Pontiac Deluxe

The Pontiac Deluxe Six and Eight was an upper mid size car built from 1935 to 1940 by Pontiac, a make of General Motors. In 1935, when Pontiac again offered a six cylinder range, the Deluxe 701A stood beside the Standard 701B and was the first Pontiac with independent front suspension. It had the new Silver Streak grille, a side valve 3.4 litre inline six of 80 bhp, and bodies from cabriolet and coupe to two and four door sedans. In 1936 it appeared as the series 6BA alongside a Deluxe Eight 8BA with a 3.8 litre inline eight of 87 bhp. For 1937 both series were redesigned and renamed 26 and 28, and after the Master was dropped the Deluxe was the only Pontiac line. A new GM A platform arrived in 1939, and the streamlined Torpedo introduced in 1940 was to succeed the Deluxe. The article counts 118,827 built in 1935 and 1936 and 578,502 in the four years after.