Pontiac Super Duty Cheese Car Restoration Complete

1963 Pontiac Super Duty Swiss Cheese Catalina

Here i have 42 pictures of the Swiss Cheese car in various stages of it's restoration . Just click on this picture and you will see the rest or Tim even has many more pictures on his web site  . I was up at Tims shop today and he has the front clip on it now and most of the interior in . About to fire it up soon . This has taken many hrs to put this Catalina back to stock .

1963 Super Duty Swiss Cheese

Tims moving along on his rare Super Duty for sure . He is close to fireing it up. It has been a long grueling restoration as he has painstakenly put it back to the stock wheelbase . I believe it is one of 14 cheese  all aluminum front end cars built . Tim is excited to have another one coming in for some rear end work . A pleasure to work on such rare vehicles . Tim has a lot of good pictures on his website . There are links on the blog . So check out the restoration of a very rare car . I'll post some more pictures . Later , mopargrovis

1963 Swiss Cheese Super Duty Pontiac Catalina

The Swiss Cheese as it is today being restored to the stock wheelbase .

The trunk and the wheelwells have been put back to stock and now Jimbo replaces the butchered firewall .And soon he'll be welding in a new floor . Heck , i remember building the frame for this many years ago . We had a lot of hours restoring it to the altered wheelbase stage . It's a lot of work seperating all the body pannels and welding them back to stock , but this car deserves it as there is a lot of history behind it ! As i said this is the fastest Swiss Cheese car ever built and the last one built .
Well enough for now and keep checking in to see the progression of this build . Grovis

The Swiss Cheese as it campaigned in the 65 season , start of the funny car era

Here is the catalina as it looked during the 65 season after having the wheel base altered in 64 . It stayed that way untill Tim started the restoration back to stock this year . The complete front end is aluminun and i do'nt even like to work around them . Just a few more pictures as it looked back in the day . You Pontiac guys should keep an eye on this build .This was the beginning of the muscle car era , even before the legendary Pontiac GTO ! Enjoy the pictures of the build ............. Grover

Very rare 1963 Swiss Cheese Super Duty Catalina restoration project !

1963 Swiss Cheese Super Duty Catalina

Very rare restoration project !

A pictoral documentation of the last "Swiss Cheese " ever buit . This pontiac catalina was bought from Bill Blair by Tim as an altered wheelbase car and is being put back to stock at Tim Thorpes' shop . It was the beginning of the funny car era and this was the fastest cheese car built . Ran in the 9.20s i was told . Well here's a little history on the car . I'll be keeping you up to date on the build with a number of pictures.......................Grover