Pontiacs Were On Parade At Lawrenceburg

 Regular followers of this blog have seen me post about Pontiac before and how it was the car that was in our driveway as I was growing up. I'm pretty sure that my dad's first brand new car was a Tempest and from there he moved into various station wagons to haul my brother and me around on vacations, to baseball, football, basketball, and even soccer practices and games. 

Pontiac was created in 1929 as a companion to the cars of the Oakland Motor Car Company. Within four years Pontiac became the more popular of the two and Oakland was phased out. Pontiac fit snugly in the plans at General Motors where there was a line and model for every budget. Ranging from Chevy at the entry level to Cadillac at the luxury end, Pontiac fit in the middle just below Oldsmobile and Buick. In 2004 GM shut down Olds leaving that middle tier to Pontiac. That, though didn't last and in 2010 the plug was unfortunately pulled on Pontiac.

Among the more than 1000 cars on hand at the 6th Annual Cruisin' To A Cure For ALS show in Lawrenceburg were plenty of great Pontiac models. Among them was a Bonneville convertible, a Firebird, a GTO, a second generation Bonneville, a fourth generation Bonneville (imagine the family car with a 428 cubic inch V8), and a 1970 GTO.