Buy a Classic Pontiac
For anyone wanting to collect vintage vehicles, knowing how to buy a classic Pontiac can be the starting point as you search for a classic car. You will have to take many factors into consideration, though, such as year, color, how much you are willing to spend and from how far away you are willing to purchase the vehicle.
Steps
- Know more about Pontiac before making a purchase decision.
- Pontiacs were sold in the United States, Canada and Mexico by General Motors and were introduced in 1926. You may stumble across a predecessor vehicle named Pontiac made by Pontiac Spring & Wagon Works. They had a prototype ready in 1907, and had their first deliveries rolled out around 1908.
- Prewar vehicles were known for being solid and quiet, but not necessarily strong.
- Check out the Pontiac timeline at http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0910_pontiac_tribute_timeline/index.html for more historical information and features on the vehicles.
- Start your search for your classic Pontiac with your local newspaper. Read through the personal classifieds to try to find a car, and then move on to the vehicle advertisements.
- Move to local car dealership websites. Since most only include their newest models in their advertisements, cruising through their inventory posted online may turn up the Pontiac vehicle for which you are looking.
- Progress to looking at a regional auto trader print publication. These can typically be found at local gas stations or convenience stores near the entrance.
- Move your search for classic Pontiacs back to the web to search nationally and internationally.
- Look through the listings at http://www.antiquecar.com/. There you can find listings with make, model, year, cost and a photo.
- You can also try searching through the listings at http://www.FossilCars.com for classic Pontiacs.
- Narrow your selection down to one, or a small handful, of Pontiacs.
- Look up the value of the chosen Pontiacs in the Kelley Blue Book. This will give you the tool to know if the price listed is fair, or if you need to make a lower offer.
- Contact the seller and negotiate price. While you are on the phone be sure and settle on delivery or shipment method.
- You can have the seller ship or personally deliver the vehicle to you.
- You might have someone drive you to that location, and then you both caravan home.
- You might choose to fly or take some other means of mass transit to that location, and then drive the vehicle home.
- Make payment arrangements and finalize the transaction for your classic Pontiac.
- Finished.
Tips
- Contact your insurance agent to discuss how adding this new vehicle to your household will increase your payments. Discuss under whose insurance the vehicle will fall while it is in transit.
