[66bonne]

Being a 65/66 Big Car PontiManiac I have to chime in again. These cars make excellent, eye-catching cruisers with power to spare. You are right in that you will not find as much written about the Big Cars as you will the GTOs and Firebirds. For me, part of the appeal of the big cars is just that, there aren't that many around. If you go to a Pontiac show you are likely to see at least a dozen GTOs for each Big Car. As far as performance goes it is easy to do anything from mild to wild with a Pontiac motor. As a side note, one of the nice things about Pontiacs is that you can put virtually any Pontiac motor in any Pontiac model [there are some caveats though]. For example, i have a 1973 455 in my 65 Catalina, a 69 GTO 400 in my 66 Bonneville and a 74 400 from a Firebird] in my 65 Grand Prix. Another side note: Bonneville Joe makes an excellent point about the factory Long Branch headers. I have them on two of my cars and love them. If you go with tube headers you would have to install a floor shift as the column linkage will not clear the tube headers. Can you tell us any more about the car ? Is it running now? The Darkside is calling you, resistance is foolish. Have fun, Jim