This Pontiac you see here didn’t carry the same nameplate as in the land of Uncle Sam, where it was known as the Catalina. Here, it was named Laurentian in reference to the Laurentian Plateau.

It belonged to a rusty Canadian-built 1959 Pontiac Laurentian sedan that looked like it had been parked a long time. “I loved the cars of the Fifties with all the chrome and fins,” he recalls ...