cdnpont wrote:

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Could this be the same car?
Possibly the photog's?

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You have a sharp eye Mark, that 62 appears in about a dozen shots, you are probably on the money.

With a sweet Pontiac like that he was probably like us back then, right into Ponchos, might explain why there are so many in the shots besides being a popular car.

I also notice that there are tons of post cars both 2dr and 4dr. That is consistent with my memory because the hardtops cost extra or were on the top of the line models.


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cdnpont wrote:

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 Kudos and thanks to Fred for exposing the Toronto archive link!

I wonder if it would be worth it to gather all of these great links into a sticky?

That is a nice sittin' wagon isn't it, although it could be somewhat due to the camera lense's perspective. Looks like a 2 door. Would that be rare?

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  Sure looks like a 2 door wagon to me....And yes, it would be rare...Probably rarer today than it was then...

No doubt these cars were popular in Canada - in many years of the 60s Pontiac was the best selling car in Canada. But the collector car market is driven by the US market, and as you know they generally know very little about Canadian Pontiacs in the US. Plus I'm not sure the Canadian cars  would appeal, when you recognize that in Canada GM put the wide track Pontiac body on the narrow Chevy chassis, and the fit wasn't right, at least up until 65. It wasn't as noticeable on the 61 & 62 models but if look at the 59-60s and the 63-64s, there was lots of space in the wheel wells because the track was a full 2 - 3 inches narrower than the comparable US Pontiacs. Part of what made the US Pontiacs so sharp looking was the way they sat over the chassis with the wide track. I love both US & Canadian cars, but I don't see the Canadian models catching on in the US in a big way, other than maybe some of the rare 409, 396 or 427 cars.

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Wow, outstanding job! I can see a lot of unique Canadian models like Canadian Pontiacs (very popular in the day) and Mercury trucks. Toronto's TTC still has TONS of those old buses in service because of a decry back when Bob Rae was the premier that no new buses would be purchased unless they were able to handle disabled passengers. Since a bus meeting those specs didn't exist at the time, the TTC set up their shops to handle complete refurbishing of there existing buses. Those old GMCs were produced from 1959 - 1977 and I still see them every day.

Here's a link to a picture I scanned from a Hamilton Chamber of Commerce brochure that was printed late 1969. Although it is distant in the picture you can see a 1969 Firebird parked at the Bay Street service entrance to HMP (Hamilton Motor Products). They sold Pontiac - Acadian - Beaumont - Buick -Cadillac - Epic (Canadian Vauxhaul).

I have a really neat (to me) 1965 Ford - Mercury truck brochure that shows 3 new trucks taken at the old Exibition Stadium, then inside it shows a fleet of milk trucks (in the foreground is THE VERY milk truck that came by my house from the 1960s through 1978, brand new!). There are also pictures of a new Simpson's truck and some new Reihmer trucks (same paint scheme to this day). There is also a picture of 2 dockside tilt cabs that appear to have been taken at Stelco Steel in Hamilton, 1 truck appears to be a CN truck.

That is the old Mutual Street offices and store. My Dad used that parking lot for Leaf games at Maple Leaf Gardens, just a short walk north to the cash box on Carlton at Church. We had seasons tickets from 1967/68 -1974/75, while his boss was transferred to Vancouver.

I love the 55-56 Pontiac sedan delivery, and the old Meteor Cab

Are the signs on the top of the buildings big enough? That Toronto Dominion sign is HUGE. You don't see those anymore. Must be bylaws against them..

Its not a Taxi     it is a experimental space ship    runs on French Fries

69Laurentian wrote:

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That first cab behind the Olds convertible has wierd headlights.

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That is the front view of a 1961 Meteor. The dual headlights are widely spaced in much the same way many 1967 Oldsmobiles also used. The turn signals were still in the front bumper. I think they used some stylized 4-pointed star between the lights.

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Ahead of the "spare tire hump" Valiant (that's Chrysler Valiant in Canada back before 1963) there is the rear view of a 1961 Mercury Meteor. That car is a stylized Ford that was sold as a low cost Mercury at Mercury dealers in Canada.



I love that fleet of 1959 & 1960 Chevrolet Viking & Spartan "Simpson" trucks plus the lone Ford N-series & the Ford Panel. The building in the background says "Simpson Sears". Meanwhile in the U.S. it was "Sears Roebuck"

It's funny how old some of those pictures look, but one picture appears to be on Woodbine between Kingston & Danforth, and it looks just the same today. One thing that is different is that there's a lot more traffic now, plus life isn't in black & white (figuratively and literally  )


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