lowered canadian 59

just added some pics of the 59 all lowered on the photobucket page

https://s935.photobucket.com/home/Pontiac-59/index

Damn that looks good

How did you lower it?


What all that white stuff?

that white stuff is cold and yucky, some people call it snow, i call it evil, pure evil!! I just lowered the car by cutting the springs. I just need to get some new shocks cause the old ones are real old!! They had 1968 stamped in them. I can jump on the front or back and it seems fine, we'll see what happens once i start driving her. It does look a bit better, also need some whitewalls and my funky hubcaps on it still.

It looks bad ass with the blacked out Rallys with chrome lip. I would totally leave it

How much did you cut the coils?

I cut two coils out, in all four corners. I have some cool hubcaps from a 59 dodge a buddy gave me that have a checker board design on them that im going to paint black and green(same green as the top of the car) I cant afford white walls but i found some paint i might try out for tires. It does look kinda bad ass with it lowered. Imagine seeing and hearing that comeing down the road at night, especially since with the matte black paint its hard to see at night!! I'll have to make a video of it.

Hells yeah!

Cool ! - I have to warn you about painting the tires - i tryed that once on a old FIAT i had - it turned brown like shit, and was not removable, which ment i was stuck with tyres that had brown writing on them.

That evil white stuff has got us too at the moment - the coldest winter here since 96 - talk about global warming....

that looks sweeet! i like lowered cars as long as they still have some nice thick real ass tires. not low profile ones... i just feel like your going to hit a pothole wrong and ruin somethin haha

i just noticed the name badge on the fin. what does it say?

Laurentian.

thats cool i've never heard of that one

Canadian only.

Interestingly, I ran across a 1974 Pontiac Laurentian here in Texas a few months ago. Basically a 1974 Catalina with Chevy power. Odd to see down here.

Then again, I was the only owner of a 1992 Pontiac Tempest in the U.S.

a 1992 Tempest? what did that look like?

Basically a Chevy Corsica with Pontiac emblems and a split grille.

im not a fan of low profile tires either. i have a pt cruiser turbo which comes with 17s and low profile rubber.....hate them!! I hit a pothole and ruined a damn expensive tire and cracked the rim!!! There is no way im putting those on the 59!!

yeah dude! i know what you mean. i slipped on a huge patch of ice and hit a curb in my VW last winter and cracked my rim when i could have been fine with any bigger tires. sometimes i hate that car haha its 17s with lower profiles to... but when i replaced the tires i got the next size up, but they are still to small

i was going to just put some steelies on with some sort of hubcap, but i got 4 rims and tires from my brother in law ( i traded him one of my guitar amplifiers) Plus, he's actually getting the car in a couple years when i move to Mexico, so why put money into it?

Don't give up your 59 Pontiac!

Steelies with dog dishes would look sweet on that car

Trevor, you play guitar?

no, no, my PT Loser is going to my brother in law!! The 59 will be with me in mexico!! I do play guitar, bass, and a little drums. Ive been playing for about 15 yrs now, been in a few bands but now i just play for the dog! LOL I might do the band thing again soon, i really miss it. You play at all? or anybody else on here play?

Not to brag but I haven't found an instrument yet that I can't play... trouble is the resulting sounds don't even come close to resembling "music"! LOL

I played the one handed hanging organ until I got married...















Naw, I play upright bass.

really, the big ol bass is pretty hard to play, tough on the hands, rips the end of your fingers right off!! Are you in a band, or have been in any? Being in Texas, have you heard of Grady? great band, fronted by a guitar wheelin canuck!!

oh, and since your married like myself, you still play the one handed organ!! LOL!!

haha yall crack me up

I used to be in a punk rock band in high school. Actually a bunch of different bands consisting of mostly the same members. We were called "Catfish Dealer" for a while and then "DiseaseXcore" which I never liked the name. Then we did a Misfits cover band as "Electric Voz(voice in spanish)" We played one show as EV and one show as CD and then we kind of crashed a party and ended up playing a few songs haha We sucked

I mostly just play country with my dad now. I have a '77 Ovation Matrix with an aluminum fretboard and I have an Ibanez Hollowbody and a SilverTone from the 50s. My dad has a 61 Gibson Melody Maker, a 75 Ovation Baladeer, a 79 Ovation Baladeer custom, a 78 Ovation Ultra, 2002 or so high end Ovation not sure what model, and a late 90s Takemine acoustic. My mom has a 1974ish Fender Acoustic.

I don't really care for electrics the acoustic sound is just so raw and so idk natural. That and I don't have room for my amp in my apartment haha

Jay, do you play guitar at all?

wow, he likes the ovations! cool. had a 73 ovation, sounded like crap though, unpluged and though an amp. Ive got two norman acoustics, which are made here in quebec canada, one is a 90's 6 string, and my baby is a 12 string from the late 60s. Just used as a 6 string now, the guitar cant handle the pressure of 12, sounds amazing, wouldent sell it or trade it for anything (well, maybe a 59 gibson, or 59 pontiac!!) I am making a fretless bass right now, like the one les claypool plays, a carl thompson.