Our October feature car is one of those "When did you last see one?" Ponchos. Mike Roth is the lucky owner of this super rare 1958 Pontiac Pathfinder Safari two door wagon. Mike accidentally stumbled onto this Pathfinder thanks to his job as a real estate agent. Other than a good clean up and a bit of interior work, this wagon is pretty much a survivor. Mike tells me he is on the lookout for the Pathfinder script for the passenger side. If you can help him out please PM me. Mike tells us more:

"Being a real estate agent I get to see some neat places and quite often I find interesting items in barns, sheds and garages. This March, I was showing a home in the country on a dead end road, and sitting in the driveway of the house next door was this 58 Pontiac Pathfinder Safari 2 door wagon with a snow bank on the hood.

I walked around it, scratched my head because I had never heard of such a car, went home and googled it, found out there were less than 800 built in Oshawa and that they weren't available in the US of A .  Also i couldn't find a real photo of a 58 2 door wagon on the web. Intrigued I went back a couple days later, found the owner and made a deal to buy the car.

The car spend the first 30 yrs of its life in BC, then it came to Ontario (apparently a 69 Mustang fastback got towed home with the wagon!), after that it changed hands a few times but basically sat in storage for many years. It has a 261 in line six with a 3 in the tree  and a 1 barrel Rochester carb.

It has about 87000 miles on it. After I bought it it spent about 3 months in the shop getting some much needed attention.

The interior cleaned up well, we put in new carpet, all new brakes, rebuilt carb, new rad, plugs, wires etc., fuel pump, and sending unit.

I put a clear coat over the patina and added chrome bullets to the original hubcaps and a set of bias ply white walls to finish it off.

Having lots of fun taking it to local car shows, it runs great! Thanks.Mike"