Pontiac -- Jay Dee Maness -- What's the connection???

Stephan Franck · Post by **Stephan Franck** » 1 May 2009 7:21 pm

With Pontiac going away, I thought it'd be fun to cut a little farewell video to "Pontiac Man", a song we recorded with Jay Dee a few years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptuoDikQ4oQ

Peter Freiberger · Post by **Peter Freiberger** » 1 May 2009 7:46 pm

Jay Dee has another Pontiac connection. A pristine GTO, '65 I think. Surprisingly it's yellow, not black. It's a recreation of the car he and Luaine had when they were first married.

Bill Bailey · Post by **Bill Bailey** » 1 May 2009 9:23 pm

I thought JD was into street rods? 65 GTO's are so cool.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 1 May 2009 10:18 pm

Jay Dee has always had the perfect hair for street rods, and he still does!

Robert Tripp · Post by **Robert Tripp** » 2 May 2009 3:33 pm

Really cool video, great music....loved it all the way around. I met a Dennis Maness years ago who was in the music industry when I was just about 18 and still playin in garage bands. Any connection there?

Love my Pontiac although its hard to tell em apart from all their GM cousins nowdays.

Got a Grand AM, and a Torrent.

Good job on the video and song.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 3 May 2009 7:54 pm

I really like that video.
Got a Pontiac G6 hardtop/convertable. I guess it's kinda an old guys car but when I kick 'er down it is scary. A little hard to control. Still, so long Pontiac.

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 4 May 2009 3:29 am

I know how you Pontiac guys feel. I have a '65 Plymouth.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 4 May 2009 4:53 am

Stephen you should definitely sent that in to Car Talk on NPR radio. They would almost certainly air it behind the credits on one of their shows. Info at www.cartalk.com

Ray Harrison · Post by **Ray Harrison** » 4 May 2009 6:47 am

I've only got this.

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 4 May 2009 7:37 am

Ray you aren't playing fair. They still make Mustangs. Yours looks really good too.

Stephan Franck · Post by **Stephan Franck** » 5 May 2009 6:50 am

Thanks for the nice comments, guys! It was fun to take all those old commercials, home made you tube videos, etc, and mash it all up together...

Peter--how are you, man? Now that you mention it, I think he did talk about that GTO when we recorded that track. That's the effect the song generally has on people, that's what I like about it.

Jim, that's a brilliant idea. Just sent it in to them. We'll see what happens!

Jim Taylor · Post by **Jim Taylor** » 5 May 2009 6:52 am

I certainly relate to the video and Pontiac's demise. I still have the '64 GTO that I purchased new and used to take my new wife on our honeymoon (4-4-64)

. Howsever, overtime I modified the car to go quicker. I have a few stories and pictures at the following web site:

http://omt.my67.net/

Rich Peterson · Post by **Rich Peterson** » 5 May 2009 9:42 am

Pontiac, Hummer, Saab, Saturn going the way of the Oldsmobile. GM is getting demoted to Major Motors.

I had a '61 Catalina convertible that I sold because I couldn't afford to do the restoration it needed. But I loved that car. With the top down, I could just swing my leg over the door and plop down in the seat. Long and LOW!

Saddest for me is that "Pontiac" is a truly American name. A city and a car named for a Native American chief.

Good song and video. Thanks for posting.

Tom Quinn · Post by **Tom Quinn** » 5 May 2009 11:05 am

It'll be back as a sub-sub-compact mde in China circa 2015...

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 5 May 2009 11:31 am

Sorry Stephan we got way off track from your subject.
Maybe they'll use some of the extinct cars to make steel guitar undercarriages?????
Cool song but I still like the Beach Boys song about the granny in a 413 Dodge beating a Corvette

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 5 May 2009 11:59 am

Ben, you might be thinking of the Super Stock Dodge from "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena"

She may well have had 413 under the hood, because the hero of the song "Shut Down" drove a Super Stock Dodge with the 413 as well.

But that dude wasn't a granny:

"Yeah, a fuel-injected Stingray and my 413,
We're revvin' up our engines and it sounds real mean..."

Okay, back to Pontiacs!

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 5 May 2009 12:17 pm

You're right Mark. My memory as well as some other things "ain't what they used to be". I still have a Plymouth that'll beat a Corvette but it's not very pleasant to drive other than straight. (not the one in the previous picture)

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 9 May 2009 5:40 pm

Great video, Stephan! Maybe the song is now a collector's item?

Ya picking much?

Stephan Franck · Post by **Stephan Franck** » 10 May 2009 8:29 am

Hey John! I'm mainly picking with Archie these days (the dates are usually posted on his myspace page -- myspace/archiefrancismusic). But I sure do miss picking with you! I remember a great live version of Pontiac Man with you at Ronnie Mack's a few years back!

How are you doing? How's the teaching? For anybody who's looking for a steel teacher in so cal, John is THE MAN!

Mark Edwards · Post by **Mark Edwards** » 11 May 2009 9:33 am

65 Pontiac Le Mans was a hand me down from my father to my brother to me. 3 on the tree and that bad boy could move pretty quick. Wished I would have kept it...Hindsight 20/20. I sold it to a family friend for $100.00

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 12 May 2009 11:15 am

I had a '67 Bonneville back in the '80's...
"The Bonneville Lounge" man that was a Land Yacht! metallic pine green with white upholstery-

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Pontiac -- Jay Dee Maness -- What's the connection???

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