Vindication!!!

[Johnnywiffer]

An eon or so ago, when I joined SDC, I committed A, if not THE

Today, while sitting on the Throne, I was vindicated! According to Thomas Bonsall, author of PONTIAC They Built Excitement

Pontiac^nd color. That was the same year the grille was designed by someone whose mom MUST have been frightened, pre-natally, by an electric shaver.

If I understand correctly, this is a Starlite






So, while I

John

[8E45E]

An eon or so ago, when I joined SDC, I committed A, if not THE

Today, while sitting on the Throne, I was vindicated! According to Thomas Bonsall, author of PONTIAC They Built Excitement

Pontiac^nd color. That was the same year the grille was designed by someone whose mom MUST have been frightened, pre-natally, by an electric shaver.

If I understand correctly, this is a Starlite

Looks like a Pontiac Safari Transcontinental to me!! We discussed that particular Pontiac wagon here: http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.c...anscontinental

Craig

[Johnnywiffer]

Looks like a Pontiac Safari Transcontinental to me!! (snip) Craig

---with the Starlite trim option?

John

[junior]

---with the Starlite trim option?

John

here is a reference to STARLITE colors ...

http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/ebay/images/2013/271280727643.jpg

[8E45E]

---with the Starlite trim option?

Now THAT just might have driven the price of it higher than a Packard Clipper Country Sedan of the same year!!

Perhaps BP's Standard Catalog of American Cars has that info in it.

Craig

[Johnnywiffer]

Pontiac car could have the Starlite trim option.The Starlite was NOT a model. The station wagon in the picture at start of this thread IS a MODEL with, it appears. the Starlite TRIM OPTION.

MODEL not a trim option.

Pontiac Starlite trim option with roof, spear and body in THREE different colors! Paint shop pandemonium!

John

[8E45E]

[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=red][FONT=Comic Sans MS]MODEL not a trim option.

I disagree on that. The Starlight name denoted one particular body style, which we all know was available in both Commander and Champion models.

Craig

[Johnnywiffer]

YOU are exactly right. However, the poin't I have been trying to make was that, as i said as simply as possible, the '57 Pontiac Starlite was not a model (or for that matter, a body style). It was a trim option. And it was spelled the way I originally spelled "Starlight".

Sheesh!! I wish I hadn't started THIS one!!

John