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49 Pontiac

Blackhole49

Blackhole49

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White Lake MI
I posted a month ago about moving under its own power a month ago. While there are still a few things to do in the interior, It is ready for the road. First picture is 4-11. Rest are today.
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You forgot the 'Fleetline' label. Very Nice. I got my drivers licence in a 1950 Pontiac 4 dr sedan. Flathead 6.
 
My father bought one very similar back In the 1960s!!! ! I think it was a 51 or 52 2 dr fast back!!! It had a straight 8 cylinder flat head with hydramatic transmission!!!! Was quite a tank!!
 
i like it, and the push bumper. no power steering on that. cigar lighter an option, lol.
 
Nice!

Original paint?

Does the hood raise from either side on that one?

The turn signal and shifter reversed from the typical position?

A glass prism on the dash to see the signal light blocked by the sun visor?

A very cool car!
 
when I was senior in high school dad decided my next younger brother and I needed a car 49 Pontiac straight 8 with 3 on the tree .
 
The first car I remember my parents had was a green 1950 Pontiac. Looked just like that one. It was the early 50s
 
Buick hoods of the vintage could be opened from either side but not Pontiacs which opened from the front.

Turn signals on left. Shifter on right.

Dash prisms only if aftermarket.

Dean
 
WOW she's a beauty.
My first car at 16 was a 1951 Chieftian Deluxe two door coupe gray over white.
Straight eight with hydramatic.
Got it from my Godfather who bought it new in Atlanta, think it was from
Boomershine Pontiac. Wish I still had it, (kids at 16 are stupid)
Thanks for posting, gajack
 
Keith mentioned in his reply 'fastbacks', and it appears as such although I don't think that term was around in '49. But there must have been some descriptive term that GM used for the body style, anyone remember what it might have been? VEry cool ride ..... I like it !!!
 
You're right,I know that fastback was a more modern term,but I just don't know what else to call it.I know the car makers had their own model names for them,but I don't know if there was a name around then to describe the style.People do understand the term fastback,even though the term hadn't even been invented at the time.
 
(quoted from post at 08:26:14 05/09/22) Nice!
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amily's first new car. Green 1950, replaced 1941 Ford. By 1957 the engine gave up & being a junkyard sixteen year old, I swapped in a 1949 Olds V8 and rolled it on trial run on gravel road. Hitched a ride home , got the wrecker and towed it back to the yard and put it in the yard with all the junkers, I guess hoping parents wouldn't notice. Mom saw it being backed into the yard from kitchen window & came out in a panic. Too late to panic now, see I'm ok, Mom.
 
My older sister dated and married a guy with one of those, same year model and appointments, black coupe in about 1958 which made it a pretty new car. I thought it was gorgeous. Don't ever remember riding in it, but I do remember looking at that 8 cylinder and thought it was huge....under that long hood.
 
Very nice! and it will still run after an electromagnetic pulse burns out all the computers and makes new cars a useless pile of scrap.
 
Had it painted 22 years ago. In the first pic, you'll see the hood raises from the front. Signal the same as now, 3 on the tree. No prism. When I sit in it, the front edge of the visor is even with the top of the windshield.
 
I'm just getting back to the post today. Looks like you've got all the questions answered, thanks. Sorry for the duplicate responses. 3 on the tree.
 
I agree. My son who prodded (then helped) me finish it after sitting in the barn for 22 years (I've had it for 24 and went like gangbusters for 2 years) disagrees. But now that it's his car, he's not so sure. It has turned into a wonderful father and son project.
 
Here's one currently on a website auction .... Hemmings Motor News (see link below) ...... has a reserve price, as I type this not much of a bidding war going on. The one at auction is two years newer and mildly customized I guess one might say. I prefer the one in the original post here over the auction one. Nothing beats originality in my books.
51 Pontiac at Hemmings Online Auction
 
When I was about 8 YO (1948) my GF bought that car in the Buick stable. A 4dr fastback Maroon Roadmaster. Grey velour inside. Rode like a big land yacht, and with limited visibility out the windows for a sm all kid it was instant car sick for me which was pickup only riding for me.
 
The first car I remember my parents had was a green 1950 Pontiac. Looked just like that one. It was the early 50s
 
dad had a 50 that broke me on that kind forever, but one grandfather never drove anything else. to each his own I guess
 
(quoted from post at 02:38:17 05/09/22) Those GM fastbacks are one of the few cars that look much better in the 4 door version than the 2 door.
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I was going to say the same thing! Back in the 50s when I first started to drive, there were very few 4 door cars us young guys would even give a second look....this one was one of those!
 
I remember the visors. You pull up to a red light and can't see it turn green. So somebody invented this little plastic hootus that you put on you dash and through a prison type lens it reflects a picture of the signal light.
 
That is a beautiful Pontiac. My uncle had a 53 when i was a kid but I can't remember much about it except from pictures. In the early seventies I worked for a neighbour that a nice 52 Pontiac coupe with the flathead six and powerglide. I got to drive it once in a while and I truly regret not buying it from the owner when it was retired.
This is a photo of my uncle's Pontiac in 1961. Yes, thats my dad's Merc in the background. At least I still have that one.
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