Western New York Supercars

[Diabl07]

Originally Posted by jims68nova

Yes! And you don't see it everywhere, you're just lucky everytime I have it out as I only put 100 miles on it a year haha.

I will absolutely stop and say hi next time, and take some great photos!

[Bill Pritchard]

Thanks to all of you who are contributing to this thread, it's fascinating!

[Diabl07]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

Thanks to all of you who are contributing to this thread, it's fascinating!

I absolutely agree! all of these stories are so incredible! so many people sharing all of their favorite moments, its so cool!
It was a little passion project of mine a few months ago to start compiling information from every crevice of memory and the internet to create a registry of the rare muscle cars that were in the WNY area. this thread has catapulted this project way higher than I expected. I haven't updated my registries totally for a few weeks now, and I've added so much. I'm hoping to have everything updated as much as possible by the new year to post here as Google Sheets or Excel (depends on which works better for everyone here) Ill update it as long as im still looking for cars to add, and im not even 20 yet so expect many more years of these registries expanding everyone!

[fortim]

Originally Posted by Diabl07

I absolutely agree! all of these stories are so incredible! so many people sharing all of their favorite moments, its so cool!
It was a little passion project of mine a few months ago to start compiling information from every crevice of memory and the internet to create a registry of the rare muscle cars that were in the WNY area. this thread has catapulted this project way higher than I expected. I haven't updated my registries totally for a few weeks now, and I've added so much. I'm hoping to have everything updated as much as possible by the new year to post here as Google Sheets or Excel (depends on which works better for everyone here) Ill update it as long as im still looking for cars to add, and im not even 20 yet so expect many more years of these registries expanding everyone!

This picture was taken at Crystal Beach, Ontario in July of '79. All of the cars were from WNY. I had just turned 20 yrs old and I'm wearing the red shorts...
Left to right: 69 442 4sp, 69 RAIII 4sp (my car), 68 Firebird 400 4sp, 65 Skylark auto, 67 Delmont 425 auto (still owned) and the 70 Stage 1 auto in GSX paint scheme. All but the Firebird were ragtops and unfortunately the the 2 Pontiacs didn't survive. Fun times and Canadian beer!

[Diabl07]

Originally Posted by fortim

This picture was taken at Crystal Beach, Ontario in July of '79. All of the cars were from WNY. I had just turned 20 yrs old and I'm wearing the red shorts...
Left to right: 69 442 4sp, 69 RAIII 4sp (my car), 68 Firebird 400 4sp, 65 Skylark auto, 67 Delmont 425 auto (still owned) and the 70 Stage 1 auto in GSX paint scheme. All but the Firebird were ragtops and unfortunately the the 2 Pontiacs didn't survive. Fun times and Canadian beer!

You just have the coolest photos from western New York!

[auwrestling]

Originally Posted by fortim

This picture was taken at Crystal Beach, Ontario in July of '79. All of the cars were from WNY. I had just turned 20 yrs old and I'm wearing the red shorts...
Left to right: 69 442 4sp, 69 RAIII 4sp (my car), 68 Firebird 400 4sp, 65 Skylark auto, 67 Delmont 425 auto (still owned) and the 70 Stage 1 auto in GSX paint scheme. All but the Firebird were ragtops and unfortunately the the 2 Pontiacs didn't survive. Fun times and Canadian beer!

Spent a lot of weekends at Crystal Beach. My buddy had a cottage there and then it was off to Sherkston Quarry .we also spent a lot of time with the cars at Chestnut Ridge. I’ll post a picture.

[Diabl07]

2 Ram Air IV 1970 cars, one from Gould Pontiac in Watkins Glen and Scutti Pontiac in Rochester.
2 articles written about these cars in Hot Rod

https://www.hotrod.com/features/hppp...r-iv-trans-am/

https://www.hotrod.com/features/hppp...am-ram-air-iv/

[auwrestling]

Originally Posted by Diabl07

2 Ram Air IV 1970 cars, one from Gould Pontiac in Watkins Glen and Scutti Pontiac in Rochester.
2 articles written about these cars in Hot Rod

https://www.hotrod.com/features/hppp...r-iv-trans-am/

https://www.hotrod.com/features/hppp...am-ram-air-iv/

The blue car that came from Scotty Pontiac I first saw in the Kmart parking lot at Maple and transit 1977. I wasn’t able to find the owner at that time but several years later I saw it a car show up in Niagara Falls . At that point, I met the owner and tried to buy it from him a Couple times, but it didn’t work out. It Changed hands several times before it got to RM .

I was lucky enough to buy the car from Watkins Glen in the mid 80s , white with a black standard interior 4 speed great car.

[Diabl07]

https://www.hotrod.com/features/hppp...tiac-trans-am/

This 455 HO was a West Seneca car new!
Buffalo had quite a few rare Pontiacs

[auwrestling]

Originally Posted by Diabl07

https://www.hotrod.com/features/hppp...tiac-trans-am/

This 455 HO was a West Seneca car new!
Buffalo had quite a few rare Pontiacs

Yes, that’s Austin Pontiac , Orchard Park Road in West Seneca doesn’t exist anymore. Been in there many times back in the 70s and 80s buying parts.
never did any tracking or researching on the 75 and newer cars