I, along with Mark, have been following the fortunes of Canadian Pontiacs for many years.  The fact of the matter is that there is a very limited market for these cars (we are all on this board!) and in general, Canadians are unwilling or unable to justify the full blown restorations costs that our cousins south of the border are willing to undertake.  I mean look at all of us on this board talking about doing this car but no one is able to step up to the plate! Part of the problem is our small market.  Canadian Pontiacs take a while to sell.  I had a 69 396 Safari wagon it took me forever to sell and it's not as if I was asking a lot of money for it or made anything on the sale.  Mark's 69 2 + 2 was for sale for quite a long time as well.  Someone who does up a "Bis-Quick" however knows that this car will have wide appeal in the US with a lot of potential buyers, which helps keep prices up. 

I have seen a few big block Pontiacs go the the states and they did not bring nearly what an equivalent American Pontiac or Chevy brings.  Unfortunately many of the Pontiac and Chevy communities there (with the notable exceptions of someone like Beaumont Bill) see our cars as "bastards", not really a Chevy and not really a Pontiac and thus would never pay any big money for them.  The bottom line is that anyone who does this car must go into it with their eyes open that they will never come close to recovering their costs if they do a full blown restoration and then choose to sell it.  It should be done as a labour of love and the person should derive the majority of their satisfaction out of knowing that they have preserved a unique vehicle that is a very special part of our automotive heritage.  Unfortunately, as I get closer to retirement, I am forcing myself to analyse much more carefully what kind of return I am realistically likely to achieve on a potential investment of tens of thousands of dollars and the math on something like this is getting harder and harder to justify.  We really need some Otis Chandler and Milt Robson types here to have these types of projects get realized!