Rare 1958 Pontiac Star Chief Custom Safari 370 Station Wagon Restoration Project

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  • Опубліковано 28 січ 2025

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  • @JamesRodriguez-lj5xk
    @JamesRodriguez-lj5xk Місяць тому +20

    I'm glad you made this video it reminds me of my transformation from a nobody to good home, $34k monthly and a good daughter full of love

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      @FavourMamahdhe Місяць тому

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      @Michaelwhites Місяць тому

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      @HsgsvgGzvsgs Місяць тому

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  • @johnmoorfoot3954
    @johnmoorfoot3954 Місяць тому +6

    If there is such a thing as "CAR PORN" this big girl would definitely be Centrefold in many car magazines. I loved the transformation from stocker to rocker. And the whole execution of bringing this girl back to life is totally amazing. Love the two tone colour scheme and the attention to detail is extremely professional. Don't know why there are some people writing negative comments here, if you don't approve keep scrolling elsewhere. Great overall video!!

  • @americanrambler4972
    @americanrambler4972 Місяць тому +3

    This is an incredibly outstanding build! No 58 Pontiac ever looked anywhere near this good! Appreciate that someone took this one on. But I myself would have taken the opportunity to do a set of those amazing Pontiac 6 lug wheels for this car.

  • @T.S.1020
    @T.S.1020 Місяць тому +4

    You guys are expert craftsmen. Kudos for a magnificent job.🙏👊

  • @poppajretired410
    @poppajretired410 Місяць тому +3

    WOW stunning!
    The wheels and stance are perfect

  • @PapaDutch
    @PapaDutch Місяць тому +1

    ~ it's a retro-futuristic ROCKET SHIP !!!

  • @giuseppelavecchia775
    @giuseppelavecchia775 Місяць тому +6

    Bel lavoro e bel macchinone!

  • @Zekespeaks
    @Zekespeaks Місяць тому

    Normally I would not watch a video that just has photos and music, but I really wanted to see what you did with this car so I watched until the end. The car is magnificent! I prefer to listen to the craftsmen and banter between them during the build and especially seeing and hearing it run and drive after completion. Perhaps you will consider that in future videos?

  • @MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS
    @MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS Місяць тому +3

    Absolutely beautiful craftsmanship gorgeous results ❤🇦🇺🦘🪃🏔🎄🎅🧑‍🎄🤶🎄

  • @lunkanx7804
    @lunkanx7804 Місяць тому +2

    A piece of art. Beautiful colour 😎👍

  • @alaaalhindi7770
    @alaaalhindi7770 Місяць тому +2

    From zero to hero , god bless those hands . Another rare classic car been saved.❤

  • @ROMKRES-T7T
    @ROMKRES-T7T Місяць тому +4

    Amazing work!!!!!🎉

  • @RedBud315
    @RedBud315 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for keeping the Pontiac motor. My friend restored/resto modded his 71 Firebird and then was afraid to drive it.

  • @scottharrison994
    @scottharrison994 Місяць тому +1

    Gorgeous build, and tastefully done

  • @JackSquat54
    @JackSquat54 25 днів тому

    Our family had a used 59 Pontiac Catalina Safari Wagon from about 64 to 68. The color is what i loved the most. It was an Aquamarine. What a gorgeous color.

  • @bruceh92
    @bruceh92 Місяць тому +3

    thanks for posting - awesome.

  • @donlucker183
    @donlucker183 Місяць тому +2

    Great job your hours reflect perfection

  • @danielhackleman2140
    @danielhackleman2140 Місяць тому +1

    That's a build that is too nice. Nice for all of us.

  • @bobbrown6281
    @bobbrown6281 Місяць тому +1

    Love This Car. I Built a 1956 Nomad station Wagon Before I Went To Viet Nam In 1968. Great Job.

  • @FireChickenTA99
    @FireChickenTA99 23 дні тому

    My fathers Uncle left him a 58' Chieftain. I was able to drive it In while I was in high school.

  • @ytwhite5930
    @ytwhite5930 Місяць тому +1

    Outstanding work gentlemen...This car is right up there with the twin cam Gran Prix or the fast back Riv...Beautiful!

  • @ColinGarner-h1t
    @ColinGarner-h1t Місяць тому +16

    Fantastic craftsmanship. Shame about the wheels and lowered suspension. The bodywork and interior are spectacular.

  • @Vintageguy73
    @Vintageguy73 26 днів тому

    Love the car, I would have gone slightly more conservative on the mods but 100% can appreciate the skill, attention to detail and hard work that went into this build.

  • @johndonlon1611
    @johndonlon1611 Місяць тому

    Amazing transformation. These cars never looked that good when they were new in the showroom. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ClydePodvin
    @ClydePodvin Місяць тому +5

    Nice work, would have loved to hear what it sounded like.

  • @robertlaveyra9940
    @robertlaveyra9940 Місяць тому

    Mine was a a four door sedan, silver, with the 370 cube, Tri-power (3, 2’s) and positraction, 3.23 rear end, tinted glass. Amazing well balanced car. I always said mine had dual racing ashtrays which it did. The fuel door behind the driver side backup light was cool. Beautiful body work.

  • @georgsteinle747
    @georgsteinle747 Місяць тому +2

    Good Job! Greetings&Best Wishes from Germany! ❤👍👍👍!!

  • @charlesmaclellan284
    @charlesmaclellan284 Місяць тому

    Beautiful . I wish it was mine , foose quality , thanx for the inspiration , always loved station wagons , childhood memories ❤

  • @mahanly
    @mahanly Місяць тому

    This is the most beautiful rebuild I have watched on UA-cam. You guys are amazing.

  • @markstopkey4085
    @markstopkey4085 Місяць тому +1

    I would love to have wagon like that for family road trips!

  • @donhoughton271
    @donhoughton271 Місяць тому

    Beautiful rebuild 😊😊😊

  • @SuperCommando60
    @SuperCommando60 Місяць тому +1

    beautifully done. 1958 GM's are among my favs, esp the wagons. so when a shop says watch us take a rare, complete, rust free, irreplaceable survivor, and then we'll cut it up for some trendy restomod, it makes me nuts. the epitome of this was that recent Eldorado Brougham cut up into a funky wagon for the Ridler

    • @grayjack5021
      @grayjack5021 Місяць тому

      I wish they restored the wagon to show room finish. If the wagon is/was rare as this one the old girl needed some help not a hot rod. This is my ho no hate please.

  • @paulthejeeper
    @paulthejeeper Місяць тому +1

    Looks so good, I’d hate to let anyone drive it!!!

  • @dawitkassa3131
    @dawitkassa3131 Місяць тому

    Beter than original factory built. Thank you for all magic hands!!

  • @somenamelessdude8095
    @somenamelessdude8095 Місяць тому +3

    You know it's good body work when they choose high gloss black and it looks like a damn mirror.

  • @timijayprince6605
    @timijayprince6605 Місяць тому

    Beautiful beautiful! Wheels come up short though. But I would take it! Lol!!

    • @chriscone2684
      @chriscone2684 Місяць тому +1

      Vintage Halibrands would help a bunch…

  • @dougaranda6187
    @dougaranda6187 Місяць тому +1

    All I can say is WOW!

  • @haroldkuykendall9078
    @haroldkuykendall9078 Місяць тому

    All I can say is..... I feel what You are Doing!!!😊❤

  • @RedneckSpaceman
    @RedneckSpaceman Місяць тому

    I'm old enough to remember seeing lots of cars from this era all over the highways!! If this were my car here, I'd paint it Electric Metallic Blue!! I would make a number of changes, such as high-back seats and modern seat-belts/restraints!! Definitely one of those classic Racing-Style Steering Wheels. I'm assuming it's got an Automatic Tranny...put the selector on the floor!! Since I'd do away with that bench seat and put bucket seats in, no problemo!!

  • @Larry-jv6he
    @Larry-jv6he Місяць тому

    very,very nice.love to see the old ones come back.thank you

  • @moneygooddude
    @moneygooddude Місяць тому +1

    Great 15 minute video!

  • @huszaratraktor
    @huszaratraktor Місяць тому +5

    "If I rob a bank I won't tell anyone. But there'll be signs"

  • @tomtugboat
    @tomtugboat Місяць тому

    My Dad had a 58 Bonneville coupe - brings back a lot of memories !

  • @robjohnson3376
    @robjohnson3376 Місяць тому

    Beautiful car I have a real soft spot for big American station wagons, The only thing I'd of done differently is to of had the engine bay the same rad as the other highlights but in a Matt finish, But that's just me I'm sure the owner is over the moon with it, What a fantastic job you guys did bravo 👏😎.

  • @mikesautotruckrepairinc.cr5621
    @mikesautotruckrepairinc.cr5621 Місяць тому

    Beautiful job and i love wagon's and i love "58's.

  • @yasinismayilov38
    @yasinismayilov38 Місяць тому +1

    It's amazing🎉

  • @garyjones2582
    @garyjones2582 Місяць тому +1

    Very nice work as always.. whoever selected the music, send them down the road.. I wish you guys did longer videos like this more often... thx for sharing..

  • @thomasengstrom1525
    @thomasengstrom1525 Місяць тому

    Beautiful...Would have liked to hear her run though!!

  • @efrainberrios8494
    @efrainberrios8494 Місяць тому

    Wow!, that’s it’s a masterpiece!

  • @danieldyke1074
    @danieldyke1074 Місяць тому

    This shop is 2nd to none!

  • @屠殺場-i9b
    @屠殺場-i9b Місяць тому

    Fantastic car! Fantastic job!

  • @bobbymazda4474
    @bobbymazda4474 Місяць тому +3

    Beautiful restoration. IMO the wheels should have been new old style

  • @todmill100
    @todmill100 Місяць тому

    Beautiful work ❤

  • @Texastimbo
    @Texastimbo Місяць тому

    If it wasn’t for the tires, the color, and the lowered suspension, this would be a awesome job!

  • @randynelson47
    @randynelson47 Місяць тому +1

    Just awesome..

  • @alanpecherer5705
    @alanpecherer5705 Місяць тому

    I'm generally amazed by how few of these 50's station wagons are still around. As I recall, they never were exactly plentiful, but they were around. And of course there were no minivans back then, so the only alternative for a big family was maybe an International Travelall, and probably most people found them too truck-like and they weren't a "big-3" brand. Maybe the same "big family" that sat in the back seats beat the crap out of these things by the time every kid learned to drive in one. And maybe there weren't Buick and Pontiac wagons in numbers, but I recall plenty of Chevy Parkwood and Brookwoods. You really don't see too many in the resto queue. This one looked like it was in much better shape than most, body-wise.

  • @brandonevans4142
    @brandonevans4142 Місяць тому +4

    Nice build but on rare cars like these id much rather see it restored to factory spec.

  • @JackSquat54
    @JackSquat54 25 днів тому

    All of the cars of this era, late fifties to early sixties looked like custom built cars to me as a kid.

  • @molivroman9806
    @molivroman9806 Місяць тому

    That wagon will bring big money.

  • @giorgiorossetti3276
    @giorgiorossetti3276 Місяць тому +2

    At 34:20,did you tried to fit a Bel Air instrument panel in it?

    • @FireChickenTA99
      @FireChickenTA99 23 дні тому

      I noticed that too. I think they put a pic in there from another build.

  • @tomhunt7354
    @tomhunt7354 Місяць тому +1

    Great 👍

  • @Thomas63r2
    @Thomas63r2 Місяць тому +1

    Wow! What many people will not realize is that the engine is not a '70's era 455 - it is the original to that car engine thoroughly modernized.

    • @JackSquat54
      @JackSquat54 25 днів тому

      Correct me if i am wrong. I think it was a 326 c.i. Pontiac smallblock.

    • @Thomas63r2
      @Thomas63r2 25 днів тому

      @@JackSquat54 In 1958 it would have been a 370, - the 326 came out in 1964 to comply with GM's initial cap of engines no larger than 330 for the A body cars. Of course, in short order Pontiac would release the GTO with a 389 and we know what happened after that!

  • @carlosmachado8535
    @carlosmachado8535 Місяць тому

    BEAUTIFUL,TOP.

  • @mikoyanfulcrum1
    @mikoyanfulcrum1 Місяць тому

    Excellent!!!

  • @zekiyurekseckin1719
    @zekiyurekseckin1719 Місяць тому

    Harika bir çalışma kutlarım

  • @charlescarter1529
    @charlescarter1529 Місяць тому

    And some day, I am gonna buy that Moner Liser paintin and make it all shiny!

  • @michaelmoore4696
    @michaelmoore4696 Місяць тому +1

    WOW!!

  • @GlennHaley-k7s
    @GlennHaley-k7s Місяць тому

    Fantastic

  • @jaygatz4335
    @jaygatz4335 Місяць тому +3

    After all that beautiful body work, too bad about those wheels - they are so out of place on a fifties-era car.

  • @bigguy43055
    @bigguy43055 Місяць тому +3

    Beautiful except for those hideous wheels! Totally out of character for the car. Something a bit more fifties looking seems more in style with the car

  • @dongelinas5990
    @dongelinas5990 Місяць тому

    This is not a restoration, a restoration is bringing the car back to what it was. This is nothing more but a fantasy.

  • @TheDejael
    @TheDejael 4 дні тому

    Great job! "Barn find" to full frame off restoration. But I disagree with this project being a resto-mod instead of a full back-to-factory spec resto. I love the copper color and would have preferred to see it as it looked in 1958 at the Pontiac dealer.
    I was in the national Pontiac Club POCI for 25 years so I have owned a lot of Pontiacs and love them. I have had three 1955 Pontiac, two 1957 Pontiacs, two 1960 Pontiacs, two 1962 Pontiacs, one 1968 Pontiac LeMans, one 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix Model SJ with 428-V8, a 1975 Grand Am coupe, 1977 Firebird Esprit, 1979 Firebird Formula, and two 2002 Firebirds, one of which I still have as my daily driver.

  • @AJMPOPS
    @AJMPOPS Місяць тому +4

    What a true masterpiece.

  • @Cat-Privilege
    @Cat-Privilege Місяць тому +1

    At 37.32 the dash board you are showing is that of a 55 Chevy, What Gives?

  • @JackSquat54
    @JackSquat54 25 днів тому

    We see it, but we would like the hear it too !

  • @kurthuber4736
    @kurthuber4736 Місяць тому +4

    A really great job , but this wheels...😢

  • @Twinkle-top
    @Twinkle-top Місяць тому

    During the 70s and 80s a black one like this was parked next to what looked like a haunted house when we were young even back then a 58 Pontiac waggon was a rare site

  • @johngrepo9976
    @johngrepo9976 Місяць тому

    Nice Restomod

  • @alexanderkoih5467
    @alexanderkoih5467 Місяць тому +2

    Hermoso

  • @kennethgoodrich5365
    @kennethgoodrich5365 Місяць тому +1

    WOW” what a transformation” absolutely Beautiful 🥰👍

  • @mnanninga4247
    @mnanninga4247 Місяць тому +1

    Amazing build, but you left the x frame ? Not a fan of the black, but who am I. Overall beautiful car.

  • @MrAndyLocksmith
    @MrAndyLocksmith Місяць тому +7

    Whatever it is that is not a restoration!

    • @TheGreatSnafoo
      @TheGreatSnafoo Місяць тому

      Yeah it's a restomod well done though not to crazy kept it a four door looks somewhat stock👍🏼

  • @TheDejael
    @TheDejael 4 дні тому

    You went with the "badass black" instead of the original copper metallic color. And the other color for the sweepspear, what do you call that? Looks good as far as resto-mods go, which are built to please the owner.

  • @brokewood6036
    @brokewood6036 Місяць тому

    Handbuilt cars...have had several chemical dipped cars cause problems later after they are finished! Like the strip process, but im reluctant to have it done again! What do you do for the seems, overlaps etc?

  • @mrwest5552
    @mrwest5552 Місяць тому

    12.24.2024 - very nice 👍

  • @garyfreeman2254
    @garyfreeman2254 Місяць тому

    The metallic peat wagon queen family truckster in the background.

  • @michaelwhite7885
    @michaelwhite7885 Місяць тому +2

    Restoration implies returning it to its former glory, not butchering it into a outlandish hotrod. Disappointing what you did to a piece of history.

  • @allenschmidt1102
    @allenschmidt1102 Місяць тому +1

    Beautiful car wrong wheels

  • @chriscone2684
    @chriscone2684 Місяць тому

    No LS crate swap… hallelujah!

  • @CurtMartison
    @CurtMartison Місяць тому +2

    I absolutely hate what you did to this rare car . Restore it dont put your own butchered taste on the car . Go find a Nova or Chevell to do that to . Leave the classics alone

  • @edsyphan3425
    @edsyphan3425 Місяць тому

    Geeeze! You can’t please ‘em all, can you?

  • @buckroger5850
    @buckroger5850 Місяць тому +1

    Nice build, but wrong paint.
    It should have been the two-tone factory green paint from 1958 Pontiac Chieftain 😮

  • @Testing-123
    @Testing-123 Місяць тому

    S T U N N I N G !!!!!

  • @alleyoop1234
    @alleyoop1234 Місяць тому

    Such an incredible car & build!! This video sure made me miss my 58 Pontiac Pathfinder Sedan Delivery that was stolen from me 25 years ago...

  • @JohnnyAloha69
    @JohnnyAloha69 Місяць тому +1

    What a shame, looked like an amazingly clean original car and now it’s a tacky piece of trash

  • @rst5955
    @rst5955 Місяць тому +2

    Rubber bands for tires and lowered why? 😞 $ 80,000 in labor, parts , the customer has a beautiful car.

  • @brandon2741
    @brandon2741 Місяць тому +1

    👍

  • @angrymike6759
    @angrymike6759 Місяць тому

    There's a 2 door that was done pretty much the same not to long ago wasn't there.

  • @noemtel
    @noemtel Місяць тому

    How much would this wagon sell for AFTER restoration?

  • @michaelaldredge-greenwell1692
    @michaelaldredge-greenwell1692 Місяць тому +1

    Why the hell would you lower a classic car, or any other car, for that matter?? It ruins the stance. Once you lower a car, everything, from the bottom of the tires, to the top of the roof, begins to go wrong & downhill from there, causing so many problems that it eventually makes the car unusable. You ruined it. If you want to have a ride that low to the ground…go on out & buy yourself a skateboard…