Vintage Pontiac Advertisements

[Tenney]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Greatest Of All Time.

That's the Car and Driver GTO w/the b-pillar airbrushed out, and no engine, as borrowed from Mr. Sherman. Mr. Wangers said they had to add a little ballast under the hood to level it out for photo.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Tenney

That's the Car and Driver GTO w/the b-pillar airbrushed out, and no engine, as borrowed from Mr. Sherman. Mr. Wangers said they had to add a little ballast under the hood to level it out for photo.

My son is standing looking over my shoulder and I just told him that little tidbit.

Photo looks like it was taken at the GM Proving Ground in Milford. There is a small storage lot in the interior of the circle track, between the city course and the short East/West Straightaway.

Since it is near "Hyne Rd" (which is a real local road that bisects the Proving Ground) is is known as "the Hyne Rd Pad".

K

[Tenney]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

My son is standing looking over my shoulder and I just told him that little tidbit.

Photo looks like it was taken at the GM Proving Ground in Milford. There is a small storage lot in the interior of the circle track, between the city course and the short East/West Straightaway.

Since it is near "Hyne Rd" (which is a real local road that bisects the Proving Ground) is is known as "the Hyne Rd Pad".

K

Jim said several of the original Goat guys didn't humor the new look all too much, and that this ad was among the measures quickly assembled to appease them. Don't know when it first ran, but if the engine was out at the time, shoot could've roughly coincided w/428 install ...?