I'm a member of Flickr, which is a photo site, and there is a fellow on there who worked for GM in Oshawa. He has a wealth of photos of right hand drive cars in the UK, South Africa and Europe, including a lot of Canadian Pontiacs. I will post the link to his photostream, but please don't put his photos on this site without his permission. It's a touchy thing with photographers. Anyway, here's the link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/45904802@N08/
Thanks, John
PS, it'll take a few hours to look at them.
-- Edited by StriperSS on Wednesday 17th of November 2010 10:05:53 PM
I have never met the guy, but have dialogued with him starting some 15 years ago? He has written a lot on rhd cars. He also wrote about the last B Body cars built at Oshawa, with photos.
reminds me of a car a car that I think should not exist! I contacted the then Ford of Canada Historian at Oakville, Sandra Notarianni, and she looked up the date on a rhd British import 1965 Galaxie 500XL convertible. It had body number 15 I think. A paper was found in the car advising that it was to be dropped on to a chassis after car # 1364 or similar. It seems that the body was a Galaxie 500XL Convertible and served as an 'ideas' buck: Sandra told me that there was no such car in '65 in series production. It then had a rhd dash added and was added to a chassis after the line had started, to 'use it up'. The photo I have seen of a '65 rhd suggests that they had a Lincoln dash! I always thought it was a Ford one transposed.It was then shipped to Lincoln Cars Limited in west London, England, and sold on. This was typical of the time of 'waste no want not' with early bodies being used-up and exported as high-dollar earners.
-- Edited by Oracle on Thursday 18th of November 2010 08:05:36 AM
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settles the argument: Canadian Pontiacs used the Chevy '55 dash in 1955 and '56 in 1956 and 1957 whereas US rhd Pontiacs used the '55 and '56 in 1955 and 1956/57 respectively.
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