Featured on AutoHunter, the web public sale platform pushed by ClassicCars.com, is that this 1965 Pontiac 2+2 Sports activities Coupe. This Catalina-based muscle automotive is powered by a Tri-Energy 421cid V8 and related to a three-speed automated transmission. Options embody energy steering and brakes, air-con, and Pontiac’s well-known eight-lug wheels. Completed in blue over a white vinyl inside, this Poncho comes from the promoting supplier with unique car documentation and car historical past paperwork, manuals, rebuild receipts, copy window sticker, the unique air cleaner, rear wheel skirts and different components, and a transparent title.

Nineteen sixty-five was THE yr for Pontiac. The GTO got here into its personal, the division received Motor Pattern’s Automotive of the Yr award throughout the board, and there was a brand new efficiency package deal for the Catalina referred to as 2+2. Launched in 1964, the two+2 package deal was a sporty aggregation of bucket seats, console, and four-speed or automated transmission; for 1965, it turned a de facto efficiency package deal no totally different than the GTO however for the Catalina as an alternative of the LeMans. Commonplace energy was a 338-horsepower 421, with two Tri-Energy choices as much as 3767 horses obtainable. Obtainable for the Catalina Sports activities Coupe and Convertible, the two+2 package deal was put in on 11,521 Catalinas in 1965.

The outside was refinished within the unique colour of Blue Charcoal (code B) about 10 years in the past. Options embody driver-side rearview mirror, entrance fender-mounted antenna, simulated fender extractors, roof drip moldings (code B80 on the info plate), rocker and wheel opening moldings, 2+2 and 421 emblems, and trunklid trim.

A set of black 14-inch eight-lug Pontiac wheels with out trim rings is wrapped in BFGoodrich Radial T/A tires.

The inside is upholstered in white vinyl. Options embody energy steering, console with automated transmission shifter, AM radio, and manufacturing facility air-con (code C60 on the info plate).

The instrument panel consists of a 120-mph speedometer, clock, and gauges for the gasoline stage, oil stress, coolant temperature, and battery. A manufacturing facility vacuum gauge is mounted on the middle console. The odometer reads 60,497 miles, however the true mileage on this car is unknown.

Energy is offered by the reportedly numbers-matching and newly rebuilt 421. Placing out 356 horsepower, the Tri-Energy engine is related to a substitute TH350 three-speed automated transmission. Engine bay options embody black Pontiac valve covers and particular person chrome air cleaner housings. The promoting supplier states that the engine has logged 150 miles since being rebuilt.

This Pontiac was factory-equipped with an impartial entrance suspension and a stable rear-drive axle. Braking is offered by energy four-wheel drums. A twin exhaust system exits on the rear.

The public sale for this 1965 Pontiac 2+2 Sports activities Coupe ends Tuesday, October 31, 2023, at 12:45 p.m. (PDT)

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