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Mary


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do the canadian pontiacs v-8s have pontiac or chev stamped on the valve covers   Thanks

I am doing a 55 pontiac but using a 265 chev engine wondering what was on the 55 pontiac engine 



-- Edited by Mary on Tuesday 12th of December 2017 11:18:00 AM

Thanks everyone for all the postings now I know what I am looking for



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Deleted my post because I had given wrong information!

-- Edited by Carl Stevenson on Tuesday 12th of December 2017 11:34:31 AM

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Never Chev. There are mid to late '50s valve covers that are stamped Pontiac and other than that they are stickers.



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Pontiacanada wrote:

Never Chev. There are mid to late '50s valve covers that are stamped Pontiac and other than that they are stickers.




Really, have we seen those here? Rats, I'm wrong again! I thought they were all decals on the 283 and 265.

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Early ones in 1955, 56, and possibly 57 had stamped pontiac lettters, similar in style to the chevrolet ones.

Othewise all canadian built chevys and pontiacs had smooth plain covers with decals that resembled the stamped US ones.

Here is an example of the painted chev ones.

also the decals always had a black rectangualar border on both the pontiac and chevrolet versions



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Johnnee's picture looks like just a decal. Is it actually raised?

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Sure enough.

No excuse other than my brain hasn't been the same ever since I had a F**d in my garage for a week.

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My neighbour has a very original 265 Pontiac engine and those covers only have decals. Go figure.

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I have a pair of the raised / stamped Pontiac covers on the wall .. staggered bolt pattern. 

Don't come across them often. 



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i have had a couple sets over the years,  i think i sold at least  one set on here.

I believe the pontiac raised letter covers would only have come staggered bolt if i am correct?



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rabbit64cs wrote:

I have a pair of the raised / stamped Pontiac covers on the wall .. staggered bolt pattern. 

Don't come across them often. 

 Yup,raised and staggered...have 1 on the shelf. Did they come on later model heads(un staggered) or was that decal only?



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I am betting there are no standard bolt pattern covers with the raised lettering. Pretty sure that was early on only.

I was wrong once before.

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

I am betting there are no standard bolt pattern covers with the raised lettering. Pretty sure that was early on only.

I was wrong once before.

Correct. 



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We got lucky found a set from the guy i bought the car from

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I was lucky last week to find a nice set of original 1959-1963 ones with the Pontiac decals still on them.

 

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