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1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible, Bucket Seats, Manual Transmission Restored on 2040-cars
Year:1958
Mileage:1000
Location:
United States
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1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible Tri-Power, Three on the Tree & 45 RPM Record Player Click on the arrow in the picture below to see video that
includes more photos. Double click on the arrow below to go to full screen. 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible
Before we tell you about this fabulous 1958 Pontiac
Bonneville convertible with bucket seats and tri-power a little history might
be in order.
After World War II Harley Earl started revamping each
division at General Motors using the Motorama cars as styling cues for each
division. As most people know he
started with Buick, then Cadillac and then Oldsmobile’s and Chevrolet to bring
these cars out of the pre-war design and into the fabulous post war Motorama
design for production cars. The
last one to get the treatment was Pontiac. For this division he put Bunkie Knudsen in charge to get Pontiac
on a roll. Bunkie Knudsen became a
vice-president of the company and general manager of Pontiac Division in 1956
and by 1957 his first major advanced car was the 1957 Pontiac Bonneville. This was followed in 1958 by his coup d'?tat his 1958 Pontiac Bonneville. Knudsen wanted this car to have everything that a dream
car/concept car could have but he wanted it in a production car and the
Bonneville got the treatment.
First of all, one of the most exquisite shell designs of the 1950s was
the 1958 Pontiac. To top this off
of course he picked out a convertible 1958 Pontiac Bonneville, then gave it
bucket seats, tri-power, lots of extra chrome trim, flipper hubcaps, passenger
side grab bar, less we forget he even went so far as to give the rear seats two
buckets instead of a bench seat.
WOW, all this made the Pontiac Bonneville
convertible really become a leading GM Pontiac dream car only he put it in
production. He just couldn’t stop
at any detail so when it came to the carpeting he had special carpeting made
with silver thread woven through out the carpet to make even the carpeting
‘show standard’ like the Motorama for the production Pontiac
Bonneville.
The car in this ad could be one of the rarest of
rare Pontiac Bonneville’s for many reasons but the main reason being that this
Pontiac Bonneville is a stick car with the three speed on the column. A Pontiac with an automatic
transmission was a real barnstormer but with the three speed manual on the
column in 1958 you could lay a 50 foot strip of rubber and we believe you could
out drag any other production American car in 1958. We were told that there were less then a dozen 1958
Bonnevilles with stick manual transmission and we have heard of only another
two or three that still exist…talk about rare!
The car that you see before you is almost representative of
the Pontiac brochure that used a white car with red and white bucket seat
interior and a red insert on the side.
Yes you could get the brochure car with the red insert but most people
prefer the solid color Pontiac so that the lines were not divided up. The car that is in this ad belongs to a
widow and she was told by her husband that he was the second owner of the
car. Her husband purchased the car
in the early 1980s. The car was
fully restored several years ago and could probably use a little sprucing up to
bring it back to top show quality condition.
Just take a look at the pictures and you will know that this
car is just a great example of how Bunkie Knudsen brought Pontiac out of the
stodgy stage and made it a real power player. Take a look at the beautiful red carpet with the silver
threads woven into it and the powerful tri-power and three on the tree manual
transmission and the very rare 45 RPM record player under the dash, you will
have plenty of bragging rights when you drive it into the car shows.
The widow has told us that her husband owned this car for thirty
years and thoroughly enjoyed driving it to shows. She said he never hesitated to drive it anywhere and they
enjoyed going to many car shows where it certainly got serious respect. Her husband kept it very well
maintained and was always garaged.
As you can see from the photos it went to many car shows and was driven
in many parades, even with Ronald McDonald. It is definitely a car to take out and
show off. The
odometer reading was not available at the time of listing and Ebay requires
something so we posted 1,000 miles – we will post an update with the odometer
reading once the widow provides us with this information.
The reserve is priced under market but please don’t
ask. We know that this is the type
of car that everybody wants to talk about but we are asking that serious
bidders give us a call but we will answer all emails. Very seldom do you see such a very authentic and such a fine
example of a 1958 Pontiac Bonneville, usually when you do they have bench seats
or have been hacked around and put together with pieces. This is a
car that creates pride of ownership and is an unusually rare opportunity in the
collecting world to find one this good in such a fabulous color scheme.
In the opinion of MissChiTown if you take a look at the design
in 1958 of most cars and especially with the overly chromed burdened GM cars
from the Buick and Oldsmobile divisions you will realize that the design for
the 1958 Pontiac Bonneville was not only GMs best designed car for 1958 but
probably the best designed 1958 American car overall. It is just hard to fault a fantastic 1958 Pontiac Bonneville
and we suggest that you bid with confidence on this car. XxXxXxX XxXxXxX XxXxXxX P l e a s e R e a d B e f o r e B i d d i n g "TERMS OF SALE" PLEASE READ ALL TERMS OF SALE PRIOR TO BIDDING CALL US AT 847-774-4857 with questions. 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. 7 days a week Do
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