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The 1970 Catalina bumper jack is a widow maker waiting to crush, kill, maim and "murderlize" anybody unfortunate enough to have to use it. Sloped or uneven ground, forget about it even with the e-brake pedal pressed all the way into the carpet fuzz.
It's that awful, hooked thing that fits into the slot cut into the bumper. A scissors jack is better; a small bottle jack is better. Yell loudly from the side of the road for the Six-Million-Dollar Man or The Hulk or the Robot from Lost-In-Space to come by and lift your car for you. Do ANYTHING but don't use the stock jack that came with these vehicles. That stock one-armed lug wrench tire tool is also quite useless for lug nuts but is OK if you need to remove a chrome trim ring. A four-way lug wrench and a 13/16ths socket and ratchet are in my trunk.
My jack is really only to look at in my trunk, and I have alternatives in a plastic crate that I mention above.
Sorry for the rant but man . . . . .
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More WDC
Ain't got a clue. All I know it is some sort of specialty transport bus for wheel chair bound people.
Na na na na na na na na na Batman!
Vespas
A purple Mercedes? Seriously?
The new Charger
Now this is an interesting car. Personally, I call Bullshit.
This guy claimed this was one of the original '70 Jury's. I am not buying it.
Only thing that is correct is that is a Paladin silver 70 Lemans.
Things wrong that I noticed.
All original Jurys had blue interiors, this appears to be black.
Not aware any of them had vinyl roofs at all
They came with '69 spoilers, this is a 70-72 spoiler
Stripping package is completely wrong. I can elaborate later if you'd like me to.
More on this guy later
Yup. A real Holden! There were no Holden wagons imported as a Pontiac G8 or Chevy SS.
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Milwaukee : https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0211794,-87.9275983,3a,15y,63.92h,80.29t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2WMiVMns3JsUpI1o-14yeQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D9.70567466259186%26panoid%3D2WMiVMns3JsUpI1o-14yeQ%26yaw%3D63.91872174681615!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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Saturday, August 15, 2006 - Woodward Dream Cruise
It case it was not obvious, our annual 10 am rendezvous at the corner of M59 and Cass Lake Road was a complete disaster. Justa could not get either of his cars running, his daughter, JustaG6 headed out on her own. I have no idea what happened to his daughter Liz and hubby Mike and their RIveria. Indyman Joe let me know the grand kids over slept and would not make it. So I was a solo act all day. I eventually made my way to Greenfield Elementary School and got taken to Nicky D's to watch the WDC for the rest of the afternoon.
Anybody remember the Zingers? This was advertising for next year's Detroit Autorama.
Sign on the old Stellantis/Chyrsler HQ building in Auburn Hills.
How many car shows do you know that have a Goodyear Blimp. This year there were 2 apparently. I suspect one for the Ally Challenge Gold Tournament in Grand Blanc. With the clouds being so low, the blimp didn't really leave the Pontiac area. I never saw it around 14 Mile, where I was.
I had to stop at the PTM for a quick photo. A future POTM? Perhaps.
My rear view mirror. Chevelle, Roadrunner and Nova
My favorite Riveria - a drop top
The trailer is pulling the Ford pickup. The driver and drive train is in the trailer.
Little Hondas.......first gear, it's alright. Second gear, lean tight. Third gear! It's alright!
A classic lowrider!
I would hate to be this guy's alignment shop
Yup - this is Revered GTO, his wife and '72 GTO. I yelled at him, they waved back at me.
Ugh. Even stealthy - Cybertrucks are fugly.
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Back to the Bricks rolling cruise - Wednesday and Thursday - August 12 and 13, 2026
Starting in Downtown Flint and heading south towards Grand Blanc - to meet up with the WIdetrackers.
Scenes in downtown Flint
Flint's famous Vernor's mural next to Halo Burger
This is the ignition/electrical shop I use to take Lucy to. It's been around for well over 60 years. This is where I tried to take Lucy earlier this summer with my starter issue. It now looks like it is officially closed and out of business. Sad really. The note on the door from earlier this summer about having health problems is still there.
A burned out and graffiti building across from the old GM Sit Down Strike of 1937-38.
With classic cars in front of it, it is clear that the old GM admin building from the GM UAW Sit Down Strike historical marker in front of it, has been vandalized as well.
Now in Grand Blanc, on the south end.
You don't see many custom vans anymore.
My folks had a maroon 1985 "Final" Special Editor Lesabre. These were the last RWD cars produced at Flint's Buick City before it was converted to FWD assembly.
A 70s' era Stutz Blackhawk - built from a Pontiac Grand Prix
This thing is short and right hand drive. I would hate to drive this thing into a sharp turn.
WHen was the last time you saw an Olds Starfiree GT?
The Roadrunner on a Charger.....nice.
I think this '69 Hurst/Olds 442 is my favorite 442 of all time.
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This is the engine that gets me upset. This is the motor that was once in Mac McKellar's Grand Prix. Now it's gone - stolen - and it has not resurfaced except for a bizarre picture of it one an engine stand from a Facebook posting over a decade ago asking anyone if they knew what it was. We did and responded and the picture was quickly taken down.
This engine was a retirement gift from GM to Mac. It was very temperamental to start.
At one point, Mac took the GP to a shop, and in a bad decision, agreed to have the DOHC taken out and a regular Pontiac V8 put into his GP. The mechanic had the DOHC motor out and re-sold within 24 hours. Mac changed his mind about the regular Pontiac motor but the DOHC was already gone. So Mac was swindled and it's in the wind to this day. -
Is the Catalina bumper any different from a jacking perspective than a Chevy bumper? Do they use the same J-hook and jack? I can see where 60s era Pontiac jacks were tossed into the metal recycler. However, given the rather large plethora of Chevy parts from the same era, I can't help but wonder if they are the same jack. Also, what about Olds, Buick, and Cadillac jacks from that period?
Jacks, a lot like disc and drum brakes, were highly interchangeable between makes during this time period. So if you can't find a used Pontiac jack, you have to ask yourself, if a used Chevy, Olds, Buick, or Cadillac version look and work the same? -
The final six episodes of Faster with Newbern and Cotten just finished airing. The final episode was their attempt at running 200 mph in Arkansas in Newbern's turbo LS Trans Am. Now the only unaired episodes left of the original Motor Trend productions is the final half season of Roadkill Garage.
Speaking of which, Discovery Turbo is saying that a new season of Roadkill Garage starts this coming Wednesday evening. If you check your DVR listings, you will see an episode for working on Freiburger's hemi powered Belevedere. That is the new episode even though is shows as a report. This is because that episode and one other actually aired on New Year's Eve. So there should be at least 4 more "new" episodes left.
So once the last six episodes of RKG are aired, this will be the last Motor Trend Productions to be shown. So two years after MT and WBD shut down the production studio, the final episodeswill air for the first time and we will now be in perpetual reruns after that. -
Welcome, my friend. Love to see any pictures you have.
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Stripes' 1974 Pontiac Trans Am
PontiacMatt's 1970 Pontiac GTO
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Topless' 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 Convertible -w- Wookiee
Rick Pumphrey's 1960 Pontiac Ventura
Tomst37's 1971 Pontiac T37 Original 350 Chevy Small Block Canadian built.
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TYVM Rick and Joe for responding, last I checked OPGI and Classic were fresh out at any price. I will look on ebay tho
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keep an eye out on ebay. set an alert. They come up once in a while. just know what you are looking for as a lot are mislabeled. also, some facebook Pontiac groups are a good avenue. beware of scammers though.
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Welcome. Pic's of the G6 would be cool. Hope your not having probs with the switches for the top. getting very hard to find.
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Mac McKellar built the most advanced American V8 of 1963 — and GM wouldn't let him use it. McKellar was Pontiac's chief engine engineer, the man who designed the camshaft profiles that made the 389 and 421 Super Duty engines dominate NASCAR and NHRA. His name was literally on the camshafts — "McKellar #7," "McKellar #10" — grinds so famous they were sold over the Pontiac parts counter by name. But McKellar knew pushrod engines had a ceiling. At high RPM, the pushrods flexed. The rocker arms deflected. The valve float that killed a pushrod V8 above 6,500 RPM was a mechanical limitation, not a tuning limitation. The only solution was to put the camshaft directly above the valves and eliminate the pushrods entirely. In early 1963, working with John DeLorean's blessing at Pontiac's engineering center, McKellar completed a DOHC 389 V8 with 32 valves, belt-driven quad overhead cams, cross-ram intake manifold, sequential fuel injection, and output that Pontiac never officially rated but that experts estimate exceeded 500 HP.
The engine used Gilmer-type reinforced rubber timing belts — the same technology McKellar would later bring to the production Pontiac OHC Sprint six-cylinder in 1966. The belts were lighter than chains, quieter than gears, and didn't stretch under sustained high-RPM use the way roller chains did. The DOHC heads placed two intake and two exhaust valves per cylinder at compound angles in hemispherical combustion chambers — each valve actuated directly by a cam lobe without the mass of a pushrod or rocker arm between the cam and the valve. The reduction in valvetrain mass allowed the engine to rev past 7,000 RPM without the valve float that limited pushrod Pontiac V8s to approximately 6,500 RPM. McKellar's team also experimented with SOHC configurations, three-valve heads with both possible arrangements — two intake and one exhaust, and one intake and two exhaust — and two-valve SOHC designs that could use production Pontiac intake and exhaust manifolds for easier packaging.
GM chairman Frederic Donner killed it. In early 1963, Donner issued a corporate memo reiterating GM's ban on factory racing involvement and adding that under-the-table participation — which every GM division had been practicing — would no longer be tolerated. The DOHC 389 went back on the shelf. McKellar continued experimental OHC V8 work quietly: a simpler SOHC 421 with 16 valves making approximately 620 HP with Tri-Power carburetion by late 1963. A 24-valve SOHC version of the 428 in 1965. McKellar showed the experimental engines to Hot Rod editor Eric Dahlquist in 1968 — the article made the March 1968 cover — but none of the OHC V8s ever reached even limited production. Without racing, Pontiac had no business case for a DOHC V8. The growing safety lobby had made GM management terrified of selling powerful engines. The OHC V8 technology was redirected into the production Sprint six — a single overhead cam on a six-cylinder instead of four cams on a V8. McKellar's V8 vision was scaled down to a six-cylinder compromise.
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