The Pontiac Streamliner is a 4-door sedan / 2-door coupe / 4-door station wagon from Pontiac, built from 1933 to 1951, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. Harley Earl drew it.
Where it came from
The Pontiac Streamliner is a full-size car produced by the Pontiac Division of General Motors from 1942 until 1952. It was a popular mid-priced vehicle on Pontiac’s high end during the recovery from the Great Depression and immediately after World War II.
Under the skin
The record carries the shape — a 4-door sedan / 2-door coupe / 4-door station wagon — and the layout: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The engine, output and weight have not yet reached the open record, and MotorJury does not guess at them.
In context
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Pontiac Star Chief; assembly was at Pontiac, Michigan. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Bugatti Type 57, the Chevrolet Suburban, the Plymouth Deluxe — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Pontiac catalogue sit the Pontiac 2+2 and the Pontiac 6.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Pontiac Streamliner has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.