Our feature 1961 Pontiac Ventura has been treated to a frame-off restoration with hot rod touches ... and the whole affair rides on eight-lug Pontiac wheels shod in wide whitewall rubber.

Ventura, often overshadowed by Pontiac's more popular models, offered impressive performance options, like the GTO package ...

finned wheels that helped cool the brake drums. This issue’s featured vehicle is a 1961 Pontiac Ventura bubbletop. You never heard of a bubbletop? I hadn’t either until the owner of one ...