Restoration of 1935 Pontiac Coupe stolen 46 years ago from me.

I need to restore this extremely rare car.

You can see updates here.... https://www.facebook.com/clive.macann

And live National TV here.... https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2367222660157825

Newspaper coverage here.... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3078576035516263&set=pcb.3078576692182864&type=3&theater

READ THE FULL STORY BELOW.

My situation is about a lost car which, to a lot of people, is neither here nor there.

1n 1965 at the age of 13 our family moved from Auckland to Palmerston North to start a new life. ( I live in New Zealand by the way)

Just down the road from where we lived was an old Pontiac Coupe.

I fell in love with it.

I chatted to the guy that owned it and found he may be interested in selling it at some stage.

He was not in a hurry so I put a plan in place to buy it from him.

I found a job delivering newspapers and a school holiday job repairing umbrellas at Lethabys Umbrella Factory. I saved every cent I earned and had no life outside my dream.

At 15 I left school and got an Apprenticeship in Construction.

I was then able to buy the car, which I did. It was my pride and joy for years.

I drove it around and looked after it best I could.

The gearbox eventually failed and I took it off the road to get repaired.

I found a shed to store it in while I saved to get parts to fix it.

When I went back to begin the work, the car was gone.

I reported it to the police one night and was told if it had no wof ( in NZ we have a 6 monthly Warrant of Fitness on all vehicles when they are allowed on the roads) and wasn’t on the road they wouldn’t bother with the paperwork and sent me home.

I cried for several days after that. I was shattered.

For the next 45 years, I spent a lot of time looking for that car, including posting heaps of wanted ads on the Internet when that came on board.

One day a friend of mine said he saw it for sale and, yes, he was right. It was my car.

I just wanted my baby back home.

I am now 67 and live on a pension.

I have no money but enough genuine friends that I can hopefully depend on to get the car back home and restored.

I can supply more information to anyone who wants to donate or even sponsor this restoration.

Just thanks for taking the time to read this.

Clive

PS. Click on my FaceBook link below for more pics of the Pontiac in a state of disrepair.