Customs Pontiac called poncho

I'm new to the world of pontiacs, I just got a 1950 pontiac pictures in my profile if intersted. I was looking to find out why they are call poncho How did this saying came about? don,t beat me up too bad Joe

 

I'm no expert, but it seems pretty clear cut to me...

How did a Chevrolet come to be called a Chevy? Or a Mercury a Merc? Just common slang....

 

I don't remember who or exactly when, but somebody well known in drag racing circles had a car lettered "Passionate Poncho". This was around 1960 or 1961 as I recall. I nicknamed my '61 Vista hardtop "The Passionate Poncho", but the name was not original. Hope this helps.

 

Because Poncho Villa drove one to the Alamo! Shees don't they lurn pepul nuthin in scuuls no more.

 

i dont care who ya are, thats funny

 

Pontiacs have been Ponchos since way early 50s...it's from Pontiac - just like we used to call Buicks "Pubics" or "yooks", Studebakers were "Studes", "Bakers", or even you were having trouble, it was with your Stupiditybaker or Stupidbaker. You could probably create a two-page treatise on affectionate or derogatory derivatives of the original car names that have been used over the years....who doesn't know where DOOZY comes from?

dj

 

Passionate Poncho was a Pontiac that Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick drag raced.

 

Arnie Beswick

 

Where does this quote come from? "Is that a real poncho, or a Sears poncho?"

No prize.

 

Pretty sure it came about because of the Indian Head that was used by Pontiac. An old Mexican freind of mine told me back in the 60's that they used to call the local Indians Poncho as versus the Mexican's who were Pancho

 

She had a Camarillo Brillo

 

i don't how it started but that's what i call them.

 

My neighbor is a Pontiac nerd. He says from Chief Pontiac (Mascot, emblem, etc.)

 

Thanks, Axle, I knew I remembered it from somewhere!

 

Ponchos have been that forever! I've always heard Buicks called "Bufords".

 

In the '60s and '70s, they called Pontiac GTOs "goats".

 

A common term for Pontiacs made in the '90s was "Trade In".

 

wtf..buford is a ford with a nailhead

 

In the song, "Little GTO" by Ronnie and the Daytonas, the car is described as a "little modified Pon Pon." Must have been a regional term. If anyone, when I was a kid, would have called his car a "PonPon", we woulda kicked him in the nuts. Pon Pon!?!?!

 

LOL

Another common term for them in the 90's was "Rental"

 

i was taught pontiac was a indian/native, tribe/clan/whatever michigan (pre-michigan) thing. hence the pontiac name for the car company. then the poncho slang, poncho also being native american. isnt the poncho a native derived piece of clothing?

 

The Pontiac name was first used in 1906 by the Pontiac Spring & Wagon Works and linked to Chief Pontiac who led an unsuccessful uprising against the British shortly after the French and Indian War.

 

There was a famous slogan that Pontiac had back in the early 80's but i changed it and put it on my custom license plate frame back then. It said "Pontiac, we BUILT excitement"

 

Pontiac motor division originally started as "Oakland" and changed their name in 1926/27

 

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PONCHO Service department slogan, was said to be very very old,
IDK how true it is or what came first, the nick name, or the acronym
this may hold just as much weight as the Poncho Villa theory
Who knows where nick-names come from or why they stick.

 

I thought it was

Poor
Old
Nebbish
Thinks
It's
A
Cadillac.

BTW axle,
Pontiac was out 1st, the Oakland brand was a "value" brand/model for Pontiac, then got dropped.

 

" and every newt in Idaho"

Now who you jiving with that cosmic debris?

Swankey Devils C.C.

" Spending A Nation Into Generational Debt Is Not An Act Of Compassion! "

 

Zappa lyrics. I like it!

 

I always snicker a little when that line comes up in that song. Milner was right, rock and roll has been going down hill since Buddy Holly died.