Bearing Burners Swap Meet and Car Show

[Frosty]

Today I hit the Bearing Burners car club's annual swap meet and car show. This swap meet use to held at the GM Tech Center in Warren Michigan. However, for various reasons, it is now held at the Knight of Columbus fairgrounds in Shelby Township Michigan, not far from the old Packard Proving Ground facility. I was rather surprised by the amount of Pontiac stuff I was able to find and identify today. Usually Pontiac stuff is a lot hard to find.

Swap meet stuff first, car show stuff second. Fitzy and Kiwi are curious about American swap meets. This is one of the more popular ones in the Detroit area. Here we go...

Car is just the parking lot - not even in the show.

8 rows of swap meet vendors! It's been bigger in years past. Weather and COVID have not done this swap meet any favors.

Pontiac stuff right off the bat! Dashes for your GTO or Lemans?

How about an Oakland grill shell?

Here are a set of '64 Bonneville/Catalina rear tail lights. However, these are hand made prototypes from Pontiac Engineering. They have a different diffuser in them from stock and the electrical connector is all wrong. These have never been on a car. A rare set of Pontiac uber-unobtainuim. The guy selling them is a Pontiac retiree.

A cleaner from a tri-power.

Front bumper for a Chevy Apache pickup?

An Olds Holiday grille emblem

A complete dual quad set-up for a Chevy 409 "W" motor. I think "W" motors are just plain cool!

Supercharger for a 3800 V6 and heads for an LS.

Here is an interesting night light.

Need a turbo? Connecting rods?

Corvette pieces? Back half? Dash? Wheels? We got em!

Chevy small block tri-power set-up

Interesting Jeep.

Pontiac steering wheel 

Looking for an original Paxton supercharger!!! Cha-ching!

How about an 1150 CFM carb? We've got you covered!

Trans Am hood scoops

Evel Knievel

Carbs, carbs, carbs

Need a tuned port intake system for your third gen Firebird?

Cast iron Pontiac 4-barrel

Hot Wheels and toy cars

An old Oldsmobile tach

A stamped steel panel with FOOSE in it.

A complete Pontiac tri-power intake setup

A pair of old Sun tachs

A '69 Firebird/Trans Am fender

a '46 Ford with a SBC in it for $16k

A Muncie 4-speed

Signs for sale

Engines, rear ends, etc. for sale

Spark plugs for a '53 Corvette

Here are the cars from the car show....

I have a soft spot in my heart for the Buick Reatta, especially the convertible.

Pontiac Ventura II (e.g. the Pontiac version of the Nova)

At first I thought this was a Pinto, nope it's an AMC Sprint.

A cool Olds Ralleye 350

When was the last time you saw a 1975 Olds Omega? Hatchback no less?

Cougar XR-70 convertible - very nice.

A late model Hurst Olds

Edited May 16, 2022 by Frosty

[JUSTA6]

Awesome pic's...as always.  Where is Black Beauty??

[Frosty]

Still in the repair shop. When I checked on her on Friday, they were still waiting on new belts for her.

[Fitzy]

Thanks for the terrific pics, Frosty. Didja pick up that TriPower for Kiwi - what was it, ten bucks, twenty? Don't forget, if you see another tacho, grab it for me will you? I'd like a wood rim steering wheel too if you ever see one.

BTW your (our) tacho now works, but occasionally. I will fiddle with a resistor soon and will keep you posted. Every time I look at that thing, I just love it. Vacuum gauge? What were they thinking - how much does your car suck??? ALL Pontiacs should have had that tacho.

Useless Trivia Fact: our own 1967 GTS Monaro had a similar console mounted tacho and similar full width rear fascia trim like my 65 GP. Clearly, Detroit was calling rhe shots as far as styling trends were concerned.

[64 kiwi boni]

wow!!! what a cool swap meet!!! thank you Frosty for taking pictures !!!!👍 there was certainly some items i would be keen on!!!! 😜 thats was a tidy green 2 door sedan too !!

frosty does that air cleaner say $800 on it ??? 

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by 64 kiwi boni

[JUSTA6]

41 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

wow!!! what a cool swap meet!!! thank you Frosty for taking pictures !!!!👍 there was certainly some items i would be keen on!!!! 😜 thats was a tidy green 2 door sedan too !!

frosty does that air cleaner say $800 on it ??? 

 

Might be a LIL steep, but very rare Tri Power, air cleaner.  This is where ya make him an offer and check in a couple times til the end of the show.  I HAD to have the tri power base that seals to the bottom of the hood while using the hood scoop to breath, and never used it.  

[Fitzy]

I saw that price too, Kiwi. I made my own twin snorkel air cleaner for my 351 using 2 stock items and with an angle grinder and pop riveter and paint, looked exactly like a factory item. Total cost was about $40!

[Frosty]

17 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

wow!!! what a cool swap meet!!! thank you Frosty for taking pictures !!!!👍 there was certainly some items i would be keen on!!!! 😜 thats was a tidy green 2 door sedan too !!

frosty does that air cleaner say $800 on it ??? 

 

Yes it does Kiwi! A complete tri-power manifold, carbs, fuel lines, and throttle linkage can run $1800-2400 by itself (or more). A lot of the factory air cleaners were ditched and that makes them harder to find these days, especially for the full size cars.