Hello again my most very helpful friends.

Totally unable to restore my trunk interior as it is impossible to source a bumper jack.

Originally started searching for an OEM replacement, no dice!

Then salvage yards even Franks Pontiac parts is fresh out.

Why oh why is a simple thing like a 60's GM bumper jack impossible to find?

Clutch Cargo

aka Charles Farley

910-448-2576

I have seen them in the paper catalogs (OPGI and Classic Industries, as I recall) recently but they are not at all inexpensive. You will pay dearly if you need all of the pieces - IVO, $250.00 USD.

Rick

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.

TYVM Rick and Joe for responding, last I checked OPGI and Classic were fresh out at any price. I will look on ebay tho

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 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 . . . . .

Rick