I've always got a crowd around the Pontiac, from the time I arrive to the time I leave." But it's not all show. "When I step on it, the Chieftain immediately takes off. It launches hard ...

Hidden behind the rubber, stock '58 Chieftain drum brakes sit waiting ... To help make the Pontiac appear as sweet as it was, Lou personally picked out a color by DuPont called Apricot Brandy ...

Our best e.t. was 14.79. Pappy Boring, my father-in-law and owner of the Pontiac, had an accident with it on a time run with Vernon Rolley at Mason Dixon. We took the engine out of the '58 ...

The nameplate remained in use until 1989, but the two-door version was dropped in 1958. That's when Pontiac began offering Safari variants of both the Chieftain and the Star Chief. While not quite ...