1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible, Bucket Seats, Manual Transmission Restored on 2040-cars
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1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible Tri-Power, Three on the Tree & 45 RPM Record Player Click on the arrow in the picture below to see video that
includes more photos. Double click on the arrow below to go to full screen. 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible
Before we tell you about this fabulous 1958 Pontiac
Bonneville convertible with bucket seats and tri-power a little history might
be in order.
After World War II Harley Earl started revamping each
division at General Motors using the Motorama cars as styling cues for each
division. As most people know he
started with Buick, then Cadillac and then Oldsmobile’s and Chevrolet to bring
these cars out of the pre-war design and into the fabulous post war Motorama
design for production cars. The
last one to get the treatment was Pontiac. For this division he put Bunkie Knudsen in charge to get Pontiac
on a roll. Bunkie Knudsen became a
vice-president of the company and general manager of Pontiac Division in 1956
and by 1957 his first major advanced car was the 1957 Pontiac Bonneville. This was followed in 1958 by his coup d'?tat his 1958 Pontiac Bonneville. Knudsen wanted this car to have everything that a dream
car/concept car could have but he wanted it in a production car and the
Bonneville got the treatment.
First of all, one of the most exquisite shell designs of the 1950s was
the 1958 Pontiac. To top this off
of course he picked out a convertible 1958 Pontiac Bonneville, then gave it
bucket seats, tri-power, lots of extra chrome trim, flipper hubcaps, passenger
side grab bar, less we forget he even went so far as to give the rear seats two
buckets instead of a bench seat.
WOW, all this made the Pontiac Bonneville
convertible really become a leading GM Pontiac dream car only he put it in
production. He just couldn’t stop
at any detail so when it came to the carpeting he had special carpeting made
with silver thread woven through out the carpet to make even the carpeting
‘show standard’ like the Motorama for the production Pontiac
Bonneville.
The car in this ad could be one of the rarest of
rare Pontiac Bonneville’s for many reasons but the main reason being that this
Pontiac Bonneville is a stick car with the three speed on the column. A Pontiac with an automatic
transmission was a real barnstormer but with the three speed manual on the
column in 1958 you could lay a 50 foot strip of rubber and we believe you could
out drag any other production American car in 1958. We were told that there were less then a dozen 1958
Bonnevilles with stick manual transmission and we have heard of only another
two or three that still exist…talk about rare!
The car that you see before you is almost representative of
the Pontiac brochure that used a white car with red and white bucket seat
interior and a red insert on the side.
Yes you could get the brochure car with the red insert but most people
prefer the solid color Pontiac so that the lines were not divided up. The car that is in this ad belongs to a
widow and she was told by her husband that he was the second owner of the
car. Her husband purchased the car
in the early 1980s. The car was
fully restored several years ago and could probably use a little sprucing up to
bring it back to top show quality condition.
Just take a look at the pictures and you will know that this
car is just a great example of how Bunkie Knudsen brought Pontiac out of the
stodgy stage and made it a real power player. Take a look at the beautiful red carpet with the silver
threads woven into it and the powerful tri-power and three on the tree manual
transmission and the very rare 45 RPM record player under the dash, you will
have plenty of bragging rights when you drive it into the car shows.
The widow has told us that her husband owned this car for thirty
years and thoroughly enjoyed driving it to shows. She said he never hesitated to drive it anywhere and they
enjoyed going to many car shows where it certainly got serious respect. Her husband kept it very well
maintained and was always garaged.
As you can see from the photos it went to many car shows and was driven
in many parades, even with Ronald McDonald. It is definitely a car to take out and
show off. The
odometer reading was not available at the time of listing and Ebay requires
something so we posted 1,000 miles – we will post an update with the odometer
reading once the widow provides us with this information.
The reserve is priced under market but please don’t
ask. We know that this is the type
of car that everybody wants to talk about but we are asking that serious
bidders give us a call but we will answer all emails. Very seldom do you see such a very authentic and such a fine
example of a 1958 Pontiac Bonneville, usually when you do they have bench seats
or have been hacked around and put together with pieces. This is a
car that creates pride of ownership and is an unusually rare opportunity in the
collecting world to find one this good in such a fabulous color scheme.
In the opinion of MissChiTown if you take a look at the design
in 1958 of most cars and especially with the overly chromed burdened GM cars
from the Buick and Oldsmobile divisions you will realize that the design for
the 1958 Pontiac Bonneville was not only GMs best designed car for 1958 but
probably the best designed 1958 American car overall. It is just hard to fault a fantastic 1958 Pontiac Bonneville
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Junkyard Gem: 1987 Pontiac Firebird
Sat, May 9 2020From 1967 through 2002, the Pontiac Division offered the Firebird, close sibling to the Chevrolet Camaro. By the third generation, which debuted for the 1982 model year, it became more difficult to tell the two F-body cars apart at a glance and the Pontiac-exclusive engines of the earlier years disappeared, but the Firebird still retained its own personality and its own position in the GM marketing hierarchy. I still find the occasional 1982-1992 Camaro as I search car graveyards for interesting stuff, but the corresponding Firebirds have become scarce in recent years. Here's a base-engine-equipped '87, its Bright Red paint (yes, that was the official name for the color) faded by the Colorado sun as it awaits the crusher. Firebird shoppers had their choice of three engines in 1987: A 5.7-liter Chevy V8 (210 hp), a 5.0-liter Chevy V8 (205 hp) and the same 2.8-liter 60° V6 that went into the Fiero and countless front-drive GM sedans (135 hp). This car has the base engine. The third-gen F-body didn't weigh much (3,105 pounds for the '87 with six-banger, about what a 2020 Corolla weighs), so 135 horses was tolerable. Plenty of these cars got T-5 5-speed manual transmissions, but this one got the two-pedal setup. Camaro wheels, of course. Our Friend the Carburetor didn't disappear from new cars until the early 1990s in the United States, though electronic fuel injection had become very commonplace by 1987. Still, GM considered this car's EFI worth a door-handle brag. It's not worth fixing up a mashed six-cylinder third-gen Firebird, so we can see the route this car took to its final parking space. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. When you're about to be beaten to a pulp by catcalling, Olds-driving thugs, run to the Firebird! This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. So much big hair in these late-1980s Pontiac ads! Featured Gallery Junked 1987 Pontiac Firebird View 24 Photos Auto News Pontiac Automotive History Coupe Firebird pontiac firebird Junkyard Gems
Junkyard Gem: 1989 Pontiac Sunbird SE Coupe
Sat, Jun 11 2022General Motors built the fantastically successful J-Body cars starting at the dawn of the 1980s and continuing well into our current century, on five continents. The Pontiac Division's version of the J started out being called the J2000 and the 2000, then got the Sunbird name originally used on the Pontiac-ized Chevy Monza starting in 1983. Here's a once-slick-looking 1989 Sunbird SE Coupe, found at a Minneapolis-area boneyard way back in 2016. The best-known of all the J-Body cars, here, was the Chevrolet Cavalier, but Pontiac far outdid even the most blinged-up Cavalier Z24 when it came to elaborate taillights. Because this is Minnesota, the car is a patchwork of various layers of junkyard-obtained rusty body parts. One fender has TURBO badges from a Sunbird GT. The other side has the correct engine badges for this model. That engine is a 2.0-liter, single-overhead-cam straight-four from an engine family originally developed for the Opel Kadett D. This one was rated at 96 horsepower when new. This one has the automatic transmission, so it wouldn't have been very much fun to drive. Check out that cool parking brake handle, though! And, hey, is that a full can of Colorado Cool-Aid in the foot well? You'd think a proper Minnesota Pontiac would at least be full of Grain Belt cans. It appears that Higley Ford in Windom, Minn., had this car on the lot at some point. Windom is closer to Sioux Falls than to Minneapolis. This final mileage total looks good for a car living in Tinworm Country. Pontiac built this generation of Sunbird from the 1988 through 1994 model years, though it was really just a facelift of the first-generation cars. Starting in 1995, the Pontiac J-Body became the Sunfire, and production continued until the J platform itself got the axe in 2005. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. In the 90s, fun will become the exclusive province of the rich. To which the Sunbird driver replies, "Bullish!" Related Video: This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings.
Burt Reynolds' movie re-creations fetch $379,500 in Vegas
Wed, Oct 3 2018The recent death of Hollywood legend and automotive enthusiast Burt Reynolds helped drive up the value of four of his former cars from the 1970s and '80s, which sold last weekend at Barrett-Jackson's Las Vegas auction for a combined $379,500. Reynolds, who died Sept. 6 at age 82, had offered three Pontiac Trans Ams — two of them re-creations of the cars he drove in "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Hooper" and the third from 1984 used to promote his United States Football League team, the Tampa Bay Bandits. The fourth was a 1978 Chevrolet R30 pickup truck, styled like the one featured in "Cannonball Run." The "Bandit" re-creation, a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am that Reynolds ordered to be as "movie-correct" as possible but featuring a custom-built 200-4R automatic transmission, sold for $192,500. The car features a freshly built Pontiac 400 cubic-inch V8 mated to a four-speed automatic and featuring all-new Butler Performance parts and air-conditioning components. Reynolds reportedly said this was his favorite car from his films, and it even came with an authentic movie-correct CB radio and CB antenna. The red retro-rocket "Hooper" '78 Firebird, with a 403 cubic-inch V8 and a three-speed automatic, hammered for $88,000. By comparison, a gold 1978 Trans Am also offered at the Las Vegas auction but not connected to Reynolds fetched $27,500. The 1987 Chevy R30 pickup was a re-creation of the Indy Hauler pace truck seen jumping over a moving freight train in "Cannonball Run." It hammered for $49,500. The fourth car never appeared in any of Reynolds' films but is instead the only surviving example of two Trans Ams used to promote the Tampa Bay Bandits of the now-defunct USFL, having been driven out onto the field by Reynolds and his late friend and co-star, Jerry Reed, during opening day one season. It also sold for $49,500. At the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction in 2016, Reynolds accompanied a 1977 Trans Am used to promote "Bandit" onto the auction block. That car sold for $550,000. Related Video: Featured Gallery Burt Reynolds 2018 Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction Image Credit: Barrett-Jackson Celebrities Chevrolet Pontiac Truck Coupe Performance celebrity pontiac trans am pontiac firebird burt reynolds