Hey y'all Not new to wagons, but new to forum. Used to be a member of ISWC but was never able to get it together to get together. Some great people there. Anyway, For those of you who don't know me from Pontiacs, I have a 66 Bonneville wagon and a 63 Catalina Safari. Bonneville is Gold with black vinyl roof with a good number of options. 389 4bbl with 068 cam, TH400 with street/strip kit, A/C, 2.73 safe-t-track, 1 1/8" front sway bar and 3/4" rear bar, 8 lug wheels, factory AM/FM, Tilt wheel, Power bench seat. Guys out West would call this a canyon carver. Impossible to break this car loose in turns. '63 Safari is a 4 speed car. I converted from Slim-Jim. 389 4bbl 16k code with 068 cam, 3.08 rear Also about 90k original miles. Had a re-paint about 20 years ago I would guess. Very clean original car. Came from TX originally. AM/FM power bench seat, Factory tach., Gauge cluster, A/C, Rally II wheels. In process of converting to wide ratio trans. I will post Pics over in the other section. Can't wait to check out all the cars here!
fellow Poncho fan...can't wait to see your pictures! Hope your able to get it together here Enjoy the site.
'66 Bonneville was #1 on my wish list in my younger years - when a used one was pretty cheap, but I didn't even have 'pretty cheap' to spend.... One of these days..... Welcome to the forum.. Marshall
to the wagon train, dead. Holy crap! I want to SEE those cars! Big Time! Those are my kind of wagons.
Where'd my Pics Go? Hopefully someone can clue me in about posting Pics. I uploaded a bunch to the photo gallery and they have disappeared. I will try again & see what happens.
Thanks for the complements. It's like the institutional green we all grew up with in school. There are so many shades of green on that thing that is is just plain weird. The seat centers have a tire tread pattern in the vinyl. Will post some of the '66 tomorrow. Need to take a Pic of it with the skirts on. It is a far better driving car than the '63. People really can not grasp how well the '65-'66 big Pontiacs handle. Wagons take it one better with the better weight distribution. I have eaten Porsche 911 lunches in that car on some very challenging roads.
Those wagons are really nice! Whats the color name on the '63? Looks similar to the green/white my mom had on her '63 F85 Deluxe wagon. Maybe shared between Pontiac and Olds....I know hers was a "firemist" color.
Mike, Yes, factory tach. I bought and installed to factory specs. I took out the A/C vent & clock combo & replaced with the gauge cluster. For anyone else with one of these - Autometer is a direct swap, looks real close to original and you can actually find sending units to make them work! The color is Silverleaf green. There is a color called Seamist that was a Pontiac color for a different year and/or an interior color IIRC. I will have to look around in my stuff to see which. I think PO told me that was the color, but later found out the correct name. I believe it has got a base/clear on it. Car could have been prepped better, but I am not complaining since what I paid for the car is what a paint job like that would cost now. This is one of the main lessons I have learned in the car hobby. Buy one that has got the best body and paint work you can find. Preferably with a blown up engine and crappy carpet. I don't think I have ever seen an F-85 wagon. Would love to check that out. Posted Pics of the Bonneville today.
Great wagons. I didn't even know fender skirts were available for the 65-66 Pontiac wagons. Very nice. Welcome aboard from another member from Virginia.
I put them on, but you could get Pontiac to do just about anything you wanted in the 60s. I know of a '63 wagon (Fat Cat) that Mickey Thompson got from the factory with a 421, 4spd, bucket seats & console. Also have seen a factory '65 that had auto buckets & console. If the dealer would check off the items on the sheet you could get it. I have many many stories about this. In one case there was a man who special ordered a car (63 GP?) that did not arrive on the date promised. To make up for it they flew him out to MI, put him up in a hotel, took him over to GM and presented his car to him on a turntable. I am not sure other brands did that, but the guys they had working there at that time were really dedicated car guys. I am sure the 3 martini lunches also went a long way to keeping up morale.
