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!

I am going to try my best to describe along with the images what was done at the point it was taken. For some reason
I didn’t take pictures of the actual work being done, never thought to? But I did take pictures of the finished work.
My car has NO bondo at all in it filling any holes. A little was used to cover over light pitting and to smooth welds, but other
than that it’s ALL METAL

And the story starts:

I found this car listed in the local trading paper listed as a 1953 Pontiac. I called and decided to check it out.
Once I pulled into the lady’s driveway, dad wanted to leave right then because what he saw is what you see in the first picture.
It looked rougher than it actually was though, I convinced him that I was doing the work and he wasn’t so I looked at it and knew
from first glance it WASN’T a ‘53, but rather a 52 because of the body style and split windshield which changed in 1953 to a solid wind
shield and a body style similar to the 53 Chevy.

I bought the car as seen, it had no wheels on the front, the drums were buried 4″ in the ground. Most chrome was there, but missing pieces
were the 2 strips for the drivers side door, rocker stainless, hand strap for the back seat, and the sending unit for the gas tank, the person
threw away… gas tank was really rusty. The back of the car was blocked up with jack stands. It was a project alone to just get the car out
of there.

This is what the car looked like the day I bought it.

I took the rims that were laying beside it in the first picture home
and mounted some tires and went back and dug the car out of the dirt and
put them on it.

Here’s a back shot

There was a lot of junk in the interior of the car.

This is the original 268 Straight eight, and still has the Hydromatic transmission.