Luxury automakers are getting into the development of providing illuminated entrance emblems as an emblem of standing and class. Mercedes’ web site for the new GLC-Series states, “Let your star shine. Thanks to fiber-optic cables and LED technology, the central star emblem in your Mercedes’ radiator grille lights up.”
This kind of function is nothing new or unique, nonetheless. Pontiac was utilizing comparable tools on its fashions way back to the Fifties.
The Pick of the Day is a 1955 Pontiac Star Chief listed on the market on ClassicCars.com by a personal vendor in Reno, Nevada. (Click the hyperlink to view the itemizing)
Prominently poised at the entrance of the hood is an decoration with a plastic figurine in the form of an Indian chief. This hood decoration would illuminate when the headlights had been turned on.
“The car was treated to a no-expense-spared frame-off restoration. This car was meticulously restored by the owner who restored multiple cars during his lifetime,” the itemizing states.
The full-sized Star Chief was bought between mannequin years 1954 and 1966 as a high-end trim bundle on the Chieftain. It shared the General Motors A-body platform with the Chevrolet Bel Air and was characterised by having stars alongside the facet panels. Another key attribute of Pontiacs of this period had been the twin “silver streak” chrome accent strips operating throughout the hood. Body kinds over the automobile’s lifespan included coupes, sedans, convertibles, and station wagons.
This Star Chief instance is available in Nautilus Blue from the mannequin’s second technology which launched in 1955. This automobile was reportedly bought new in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later in the life, the automobile went by way of a whole beauty overhaul through which the body was stripped and powder coated. The two-tone black and white vinyl inside has been equally refurbished and appears factory-fresh in the pictures.
The vendor doesn’t specify whether or not the automobile’s drivetrain is authentic, however the Star Chief would have come from the meeting plant with a 287cid “Strato Streak” V8 motor in 1955. Motor displacement was elevated in the years that adopted.
It can be not talked about in the advert whether or not the illuminated hood decoration works, however that may be the icing on the cake of what seems to be an already distinctive construct!
The vendor is asking $89,900 or finest provide for this double-nickel Star Chief, which we predict has front-end ornamentation much more particular than a late-model Mercedes-Benz.
To view this itemizing on ClassicCars.com, see Pick of the Day.
