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I have no idea what the future plans for this vehicle are at this time. The email from the owner in Arkansas was looking for more information. I certainly hope he plans to restore it.

Last Indian I give you kudos for your guess. You are correct that this is indeed a 1932 model. It is not an experimental or prototype. This is a production vehicle. These pictures were emailed to me from the POCI office yesterday in order that I could reach out to Don Meyer, the GMC Historian and get more detail. Sadly Don didn't have anymore detail to add. Remember in another thread I told you that Pontiac built bodies for GMC back in the 30s? Well this appears to a case where Pontiac built the entire vehicle for GMC. Let me explain. We believe this to be the only known remaining (1 of 394 built) 1932 taxi cabs built exclusively for the Yellow (Taxi) Cab Co. It was advertised and sold under General Motors Truck (GMC), not as a Pontiac. So that is why you see the "G" on the radiator and Body by GMC tag. You can see thru some of the oxidation that the doors were in fact painted yellow from the factory. This would be consistent with the taxi cab build. So while this is essentially a Pontiac automobile, it is technically a GMC vehicle! Photograph of one of the 394 Yellow Taxi Cabs builti in 1932 1932 General Motors Truck (e.g. GMC) brochure advertising all of it trucks - including the taxi cab.

I'd love to go back to Hershey and Fall Carlisle. Problem is - I know I would spend money....big time. I have not been back to Hershey in 11-12 years. It was awesome when I last went.

Can anyone identify this rare vehicle? It looks like a Pontiac but yet it has GMC/GM Truck badging. This maybe the last known one left in existence too. The answer may surprise you.

Anything specific - information-wise you are looking for?

Ohhh....What kind of puppies?

Sounds like a classic case of industrial amnesia to me. Uber clearly wants the special (e.g. favoritism) rules re-instated for them and them alone even though Quebec made it clear that they were not playing favorites. Time for Uber to gird up or get out!

They're called road trains in Australia.

John it would help if you had some pictures of your two blocks. Pontiac cast all of their V8 blocks out of the Pontiac Foundry in Pontiac Michigan. So all the casting lettering should be consistent, ditto any stamped numbers at the engine plant (also in Pontiac) unless the motor was pulled for a special order or engineering experiment/engineering order car. So in some very extraordinarily rare cases, the assembly plant could have re-stamped the engine. Which I doubt is the case here. Are you trying to determine if one of these blocks is the numbers matching block to your car? If so, refer to the chart below. The numbers you are looking for are located on the front of the block, on the passengers side, at the bottom near the timing cover. It should start with "2" for Pontiac, the next letter indicates the assembly plant the car was built at, and the last 6 digits should match the last six digits of your vehicles VIN #.

Wow. I am impressed with you digital imagine mastery stratman. So what program are you using ? Photoshop?

Yeah, Joe. We even had cold beverages for ya' too.

Who says you always have to use a V8?

PHS does indicate what dealer took delivery of the car. Remember the paperwork from PHS is from the factory's perspective. They would have no idea who actually purchased the car, but they would know what dealership received the car.

Compaq truck...... rimshot. That's a Dell of an idea Pro.

I know I'm going to hate myself to ask this question, but I will! Why do you have so many old computer case tabs lying around in the first place?

I think you are in fine shape Survivor. Do you have any paperwork that shows your mom as the original owner, like the vehicle's Protect-O-Plate with her name on it, or old copies of titles, vehicle inspections (if mandated), or registrations from NY and NJ? The Protect-O-Plate is about the size of a credit card that the dealership made up back in the day and issued to the original owner when they brought the car in for service / warranty work. If your mother was unmarried at the time, then it would probably have her maiden name on it. I have the original Protect-O-Plate for Lucy even though it was purchased (originally) in Annapolis MD. It came with all the documentation with the car.

It looks and feels like an overly fat tribble too. My floppsie!

I should also extend a shoot out to JUSTA for helping me diagnose the convertible top switch and helping to make sure the top was up before leaving Sellers on Sunday! Thanks buddy!.

Survivor400, glad to help. Small dents, minor paint chips, and even some hints of rust are all signs of a true, unmolested survivor. Using a paintless dent repair to fix something is not a bad thing. The question is how well can you detect and/or not detect their work? The less you can see, the better. Having the exterior buffed by expert is usually not a problem unless they somehow damaged the paint. It most cases this is not a problem. A true expert should refuse to do the job or warn you in advance if they think they are going to burn through the paint. Lastly, is it the original deck lid or was it replaced with a new one and repainted? If the repair is left solely to the decklip, you are in good shape. However if a deck lid, quarter panel, inner and outer wheel house, etc. were replaced, that starts affecting your survivorship status. Most "true collectors" don't want to see anything more that 20% of replacement or repairs to the vehicle. General replacement of normal wear and tear items like batteries, tires, brakes, hoses, etc. are expected and are not included in that 20% figure.

My plans to give Lucy a tune-up this weekend went up in flames. My wife was suppose to be out of town until Saturday night. I ended up getting a text message from my boy late Saturday morning saying that they (the wife, the kid and mom-in-law) were on their way back home because my wife had been up all night on a work related called and she was still on it at 11:00 a.m. She needed her work PC, which she hadn't expected to take with her on Friday night when she left the house. So now I was going to have a house full of people. So much for peace and quiet to work on the car. Oh and to add insult to injury, while at the Sellers show on Sunday with JUSTA, we determined that my power switch on my convertible top has also failed. It would go down but not up. JUSTA rigged a quick jumper wire to the back of the switch and we got the top up. Lucky I had already ordered a new switch and I have it to install. This weekend I expect to install the new switch as my first priority and then do the tune up.

Насколько правильно! Touché mon ami!

You need to contact PHS Historic Services. Their website link is below. You will need the vehicle VIN# and your credit card. PHS will tell you how the car was built and left the factory and delivered to the dealer. It will not detail any dealer add-ons. That being said, it will validate if the car is numbers matching. Actually unmolested "survivorship status" is tougher to prove if the car has been re-painted, been repaired due to a crash, or key components like the rear end, engine, or transmission were replaced due to warranty/service work over the years. http://www.phs-online.com/

I love the BINFORD TOOLS sticker "AR AR AR AR ..... I don't think so Tim!" Dennis Koss' Catalina is about the most perfect Royal Bobcat that I know of. Short of Milt Schornack actually twisting the wrenches on it, this car is, part number wise, a correct Royal Bobcat. Dennis collected all the correct part number parts that were published in old issues of Hot Rod, Motor Trend, etc. from back in the day and built his own Royal Bobcat. He has won many award with this car and he drives the wee out of it too. I still haven't figured out how he keeps it so damn clean, particularly the engine bay.