Sometimes a particular trade or profession can be useful when owning an American car. Think mechanic, petrol station owner… marriage counsellor (we’ve all been there!)… or even electrician. The owner of this superb 1967 Pontiac GTO is the latter and has found those skills invaluable in his fettling of the Poncho after acquiring it seven years ago: “I’m the sort of guy that likes everything to work,” explains Ian McDonald from Bury, Greater Manchester. And while the car was in pretty good shape when he acquired it, there were a few niggles he had to address before he could be completely satisfied, but more about those later…
Ian has always had a passion for American cars, even as a teenager he’d spend his weekends looking at them in a local American car dealership back in the Seventies. “I’ve always liked that shape of car…” he says, pointing at his Pontiac, “I’ve just always liked that style - like Lincolns, Cadillacs… the ‘three-box design’, in a nutshell. For me that’s the era of American cars that really got it right. They’ve
