Odd Canadian car photos....

Here's a rare one for you... Ford Frontenac, 1960 only.



-Dave

 

Some 50s canadian cars---------------------TwoChops

 

It always amazed me that the Canadian Pontiacs had sbc's in them - how can you enhance a performance image with a big ol' Poncho with a 283/2bbl? hp/wt ratio musta been gross

I used to fly up to Canada a lot back in "the day" to some pretty obscure villages - tons of Merc trucks and stuff I can no longer recall

dj

 

We have a 64 Parisienne 2 door hardtop factory 409 car. It's basically a 64 Impala X frame with Catalina sheetmetal and chevy drivetrain.

 

An old Canadian car ad

 

Another Frontenac, from the looks of the grille. This one's a Ranchero.

You've gotta love a car with red maple leaves on the hubcaps... and such a cool name!

-Dave

 

So does anyone know how they wound up with the Frontenac name up there?

 

my dad's 50 mercury pickup

 

I wish I knew more about it, I just found it when searching Photobucket under "Falcon." Often, I wish there was a way to contact people about their Photobucket account, you see some cool/odd things and want to know more.

As far as Frontenac, I believe Ford of Canada's website said the car was named after a 17th or 18th Century governor of what was then New France(notice lots of French names for Fords up there... Richlieu, for example), but lots of things are named Frontenac including a county in Ontario, a city in Quebec and I believe a lake.

My question is why the Chevrolet brothers decided on that particular name. According to Wikipedia it's a city in France, too. Maybe that's where they were from.

-Dave