The current sutuation with my two Pontiacs

This is the story of my two 1939 Pontiacs. I have started this web log to record the history of the cars until now and to capture the step by step developments going forward. Currently I own two unrestored 1939 Pontiacs which are in storage at my beach holiday house. Both vehicles are sick and not mobile. After a bit of recent soul searching and reflection I have decided it is now or never. I either need to restore the cars and save them from rusting into the ground, or I need to sell them and let somebody else rescue them from a rusty demise. I have decided to do the rescue work myself. This blog is to record how I get on.

The first Pontiac I bought was the black one which was about 30 years ago when I was much younger. When I first bought it it was green in colour and remained that way for some years until friend decided to get married and then it was given a new black paint job. When I first purchased this car it was my everyday car although it was not that practical compared with modern cars. I then moved into a new job offering a company car and the old pontiac was then relegated to my sunday car. I kept it on the road for few more years until 1989 when I packed up and went to London to live for six years. The black Pontiac was assigned to my fathers farm shed where it was kept under cover for years I was away. When I returned from overseas in 1995 I keep the car running however it was not registered to drive on the road anymore. Then I transported it to my beach house in 2002 and there is sat until now. During the last 10 years it has not been started that often. It now has a loud knock in the engine and a leaking exhaust manifold so sounds very rough on the odd occasion I have managed to get it going over the last few years. So that is the Black Pontiac which I refer to as simply Pontiac number 1.

The second Pontiac, which I refer to as pontiac number 2, to was purchased about 10 years ago. I noticed the car for sale on an online auction site called trade me and thought it would be good to have a second car in case I needed some spare parts to restore Pontiac number 1. So Pontiac number 1 was transported to my beach house where is set alongside Pontiac 1 the last 10 years. Some work has been done on Pontiac 1 by the previous owner including the engine which was allegedly reconditioned. Pontiac II runs much better than Pontiac I however it does produce a lot of blue smoke out of the exhaust. Initially I put this down to fact that it had new rings fitted and the rings we're still bedding in however the longer I ran the car the worse the smokes got. Eventually I came to the conclusion there was something wrong with the engine and perhaps the previous owner had not done a very good job on renovating the engine.

So this is a very quick rundown of how I've got where i am now, however i'll go into more detail sometime in the future.