March 1966 dad took delivery of the GTO he ordered. Two months later, I was almost born in it as his rote to the hospital was interrupted by a Memorial Day parade. His passing this July just wrecked me. The fog is lifting now, I dug out the pictures of it. That's me sitting on the fender.
Dad swapped cams and mail ordered an advance curve kit from Royal Pontiac. Anyone remember the Tohm McCan cars?
chevy57dude - sorry about the loss of your father last July. Its tough to lose someone so close, especially when you share the same interests. He had great taste in cars! Was his GTO Marina Turquoise or Blue? I can't tell from the pictures. My Dad also had a 66 GTO. He didn't buy it new but he loved that car. This GTO had absolutely no rust anywhere but every body panel on it had a small dent or crinkle of some sort. My Dad drove that GTO like it was on fire! In these pictures my Dad was showing off his new convertible top. When he bought the car, the salesman told him it had a special color ( Tiger Gold???), but it doesn't look like Tiger Gold to me. I still have the California front license plate hanging in my barn.
This reminds me of a goat I had years ago..... It had been given to me by a coworker to eliminate a huge blackberry growth (about 1/2 acre) that I had been battling. That damned goat started at one end and munched his way through it in about two months! My Mother, being the farmgirl that she was, liked farm animals and each time she came to visit she would also go out by the barn and visit the goat (probably a better conversationalist than me) and EVERY time she turned her back on him he would butt her in the ass!! Good thing she had a great sense of humor!
@Chief 64 - Thank you. Dad's car was blue. He had full instrumentation, posi, wide ratio 4 speed and 3.55s. I just looked back at the pics and saw the ignition amplifier and Hurst & Crane stickers. Your dad probably enjoyed his car! Love those '66 tail lights.
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