At a time when most aftermarket speed equipment focused on flathead Fords and early V8s, Eddie Edmunds quietly offered performance parts for engines that were never meant to race—Pontiac’s smooth, torque-rich Straight Eight among them. Best known for its finned aluminum cylinder head, Edmunds gave Silver Streak owners a rare opportunity to improve performance while [... Read more]

My original plan was to update the blog in small increments, starting from when I first bought the car. Unfortunately, I can’t find many of the photos from the early stages of the project. Because of that, this post will mostly bring things up to where the car sits today. Before touching anything, I snapped [... Read more]

It’s going to take a little time to get this project fully caught up on here, but I’ll start with how I found the car. I often use Google to search Craigslist for 1949–54 Pontiac cars and parts. Over the years, I’ve had good luck finding solid deals that way — that’s how I ended [... Read more]

In the first part of this story, I shared how I tracked down the history of my 1951 Pontiac Super Deluxe Catalina and was finally given the chance to bring it back to life. Now the real work begins. After sitting in the same spot since 1968 — a full 52 years — it was [... Read more]

My name is Jace Allen, and when I was just 19 years old, living in Michigan, I stumbled into a project that would change the course of my life. What started as childhood curiosity about an old, abandoned car hidden away in a barn slowly grew into a passion — and eventually, a full restoration [... Read more]