a great driving and good looking car with a Clarion CD player. It is ready to drive or show anywhere. This car would be very expensive to duplicate. by Douglas |
 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix NASCAR Winson Cup Stock Car | 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix NASCAR Winson Cup Stock Car 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix NASCAR Winson Cup Stock Car Engine: 358 cid V-8, 650 hp @ 8,000 rpm Frame: Petty Enterprises Surface: Pontiac Sheet Metal Weight: 3,500 lbs Fuel Tank: 22 Gallon Driver: Richard Petty Chief Mechanic: Dale Inman This 1992 STP Racing Pontiac Grand Prix, originally built at Petty Enterprises, Level Cross, North Carolina, in 1990, is the first NASCAR Winston Cup stock car in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum collection. The car was designed for and raced on "short track" (one mile or less) ovals by Richard Petty in 1991 and 1992. Body revision were made in the fall of 1991 to accommodate 1992 model year style changes. This car was last raced by Richard Petty, NASCAR's all-time winningest driver with 200 career victories, at Bristol International Raceway on August 29, 1992. It was Petty's final year of competition, known as the Richard Petty Fan Appreciation Tour. Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hall of Fame Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana by Douglas |
 1953 PONTIAC CHIEFTAIN CONVERTIBLE | 1953 PONTIAC CHIEFTAIN CONVERTIBLE 32,400.00 USD Offered For Sale at the: Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction January, 2006, Scottsdale, Arizona Barrett-Jackson Auction Company 7400 E Monte Cristo Ave Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: 480-421-6694 Facsimile: 480-421-6697 Website: www.barrett-jackson.com 1953 PONTIAC CHIEFTAIN CONVERTIBLE SOLD FOR $32,400 Color: RED/WHITE Transmission: AUTO Cylinders: 8 Brilliant Santa Fe red exterior, white convertible top, and optional fender skirts. Red leather interior. Straight 8, automatic transmission. Working AM radio and power top. Almost everything is new: top, interior, carpet, front and rear bumpers, tires, front brakes. Engine just rebuilt. Transmission just rebuilt. Even the Indian head hood ornament lights up perfectly. No visable rust throughout. Very nice car. This car has undergone a sympathetic 10 year restoration, but unfortunately the owner's heath failed before completing it. The car is complete except for a few parts: it is missing the antenna, passenger side mirror, glove box lines and spare tire. by Douglas |
 1995 Pontiac Firebird - Red | 1995 Pontiac Firebird - Red 1995 Pontiac Firebird - Red Cops and Rodders Car Show March 20, 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson by Douglas |
 1970 Pontiac GTO 455 Coupe | 1970 Pontiac GTO 455 Coupe 1970 Pontiac GTO 455 Coupe Cops and Rodders Car Show March 20, 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson by Douglas |
 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Hardtop | 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Hardtop 87,000.00 USD Offered For Sale at the: Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction January, 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona Barrett-Jackson Auction Company 7400 E Monte Cristo Ave Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Phone: 480-421-6694 Facsimile: 480-421-6697 Website: www.barrett-jackson.com 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Hardtop 87,000 LotNumber 1363 Carousel Red, "WS" Code 400/366hp Ram Air III with a M20 4-speed, 3.55 rear, power steering, power disc brakes, AM/FM, remote control LH mirror, deluxe seat belts, hood tachometer, console, Rally gauge cluster with clock, Soft Ray glass on all windows and the Judge package consisting of: 400 Ram Air III, 4-barrel engine, Rally II type wheels, ride & handling package, hood Ram Air inlet - cable controlled, blacked-out grille, air foil, identification decals and vinyl striping. Numbers matching with PHS documentation and original Build Sheet. by Douglas |
 1964 Pontiac GTO Coupe | 1964 Pontiac GTO Coupe 1964 Pontiac GTO Coupe Cops and Rodders Car Show March 20, 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia Photo By: Douglas Wilkinson by Douglas |
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Pontiac History
Pontiac Motor Division
General Motors Corp.
Pontiac, Michigan 48053
Website: www.pontiac.com
The Pontiac named was first used on an automobile in 1926 by the Oakland Motor Car Company, a division of General Motors. In 1932, the Oakland Division was closed and the Pontiac Division was established.
In 1926, the Oakland Motor Car Company, a division of General Motors, introduced their new line of cars named the Pontiac Six as a lower-priced model. The Pontiac was offered in two body types, a five-passenger coach and a two-passenger coupe. The new Pontiac was a success with sales of over 140,000 cars its first year.
The Pontiacs for 1930 were virtually unchanged from the previous year. Prices ranged from $665 to $785.
The 1931 Pontiac Six again remained little changed from the 1929 version. However, the wheel base was increased two inches to 112 inches.
Pontiac became a division of General Motors in 1932. Sales at Oakland had continued to fall and GM closed the Oakland division. Production of the Pontiac was moved to the Chevrolet plant to reduce manufacturing costs by sharing of bodies, chassis, and other major components. At the same time Alfred P. Sloan, GM President, merged the sales operations of Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac requiring dealers to sale all three brands. This continued into 1933.
The rough-running Oakland V-8 became the 117-inch wheelbase Pontiac but still had trouble finding buyers. The Pontiac Six, now with a 114-inch chassis, out-sold the V-8 by a six-to-one margin.
By 1933, Pontiac had started rebounding from the Depression-related drops in sales and built more than 90,000. The well-liked, more streamlined designs of the 1933 Pontiacs were done by the Pontiac Division design chief, Franklin Q. Hershey.
The wheelbase was again increased in 1933, this time to 115-inches. The big news for 33 though was the introduction of an all-new 77-horsepower straight-8 designed by Benjamin Anibal, the Chief Engineer at Pontiac. The new motor was smaller and much smoother than the Oakland eight-cylinder engine it replaced.
The 1934 straight-eight engine featured an increase in horsepower to 84, up from the 77-hp 1933 version. The wheelbase was increased to 117.5 inches and featured a notable innovation in GM's "Knee-Action" independent front suspension.
Though Pontiac and Chevrolet shared many parts, chief designer, Franklin Q. Hershey, convinced the legendary GM styling director, Harley Earl, of the need for more-streamlined Pontiacs, and designed a Bentley-type radiator and skirted front fenders and horizontal "speed streaks" for the 1934 cars.
Also new for 1934 were "trunkback" sedans with built-in, closed luggage space to replace the trunk racks on the rear of the car. This was the forerunner of what we Americans now know as the "trunk" on all of our cars.
After two years for just building eight-cylinder cars, Pontiac reinstated six-cylinder models in 1935. With 208 cubic inches of displacement, the "new" six was actually a bigger-bore version of their old 200-cid six. This larger six produced 80 horsepower, only 4 fewer that the eight-cylinder motor.
Standard Sixes cost about $100 less than comparable Eights, a lot of money in those days, and for the rest of the decade would outsell the Eights by a wide margin.
Chassis changes included a wheelbase shorten to 116.6 inches for the eight-cylinder models. GM's new "Turret Top" construction elimanated traditional fabric roof inserts.
The 1953 Pontiacs also had completely new bodies. The styling was of the rounded "potato" school. Pontiac added distinction with their "Silver Streak" trim, bright-metal bands running forward from the cowl, over the hood, and down the front of the radiator. These changes have been variously credited to Hershey, "Big Bill" Knudsen, and a young designer named Virgil Exner, who would become known for his work with Studebaker and Chrysler.
The Pontiac straight-eight engine for 1936 was rebored to 232 cid and produced 87 horsepower, up from the 84-hp of the previous year.
The design and appearance of the 1936 Pontiac cars were little changed from the previous year.
Sales at Pontiac reached over 200,000 units again for the first time since 1928 in 1937.
For 1937, Pontiac issued new styling for a trimmer line of DeLuxe Sixes and Eights on the General Motors "B" body. Whellbases were lengthened five inches on the Sixes and six inches on the Eights, giving better proportions, and a racy reshaped nose, some would say similiar to the Auburn Speedster, but with vertical streaks overlaying a larger wrapped radiator.
The Anibal-designed straight-eight engine was further enlarged to a 249 cubic-inch-displacement. This highly reliable motor would continue to be used, basically unchanged, through 1949. Changes in the bore and stroke of the six-cylinder engine increased the displacement to 222.7 cubic inches and the horepower to 85. This revamped six would be used through 1940.
Pontiac sales tumbled to 97,000 in 1938 after making selling over 200,000 cars in 1937.
The new models received little more than a minor facelift with a new barrellike radiator with thick horizontal bars and vertical instead of horizontal hood vents. A four-door station wagon was added to the DeLuxe Six series.
The 1939 Pontiacs received new styling with wider "ponton" fenders, reduced overall height, larger glass area, and smaller pod-style headlamps well inboard of the front-fender crowns. The radiator featured four groups of horizontal chrome bands overlaid with Silver Streaks.
Four-door convertibles and rumble-seat styles were removed from the 1939 lineup.
A new series was added for 1939, the Quality Six, to join the DeLuxe Six and DeLuxe Eight. The new series featured a 115-inch wheelbase and was priced from $760 to $990 range.
Sales for 1939 improved to over 144,000 cars thanks to the improving US economy.
For 1940, Pontiac offered four series: Special and DeLuxe Sixes and DeLuxe and Torpedo Eights. All the series had a newly designed front with painted prow, still Silver Steaked, dividing a lower-profile horizontal bar grille. The front fenders were wider and had fully intergrated sealed-beam headlights. Sales improved to 217,000 cars for the model year.
In 1961, Motor Trend magazine awarded the title of "Car of the Year" to the Pontiac Tempest, designed by John Delorean. One of the innovations was a rear-mounted transmission that improved weight balance and minimized the "hump" for the transmission and driveshaft.
