1951 Pontiac Chieftain

59Impala · Post by **59Impala** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:14 pm

Lovely car, I do like me a Pontiac. A friend had a very nice '50 convertible in black with a red leather interior. Mind you it went quite well with the 400ci V8 taken from a wrecked '67 GTO. This was done in the 70's in Texas, the convertible was in a breaker's yard and I guess that the original running gear was knackered. Some guy bought it and the GTO's engine and box and put it in the '50, apparently he drag raced it for a while. Some years later it made its way to England. May have a photo of it somewhere.....

59Impala · Post by **59Impala** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:35 pm

Here is the '50 ragtop in the company of a '55 Cadillac and a moody '59 Impala, no idea who owns that

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PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:46 pm

Okay yeah.. I've seen pictures of 925 UXL before, it's a really nice car.

59Impala · Post by **59Impala** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:48 pm

It is nice, he sold it a while ago. It's still on the original drum brakes mind so you need your wits about you with the morons on the road these days.

PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:49 pm

59Impala wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:48 pm It is nice, he sold it a while ago. It's still on the original drum brakes mind so you need your wits about you with the morons on the road these days.

Mine too. They stop it just fine.

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PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:41 pm

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Couple brand new tail light lenses arrived in the mail today. I cleaned them up because there was decades of "sitting on a shelf" dirt inside them. Ultrasonic bath worked a treat.

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Fitted them and they're a fair bit brighter, as you might imagine. This might help prevent people from not seeing the lights when I brake.

Phil

Post by **paulplom** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:50 am

Ideas?
https://classiccarwalls.blogspot.com/20 ... light.html

PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:55 am

paulplom wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:50 am Ideas?
https://classiccarwalls.blogspot.com/20 ... light.html

That's not bad, would sit in the rear window fairly well. I'll have to dig about and see- either really visible like that looking like something out of a city diner, or the opposite, something really hidden away.

Phil

Post by **paulplom** » Fri Apr 30, 2021 5:06 am

You can get super bright tiny leds nowadays. They'd be very hard to see unless you knew they were there.
Anything's better than being rear ended, ooer.

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