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This is an odd one… it suggests a low, high performance model but for Fitz and Van the perspective is off - roof canopy should be further back and it’s dropped like a lowrider. Still a great image though. See you in ‘62!

I actually watch the film to make sure I didn’t dream it - Eli Wallach is at the ready to kill nuns, kids, even physically challenged folks in wheelchairs, and the worst (best?) thing about it is that it makes him happy! What is your almost over-the-top villain with a sense of (very dark) humor..???

The largest 1969 Pontiac “catalog” excluded the Firebird. All images were Fitz and Van illustrations, but detail shots of interiors were photograph

…. There was a bright yellow one there as well with quarter window scoops (but real cheap ones).

This far reaching concept came out around the same time as the purple Stingray III concept from GM. Both were extremely creative designs, but it’s the 300 that was inspiring enough to have its look directly stolen by Fisker for their Karma design (2nd photo)

I don’t know yet exactly when Pontiac first allowed F&V illustrations of their mid-sized and small cars after choosing not to in 1961, but I do know that in 1969 they went whole hog — the entire pig. There were at least three large, full-line sakes brochures — one with illustrations accompanied by photo details, one opposite. And one all photos. Only two of the full-lines included the Firebird. Then there was a wagon brochure, accessories brochure, full Firebird brochure, trailer-towing brochure, AND THE GREAT ONE: Pontiac’s Performance Cars brochure in which the four major car magazines tested each car: Grand Prix SJ, Firebird 400, GTO, and GTO Judge.

This is an Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman large illustrated ad for two these performance cars…

This is a gigantic ad is from my own collection… probably the Saturday Evening Post or something larger.

As I mentioned when I posted the only illustrated 1961 Tempest ad (never used), there was a discussion between Pontiac and their advertising firm McManus about the new “small cars” and it was felt the romance evident in illustrators Art Fitzpatrick’s and Van Kaufman’s paintings was not going to be employed in ads for Tempests and eventually GTOs…

…. at least for a while.

Has anyone heard of George Lucas’s new Museum of Narrative Art???? It’s safe to call this a narrative piece since it tells a story. In our case the story is a tale of Bubble Tops and interiors. A very unusual ad.

This complete and solid British thing-a-ma-jig (Hilman?) represent the kind of project cars that have sailed through this SoCal yard straight to the crusher for some 39 years now (when it was sold to corporate ownership some ten years ago every vintage car back to 1940 dropped there into their “special cage” over the past 60 years was put out for just a few days and then crushed — I was working at the time and could not even save parts but I can say there was a ‘69 Grand Prix that was better and more original than not only many projects but many that are still on the road).

Anyway I love that the entire engine is only 15 inches long. less

This complete and solid British thing-a-ma-jig (Hilman?) represent the kind of project cars that have sailed through this SoCal yard straight to the crusher for some 39 years now (when it was sold to corporate ownership some ten years ago every vintage car back to 1940 dropped there into their “special cage” over the past 60 years was put out for just a few days and then crushed — I was working at the time and could not even save parts but I can say there was a ‘69 Grand Prix that was better and more original than not only many projects but many that are still on the road).

Anyway I love that the entire engine is only 15 inches long.