A Restoration Odyssey

I set up this website to describe a General Motors show car, a 1963 Pontiac X400, to present its history, how it was built, and what it took to restore the car. I have divided this site up to give the history, how I got the car, how I found the engine, and then the restoration of the car. The restoration is divided up into sections describing the engine restoration, the framework, the bodywork, and the interior. Back when I got this car in the 80s, General Motors Photographic, now GM Media Archive, gave me a collection of photos that show the car being built at GM Styling. These have been invaluable in getting this car back together. The restoration was finished in 2015. Its first show was at Amelia Island concourse. 

The photo gallery is where you can select different categories of photos showing the restoration of sections of the car. The restoration logs are the day-to-day notes about the work done in restoring the X400. These logs are PDFs that can be downloaded for reading. They are not edited for spelling or grammar errors. 

Even though I have had this car for some years, it was not until 2006 that I started the actual restoration. Until then, I searched for data and found what parts I could find. During those years up to 2006, we did frame-off restorations on some 15 cars, some of which are still in my collection.