Owner:   Marc6670 Year: 1979 Make: Pontiac Model: Catalina Est.Horsepower: 375 Page Views: 899 Comments: 1 Comments Ratings: 1 votes   Overall: Rating : Exterior: Rating : Interior: Rating : Performance: Rating :

It's hard to put into words what my Catalina means to me.  Long story short, it was my first car.  My mom threw me the keys to her Catalina and it was mine.  It was also the first "new" car my parents ever bought.  My sister and I grew up in that car...we went everywhere in it.  When I was 17, my mother lost a 3 year battle with cancer.  My dad asked me to sell it because it bothered him too much to have it around.  I didn't want to, but I did.  Not a week had past and the kid who bought it wrapped it around a tree.  I guess no one else was meant to have that car.

I was determined to have another one.  After a search that lasted more than 10 years and a ton of potiential canidates...I found a Catalina that was very close to what I used to have.  So far, I've dropped in a '68 YC-code 400...the usual engine mods that goes along with a rebuild but nothing too radical, (heads and block decked .010", bored cylinders .030" Elderbrock Performer RPM intake, Elderbrock 600 cfm carb, Petronix Flamethrower HEI distributor), Heddman tri-Y headers, true dual exhaust with Flowmaster 40 series mufflers, TH350 with shift kit and 2500 stall converter, and an Eaton Posi with 3.42 gears in back.

The biggest "suprise" to people when they see the Cat is that it doesn't look all that great, but it has it when it counts.  It also throws a lot of people off because I've swapped out the Trans Am snowflakes for some black steelies with the ol' fashioned snow tires in back.  It's a lot of fun to drive, and soon it will come off the road for a extensive resto-mod...eBay has been my savior in tracking down hard to find N.O.S. parts.

My Catalina is one that you really don't see on the roads a whole lot anymore...not a very popular choice when it comes to cars.  But mine has very special meaning, very sentimental in my eyes.  People say that you learn for your mistakes.  I certainly did.  I have my Catalina back...and it will not leave me again.

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