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I am pleased to hear your boss is on the mend last Indian 👍 It’s about now that you will need to purchase some sun glasses justA for when you open that hood and the beams of brightness hit you

I’ve been sitting on our original 1969 Parisienne 2+2 for decades and looking to find her a home. I just joined this forum to do so. It’s an original number matching survivor that has been sitting parked in our heated basement garage for over 35 years. It’s a convertible. Liberty Blue Metallic with black interior. It has the optional 396 Chevy big block with a 2 barrel and not the USA car with the Pontiac blue engine. It is a Canadian delivered 2+2 and equipped accordingly. It was bought new in Montreal .Has the 3 speed automatic with bucket seats and console shift. It does not run at this time but some careful TLC will do magic. Original mileage 91,000. Straight body and solid frame. All glass intact and fine. Convertible top very good shape. Currently fitted with original H78-14 rayon tires. The serial numbers on the engine pad match the car VIN. Engine never apart or pulled. Car is totally original and complete, even hubcaps. I’ll try to upload pics.

Been a real bad month, wife’s been sick for the past 4 weeks. Lots to take care of, not complaining, just glad she has finally improved & slowly getting back to normal. So the past two days I got some time to get a good share of the engine back together.

So I’ll move on to sulfur dioxide! Now this if nothing else should tell you just how misdirected & mislead the public has been by the powers that be & the media. Sulfur Dioxide is almost non existent in our atmosphere. 15 ppb!! That’s per billion! The most prevalent atmosphere this gas exists in is Venus & that’s at 150 ppm & nothing I mean nothing can live there. Not even bacteria! We could not even go in space suits, even if the planet temperatures would let us, because the suits would melt. When it rains there it rains sulfuric acid! So on what planet would anyone who cared about the planet or life of any kind would say let’s convert a gas that has sone potential to do good in the atmosphere, to a gas that when increased will only only do harm? I could tell you who, but you would laugh in disbelief.

Thankyou!

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Welcome to FP.

Nice bird!

New to the page, 27 year old mechanic from Ontario driving my firechicken every chance I get She’s no pure Pontiac with her 350 chev and 700r4 but sounds good and is fun to drive I’ll be at the Syracuse car show this year if anyone’s going in New York 1a345ebaf3ae43bd81c3a88f03e3cc72.mov

aww loved norm !!!! Frosty , one of the storeys they told us at the Heineken factory was , in the early days the workers received 3 tokens per day for Biers , but because they didn’t want to drink every day most would save them up for Thursday - Fridays and all hell would break loose !!! , till one day the factory caught fire ! They stopped the token system after that Cheers

You remind me of wanting Norm's dream job!

So I feel it’s my job to test the froth theory … cheers

Today we went to visit the niece at her home in bussum , a twenty minute train ride from Amsterdam … Amsterdam central train station Tickets and trains are very easy here Even got to see a real windmill Yet not one single Pontiac to be seen anywhere !!!😢😢😢😢😔

The boss and I are ready your guys posts while drinking a local beir called Dutch life 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 Did you know ! ……. The lovely lady yesterday at the heiny factory was tell us , larger bier ( Dutch for beer) should have a good head of froth on it to trap the co2 from escaping ! … I never knew that ! I but it sounds logical …. Cheers guys 🍺🍺🍺🍺

In the late '90s, my dad and I did a whirlwind tour of Germany. One of the highlights was spending time at the actual Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich. A real German oompah-pah band is playing. Singing German drinking songs I have no idea what the song was about. Watching waitresses carry 8 liters of beer at a time. A truly wonderous place!

Europe is the birthplace of beer and they take it very seriously. There are some beautiful beers on offer as you travel about. We were in Prague a few years ago (the birthplace of Pilsener) and Pilsener Urquell was ubiquitous. If you've never tried it, splash out on a case and savour what real beer should always taste like. Absinthe was another drink that was sold just about everywhere. My father attempted to make his own using the herb wormwood...apparently slightly psychedelic. As I drove home (carefully) there were creatures jumping in front of the car that didn't exist. Good times.

Haha , I would if I could frosty ! 🍺

Hello, My dirtiest, unknown mileage, not running, junk yard 5.3 liter LS motor moves to the machine shop tomorrow for a rebuild. This rebuild will take about a month they say and maybe a little faster because I'm providing a set of 862 casting heads that this shop has already rebuilt - a few months ago. And perhaps about $420 less expensive from the standard $3000 price because these heads are rebuilt. The probably worn out heads on the dirty motor are a 706 casting that various references say are a higher compression head. I don't want to change the PCM operating system tune to support a 706 set of heads in the Catalina because the Cat is a cruiser, not a tire smokin' race car. The 862 heads will be fine and the 706 heads will simply get a good cleaning. I've got one more junk yard 5.3 liter motor that is magnitudes cleaner that I will use for engine mount test fitting while I wait for the dirty motor to be rebuilt. I will hang my almost certainly dead, sixty dollar, junk yard 4L60E transmission off the back of the motor before I lay the whole thing into the engine compartment. This will allow me to get into the bulk of the engine swap to work out proper drive line angles to the differential, floor pan sheet metal clearance, radiator fan clearance, exhaust manifold clearance, drive shaft creation and passenger side engine head clearance with the AC firewall plastic suitcase. As this is a full sized B-body vehicle, I think most of these things will be easier than what I found in my A-Body El Camino. My PSI Conversions LS swap engine harness also arrived today. For durability, I have abandoned the idea of depinning and repinning one of my junk yard harnesses. They were variously mangled, missing connectors, had the wrong connectors or had brittle insulation. I'm about 49 percent disappointed with myself here for not at least trying. The upside of the PSI Conversions harness is that it is built with extra wire length to move the PCM into the passenger compartment - maybe on top of the glove box under the dash cover. Rick

To continue with carbon monoxide. Think about this for a bit. Plant earth has more than twice as much surface area of water than land! 70% vs 30% to be a little more precise. The oceans produce per square mile more carbon monoxide than the land per square mile. As a whole they out produce human caused CO about 30 to 1!! Now you may not know or understand, but CO is a extremely important gas for life! Yes life! Without it earth & the universe would die! Besides the reaction of CO with bacteria that splits the molecule into oxygen & hydrogen, there is also a reaction between ionized helium & ionized carbon monoxide! This reaction produces produces ionized carbon. Ionized carbon is one of the important elements necessary for organic reactions. Remember this; carbon, while not being the most abundant element in the universe, it is the most important for all life! That includes ALL forms of carbon. Arguably most people start to have their eyes glaze over when discussing this type of stuff, but if you believe in anything believe this! God! If you doubt his existence you need look no further than these things right here being spoken of to realize all of the immensely complicated workings of earth, let alone the universe didn’t just happened by chance! Finally, for carbon monoxide, they and you know who they are tell you it’s a global warming gas! Guess what? So is oxygen! & water vapor! Guess we better hold our breath & drain all the water to the moon!

I eagerly anticipated this series when I first heard about it. After the first episode I thought surely it would get better! It didn’t!! I agree with Frosty about the Olds wagon , big misstep not consulting the customer. I personally don’t like that Camaro/Chevelle conversion. To my eye, Camaro proportions just don’t work for intermediate sized vintage muscle car pretenders. They still look like faintly disguised Camaros. And for my final rant, “restored” ( and I use the term loosely like they do) Pontiacs older than 1982 don’t ALL need to be LS or corporate engine powered. There are enough Pontiac engine builders and aftermarket parts available to keep them all Pontiac. I guess when it comes down to it, it’s your car, your choice. It’s just not mine.