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Charlie A 11-03-2012 10:09 AM

Sedan Deliveries
 
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/a...4/DSC02091.jpg

Found this on the HAMB.
I NEVER knew Pontiac built a sedan delivery.

Hemi Moose 11-03-2012 01:58 PM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
You sure don't see to many of those old sedan deliveries around anymore, but there used to be a ton of them back in the junior stock days...anyone here want to guess whose old sedan delivery this was.

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/u...1/DSC00212.jpg

Dennis P Chapman 11-03-2012 04:35 PM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose (Post 354786)
You sure don't see to many of those old sedan deliveries around anymore, but there used to be a ton of them back in the junior stock days...anyone here want to guess whose old sedan delivery this was.

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/u...1/DSC00212.jpg

George Curton

Wayne W 11-04-2012 12:22 AM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlie A (Post 354769)
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/a...4/DSC02091.jpg

Found this on the HAMB.
I NEVER knew Pontiac built a sedan delivery.

It's a Canadian Pontiac (Chevrolet) and would have been 283 powered like this 57.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r.../57Pontiac.jpg

And under the hood was probably a 220 hp 283 Pontiac engine . Here's an underhood pic of a 57.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...57/Pontiac.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r.../57Engines.jpg


Here's a 56.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ize_resize.jpg

ss wannabee 11-04-2012 01:17 AM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
Wow, these are certainly "firsts" for me!

One item I noticed missing in the powertrain lineup is the "base" V-8 engine for '57
here in the States, the 265/162 hp 2-bbl.

Believe it was the combo in the Neja Bros. wagon....

Rich Biebel 11-04-2012 08:13 AM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
I never knew about those Canadian Pontiac sedan deliveries either...

The Pontiac Safari wagons were pretty std wagons and they did build some in '57 that were similar to a Chevy Nomads......I used to see one in my town and wanted to buy it to make into a tow vehicle.

My first car was a hand me down 55 Pontiac.....

Wayne W 11-04-2012 09:44 AM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ss wannabee (Post 354877)
Wow, these are certainly "firsts" for me!

One item I noticed missing in the powertrain lineup is the "base" V-8 engine for '57
here in the States, the 265/162 hp 2-bbl.

Believe it was the combo in the Neja Bros. wagon....

I'm not sure if the 265 was offered in 57 Pontiacs. GM must have used the Chevy facts in their info because the Pontiacs had a 261 6 cyl engine and not the 235 .

Wayne W 11-04-2012 09:51 AM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel (Post 354885)
I never knew about those Canadian Pontiac sedan deliveries either...

The Pontiac Safari wagons were pretty std wagons and they did build some in '57 that were similar to a Chevy Nomads......I used to see one in my town and wanted to buy it to make into a tow vehicle.

My first car was a hand me down 55 Pontiac.....

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...MC-SD1-214.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/BobW57/P2.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/BobW57/P1.jpg

Rich Biebel 11-04-2012 11:41 AM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
This must be where the idea of putting a "hydro" behind a Chevy in a sedan delivery came from originally. Ads like that kind of linked GMC with passenger type cars.....and engines and transmissions got interchanged...

I can recall the logic when me and my racing partner first built our '57 Chevy sedan delivery in about 1965.....Sedan deliveries were "trucks"......Add a truck trans behind a Chevy HP engine.......must be legal and NHRA OK'ed it for a few years........Just like the over the counter stuff they also allowed....and 4 speeds in cars that never came with them....

GMC trucks mixed and matched engines and transmissions....

We had a '58 or '59 GMC ramp truck that we built from one we found laying dormant in the backyard of a truck shop.....We re-built this truck in 1969 to haul our Chevy II stocker...

It had a Pontiac engine in it......330 something cubic inch sidedraft 2 barrel with a manual trans.....

I drove that old tanker to a lot of tracks in 1970-1971....The engine was pretty strong. after I swapped a new style carb on it.....Never any problem with it.....

Wayne W 11-04-2012 12:16 PM

Re: Sedan Deliveries
 
Lots a neat stuff out there. You should have tried getting an original 1966 Malibu SS 283 car through tech. They tried telling me SS cars were all Big Block powered. :confused: In 1976 Larry Lombardo took a second look, I guess he had never saw one. :)


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