My 67 GTO that I’ve had since 1991. I’ve restored it twice, the second time was mostly to fix the crappy work that I did when I was 19.
My dad had two ‘67 GTO’s. I am not sure but this might have been the first one. The first one got rear ended and buckled right in the middle. Found this picture of a picture…would have been late ‘70’s early ‘80’s in front of his parents house.
My Dad had a few GTO's. His 66 ? Back in his high school years. It was gone before I came along. & A 65 Convertible he had my whole life wich I still have in the shop. I'll have to get a better pic when I get back out there. The 65 is what lit the fire inside me with him banging through the gears of that Muncie as I was a kid. Tires burning and all that torque glued me to the seat ! Wooweeee this fuckin rules. He took great pride telling folks its a "true GTO" not a Le Mans clone. I look forward to sharing it with yall here as I bring it back to life.
Well, I bought my ‘71 17 years ago. It was a different era of my life. Street racing and raising hell days are a little over for me, as I want to just cruise now. So I sold my ‘71 today to my son John (the ugly one with the beard, 2 of my other punks beside him). It’s going back to the Racine/Kenosha area where he lives, which is where I lived when I first bought it. I’m sure he’ll pick on some more local kids with their Subarus.
Here's one of those stories, but it came from my step dad, he told me about it around 2005, and that was also the last time he seen this car. My step dad had a best buddy that lived in Atlanta Georgia, in 1964 he graduated high school and his dad promised to buy him a new car on graduation day. So the day comes, kid has a bubble top Chevy 409/4speed that he bought working after school and on weekends. Kid figured he already had a "driver" so what to get? A couple days before he is watching TV and sees a commercial for the new GTO. Calls around the next day asking questions so that weekend the commercial comes back on and he points to it and says that's what I want! A week later they are at the dealership ordering a new 64 GTO, ticking off option boxes, 389 3-duece, 4-speed, 3:90 posi, radio delete, heater delete, no sound deadener, black ext, black interior, no console, etc. A while longer and a stripped down GTO shows up, kid takes it home, pulls exhaust system off, puts it into the rafters of the garage, open headers replace it. The for factory rally wheels and tires come off and go into the corner, narrow steel wheels and tires up front, reversed wheels and slicks in the back, spring spacers under the rear springs. This kid and the car run the local strips every weekend for along time. After many years the guy grows up, life gets in the way and the car is left of the original trailer he pulled it on to the race tracks. My step dad knew the car well and would go back to Atlanta about every 3 yrs or so and visit with him and other friends and family. In 2004 or 05 my step dad goes for the last time, said the car is still there, said the factory tires and rally wheels are still in the corner although the tires are junk, the old original battery is on a shelf with a newer replacement under the hood. He said the exhaust is still in the rafters and any part that had been replaced, good or bad is sitting on a shelf. He also said every mark on the firewall is still there from the factor, the paint is still on the cotter keys on the suspension etc. The guy pulls the trailer out of the garage every year or so, totally details out the car top to bottom, pulls plugs, oils cylinders and turns it over, puts the plugs back in and rolls the trailer back into the garage. My step dad ask him what he was ever going to do with it, guy said when he was ready to retire he'd auction it off...... Step dad said it was immaculate from top to bottom and that he had tried to buy the car many times thru the years but never had luck, and a couple times offered real good money for it. I wonder what ever happened to it..... ...
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