This car of General Motors doesn’t allow people to eat only vanilla ice-cream

If you have ever been interested in driving vintage cars, then you would know, the Pontiac didn’t make any ordinary vehicles. The General Motors Pontiac was into making extraordinary rides that weren’t just metal, glass and rubber but rides that had emotion, soul and lasting designs that still resonate in today’s automotive world.

The brand was named after the famous Ottawa chief, who had also given his name to the city of Pontiac, Michigan where the car was produced. Although Pontiac production has ended, its legacy of great vehicles will always be remembered in style.

There is an interesting story that is related to the Pontiac, as reported by Daily Social.

One day, the Pontiac car division of General Motors received a complaint, saying, “My Pontiac car doesn’t like vanilla ice-cream.” General Motors, first ignored his complaint. The customer also knew, his complaint is silly. So the owner of the car decided to write again clearly.

He told them about how his family ate ice-cream every day after dinner. And each day, they would decide on a different flavour, but after he bought a new Pontiac car, he was facing a strange problem.

The car refused to start whenever he bought vanilla ice-cream. If it was any other flavor, there wasn’t a problem. While most people would have called him crazy, General Motors decided to send an engineer to his house anyway.

To the engineer’s surprise, the complaint turned out to be true. When the engineer got vanilla ice-cream, the car actually didn’t start. There was nothing left unchecked – the gas used, the car model, the time it took to drive back and forth.

Finally, the engineer realized, it took the man a lot longer to buy other flavors of ice-cream. But because vanilla was stored in a different case in the front of the store, it took little time. And this was just the clue he needed.

The answer was vapor lock!

Because of the car stopping and starting constantly, fuel would turn to vapor and couldn’t move through the system, and causing the engine to die.

Because vanilla ice-cream took little time to buy, the engine didn’t have time to cool down. And so the mystery was solved.
The company was established in 1926 as a companion brand to General Motors’ Oakland. 

For many years, the Pontiac was marketed as the performance division of General Motors, selling performance-oriented vehicles for its customer. General Motors announced its plans to discontinue the Pontiac on 27 April 2009.

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