I decided to do some simple things while taking care of my wife. I pulled the clock out of the cluster and fixed it. I tested the electronics first and they worked good. I then put the smallest touch of clock oil on the shafts and it started working great. I cleaned the contacts while I was there. Also polished the lens for the cluster and tested…[Read more]

That is cool about the battery decal. The 63 barn car I got out of Iowa had a decal there that was painted over. I took lots of time to try and remove the paint to see what the decal was but I just couldn’t get to a point I could see it. I never looked in the assembly manual.

I will get a picture of both washer tanks Sandy. Yours could be a 63…[Read more]

Jim Noel: I see what you are saying now about that. I am in Florida and the car is in Ontario Canada. I have no idea why that sire is there. I am guessing by your experience that an extra wire should not be there at all?

I would love to see a photo of the 62 VS 63 washer fluid tank side by side.
Someone, somewhere told me before that my tank was incorrect (maybe Eric) but my tank looks ‘just fine’ to me.
Just wondering if the mounting holes were the same from 62 to 63: if they were actually different then I would know if mine possibly came equipped with a 62…[Read more]

Well then, details details… Thanks for the heads up!

Another detail is this correct battery warning sticker you can get on eBay for 63 Pontiacs.

With so few Jetfires built on the line compared to hundreds of thousands of other cars, I’m sure they had to refer to the manual when a rare Jetfire came down the line. However, they would not have had much time to refer to it.
Sandy, I noticed on your car you have a 62 washer fluid tank. Could be the were using up the 62 tanks or ran out of 6…[Read more]

Couple blown up factory photos. Sadly, one is a display motor and has not decal or markings and the other is not turned quite right, lol . I think I can figure it out but just not tonight.

Hi Sandy,
Not quite sure why that “wire to ground” (?) is attached to your sender mounting screw? Looks like a place to compromise the seal of the sender to the tank. Where does that wire go? Your tank is grounded by the six tank to inner fender bolts.
Jim

This is my 63 before anyone touched it (photo taken by Coles) – however no idea if the tank had ever been serviced previously. Also keep in mind that a plant employee ‘having worked the assembly line for a many years’ may have continued to run a wire ‘the way they always had’ even if there was a suggested change. So now I will need to decide if…[Read more]

That is interesting. The 63 barn car I drug home over a year ago was on the other side but that car had around 100,000 miles so someone could have moved it. Not sure if this one would have been strictly followed on the assembly line but for sure interesting. I had never even thought of this routing before. My 62 4 speed car was around the rounded…[Read more]

There does not appear to much usable left of the body. Very rusty. You would be just buying it for the turbo parts but you could get those way cheeper then buying a whole car.

I found an interesting detail in the 63 assembly manual. The wire to the TRF tank goes on the flat side of the fluid level float switch. All cars I see have it on the other side.

Actually, I have decided to not even bid on it. I just want to drive the price way down on it. Hope someone gets it for dirt cheap

Those numbers are for sure Jetfire parts from the white car. I have the 62 Jetfire engine I posted on Facebook and still undecided if I will sell it. I am working on getting another Jetfire parts car and if I get it I would likely sell the engine and turbo setup from that car but it is a 63. Still correct but the numbers would be for 63 instead of 62.

to answer eric’s question i would like to reassemble the 2 jetfires in origin one for my father and one for me but if i can’t find all the pieces i miss i would fix the white one with the red ones because the white does not seem like that but it and healthier than the red and especially matching number I think