1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible, Bucket Seats, Manual Transmission Restored on 2040-cars

1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible

Tri-Power, Three on the Tree & 45 RPM Record Player

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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 and we suggest that you bid with confidence on this car.

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