This is Craig’s 1952 Pontiac Chieftain. He says it’s still a work in progress.

Here are the pictures of the 1949-1952 Pontiac’s as seen in the Pontiac Shop Manual.

I picked me up this set of hubcaps back in July, I’m not sure exactly what year they are, but I like them. I got them at the friends of coal auto fair swap meet for $25. They were so dirty you could barely make out the Pontiac scripting on them.
I also took the fender [...]

Well after dealing with a stubborn fuel issue (Which turned out to be my fuel tank) I decided to pull out the old Flatty out and drop in my rebuilt 268 Straight Eight and 54 Hydra-matic transmission. The new engine is basically stock, but it is bored .060 over to a 278. Over all the [...]

Here are a bunch of stills taken from an old dealer promotional film. The pictures aren’t the best, but still interesting to look at.

Picked her up for $1000. Came with 5 new coker white wall 7.10×15’s, a new master cylinder, wheel cylinders, shoes, and brake hardware. All the trim, the grill and bumper that is removed in the pic, was in the car. The engine has been machined, but not assembled due to the machine shop finding [...]

Here is the 1956 Edition of the Pontiac Master Parts Catalog.

Here is the Pontiac Interchangeable Parts manual. This is for Pontiac’s from 1935-1952.

Here are some very interesting videos that show the building/assembly of a brand new 49-52 Pontiac.

Here’s an update on my interior… June 2009 – It took me about 4 years to get around to doing this, but I finally bought the materials to put together some…