1943 Pontiac

Posted by JOB on October 14, 2012 at 03:55:44 from (74.36.134.4):

If anyone has a 1943 Pontiac Please take a picture
of it and post it, it would be interesting to see.
If there is a 1943 Pontiac it was not made in the
U.S. I could not find any history of Pontiacs
built anywhere but the U.S. in the early years.

Here is a little history of Pontiac. A partial
from Pontiac's Timeline. Pontiac ceased production
of automobiles on February 2nd 1942 for the war
years. The Canadians seemed to be the largest
buyers of Pontiac's for a few years.

1934 Pontiac, along with other GM lines,
introduced independent front suspension. Top
models were embellished with Silver Streak
styling.
1935 Technical innovations for Pontiac (shared
with other GM models) were an all-steel roof,
hydraulic brakes, safety-plate glass, and a
synchromesh transmission.
1938 Pontiac introduced the first column-mounted
gear shift.
1941 A straight-8 returned to the engine lineup.
Pontiac began manufacturing Swiss-designed
Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft guns for the U.S.
Navy. After car production ceased, Pontiac
manufactured cannons, torpedoes, tank axles, and
various military engine parts.
1946 The first post-war Pontiac was a 2-door
Streamliner fastback sedan.
1949 New downsized Pontiacs were available with a
Hydra-Matic automatic transmission.
1950 Pontiac's attractive Catalina 2-door hardtop
arrived.

1926–1942

1928 Pontiac

1936 Pontiac Master Six Coupe
The Pontiac brand was introduced by General Motors
in 1926 as the companion marque to GM's Oakland
division. Within months of its introduction,
Pontiac was outselling Oakland. As a result of
Pontiac's rising sales, versus Oakland's declining
sales, Pontiac became the only companion marque to
survive its parent, with Oakland ceasing
production in 1932.

Pontiac began by selling cars offering 40 hp (30
kW) 186.7 ci (3.1-liter) (3.25x3.75 in, 82.5x95mm)
L-head straight 6-cylinder engines in the Pontiac
Chief of 1927; its stroke was the shortest of any
American car in the industry at the time. The
Chief sold 39,000 units within six months of its
appearance at the 1926 New York Auto Salon,
hitting 76,742 at twelve months. The next year, it
became the top-selling six in the U.S., ranking
seventh in overall sales.[1] By 1933, it had moved
up to producing the least expensive cars available
with straight eight-cylinder (inline eight)
engines. This was done by using many components
from the 6-cylinder Chevrolet, such as the body.
In the late 1930s, Pontiac used the so-called
torpedo body of the Buick for one of its models,
just prior to its being used by Chevrolet. This
body style brought some attention to the marque.
An unusual feature of the "torpedo" body
exhibition car, was that with push of a button the
front half of the car body would open showing the
engine and the car's front seat interior.[2] In
1937, the eight-cylinder had a 122 inch wheelbase,
while the six-cylinder had a 117 inch wheelbase.
[3] On 2 February 1942 a Pontiac was the last
civilian automobile manufactured in the United
States during World War II, as all automobile
factories converted to military production.[4]
For an extended period of time—prewar through the
early 1950s—the Pontiac was a quiet, solid car,
but not especially powerful. It came with a
flathead (side-valve) straight eight. Straight 8s
were slightly less expensive to produce than the
increasingly popular V8s, but they were also
heavier and longer. Additionally, the long
crankshaft suffered from excessive flex,
restricting straight 8s to a relatively low
compression ratio with a modest redline. However,
in this application, inexpensive (yet very quiet)
flatheads were not a liability.

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• Re: 1943 Pontiac ldj 10:53:49 10/15/12 (0)
• Re: 1943 Pontiac Dean 11:06:57 10/14/12 (0)
• Re: 1943 Pontiac ericlb 05:10:22 10/14/12 (0)
• Re: 1943 Pontiac Billy Shafer 05:09:05 10/14/12 (3)
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      • Re: 1943 Pontiac Todd Hamilton 10:33:28 10/14/12 (0)
• Re: 1943 Pontiac Dick2 04:28:05 10/14/12 (0)

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