This is my brothers 52 he left it to me when he died in July.

1952 Pontiac – Here is a picture of my baby, I live in Chicoutimi, Quebec.

1953 Pontiac – I bought the car about 5 1/2 years ago here in Australia, ive done a heap of ‘hidden’ resto on it like internals, door mechanisms, trim polishing ect. The doors are all done and ready to paint, as is the entire front clip. The Body is ready to be blasted and is off the chassis which is also ready for blasting. At the moment im restoring the front sus and steering and scoring some cool parts off ebay! I need to replace the front floor, boot floor and lower edge at the rear as well as the rear bottom of the rear quarters.. usual stuff. I’ll be keeping the original side valve 6 and want to put reverse chromies with wide whites on it. Glen (53 Chief).

Dave, this is the photo I told you I would send you when I got it uplded. well here it is, this car I bought for $25.00 and it was in this shape, with 14,000 miles on the car. wanted you to see it, you may put it on your web site if you want to, thanks roger

Also, if anyone thinks they may know where this car is (or ended up) please send an email to me or make a post as a comment. THANKS!

This is Richard’s 1952 Pontiac. He says it runs like a dream and only has 32,000 original miles!

Here’s a pic of my “Five-Two (1952) Silver Streak Sedan Delivery” running a ‘69 GTO 400V8, Turbo 400 At, Ford nine inch rear – pd disc brakes , tilt, ac , ps white — awaiting a red leather interior

John Folsom CA

I bought the car a week ago for $5250, which isn’t bad for what it is. Currently it still has the original straight 8 and hydra-matic with 57,000 orig miles. The interior is all there, just needs to be redone. The dash is beautiful and everything works. As you can see from the pics the chrome is in excellent shape, I just need to rechrome the grill and a few small items to make it perfect. I haven’t been able to find pics of any ‘52 pontiacs that have all the chrome options that this car has. I’m sure they are out there, but I haven’t found any as of yet, which makes me even happier. The more unique the better.

Thanks for the site, I would’ve never thought I’d find a site devoted to these cars. Great idea!!!

Thanks, Rusty

What my car looks like as of 7.26.07

Lighted hood ornament I purchased on ebay for $152!
What’s been done since the last update:

- New intake and exhaust manifold gaskets installed

- New fuel pump and rebuilt the carburator

- Had the starter professionally rebuilt, and installed new battery wires

- New points and plugs (put 10,000 miles on the last set… figured i’d put some new ones in)

- Found another distributor for the car and put that on it. Made a world of difference

- Found a very nice trunk handle, put that on the car (done this awhile back, not sure if I posted about it or not)

- New exhaust all the way back!

- Greased the front end

- New U-Joints

- Purchased a lot of manuals (Shop, Master Parts, Hydra-Matic, Paint Chips, etc…)

- Purchased and installed the lighted hood ornament

- Made some temporary seat covers using white sheets and pins (actually looks pretty good)

I’m sure there’s other stuff I left out of the list. I’v mainly been doing mechanical stuff…

I still haven’t decided what color I want to paint this car. I’m now leaning tword the Saturn Gold Metallic or the original color of my car; Mayflower blue. If you want to vote on a color for me to paint it, check out my forums as I have made a post there asking for opinions on what color to paint my car.
I’ll be posting more updates soon!

About a month later… Here’s the inside shot.

This picture was taken about a month after the previous image. This is at a car show at the drive in theatre in Meadow Bridge, West Virginia… And the last week it’d be PRIMER RED.

It took me 2 days to get the car ready to be painted. I had to fix the rust issue on the front around the drivers side park light… welded some new metal in there. I took all the chrome back off as well before we painted it. It’s “John Deere” Blitz Black – Flat Satin, not primer

I was over my friends when I took this picture. I love this car!

OH yeaaaaaaaaaah!

I was cruising down the road and decided to take a picture from my point of view.

And another… haha

An update on the parts list and where they come from:

- I found the headlight bezels in Tennessee (These are hard to find)

- The red “Pontiac” plastic insert (not seen in these pictures) was purchased out of Virginia along
with the two door chrome strips, and the fabric strap that bolts to the back of the front seat.

- Rocker stainless was purchased out of Pennsylvania.

- Blue dot original “50’s custom” tail lights were purchased for a whopping $120 bucks out of California, I put on an ebay fight for those!

- The grille was found locally, got a good deal on that. I also purchased the gas tank, gas tank straps, passenger side windshield, a park light housing, and the chrome mirror from the same guy. They were on a 51 Pontiac.

I think that’s it at the point of parts I bought wise…

I found this car (1951 Pontiac) about 20 miles from the house hiddin on a hill… This car had a really nice grille in it. I purchased the grille,
gas tank, gas tank straps, passenger side windshield, park light housing and the chrome mirror off this car.

This is the grille out of the blue car pictured in the previous picture. Very nice… will be rechromed one day though.

Taken the same time as the previous picture.

Remeber that big rust hole? ITS GONE!!! I cut the rust out, and fabricated a piece of metal and welded it in. Also for about 1″ of the rocker panel aswell. Turned out good

Oh yeah! Oh and I purchased a fully enclosed car port to keep the car in at this point… (why didn’t I think of this 2 months earlier?)

It’s coming together!