{"id":666,"date":"2026-06-17T19:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/?p=666"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:07:29","slug":"from-the-mother-road-to-the-gm-nationals-two-acadians-100-years-of-pontiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"From the Mother Road to the GM Nationals: Two Acadians, 100 Years of Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>While we dident make the original goal of Santa Monica, we did make 1 heck of a dent! Two friends. Two Pontiac Acadians. One goal: celebrate 100 years of Pontiac by driving the cars Pontiac built for everyday people, down the road to the next adventure.&nbsp; <br><br>The trip wasn\u2019t easy. The Acadians weren\u2019t museum pieces &#8211; they were machines. Between Chicago\u2019s \u201cBegin\u201d sign and The New Mexico border, those little Canadian Pontiacs took on Illinois cornfields, Oklahoma dust, and overloaded interiors despite that They never quit. <br><br>Now the Mother Road is behind them, but the celebration isn\u2019t over. They\u2019re turning east again, pointing the Acadians toward Pennsylvania and the GM Nationals car show. It\u2019s the perfect next stop for a 100-year anniversary. The GM Nationals brings together the best of GM\u2019s legacy &#8211; the engines, the designs, the stories that started in Detroit and spread across the world. For two guys who just proved a pair of humble Acadians could still cross half the country, it\u2019s a chance to park among the legends and kick off the next century of Pontiac.<br><br>This isn\u2019t about horsepower or showroom shine. It\u2019s about what Pontiac was always meant to be: honest cars that show up, run hard, and connect people. From Route 66 to the GM Nationals, these two friends and their Acadians are carrying that spirit forward. One mile, one bolt, one story at a time.<br><br>Stay tuned. The engines are cool, the tools are packed, and Pennsylvania is next<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/chevette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260531_092523-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chevette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260531_092523-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chevette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260531_092523-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chevette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260531_092523-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chevette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260531_092523-1536x710.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chevette.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260531_092523-2048x946.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we dident make the original goal of Santa Monica, we did make 1 heck of a dent! Two friends. Two Pontiac Acadians. One goal: celebrate 100 years of Pontiac by driving the cars Pontiac built for everyday people, down the road to the next adventure.&nbsp; The trip wasn\u2019t easy. The Acadians weren\u2019t museum pieces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chevette.net\/?p=666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Mother Road to the GM Nationals: Two Acadians, 100 Years of Pontiac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chevette.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}