Fanny, My buddy has a '57 Pontiac Laurentian. It is a Chevy in disguise. Built on Chev frame, uses Chev 283/powerglide powertrain, and parts interchange easily. My '57 Pontiac Star Chief Safari wagon is US built, so shares the same frame as Olds and Buick. In the US, Pontiac had their own engines (mine was 347 - predecessor to the 389/400/421/455, and a hydramatic 4 speed automatic. It is wider by 2" and longer by 7" than the Canadian cars. Similar comparisons for cars made up to early 70's I believe. I'm unsure of the exact cut off. Pontiac Canada had some unique cars that you did not see in the US, like '58 to 60's with Chev 348 engines, early 60's with 409's, later 60's with 427's. And no wide-track in Canada like the US got in '59, so the Canadian cars of late 50's and early 60's looked a lot different with narrower frames under cars that looked like their US counterparts, but were not as wide. Still the wheels appeared to sit in further than they appeared on their Chev brethren. Beaumont's were a head-shaker for US folks. I drove my hardtop to Great Falls, MT in the late 60's and people asked me why I'd put Pontiac stuff on a Chev. It was my experience that the Canadian Pontiac versions like the Beaumont, Acadian and Canso (Chevy II equivalent) had more chrome and the interiors had very nice, and unique, upholstery. Now I need to go plead for mercy from the guy crew.
Us guys don't kick other guys out of the Guy Thingie Club, we just tease and insult the hell out of them for awhile until another guy messes up then we pick on him. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima It's a guy thing.
Well, fanny, I've been kinda busy since I posted that response mg::sorry::Blasting_anim: if you get my drift.
I broke the guy code thingy.............now I'm probably going to get knocked back to level 17 and have to earn my way back up the guy ladder.
