Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a car that will get the Pontiac experts all excited.
1962 Pontiac Tempest Convertible for $3,500!
Are you already missing Pontiac? Like weird drivetrains? How about tops that are soft? Well, batten down the hatches, because today Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a Tempest in a teapot. . . er Oakland.
50 Classic Pontiac Print Ads
Pontiac made some pretty good television ads
Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $226,521.63 For A Basket-Case 1963 Pontiac…
Car Paintings By Robert Bechtle
When you're talking about painters who get the Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™, the Two Roberts come to mind immediately. You got your Robert Williams, of course, and then you got your Robert Bechtle... and what more could you need? I've got a print of Alameda Gran Torino hanging on my living-room wall, and it serves as…
Beat On The Goat! Beat On The Goat!
Even though they generally looked like peeling, faded crap after a few years of real-world use, the squishy plastic Endura snouts fitted to 1968 Pontiac GTOs were pretty good at retaining their shape after hitting stuff. Go ahead, line up a crowd of screaming, white-coated lab employees, hand them a big ol' crowbar,…
1968 Pontiac GTO
This is actually the car that inspired the Down on the Street series in the first place; it parks in my neighborhood, and every time I passed it I'd say to myself: "Hey, the Jalopnik readers would probably like this car." Then I realized such cars were all over town. But parking is tough in this downtown 'hood, and it's…
