Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

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http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Engine-Project-Spotlight-Getting-Started-on-a-Rare-1960s-Pontiac-OHC-Six.html

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

Hey Cool!

To this point he's found the engine, dragged it home, and gotten it into his basement. That last part was done in a totally BangShift approved manner using old pallets, ratchet straps, and prayer. You'll dig watching the process of moving an engine without the use of an engine lift, chain fall, tractor, or crane of any type. It literally looks like certain doom is imminent, but the smarty pants guy pulled it off no sweat.

You left out the part where he did it by himself and he only weigh's 110lbs (150) sopping wet :D

[Tazracing]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

kool engine, but rare?

[squirrel]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

when's the last time you saw one?

[Tazracing]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

2 in middleboro salvage
1 in carver
4 at the bay state car show
7 at the all pontiac show.
I've own'd 3 cars with them 66 tempast
67 tempest
68 bird

[squirrel]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

Huh, must be a back east thing, sure don't see them around here. Maybe the heat gets to the cam housing?

[STINEY]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

I've never seen one til Randall got involved with it.

[Tazracing]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

Huh, must be a back east thing, sure don't see them around here. Maybe the heat gets to the cam housing?

most got pulled cause they need head jobs every 40-50 k miles

[squirrel]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

could be that more survived back east, because most of the cars they came in rotted away...the survivors didn't get many miles on them (pampered or something).

Around here we just keep driving old cars forever, so an engine that lasts 50k miles isn't gonna be around very long.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

They ARE all over back east. My issue with finding one was simply finding one in the west. They go for $200-$500 all over the midwest and east. They were going for $1000-$2000 out west, wth?

[Chassisman]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

Randal...let me check with someone who's a Pontiac collector/junkie that lives here. Last time I was at his place he had ALOT of performance parts for that motor...dual carbs set ups...headers...cams....M/T valve covers. This guy has such rare Pontiac stuff Larry Maxwell comes to him for stuff!!!!!...and he doesnt think it's worth gold.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

Cool, yeah let me know what's available. At minimum I'd like to get another cam housing/valve cover.

[HEMI]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

http://www.webrodder.com/article.php?AID=335&SID=60&CID=15

Hope this is helpful.

[Birdman]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

They ARE all over back east. My issue with finding one was simply finding one in the west. They go for $200-$500 all over the midwest and east. They were going for $1000-$2000 out west, wth?

It's a little thing known as, "Supply and demand".

[realsteelfreak]

Re: Engine Project Spotlight: Getting Started on a Rare 1960s Pontiac OHC Six

The last time I saw one was 1993 at my buddies junkyard(Glovers Auto Salvage-Mooresville NC), it was still in the original Firebird it cam in. He sold the car to a guy to restore.