Where did all the vintage Pontiacs go?

I wondered about this after last week's column featuring Jim Biddle's beautiful 1951 Pontiac Chieftain.

I'm pretty sure the blue 1968 Catalina station wagon I drove when I first got my driver's license has returned to the earth in slowly rusting-away chunks, likely forever parked behind one of my dad's cousin's houses or in a field or barn somewhere.

A steel skeleton might still exist, but I won't go looking.

Roaming through rows of classic cars at cruise-ins and shows, you just don't see that many 1950s Pontiacs. Chevrolets, Fords and even old Dodges abound. But the Pontiac? Other than fast late 1960s and 1970s muscle cars, GTOs, Trans Ams and the like, this General Motors make of car seems underrepresented.

How come?

In the early 1900s, Oaklan

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