"Cali Cat"

GR Auto Gallery is pleased to present this 1960 Pontiac Catalina for your consideration. This Catalina comes in a clean Blue exterior paint over a nice Blue interior. Powering this Pontiac is a 389ci V8 paired with an automatic transmission. This Catalina comes with some nice features such as new tires, new carpet, new front and rear seats, a new electric fuel pump, and power steering. This car is originally from California and still has the original window sticker. Drive this one out of our showroom or have us assist with shipping it to you anywhere in the United States! Don't hesitate to give us a call with any questions or for more information.

For 1959, Pontiac dropped the name "Chieftain" and "Super Chief" models for its entry-level model and renamed it "Catalina", while demoting the former top-line Star Chief to mid-line status eliminating the two-door StarChief Catalina, the only hardtop for the StarChief was the four-door hardtop and expanding the Bonneville nameplate to a full flagship series that included sedans, coupes, convertibles, and Safari station wagons. In the lower-priced Catalina line, Pontiac division advertising placed a higher emphasis on the top trimmed two- and four-door hardtops, convertible, and Safari station wagons instead of the pillared two- and four-door sedan variants despite the fact that the four-door sedan was the best seller in this line. The Catalina, though it was the lowest-priced full-sized Pontiac, was priced and trimmed below the Chevrolet Impala due to GM's overlapping price structure formula only a step below the Buick LeSabre and Oldsmobile 88 in trim and appointments but priced about $100 to $200 less. Catalinas also came standard with more amenities than Chevrolet models and included a larger and more powerful V8 engine of 389 cubic inches, compared to Chevy's six-cylinder or 283 and 348 cubic-inch V8s. Pontiacs also benefited from a much better automatic transmission than their Chevrolet counterparts - the four-speed Hydra-Matic - versus Chevy's two-speed Powerglide.

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