1951 Pontiac Chieftain and 1964 Shasta Camping Trailer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Profile of my dad's 1951 Pontiac Chieftain and his 1964 Shasta camping trailer, both fully restored. After three years of work, he is hoping to finally "get away from it all".
Wow! They are a stunning pair! Amazing job!!
🤙. Well done. Love this setup. Enjoy
beautiful combination , looks fantastic. Your dad has a lot of talent to get it done so quick. I currently have a teardrop trailer & love it. I love cars from the 50's. Thanks for the video
That's a Bad Ass Classic Car & trailer
Very beautiful colour wow very beautiful looking car
Very nice, love the zpontiac, its same age as me and looking for one like it but will build old school custom from it. Trsiler is cool as car and makes a great pair. Nice job on both!
Wow, that is great! Nice that the old straight 8 and HydraMatic are still soldiering on. Mine, in a 53 Catalina, made it to 1981, when I replaced them with a 292 Chevy 6 and Powerglide, since changed to 700R4. (But enough about me.) Your project does you a lot of credit and must be very satisfying. When you say the Pontiac looks pretty good, you make a big understatement. Very nice work and very nice presentation of it. Thanks.
I had a '51 back in 1959 and the clock never was reliable; found a '54 at the bone yard with a working clock so used it and never failed. The front hood emblem in '51 was black and in ’52 RED. My straight eight was also unreliable and after all the piston pins came loose and ruined the cylinders, I went back to the bone yard and picked up a '54 Olds V-8 and it fit easily into the engine bay. Only problem was the fan was about 16" from the radiator so just ran it without; only heated up in long stop & go traffic at which time I just turned on the heater fan and temp when right down. Used a Packard 3-speed + overdrive trans and got over 20mpg.
Drove that car for over 50k miles as a daily driver and commuting to college. These '50s Pontiacs had good brakes and a HD rear axle assembly; never had a problem. Mine was the dark metallic green, sort of like a British Racing Green.
The 53 Pontiac was supposed to get an Overhead V8, but Oldsmobile, who had a lot of clout with GM management, screamed and hollered until Pontiac was ordered to postpone it's introduction of the V8, first till 54, then 55. Too bad your straight 8 was troublesome, as these were normally trouble-free engines.
Nicely done
Thanks! It was his pride and joy. He recently sold both of them, though. I'm glad I have this video.
Beautiful set up, if u want you can have the original clock converted to quartz movement
Nice!
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The straight 8 pontiacs need a dual carb intake
That would have been kool! You probably could get it from the speed shops.
@@michaelbenardo5695 I know they have them on Ebay I was thinking of getting one but after I was looking at one it turned into alot of stuff I had to get for it