My '59 Parisienne restoration progress - update on page 2

MissTiffanyKnight · Veteran Member

My '59 Parisienne restoration progress - update - new photos

Giovanni · Veteran Member

Thanks to all of you, it's very nice to see such positive comments!
A few more pics... In June 3rd will be a holiday and it's going to happen a big classic car show in another state. I'm trying to go together with my dad driving the Poncho, but I'm not sure if we can, because I can't miss work the day after and the day before the holiday... If we go there, I'll post some other pics!

Giovanni · Veteran Member

RE: My '59 Parisienne restoration progress - update on page 2

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

Your car is far too pretty to drive, everything is spotless now!

If you go, be especally careful on the roads, if Brazil is anything like the USA, holiday traffic is terrible and the drivers are especially bad then.

Dave

Giovanni · Veteran Member

Hello !

Me and my dad went to the car show last week, unfortunately we couldn't go driving the car, because the documents weren't ready by the day. We changed the color of the car and the docs needed to be changed (bureaucracy is awfully slow here...). So we had to carry the Poncho in a towing truck.
The good news is that we won the prize in it's category (50s decade), together with a convertible Edsel and a Hudson. It's called Brazil Classics Fiat Show, at the city of Araxa and it's the most prestigious classic car show in the country! The Poncho really caught people's attention, no one had seen one like it before.
After it, the car went back to the shop to correct a few things that still aren't ok, but that is normal in a restoration process, I think. smile

Here are some pictures of it and of some other cars that showed up there. Hope you like it.

My dad, me and the Pontiac!

The trophy!

The ceremony of the best cars

This 1936 Mercedes won the 1st prize. This is an amazing car... A German collector that was in the show made an offer of US$5 million to the owner!!!!

A beautiful 1916 Cadillac

Another beautiful Caddy

1959 Mercedes

a 1957 convertible Buick

A Packard (don't remember the year)

Me and an a Ferrari

Lamborghini Miura

Chrysler (don't recall the year)

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427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Wow ! thats impressive! very good congratulations

59poncho · Poncho Master!

so happy for you, that car is amazing!! Hopefully someday i will see it in person!! My wife and i said we will have to take a trip to brazil once were situated in mexico awhile.

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

Congratulations! Well deserved! Cool looking trophy, too!

Sorry you had to truck it but safer that way, I think.

Thanks for the pictures, I see you beat out at least a couple of 55-57 Chevys too

Dave

jmont64 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Also congratulations. Car looks great and what a great variety of cars there, enjoyed looking at them.

Giovanni · Veteran Member

Thanks to you all, for the comments!!

59poncho wrote:

so happy for you, that car is amazing!! Hopefully someday i will see it in person!! My wife and i said we will have to take a trip to brazil once were situated in mexico awhile.

If you have the chance, you won't regret visiting Brazil. This is a beatiful country and there are hundreds of beautiful places to know. If you stop by Brasília, we'll surely take a ride in the pontiac. biggrin

carbuff2007 · Addicted!

Great job Gio, love the paint and interior, Lots of classic us and canada cars there at the show. How do they come to end up in Brazil. Again very very nice,

timbuk · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

hey gio very nice job on car very nice to see in high end show with 5 million dollar cars thanx from the poncho boys we beat these things daily still! timbuk

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Great job on the restoration. Your car looks stunning!

grande jim · Guru

I'm sure the pictures don't tell the hole story...It looks good in the pictures..I'm sure it looks Awesome in real life, I'd love to see it.. Very impressive resto..Congradulations on your trophy.

48 poncho · Addicted!

wow man cool car and thanks for the pics and yes that is a cool trophy biggrin

gparis7 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Very nice job on your car!

Giovanni · Veteran Member

Thanks tou you all, for the comments!

carbuff2007 wrote:

Great job Gio, love the paint and interior, Lots of classic us and canada cars there at the show. How do they come to end up in Brazil. Again very very nice,

Until 1960, there was no real auto industry here, there were only imported and CKD cars in Brazil, so cars a great variety of cars from europe and north america ended up here... that's why you see so many brands and rare cars in the shows.