Absolute rarity! 1956 Pontiac two door wagon with V8

59paris · Addicted!

Absolute rarity! 1956 Pontiac two door wagon with V8

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Wow, would that be a sweet car in yellow and black and a 265.

norontcan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Bought new at Hogan Pontiac in Toronto.
Was a sharp looking car in it's day.

65Camino · Uber Guru

It's cheaper to buy an oil filter now........

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I wonder if this is what it looked like when new?

56 Pontiac 2dr wagon.jpg

You had a choice of a 261 six or 265 V8, the displacement is almost the same either way. U.S. cars had a 317 V8 that year only.

66 327 sd · Guru

Thank goodness its undercoted. Otherwise it might not have stood up so well.

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Just needs a little TLC.

Greaser · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Probably another one of those guys who refused to sell it for the last 50 years because he was going to

restore it one day..........sad...nothing left to restore.

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Sad.

long stroke · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

You just want to cry.

59paris · Addicted!

Why was this moved to the "cars for sale" section? This really was not meant as a car for sale discussion, I don't even have the info on the sellers. I posted this in the pre-1958 general discussion just because this is such a rare car.

seventy2plus2 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

In the bottom photo (just above the bill of sale) notice the tail light configuration, or more importantly the body that the tail light housing goes in. It's 1955 Chevy. From what I understand, the 1956 Pontiac wagons used the 1955 Chevy body, and rigged up those tail light housings. Totally different tail lights than other 1956 Pontiacs.

-- Edited by seventy2plus2 on Monday 18th of March 2019 05:39:22 PM

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

seventy2plus2 wrote:
In the bottom photo (just above the bill of sale) notice the tail light configuration, or more importantly the body that the tail light housing goes in. It's 1955 Chevy. From what I understand, the 1956 Pontiac wagons used the 1955 Chevy body, and rigged up those tail light housings. Totally different tail lights than other 1956 Pontiacs.

-- Edited by seventy2plus2 on Monday 18th of March 2019 05:39:22 Pm

55 Chevy taillights actually fit. I was amazed to see the Pontiac taillights intact, has to be be a very difficult piece to source nowadays.

bjburnout · Uber Guru

65Camino wrote:
It's cheaper to buy an oil filter now........

That would have been the auxiliary oil filter option and lines. Some if not all 265 V8 did not have an oil

filter app in the block so you could buy a similar attachment that was used on the 6 cyl.

I believe the oil filter app originated on the 283 V8 in 1957 but have read on some forums it originated

on the 56 265. Some 265 left overs from 1955 (sans outlet) could have found their way into the 56s.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Reminds me of the '60 Pontiac that I found in 1993 hidden by the brush alongside a busy road. Had driven by it for years and did not know it was back there. This area was cleared and a car dealership was built on the site within a couple years of taking these pics...

Here is the location on Google maps:

https://goo.gl/maps/RRC8kdDfSsj

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7008701,-63.6074429,172a,35y,39.46t/data=!3m1!1e3

long stroke · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

MC wrote:
Reminds me of the '60 Pontiac that I found in 1993 hidden by the brush alongside a busy road. Had driven by it for years and did not know it was back there. This area was cleared and a car dealership was built on the site within a couple years of taking these pics...

Here is the location on Google maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/RRC8kdDfSsj
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.7008701,-63.6074429,172a,35y,39.46t/data=!3m1!1e3

Another sad crime.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Well, I found it in 1993, and by the way it had sunk into the ground and generally disintegrated, I figured it must have been sitting there for 15 - 20 years, which would have made it a 13 - 18 year old car when it was abandoned... a used car basically.

Seems like less of a tragedy when you consider that most cars of its vintage would have been used, abused and had long been crushed by the time I took pics of it.

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Ive got a pic of a 59 chev in similar condition, near 103 exit to Liverpool.

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Then there's Palmers in Wentworth (pics from 1996)...

61 Pontiac FR.JPG

66 Parisienne fender.JPG

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

A 1/2 KM down the road from me in the woods ('55 Dodge Mayfair):

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

It is supposed to look like this:

'55 Dodge Mayfair 2.jpg

'55 Dodge Mayfair.jpg

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Hey Darryl, I heard there's an old Studebaker pickup buried under the Irving on the bypass.

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Canadian Poncho wrote:
Hey Darryl, I heard there's an old Studebaker pickup buried under the Irving on the bypass.

A PEI time capsule like Miss Belvedere?

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

In probably about the same condition!

long stroke · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Since we are posting sad photos of cars here. Here are a few more from Minakers in the Picton area of Ontario. These photos were taken from 1987 to 1997.