#WhoeverLikesBumperLightPonchosBait

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 08/26/2014 at 10:18 • Filed to: None

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A category that includes me, possibly Crowmolly, and I'm not sure who else.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:19

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I'll take it

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:20

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MOI.

JE LIKINGS.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux 08/26/2014 at 10:21

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http://www.coliseumautosales.ca/used/Pontiac/1…

Surprisingly not crushingly spendy right now.

GhostZ > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:21

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Old pontiac steel is best GM steel. This is definitely guilty pleasure bait for me.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:23

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not bad for a big boat like that. It is one of my life goals to own a big american convertible at some point in life. It is one of the few genres (that and crossovers) I haven't messed with

jlmounce > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:26

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Bring on the Poncho love!

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:34

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Yeah, but a 305 and a 'glide! That's probably dangerously slow out there today.

That aside, the car looks like a solid platform. Add a 455 and a Muncie/TKO/T56 Mag or something and go have a ball.

crowmolly > 505Turbeaux 08/26/2014 at 10:37

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A friend of mine inherited an old '64 Impala convertible from his grandfather. V8, powerglide. Powder blue with a white top. Needed a complete resto but the body panels were undamaged and only had light surface rust.

He sold it for $5k and didn't mention it to me until a week or two after it was already down the road.

I was furious.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 08/26/2014 at 10:38

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Exactly so, and that can be done on a budget and in stages. Or, if one is adventurous...

http://www.desertclassics.com/pontiac2a.html

DC has two Bonns and a Cat, and they're usually a bellwether of what something at a given condition goes for on the high side - say 10-15% more than *if* you can find it somewhere else.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:42

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Oh man, don't tempt me.

But I have to admit, if I were going to get a "big" Pontiac I'm partial to a '71 GP SJ. Just to build an absolute tire shredder.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 08/26/2014 at 10:46

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My perverse and out there Poncho is the '73 LeMans SC, though I have to say the front bumper would have to go, and possibly swapping some of the other front metalwork as well. It mystifies me how they missed the mark on the nose that much and got the rear sheetmetal so *perfect*.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 10:52

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Yeah, I'm not sure if they were just anticipating the "battleship bumpers" that most of GM got in 1974 or what, but that's obviously just tacked on there.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 08/26/2014 at 11:02

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Well, '73 was the swap to pedestrian/5 mph bumpers in front, and '74 was the swap in back, I think for everybody. Some '73 front bumpers from some manufacturers, I think they filed for extension on or otherwise finagled, but the actual compliance year I think was '73. You can see it on the Vette - they deleted the blade up front in '73, but didn't kill the boat tail until '74. '73 is also the last year for the classic Land Rover in the US, since they had a big enough bumper in front the whole time, but fuck all in the way of a rear bumper.

I wonder if it would be possible to hybridize a '72 fascia, hood, and front bumper...

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/26/2014 at 11:13

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You could still get a '73 Camaro RS with basically no front bumper. I guess that was probably one of the special cases. A-bodies like the Lemans and Chevelle got the big suckers. Same with the Novas.

I know with a '73-'74 Nova you can do a "bumper tuck" to make it less ridiculous and some people even do front end sheetmetal swaps. But I don't know about the A-body cars. I think a bumper tuck and removal of the push bars might be a good start. Maybe even body color instead of chrome.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly 08/26/2014 at 11:19

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I think you saw what I'm doing with my Ranchero - recutting for '71-'72 Mustang blades instead of the factory slabs. The '60/'61 Falcon front bumpers look nice but have a giant "LOOK AT ME I'M FOR A LICENSE PLATE" chunk in the middle, and the '62/'63 ones (what I have) are just a giant chrome board with lights in it. Feh.