Neat Strat. I took a little tour of the street John to see if I could place the spot. No real luck finding any position where there was a surviving old style gas station structure on a corner.

Great picture. Thanks for sharing. I think you are right about the location.

gparis7 wrote:

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By the way that Pontiac is an American Catalina, not a Canadian car. When American servicemen were stationed in St. John's and Argentia, quite a few US Pontiacs found their way to Newfoundland.

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 Interesting! I'll have to ask about that. How can you tell? I'm seeing two words on the front fender which I thought was Strato Chief, but if US, then I guess it would be Star Chief?

What caught my attention were the crossover wipers, which in 1961 and up were used on US cars with 2 speed wipers while single speed US cars wiped to the same side, as did the Canadian Pontiacs (I have owned both US and Canadian cars from 62-64). That said the script does appear to be two words, i.e. "Strato Chief" , and from looking online it appears the Canadian cars in 1960 also had crossover wipers. So I think this car is a Canadian Strato Chief. 

As to location, I think is is where JDuffett says it is, which is now a busy intersection at the junction of Commonwealth, Park and Ruth Avenues. The view linked below shows Ruth (Ashford Sales) from Commonwealth (Irving Location) in the photo taken in 2019.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@47.52058,-52.8076433,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sE2aXsBfEYkCIUf31hVU-EQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DE2aXsBfEYkCIUf31hVU-EQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D101.54448%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

Neat pic!

I'd say it's a Canadian Strato, because:

- The first word in the script looks longer than "Star" and seems to have the second "t" in it.

- The front wheels look to be tucked further into the wheelwells, a symptom of the narrower track of the Chevy chassis.  Remember American Pontiacs of the era were "wide tracks".

- The Star Chiefs I've seen all seem to have chrome door sashes, whereas this car has the painted ones that a Strato Chief would have.

I'm sure there are other details, but these ones jumped out to me.

As an aside, 1959/60 Chevys had crossover wipers, so Canadian Pontiacs would also have this characteristic, unlike the later cars that John mentioned.