Welcome to the site from Calgary.

You've got yourself a great classic Canadian car in great shape to start work from.

Yes just about everything Chevy of that year  will fit nicely...

George our resident 57 specialist will (I'm sure) give you all the advice you need in that regards.

-G

That is indeed a real nice original find. I must ask, where did you find fourteen inch whitewalls? Looks like most of the hard to find parts are there, windsheilds are cheap and I see tailight lenses at  swap meets regularly. Unfortunately any dog dish hubcaps I've ever found are beat to crap, almost as hard to find as good rear bumper caps. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Greaser wrote:

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Welcome to the site from Calgary.

You've got yourself a great classic Canadian car in great shape to start work from.

Yes just about everything Chevy of that year  will fit nicely...

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 Great, thanks Greaser! So a 57 Chevy windshield will drop right in? That's the first thing I'll be fixing, I may as well get one ASAP!

pontiax wrote:

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Welcome from Winnipeg. 

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 Thanks Pontiax! I'm actually from Winnipeg originally, have lived in Regina since 1993. Still get back there once in a while to visit family.

Canadian Poncho wrote:

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Welcome aboard. Be sure to keep us posted on your resurrection!

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 I'll definitely do that, thanks!

cranks38 wrote:

Welcome neighbour! I'm also in Regina and I'll keep an eye out for the items you seek.

 Thanks Vern!

Cheviac wrote:

That is indeed a real nice original find. I must ask, where did you find fourteen inch whitewalls? Looks like most of the hard to find parts are there, windsheilds are cheap and I see tailight lenses at  swap meets regularly. Unfortunately any dog dish hubcaps I've ever found are beat to crap, almost as hard to find as good rear bumper caps. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Thanks Cheviac! Actually the whitewalls were on the car when I bought it. The story there is that the current owner bought the car 6 or 7 years ago, but never got around to doing anything with it, other than putting tires under it (so he could more easily move it around I suppose). It's been sitting ever since. Someone removed the heater housing & fan motor at some point, as well as the hubcaps I guess, so those items are missing. Not surprised the wheelcovers are so hard to find, first thing to get beat up when you drive around, especially on gravel roads in the country, as I'm sure this one has! Hopefully I'll never need to find bumper caps.

Welcome from Southern Ontario Luc. 

Nice to see another 50's CP represented.

Luc, a hardy welcome aboard from Milton, Ontario. I am always happy to help a fellow 57 Pontiac follower. As you know you have a Canadian Pontiac so when you order mechanical parts always ask for 1957 Chevy parts and not 57 Pontiac parts. After all your 57 Pontiac Pathfinder is a 57 Chevy in disguise. The windshield as you know is the same for a 57 Chevy but it has to be a sedan windshield. There is a difference of one inch in height between the sedan and hardtop front windshield. The blower motor is the same as a 57 Chev and you can buy them new reproductions. The coil is standard 12 volt for GM applications. The brakes front and rear are 57 Chev and you can get everything anywhere. The small hub caps and full size wheel covers are Canadian Pontiac specific as far as fit on the 57 Chev rim. They look the same as the American counterpart but have a different way to mount on the rim. The small caps came standard on your model but the full wheel covers were offered as an accessory on your model. The front parking lenses, the front plastic hood emblem and the interior light lens was offered as new reproduction items from AMES PONTIAC in the U.S. but i am not sure if they are still out there. Try AMES and CALIFORNIA PONTIAC for some lenses but of course they will not offer any Canadian specific items. By the way ALL the lenses are the same between Canadian and American models. Luc, good luck with your 1957 Pontiac Pathfinder sedan and if you need any more help or information, please do not be shy. By the way you are going to love C.P. Cheers. 

Welcome to the site and congrats on your new beautiful car!

I like the way it looks as is, and if I had it I would do the same that you are planning, get it in good functional state and drive it!

Love everything about it, the colour is great, and I'm a sucker for the base model cars.

Keep us posted with your progress!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

I picked up my new to me car this morning & took it to my buddy's farm, where we gave it a good once over. It's even better than I thought originally! Everything seems completely untouched & all of it is in reasonably good condition.

As luck would have it, the guy I bought it from had sourced a number of parts for the car, so I got about $400 of parts for $250, great deal! Included was: a set of Canadian Pontiac hubcaps, the original hubcaps (very beat up - basically wall hangers), a set of NOS taillight lenses, a set of rear view mirrors (the originals are broken, right one is missing) and a Pontiac emblem for the right fender (half of the one on the car is missing as it stands).

Thanks for offering to part with the set you have on hand Jerry, but I'm good for now, I appreciate it though!

George, I'll definitely speak to Todd about a feature at some point, I'm documenting everything I'm doing to the car, so I'll have pictures of it if/when the time comes. And thanks for all the info, your reputation precedes you, the rest of the group mentioned you'd be along with a ton of good info & you didn't disappoint!

cdnpont & pontiacanada, thanks for the welcome as well. And yes, pontiacanada, you're right the bumper caps are in very good condition. I'll do my best to keep them that way if they're that hard to find!

norontcan & MC, thanks for the encouraging words! I'm a sucker for base models too, less to go wrong, always a good thing with old cars, haha!

I'll be posting in some of the other threads as I start getting my new treasure road worthy, don't be shy to ask any questions you might have as the job progresses!

You are a very lucky guy!  That car looks really really solid and original!  Couldn't help but notice the frost shields on the side windows.  I remember when lots of cars had those on - a sign of the times 50 or 60 years ago.

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You are a very lucky guy!  That car looks really really solid and original!

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Yes, I sure am! It's super solid. Some "grandpa damage" on it here and there from someone bumping into stuff with it, but certainly nothing major. Biggest thing is the left quarter is pushed in a bit and the lower moulding is missing, but my buddy (who happens to be a bodyman) figures most of that will pop out, leaving minimal damage. I haven't posted many pics of it from that angle 'cause I didn't want to show off the damage... LOL

Yesterday after we unloaded it at my buddy's farm, we had a closer look at it - and it's even better than I thought when I made the deal on it!!

It's totally unmolested. For example: we removed the carb so I could clean it up right and put a carb kit into it and none of the fuel line fittings look like they've ever seen a wrench. They all turned back out nice and easy, nothing is oxidized together at all. It's been shedded for a large portion of it's life I think (the last 6 or 7 years I know of for sure, because the guy that sold it to me had it inside). Just judging from this and from what the interior looks like. Also it's a rural car I believe, given how little rust is on it, but how much gravel damage is on it. The original hubcaps for it are absolutely trashed. No surprise there!

TFC

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