Hey hilltop....aka Richard's restored 170

[hilltop170]

I think it is funny the similar interest we all share. Guns, old airplanes and old cars. I have a 1950 Chevy Pick up. It and the airplane need a resto job done on them.

I think our women would call it something else but I agree with you, must be in the water or something.

For me it's a 1950 Pontiac Silver Streak 8 Chieftan 2-door and a 1964 J.I. Case tractor.

[W.J.Langholz]

Richard

That was my very first car, a Silver Streak, I bought it in 1967 for 75 bucks ran like a top had the baseball cap out side vissor on it. One day it was 20 below and my dad's car didn't start so he started mine(always started- low compression) to use it to jump start his and was reving it up and blew a rod......major bummer post a picture if you can, would love to see it

W.

[GAHorn]

[wingnut]

I think Del's been holding out on us, Ol'Gar!

He didn't say a WORD to us about his Jubilee!

(I want a '53 Jubilee and a '53 RED pickup to go with N146YS.)

I wasn't holding, just assumed all of us like anything where a spark ignites something combustable and propels an object (bullet, piston) down a cylindrical tube

[GAHorn]

I think Del's been holding out on us, Ol'Gar!

He didn't say a WORD to us about his Jubilee!

(I want a '53 Jubilee and a '53 RED pickup to go with N146YS.)

I wasn't holding, just assumed all of us like anything where a spark ignites something combustable and propels an object (bullet, piston) down a cylindrical tube

As long as the object is a tight-fit as it slides down the tube...we'll like it!

[170C]

Looking at Richard's '50 Pontiac, reminds me that in the '80's GM designed the Buick, Olds & Cadillac so that it was difficult to tell one from the other at any distance (they were crape cars at that time). Now we look & think back to 1950 (yes some of us can remember back then ) how GM did the same thing with virtually all its cars--Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, Buick & Caddy's. Virtually the same bodies with different branding & of course the higher priced ones got more goodies, but sort of all resembled one another. Of course now days its difficult to distinguish one mfg's vehicle from another whether domestic or foreign. Personally I always thought the golden, lighted Indian head on the Pontiac hood ornament was way cool! Really liked the early 1960's Pontial Starfire 2 dr hardtops. They were long, low and ran like a scalded cat

[GAHorn]

I'll never forget the African-American "Entrepreneur" who approached me in "Nawlin's" French-Quarter offering the services of one of his "employees" sitting in the back seat of his "Duece-and-a-quota" (English: "duece-and-a-quarter") ..... his Buick Electra 225 .

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[Bill Hart]

OK just to be sure, I don't remember the 60's much less the 50's. I just like old things.

[hilltop170]

Richard

That was my very first car, a Silver Streak, I bought it in 1967 for 75 bucks ran like a top had the baseball cap out side visor on it. One day it was 20 below and my dad's car didn't start so he started mine(always started- low compression) to use it to jump start his and was reving it up and blew a rod......major bummer post a picture if you can, would love to see it

W.

W-
I don't know where Gahorn got that other picture of the green one but here are a few pictures of mine. They're a little more than $75 nowdays but still a good deal if you can find some good ole boy in Oklahoma who has been building Pontiac hotrods since 1948 like I did. It has a prism in front of the steering wheel that lets the driver look up under the eyebrow visor so you can see the traffic lights. The Indian head lights up too. He did a beautiful job and it runs like a scalded cat. The third picture explains the electric yellow color, both 1950 models.

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[W.J.Langholz]

wow........... and Ina Too!!!!! you have been blessed!

W.

[Bill Hart]

Very nice and the plane too.

[hilltop170]

Thanks guys. The car is a real sleeper, looks kinda stock outside and in the interior but has a full late model subframe with a 455 HO, 700R4 trans with a stiff shift kit, 12 bolt positrac .411 rear end, power disk brakes and steering, and oversize tires on 15" wheels. Everything is Pontiac and it really scoots.

[cessna170bdriver]

I'd LOVE to do a long cross country with my sweetie in that! (The one with four wheels )

George, where does yellow fall in the green-to-red speed spectrum?

Miles

[hilltop170]

Miles,
We have been contemplating driving the Pontiac out to the west coast following Historic Route 66. If we do, we'll swing by Tehachapi and let you take your wife out on a date for the evening. Any drive-in movies still left out there? The back seat is like a couch with tons of leg room. I can see why drive-ins were so popular back in the day. Or we can "double" to the Sonic.

[cessna170bdriver]

Miles,
We have been contemplating driving the Pontiac out to the west coast following Historic Route 66. If we do, we'll swing by Tehachapi and let you take your wife out on a date for the evening. Any drive-in movies still left out there? The back seat is like a couch with tons of leg room. I can see why drive-ins were so popular back in the day. Or we can "double" to the Sonic.

Absolutely! We do have a Sonic, and can do a double, but I'd also be amenable to trading the keys to '98C for the keys to the Pontiac for an hour or two and let you give Ina an aerial tour.

According to driveinmovie.com, "California is one of the Top 5 Drive-in states and more than 20 remain open". The closest I think is the one in Porterville, about an hour and a half up the road. Would the visor present a problem at the drive-in? (assuming you're going for the movie )