[Alvin]

I like the skirts just like Pontiac built them!

[Formulabruce]

Love it!! Thanks for the pics!

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 63gpman

Wow, that looks amazing!! (both the car and view)

x2!!

K

[Engine-Ear]

Originally Posted by Deadhead

... There are no '66 Safaris in US models. I have no idea why they dropped it for that year only. ...

What?? Can you clarify that, Bruce?

[barrierblue66]

Originally Posted by Deadhead View Post
... There are no '66 Safaris in US models. I have no idea why they dropped it for that year only. ...

Dang, I never noticed that! I looked at pix I took of a '66 Bonny wagon in Dayton, totally original so said the owner, NO Safari badge.

[Deadhead]

Originally Posted by Engine-Ear

What?? Can you clarify that, Bruce?

No 'Safari' badge on any 1966 wagons. Never seen anything in any marketing stuff or whatever to explain it. I just assumed that it had something to do with targeting the younger set they were pushing so hard to sell to. They had a Safari magazine they published, and I am not sure if that included '66 and beyond or not. I have never looked into it, but it would be interesting to know if they still had it and not the car.

I don't know much about '67 & up, but I thought I saw them with 'Safari' badges. Though I can not find one now!

[Engine-Ear]

thanks for the clarification!

[66 Wagon]

Originally Posted by Deadhead

That's a great photo. Nice view!

[66 Wagon]

For 1967 the Safari name reappeared. But only on the new Executive Safari and on one of the Tempest wagons.
Catalina, Bonneville were, as in 1966, called station wagon only. I haven't made any major research but I think that the Safari badge
only came with the wagons that had the side panel wood trim. And it seems that it goes for the 1968-69 wagons as well.

Here's a link to the 1967 wagons only full color brochure. Worth taking a look at, if you have missed it:

http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/stati.../dirindex.html

Buick called some of their wagons "Estate Car". Well, here's a Pontiac Estate

[Deadhead]

Originally Posted by 66 Wagon

That's a great photo. Nice view!

That's the Pontiac equivalent of the C-130 over the Shenandoah Valley.

[65 Cat 2+2]

Here's an update to Post #892 (p. 45) from 10/6/13:

My new 50-year old baby...
Any good divorce attorneys on-line? I just purchased another Pontiac at the Fall Carlisle auction, and the wife says it's her or the car.
'63 Cat stripper - the only options I can find on the car are an AM radio & day/night mirror. Appears to have the original 2BBL 389 with a 3-speed manual column shift. Doesn't even have an outside mirror (email me if you have one for sale).
I see a Super Duty clone in my future.

Several of you expressed an opinion that this very original car should not be molested. In the end, it worked out well for the purist crowd. I found out shortly after I bought the car that a friend of mine was selling the car that had inspired me to purchase the subject of the post. It is virtually a visual clone, but was already a turnkey drag race car. It is equipped with a bored/stroked 400, Kauffman aluminum heads, single 4BBL, Turbo 350. Dyno'd @ 610hp, has achieved 10.8's / 10.9's in 1/4-mile.
Long-story-short, in March I sold the Cat I had bought and purchased my friend's race car (pictures below).

In a previous incarnation:





Car at time of purchase:






In its new "warpaint"


On a separate note, I have been trying to contact the eventual buyer of the 3-speed '63 Cat that I sold in March. I have a copy of the original window sticker that I would be glad to pass along to them. If you own or know of this car, please email me.

[Deadhead]

Ran across this randomly. Had to share:

[brucee70]

I was searching thru some of my PHS documents this morning to respond to a 421 HO production # question on another thread. This is the picture of my 63 BonneSW as it appeared on Ebay in 2000. Walter Schroeder (original owner) was a car nut like all of us ...he researched all available equipment available in early 1963 and checked all the boxes we wish we could today ...421 HO, Auto, Console, Buckets, PW, PVents, AC, Speedwarning, Split Back Seat, Magic Cruise, Tilt, TI, Underhood Light, 8 Lugs, Tail Gate Window&Side Window Bug Screens, Cargo Lock, Luggage Rack, etc ... and ....radio delete.
When he died, his widow Giesel contacted a local man in Rosamond, CA to help her sell all of Walters Cars and equipment.
The 63 BonneSW was nicknamed "Baby" (etched on keys). It sat as pictured under a small tree on the 1950's motel property they owned since it last drove in 1971. They had traveled back to Austria that year and left "Baby" with someone they knew in town. That unknown to me person used and maybe abused "Baby" a little too much during the Schroeder's absence. The long straight roads in the California Desert must have been too tempting to that caretaker ...I'm sure "Baby's" horses were let loose that summer.
Very soon after Walter returned the engine was removed due to a bad knock (as relayed to me by Giesel when I purchased the car from the local seller).
The car sat in this condition until I found and moved "Baby" to Virginia. :-)

The Ebay ad read something like: "1963 Pontiac Station Wagon for sale"
I saw it was a Bonneville and had 421 emblems on the front fender ....I had to have it !! :-)

[brucee70]

Originally Posted by Engine-Ear

What?? Can you clarify that, Bruce?

My Station Wagons have the Following:

63 Bonneville SW - Yes Safari emblem
67 Bonneville SW - No Safari emblem
70 Bonneville SW - No Safari emblem
89 Safari SW - Yes ....;-) as the name implies ....!!

[Alvin]

Not my '65 but it belong here for a little trip down memory lane, yes?

[Alf ista]

Down the docks in Cork City. Some pics of my 64...

[2PLUSTWO]

My 1963 GP sold in the 90's.
My 1965 2+2 Owned for over 20 years.

[8LUG]

Originally Posted by Alf ista

Down the docks in Cork City. Some pics of my 64...

NICE!

[Alf ista]

Originally Posted by 8LUG

NICE!

Thanks 8lug
Hugh

[Marv]

My '62 Bonneville Vista HT after the fire and just before it was hauled off to become a bloke's lawn ornament:


The new, as taken by the previous owner: