1957 Pontiac Other

2 door post

347 cubic inch V8

Manual

Clear

Gasoline

View allGet your own Thanks for coming to check out this auction! I have an excellent reputation & positive feedback rating on eBay, so you can bid with confidence on my items. Please be sure to read the entire description and view all of the super-sized photos of the vehicle before placing your bids. Thank you. Shown here is a 1957 Pontiac Chieftain with the 347 cubic inch V8 engine, and 3-speed on-the-column manual transmission (an unusual combination, as typically the 3-on-the-tree units were only found on 6 cylinder model vehicles). The car has manual steering, brakes, seat and windows (including hand-crank-out wing vent windows). It has the original AM radio still in dash, but it is no longer working. We found a new-old-stock aftermarket seat cover for a ’57 Pontiac, and installed it over the front seat. The rear seat still wears its original upholstery, but is showing its age. There is just a cream-colored blanked over the rear package-tray and top of the rear seat for now. There are some replacement floor pan patch panels installed, and new turquoise carpeting. Door panels are original and still in okay shape. The headliner is also factory original, and in quite nice shape. All the glass is original except the driver’s door window which we replaced. There is about a 9 inch crack way over in the corner and a tiny star-chip in the windshield, but they’re not in prominent places, and barely noticeable. The car was painted with a single-stage enamel a few months ago. We went over it with a high-speed buffer, and it looks really good. It isn’t absolute perfect show-quality, but looks more than nice enough for a daily driver. It’s very close to an original ’57 Pontiac palete color. The engine is detailed & painted to match it, with the Pontiac cursive lettering hand-painted in red on the valve-covers. The rest of the engine bay is gloss black and looks nice (although somehow I deleted the pictures taken of it for this listing). The trunk floor pan is in very decent shape, but there’s a rust hole in the bottom of the spare-tire well (very typical), as well as a couple small areas in the corners of the rear seam under the trunk lid opening. The exterior body is quite straight as you can hopefully tell from the pictures. The frame and undercarriage were undercoated when this car was new, and while much of that has flaked off over the past 55 years, it largely preserved the metal underneath it. There is still rust in the inner rocker panels underneath the car, and on the bottom lip of the hood, trunk lid, and in the door jambs, but nothing visible from the outside of the car. There is a scratch in the paint on the passenger side headlight bezel as well as one bent tooth in the grill, both of which I will try to have fixed before the end of auction. I still have some leftover paint. The engine runs just fine with no ticks, knocks, or blue smoke, but has some old gas in the tank, so once that’s burned up, it will run a LOT better (I know because I hooked up a small tank of new gas under the hood, and it started and ran absolutely perfectly on that). The original 2 barrel carburetor is clean and there are 8 new spark plugs just installed. I noticed a Tri-Carb setup complete and operational for $799.99 on eBay (item number: 221109142874 ). This car has a Holley electric fuel-pump in the trunk as I'm sure the original mechanical one conked out a long time ago. There is brand new exhaust run all the way back to the rear of the car with a Flowmaster muffler and a stainless steel tip. (The undercarriage pictures don’t show this, because I took them while the exhaust shop had the job half-completed and the car was up on their hoist, but you get the idea). I put a brand new master-cylinder from Kanter brothers on the car, and bled all the wheel-cylinders. The drum brakes still need adjusted though, as the car pulls to one side when braking. The car has 4 older radial tires on 15 inch Pontiac wheels with 1955 hubcaps. If buyer wants the Boss 338 18” & 20” wheels/tires, they will need to add an additional $1,200.00 to the purchase price. I just bolted them up to demonstrate what a different personality this car could have depending on what wheel & tire combination you chose. I think they look fabulous on there, but some people prefer strictly original. It looks great both ways as you can see. These cars are really cool, and though similar in platform and in many other ways to the 1957 Chevrolet, they are a lot more rare and unique with a lot more chrome and stainless trim! Speaking of that, most all of the stainless is in excellent shape on the car, but the chrome plating on the emblems, grille, and bumpers is pitted. Also, as you can see, some farmer hooked onto the right side of the rear bumper, and yanked the car with a chain and bent it. I’ve tried to straighten it, but it’s just too strong and thick of metal. I bought some other trim and various pieces from a guy for this car, and am waiting to hear back from him as to whether he has a good right-half of the rear bumper. The exhaust apparently exited right through the bumper ends/tips originally, so they were rusted out (as on practically all ‘50s cars with this treatment). I put some rubber bumperettes (rear dagmars if you will) in place which look like they belong there. The trunk lid and doors still need new weather-strip welting installed (readily available various places online and in restoration catalogs). For that matter, I will include a 1950s Pontiac restoration parts catalog with the car (a company out of California who specializes in these cars to this day, and has many parts available). The headlights and taillights are in working order on this car (including the high and low beams), but the turn signals aren’t currently working. The interior light comes on when you open either door. Instrument panel lighting is not currently working either, but speedometer and voltage meter are working, as is the fuel gauge I believe (I put a new sending unit in the fuel tank). The windshield wipers work, but need new rubber blades. The engine belts and hoses are in good shape, and the radiator was just flushed and pressure tested to 18 psi with no leaks. A couple of custom touches we did were to put chrome trim around the taillight lenses, as well as a piece on the bottom of the trunk lid. We also found stainless decorative spears for the quarter panels off a higher-end model (Star Chief?), and stainless steel rocker-trims which look great on the car. I took the second set of photos with them in place, and the big wheels installed. You can also see the stainless exhaust tip in those more recent pictures. Something that I thought would be nifty would be to carefully crush that exhaust tip from being a circle into more of an oval (to match the shape of the taillights and bumperettes. I had wanted to put factory stainless trim around the side windows from a 2 door post ’57 Bel Air, but the cheapest set I could find was over $900.00, so I just painted that area metallic silver for now. I have the contact information for a place where that trim can be ordered still if the buyer wants it. Click on the following link to view a walkaround video of the car before I attached the chrome quarter panel spears & bolted up the modern wheels: http://youtu.be/FqMl5uorRiw I have a good, clear title in my name for this car which I can scan and e-mail or fax to the buyer prior to payment. Check out the Old Cars Price Guide, and what other ’57 Pontiacs are going for on the internet, and you’ll see that I have listed this car at a BARGAIN price, with NO RESERVE! I’ve put a lot of work into it, and now all that’s left is some final details and finishing touches to make it your own! I would like to see it go to a good home. IMPORTANT! ** By bidding on this item (or otherwise agreeing to purchase the vehicle), you acknowledge that it is being sold AS IS with no warranty, and that I require a $500.00 security deposit via PayPal or money order sent to myself: Jason Stone, 1719 S. Coolidge Ave., Mason City, IA 50401 within 5 days of auction’s end, and the remaining balance of the vehicle is to be paid for in full within 10 days. If coming to pick it up in person, then I ask that you bring cash for the remainder of payment, otherwise if having the vehicle shipped, a Wells Fargo, US Bank or Bank of America cashier’s check is acceptable. I can provide my bank account information to overseas buyers for a wire transfer if that is preferred. If you can’t get the vehicle picked up right away, storage for a reasonable amount of time may be an option, but please ask before you bid (I charge $25.00 per month), and remember that the vehicle must be paid for in full within 10 days of auction’s end whether it has been picked up yet or not. The reason I request National Chain banks is that I can go right down to one of our local branches here in Mason City and cash the note right away without having to wait for a 10 day hold from another bank. This way, I can just send the title right out to you, and there’s no waiting for funds to clear. This helps with those having a vehicle transported as well, because naturally I cannot release a vehicle to an auto shipper if the payment is not cleared. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding. Also, please note, security deposits are considered non-refundable. If you intend to have this vehicle shipped with a car carrier, the auto transporters I have contact info for are as follows: Atlas Auto Transport (888)285-2706, David Irving 763-441-3796, Larry Baker 605-484-6949 There’s also one called D.A.S. (Dependable Auto Shippers) with a shipping dock out of Altoona, Iowa (about 2&½ hours from us here in Mason City) 800 826-1083. DAS has some finicky policies such as no contents in the car other than what will fit in the trunk (i.e. extra wheels & parts), and they won’t dribble gas into a carburetor or jump start a battery to get a car started without charging you an additional fee (even if it’s 30 below zero outside), so beware of this kind of thing with them. If you have any trouble viewing the slideshow at the top of this page, please be sure to click on the thumbnail image below to view the web album with 100+ super-sized photos of this vehicle! 1957 Pontiac