My Top 10 Favourite Pontiacs

Named after a city in Michigan to which a defiant Indian Chief  gave his name to, General Motors founded it’s Pontiac division in the mid ’20s as an addition to the mid market, which would then in many years time, be a companion manufacturer to Chevrolet. In the early ’50s, people considered Pontiacs to be a bit mundane, but in the late ’50s, the firm changed it’s considerably dull image, into a maker of low slung, V8 performance cars, and as a result of this, achieved many stock car wins. Then in the mid ’60s, Pontiac, with the help of it’s then chief designer, John Z. Delorean, created  – what many fuel driven aficionados consider to be – the first proper muscle car, the GTO, for which the name was unashamedly borrowed from Ferrari. Then, in the late ’60s, the company came up with – who some might reckon to be the definitive Pontiac – the Firebird, which shared some of the underpinnings of it’s close cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro. Even though it is now dead, due to GM’s Chapter 11 reorganization in 2009, Pontiac still remains in the hearts of fans of American cars around the globe.

So here are my top 10 favourites from this legendary, but now gone American manufacturer.

Pontiac Banshee XP-833

Pontiac Bonneville Custom Fuel Injection Sport Coupe (1958)

Pontiac Catalina 2+2

Pontiac Chieftan Catalina Coupe (1956)

Pontiac Firebird 400 (1968)

Pontiac Grand Prix (1967)

Pontiac GTO Judge Ram Air IV (1970)

Pontiac Sloper

Pontiac Solstice GXP

Pontiac Ventura Super Duty 421 Hardtop Coupe