Certificate of Registration issued  to   Zachary Butz on March 30th 1999 for pride of ownership of this 1948 Streamliner Four Door Sedan ......  This is the 2,179th Eight Cylinder Streamliner out of 12,302 to be built in 1948 at the South Gate California Plant. 

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 Signup form Data:  

Condition: Being Restored  Owned Since: June 30, 1997  Engine: Original Eight  Transmission: Hydramatic  Paint Condition: Repainted to Original  Plate Error: Yes

Name: Zachary J. Butz  Email: zchief@hotmail.com  Region: "The Snow Belt"  Country: United States  Birthdate: December 18, 1981  Member of: I hope to join the Pontiac Oakland Club Int.

Zachary sent this letter to me: Dear Sir,
     I found your site when I was surfing the net looking for pictures of cars like mine. This Pontiac was the first car that I bought, when I was 15.  At the time my criteria for a car was that it had to run, so I could drive it to school and show it off to my friends. I wanted to learn about auto restoration, but I am struggling.  There is not much mechanical ability in my family, but I have a friend who restores old trucks.  I want to do a frame off restoration, but that will probably be when I finish collage, and can afford another classic, because I am addicted.  I am looking for chrome parts now, and also any information I can find.
    I located the third owner and he wrote me about the car in 1970, but he couldn't remember many details.  Her name is
Zchief (Z for Zach, Chief for Pontiac).  I love the car sincerely and would like to learn more about it.
    I also have an original sales brochure that is quite interesting and 3 advertisements for near years.  Thanks for the wonderful web page, it is a dream come true.
Zachary J. Butz And when I prodded him for more info: Dear sir,
   Thanks for replying so soon.  It made my week to find out that my car was made in California.  In 1970, it was located in a town about 75 miles to the south of here, so I figured that it was made in Pontiac Michigan.
    No offense, but I do not give anyone my address on the internet or telephone, although anyone can write me at zchief@hotmail.com.  I do live in the snow belt, so my car is only on the road about six months a year.  It has a gas powered heater in it that nobody can figure out how to hook up.  Not too many people can remember cars like mine.
      I am enclosing a picture of my car when it was in the Fourth of July parade.  It was also in my cousins wedding two weeks after I got her.  Last summer I took her to the drive in movie theater and had a nostalgic blast.  I have put about 2,000 miles on it a year and that totals it out at 28,659.  Now how many hundreds of thousands I don't know.  I also bought it off of a used car lot. Thanks for your assistance. Please let me know when I can vistit her on the net.
Zachary J. Butz

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        Zachary,
    You sound like a smart young kid. I like how you have your education as a priority over your hobby. ( It's scary when I talk like that. It makes me feel much older than 41! ) I can tell that you want to learn about your car also. I hope we can help you with that, and I also hope some of your enthusiasm will rub off on the rest of us!
Thanks-Don P.S. Any of you "old timers" know anything about that gas powered heater? (There now I feel younger again) I have neither seen nor heard of one.

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        Update:     Zachary joined POCI and found another 48!  I made the webpage for it on 11-24-99. Here is the link to Zachary's other 48 page.  And here is a photo of both cars in front of his house.

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