First Drive Video: Nothing Like The Feeling Of Driving Your Project For The First Time – 1969 Pontiac Here


First Drive Video: Nothing Like The Feeling Of Driving Your Project For The First Time – 1969 Pontiac Here

If you are a car guy or girl you know that there is literally no feeling on Earth like the one you get while firing up and driving your project car for the first time. Often it is not perfect, it is dirty, and it may be missing a piece here or there but the fact that your years of blood, sweat, and toil have gone for something mean a lot. There’s a nervousness, an adulation, and a relief that comes with the first drive that non-car loving people will never understand. It is not like driving a new car off the lot. It is more like experiencing birth. You are driving a thing that you made. Not someone else, you. There’s nothing like the feeling of driving your project for the first time.

The video below from Urban Hillbilly shows a 1969 Pontiac emerging into the sunlight for the first time under it own power in years. The car has dust on it and the hood is off but none of that matters. This is all about the feeling of accomplishment you get when your hit the key, pull the shifter into drive and stuff works right.

This car is a neat one. Pontiac purists may freak out a little but the rest of us that like cars for what they are can dig it. Powered by a 468ci Olds engine hooked to a Pontiac (BOP) transmission and transmitting that power to a Chevelle rear end, we have a good mix of all the A-body families on display. The driver takes it pretty easy but the couple times he noses into the throttle seem to reveal one heck of a noise and fun maker under the hood.

This Olds powered Poncho is cool and very much alive!

Press play below to see this 1969 Pontiac hit the streets for the first time –


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2 thoughts on “First Drive Video: Nothing Like The Feeling Of Driving Your Project For The First Time – 1969 Pontiac Here

  1. ratpatrol66

    I’m a Pontiac guy but not a purist by any means cause I put a Buick 455 in my 69 GTO. That was a long time ago, has Poncho power again.

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