“There are some real nice cars out here, real nice,” Burse, now living in West Chester, said as he gazed at a parking lot full of classic Pontiacs and drooling motorheads from around the country and world.
The event, which runs through Saturday, is bittersweet for Pontiac owners and fans. General Motors announced this year it’s ending the Pontiac brand after more than 80 years in production to focus on what it calls its more important brands: Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC trucks.
Centerville resident Steve Fleury, the Co-Vention’s co-chairman and owner of a 1966 Grand Prix parked at the show, is downright disgusted over it.
“The demise of the Pontiac brand is, in my opinion, the result of bean counters at GM and a lack of passion (that was present) in the 1960s and ’70s,” he said.
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