Someone ask about big Pontiacs and staight axles. Not straight but close. Still working on it. Just traded the single turbo for a pair of twins so I will be fabing up a twin system and selling the single turbo headers. Nothing is really nostalgic here, more what I've always wanted to build with an early Pontiac full size. Mark L
I would lose the black primer. Paint the body red or put it in grey primer, and you're right, the wheels have to go. For what you could sell those for you could get some stock steelies and paint them for a clean Super Stock look. Nice car though, and it looks like your on the way to something very cool, err, i mean, Rad
That's a AMT 1/25 scale model build I found on the net... Kinda cool ain't it??? The man that built it does some fantastic work on those models... I'll have to find his website and post it on "model car sunday"...
How the hell does a straight axle and a pair of fuckin' "hair dryers" go together, let alone make on the H.A.M.B.????????? If that isn't that an "oxy-MORON"! I'm a hard core Pontiac person (had a '62 Grand Prix in fact) but this is just WRONG! To the O.P., you sir have a nice car. The other guy needs to see a shrink!
I've had a thing for those Cats since the day they showed up on the showroom floor. I worked on a ton of them when I worked in a Pontiac dealership in the early 70's too. Wide whites are all wrong for that car and putting a straight axle would take it from being a great car that you drive a lot and enjoy a hell of a lot to being a poser car that gets driven down to the local cruise night and back once a week and left in the garage the rest of the time because it was such a pain in the butt to drive. One thing you never see is a thread or article by a guy telling how he drove his jacked up straight axle 60 something coast to coast while hitting the cool scenic spots and rod trots. You might see one on a trailer behind a late model diesel dualie being towed to a far off event though.
That's one hell of a car you've got there, I love it when someone builds up one of the "other" models right. It's amazing how much difference the right wheels can make, not a fan of the red though. I'd like to see them gloss black with some dog dish caps, then call it done and drive the wheels off of it.
I like both sets of wheels. One for the strip and one to cruise with, although i think the red wheels look is getting played out to a point.
Hell yeah! That looks a lot better. I run Firestone Deluxe Champions daily here in Jersey on my 54 Ford.. love em and they look perfect. Great looking car ya got and even better seeing it get used.
I really like the staggered look i got even though i get alotta crap for mixing bias and radial tires
I want to build a lowered one but with hydros and spoked daytons a really old school 1962 pontiac lowrider
Are you building a lowrider or Super Duty clone? I like the way it looks now except for the paint/color of the wheels. Black steel wheels...and the rest of the car red
It's lookin good, i like the red wheels since it gives some contrast, black wheels get lost against the body. I'd drop the rear a couple inches, too much open area between the tires and quarters. Tri power is ok for a 60s street car.
My first car was a 60' catalina and they never do get out of your blood. Your car is bitchin, love it.
no hydros leaking all over whats left of my driveway. just so you can go down the road looking like you have a broken spring.
NICE car man! I love the early 60's GM cars. Really diggin' the all business look with the steelies too. Personally not crazy about the red, but they certainly don't look bad! Aside from painted steel wheels, the only other i'd run on that car would be chrome steel's..either one has the no bullshit look to them, much like the car. Nice job. Tony
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