SD Gran Prix
 

I heard this car was in Michigan, turns out it’s a town over from me, a guy I know went to look at the car, I’d love to have see it.

https://barnfinds.com/one-sixteen-ba...gp-super-duty/

Looks familiar.

I think it might be the second time around for this car, in recent memory.

K

Just numbers in a check book!Tom

Could these be ordered with an aluminum front end? There was a gentleman that had some early Hemi cars and an old Pontiac that he bought new and I could swear he said came with an aluminum front end.

Yes they could.Tom

That car was on ebay a couple times a few years ago. I don't remember if it sold or not but those are the same pictures I remember looking at. I'd love to own it if I had the space and money.

I would think a Catalina but not a GP?

There’s a Pontiac book that lists all the Sd’s. It’s a great book, a lot of info on a lot of things. ( Pete McCarthy )
A lot of pics of some rare parts. Most don’t even know Pontiac had this stuff.
Pontiac muscle car perf 1955-1979

I just remembered this, a few years back, a guy at Norwalk had an orig SD alum frame on the orig skid for like 75k. Kinda strange thing to sell at a swap meet.

PJ Heck.

I believe Kenny C recently bought the frame and is building a car to go on top of it.

K

Here's the page from Pete's book showing the '62 cars.

Although -I notice it does not designate which cars got aluminum, in the same way that he did for the '63 SD cars.

K

Small world. Lol.
I met a guy through a Pontiac guy that found the front clip from a 63 tempest SD, don’t remember his name, I think it was in Florida, it was a while back.

Mike Glass. He has the original aluminum from the Stan Long/Stan Antlocer car. That's why the car had a steel front end in the pictures during the ebay auction.

I believe he still has it. Unfortunately he wanted so much money for it that it was less expensive during the restoration to create a new aluminum front end from scratch.

K

I met this guy, his name was Wally, he did 2 63’s. A car and a wagon. The wagon was an OG 3 Spd Stick. The wagon was so cool, burg, all orig. beautiful interior. The Whole drive train was swapped out, the car was beautiful too, it looked factory the way he did it. a friend was going to buy it, it then was a sec or two slower at the track, my friend accused him of swapping heads or something. The car looked factory. I should have bought it. Wally was a cool guy and his work was over the top. I saw him at Norwalk, he wouldn’t take to me then. All because of Jim, my buddy. Lol

Wally Abela, maybe?

K

Yep. Lol. Jim, my bud, had Mickey Lolich’s 62 GP. It was nice, he sold it to a guy and in my opinion he ruined the car a bit, but so did Jim, lol it was an all orig car, then rite after the POCI article he pulls the whole drive train out. Lol. Drag races it, yada, yada, yada, lol he did try to buy it back for a few years but they never came to a price.
A couple years back, we were sitting on Woodward in August, I was at Jim’s Funeral in Jan, cancer took him that fast.

I’m trying to remember when I met the guy who said he had that front clip from the 63. I think it was in St Louis, POCI, Wally was there, this was before the car deal, Wally had the wagon in the show, he drove down and was nice enough to bring some interior parts back for me, we flew, that was my last POCI.
I don’t even get the POCI mag, I get Don Keefe’s mag now.

was this Jim that had multiple Hemi engine pulling tractors? Have always wondered what happened to his cars. His 64 A864 Hemi 4spd Plymouth he had bought for $125.00 at a divorce yard sale in 71

Yes, his name was Jim. I was unaware of the pulling tractors but he had an old brick building behind his shop with some pretty rare stuff inside. I only met him once and he was kind enough to show me his cars. I'm guessing 1997-1998 time frame.

Jim passed in 2013. Yes, the cars were in a block building behind his shop. A 66 Hemi automatic Satellite convertible and the 64 steel nose Hemi 4spd Plymouth sat next to it. So, the SD was bought new by Jim? I just remember him saying it was a factory Pontiac race car. this was 1980

Don't quote me on that. I was trying to take it all in at the time and certainly could have mixed up some facts.

That time frame would have been about the last time my father talked with Roy Tope who was his contact inside IH. It was Roy who was friends with Jim and got us in to see his cars.

Jims 66 Hemi
 

Here is Jim’s 42k survivor the last I viewed it.

Very cool. Where was that taken?

This was the Chrysler Convention at the Chelsea Proving Grounds in 1983. Jim drove it up to take in the show.