History "The Swiss Cheese Pontiacs" with photos

Wow aluminum ones must be over $5,000 now

 

1962 bonneville convert, 389, 4barrel, auto. NICE car, 1969 or so by wicarnut posted Jan 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM

. Thanks for the history lesson, I'm a history nerd, like them Pontiac's and they made some Kool cars in the 60's. Pic of my ragtop, had the aluminum 8 lug wheels, leather interior, not fast, but a very nice cruiser, like so many GM 60's cars, today they are $$$ up rides.

 

Friend of mine is restoring a 63 SD with a very rare aluminum Chassis that he obtained from a SD collector.

 

You can get reproductions of the aluminum exhaust manifolds these days. I know a guy who is running a set of them on his car. He had them coated with Jet-Hot or similar product so they hold up to use on the street, they haven't melted yet.

So that frame is finally going to be put under a car - I've seen photos of it, but figured it would always be just something to look at and never be actually used. Considering the strength of the steel Swiss Cheese frames, I'd think the aluminum one is going to be pretty flexible.

 

Cool stuff LoudBang.....hell M/T was into them a little before....so this is right on........

 

Sunday bump for an oldie (but goody).
This just popped up, can't leave out Arnie Beswick!


"The Story Behind This Catalina Starts With 'The Farmer'"

https://www.hotcars.com/swiss-cheese-1963-pontiac-catalina-super-duty-story/

 

^^^^The Hot Rod Hoarder you tube channel has a good video on that very car.^^^^

 

Here is the video

 

The story he linked is actually about the video from Hot Rod Hoarder.

 

Local guy supposedly had one here in the center of CT. This would have been around 1972. He was in an older bunch of guys and I would over hear them talking about it.