"Never before has Pontiac so greatly enhanced its reputation for smart appearance, trouble-free operation and fine performance. Truly the Finest of the Famous 'Silver Streaks,' the 1946 Pontiac has been greatly improved inside and out. Whether you choose the 1946 Pontiac as a Six or an Eight, you can be sure of more quality than Pontiac has ever offered in any previous model."
Marketing departments often looked up to the sky when musing about car names: Willys’ “Aero,” Oldsmobile’s “Rocket”, Buick’s “Skylark”, Hudson’s “Super Jet” or Ford’s “Thunderbird” most certainly come to mind. This Pontiac “Torpedo” has a naval connotation, though — and quite a martial one at that. We don’t know if the buyers were supposed to associate this name with “speed” or rather with “explosive” back in the day, but neither would truly befit the character of this car.
Notwithstanding, that name had a long lasting impact on Cuban automotive terminology, as torpedo has become a general moniker for all kinds of streamlined fastback designs here.
More than seven decades on the road show their toll on this Pontiac Torpedo from Havana. When new, the horizontal bars of its sagged front grille still ran straight. Nonetheless, the amount of ornate embellishment is quite staggering, just as it was back in the day, when this flamboyant styling was meant to distinguish the fancier Pontiac design from its lowlier Chevrolet sibling, on which it was largely based.
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