Vintage Pontiac Pics

[StealthBird]

Not getting too far off the "original photos" theme, I just wanted to throw this one in, as it relates to the super rare engines poasted a few pages ago.

This is an all aluminum 389. Aluminum block, heads, intake, water pump, exhaust manifolds. Amazing how advanced, and how serious, Pontiac was in their 1962 racing campaign!

[StealthBird]

Brakes were always a point of criticism with the GM Musclecars. They had tremendous acceleration, but couldn't stop worth a darn. Pontiac was thinking about improving their brakes pretty early on for their new high performance car, the GTO.

In the summer of 1963, this 1964 GTO was delivered to Delco-Moraine for testing of disc brakes on GM intermediates (Skylark/Chevelle/Cutlass/Tempest), thus becoming the first A-Body with disc brakes.

[GTO_DON]

That picture confuses me as that looks like a 69-72 caliper and not the 1st design large 4 piston ones used on the early cars. looks like a newer shot of a goat...Keep the pictures coming as this and the day2 thread are my favorites!!!!

[StealthBird]

Don, here's the write-up. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[StealthBird]

I forgot this picture earlier when we were talking about Judge jackets. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

[old5.0]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: StealthBird</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not getting too far off the &quot;original photos&quot; theme, I just wanted to throw this one in, as it relates to the super rare engines poasted a few pages ago.

This is an all aluminum 389. Aluminum block, heads, intake, water pump, exhaust manifolds. Amazing how advanced, and how serious, Pontiac was in their 1962 racing campaign! </div></div>


Very cool engine, but let's hear more about the car it's living in.

[StealthBird]

A great &quot;Day 2&quot; picture, this was a Popular Hot Rodding test car, a 69 Judge Ram Air III. Doug's headers, some 5-slot aluminum rims, and a Weber clutch. The multi-part article ended with the installation of a RAIV engine (pictured). [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img]

[tjs44]

I found that alu engine back in 1964 at M/Ts shop.Finally was able to buy it and build it many years latter.Was in my 63 tempest wagon when I sold it.Tom

[Old Man Taylor]

Tenney just told me about this site. I will have to do some digging to see if I have any old pictures of my car. Unfortunately I don't have any of it when I got it, or when I got married in it. I didn't own a camera. This one was taken a few weeks ago when my granddaughter got married.

B/T/W, the blue and white one is not the one I purchased new. The original one is aquamarine, as seen in the picture. I built the blue and white one so I wouldn't keep breaking the original one.

[Keith Seymore]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Old Man Taylor</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Unfortunately I don't have any of it when I got it, or when I got married in it. I didn't own a camera. </div></div>

LOL, OMT -

That's always been my regret, too - that we didn't take more pictures back then. But, in our defense, it wasn't as easy then as it is now -

At any rate, here are a few from my growing up years:

Me, with my first car (...the red one...):



The Pontiac shown is a '63 Catalina; built as a Super Duty car, it was converted over the counter to an HO configuration (tripower and hydraulic lifters) so that we could run the &quot;higher&quot; classes (B/Stock, B/FX) while the Swiss Cheese cars covered the others. It was built with the aluminum front package (hood, fenders, bumper) and aluminum decklid. It also was one of the first 1963 cars to have the Bobcat appearance package, with silver highlights on the grille filler panel, down the side and the vertical surface of the trunklid. Sadly, this is the only still photo I have of this car.

Goin' racin' -



The '64 shown above was the first GTO in the twelves, at least here locally.


Our '64 on display at the Michigan State Fair, fall of 1964:



Typical Sunday afternoon:



Rain on raceday - Lapeer International Dragway, 1968:



Me, doing my first engine teardown (a '69 GMC straight six), while the GTO sleeps behind me:



Goin' racin again:



The '64 Lemans was a factory mule car, purchased from the GM Milford Proving Ground. It came equipped with a 421 cubic inch engine (and close ratio 4 speed) and was actually quicker than our '64 GTO race car.


Lastly, this is not a &quot;vintage&quot; shot, but it is a &quot;vintage motif&quot;. Here's how the GTO looks today: