The photo would be helpful...

Rare colour I think, nice to see one real new one, instead of the brochure pictures, nice picture too.

Like it was taken yesterday. Thanks for posting this.

I think the picture was taken in either Ottawa ( where my uncle was in seminary) or Westmount (were my grandparents lived). This is a scan from a slide. My dad was a camera junky young and all his old slides from the 50s and 60s are like new. They are all Kodak film developed by Kodak (they had a Mail in program back then for developing.

In the 70s he started using those chain store photo shops and all those slides are all washed out junk now. Kodak was the gold standard back then.

Somewhere I have the original order form when he bought the car, funny that things like oil filter were optional! The color is a very dark blue but not as dark as the lighting in this photo suggests. Ill try to find another pic with the top down somewhere, really attractive color especially with the tri-blue interior.

Funny thing is it was the only Pontiac he ever owned. Before that his first new car was a plain Jane 57 chevy 2dr sedan, followed by a 58 and a 61, all new. He was making good money working in the article as an engineer on the Pinetree and dew lines (back when Canada stood up to communist dictators instead of sucking up to them). After that it was oldsmobiles, then eventually a caddy or two before switching to European when GM went front drive on their big cars.

He is still kicking (and driving) today in his late 80s and is back to Cadillac. Sort of a mystery why I became a car guy (my dad liked having nice cars but is no car guy, never owned a screwdriver), or especially a Pontiac guy, none in the family.

That is a sharp looking car and even a better photo. Nothing like a true picture of family history. I particularly admire the way people dressed in this era and in fact I try to dress in a similar manner today, my winter top coat is tailored near identical to your grandfather's and I have to admit to owning three fedoras. 

As for a convertible in Quebec in winter I can relate to your Father's sentiment. When I was billeted for hockey in the 70's the mom had a 64 Impala SS Convertible and the Dad had a big Lincoln. Too many fridged drives home from games at the Colisee in the dead of winter, drafty beyond words. 

Interesting that the car, as new, had wider whitewalls on it.  Conventional knowledge says that the wide whites were gone after 1961, and by the 1963 brochure it appears that the narrower whitewalls are what it would be equipped with.  The tires in your pic look like the whitewalls are somewhere in between.

I bet he looked quite dapper driving around in the '63. I could just imagine your Mom beside him with white gloves on.