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Back to the subject of Pontiac trucks, here's an interesting picture of a local butcher shop's 3 Pontiac panel delivery trucks ( 1 '35 and 2 '36's ). Don't know anymore about them, but the delivery bodies look very much like the body on the '27. The local Pontiac dealership was only 1/2 mile away from the butcher.

Let's not forget these 3, my favorite of which is the Crestline "75 Years of Pontiac Oakland ".

Pontiac did sell trucks in the U.S.A. beginning late in 1926 as 1927 models. They offered the panel delivery and the screen -type delivery. After that, GMC took over selling the very same truck with the same Pontiac engines, but with a GMC grille. It was called the GMC T-11. They also made ( in the U.S.) sedan deliveries from 1949 through 1953.

We also had a 1984 6000STE. It was our first new car. Two-tone blue with a blue cloth interior. It was a major leap for me to have a car with no points, a digital dash, and (how did they get away with this?) factory fog lights! 🤔 Until then, the newest car I had ever owned was a 1970 Formula 400 Firebird.

1931 radiator shell badge and a 1960 badge from the fuel door, each style was used one year only.

Thanks Frosty. Not everyone is aware of what it takes to build a car like this, so I thought I would show just some of the modifications that we have done without going into too much detail and boring people. Nice to hear from those who appreciate this thread.

Back to the seats. Looking to create a little more head and leg room, I searched for an alternative to the MG Midget seats I had., and came up with a pair of Austin-Healey 3000 bucket seats. Together with some modified Corvette C3 seat adjusters I was able to create a little extra space in both directions. Along with the seats, I installed a much modified '65 Tempest/ LeMans/ GTO 2-speed automatic shifter mated to the Turbo 350 trans with a conversion from Shiftworks ( before and after pics).

Doors finally fitted.

Replacing the wood in the doors was the next thing we addressed, and getting them to fit in their opening after the chop proved to be a real challenge. it required removing a triangular piece of the door skin and a lot of fine tuning.

I have saved them from various locations on the internet over a long period of time. Many of them came from the HAMB. Others must have some Pontiac related images like these. Please feel free to share !

Also on the trunklid

We took a sliver of metal out of the edge of the rumbleseat lid to make the gap more uniform. Also test fit MG Midget seats, wound up not using them. More on seating later.

Redesigned my original front shock mounts and installed 2-speed electric windshield wipers (on video). 20170122_143520.mp4

Paint removal, primer, and more mockups.

Time to position the sheetmetal "skin" over the wood frame. I don't have any pictures during the process (my hands were full), but it went like this. First we (my brother and I) removed the rear wheels and tires and then the 2 of us slid the body over the wood beginning at the rear of the car and working forward until the body was correctly seated on the wood framework. After we were happy with the fit, we nailed the metal to the wood around the perimeter of the shell. This was NOT the way I was told to do this job. It was described to me that I should replace the wood from inside the body without removing it and to drill through the body (and later repair it) to gain access to multiple blind fasteners. I did not want to create more bodywork to do nor did I relish the idea of welding metal right next to wood, so we tried the tactic described previously and are totally happy with the results.

Thanks. Happy to share my experiences. I hope it may educate and / or help others also.

Then I installed the drip trough under the rumbleseat lid.

After welding the tops of the windshield posts back on the cowl, we fit it over the wood structure for the last time and nailed it to the wood.

Added a little recess to the firewall so that the distributer could be removed for service if necessary.