page_title: Pontiac Safari
section_title: 1957
hierarchical_section_title: Pontiac Safari / 1955–1957 Safari / 1957
caption_attribution_description: English: 1957 Pontiac Star Chief Custom Safari 2-door station wagon
context_page_description: The Pontiac Safari is a station wagon that was produced by Pontiac. The Safari name was first applied to Pontiac's version of the 2-door Chevrolet Nomad station wagon. The body style, originally exhibited as a 1954 Chevrolet Corvette Motorama concept car, was shifted to Chevrolet and Pontiac full-size 1955 production vehicles because of the perceived greater sales potential.
  During its run, the Safari would be sold as its own station wagon model as well as a designation applied to Pontiac's various other station wagon vehicles. The name "safari" is derived from the Swahili word safari, which means journey, originally from the Arabic سفر meaning a journey; the verb for "to travel" in Swahili is kusafiri.
context_section_description: For 1957, Pontiac applied the Safari nameplate to all of its station wagons in all of its product lines (Chieftain, Super Chief and Star Chief Custom).
  While the high-trim unique two-door body style was still available, Pontiac added a four-door high-trim version to the Star Chief Custom series mid-year which was named Safari Transcontinental.  This half year series featured special exterior trim to set it apart from other Pontiac station wagons.  Despite only being on the market for the last half of the 1957 model year, the Safari Transcontinental outsold the special-bodied two-door Safari 1,894 to 1,292.
  At the end of its three-year run, the specially bodied two-door sport wagon sold only 9,094 vehicles compared to the Chevrolet Nomad which sold 20,092 copies in its three-year run.
caption: 1957 Pontiac Star Chief Custom Safari 2-door station wagon
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