The GECCO
Fri Sep 24th, 2004, 07:50 PM
I know, I know, it has too many wheels but I'm still proud of it.
It is a 1965 Pontiac GTO, what was arguably the "first" muscle car. It has a mildly built 389 ci V8 with a 4 barrel and a Muncie 4 speed.
This particular car was in a flood in 1982. My dad bought it for $500 and we spent about 4 years restoring it. I know that's a long time, but it was a "spare time" project and there wasn't much of that since we were very actively stock car racing back then.
Anyway, dad recently aquired yet ANOTHER car (he has a bunch of 'em) and simply ran out of room to keep them all inside. He called a couple months ago and asked if I would consider taking the GTO...well, DUH! :roll: The next week he signed it over and now it's tucked away in my garage. He only got it out about once a year for the last 10 years or so. I plan to get more use than that out of it, but it will never be more than a car that comes out from under the cover on a nice weekend.
Enjoy...
http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/uploads/GTO1.jpg
http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/uploads/GTO2.jpg
P.S. the car he bought this summer was a 2004 Z06 Corvette...I tried to get him to give me that one instead but he declined :lol: Oh well...
It is a 1965 Pontiac GTO, what was arguably the "first" muscle car. It has a mildly built 389 ci V8 with a 4 barrel and a Muncie 4 speed.
This particular car was in a flood in 1982. My dad bought it for $500 and we spent about 4 years restoring it. I know that's a long time, but it was a "spare time" project and there wasn't much of that since we were very actively stock car racing back then.
Anyway, dad recently aquired yet ANOTHER car (he has a bunch of 'em) and simply ran out of room to keep them all inside. He called a couple months ago and asked if I would consider taking the GTO...well, DUH! :roll: The next week he signed it over and now it's tucked away in my garage. He only got it out about once a year for the last 10 years or so. I plan to get more use than that out of it, but it will never be more than a car that comes out from under the cover on a nice weekend.
Enjoy...
http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/uploads/GTO1.jpg
http://www.cosportbikeclub.org/uploads/GTO2.jpg
P.S. the car he bought this summer was a 2004 Z06 Corvette...I tried to get him to give me that one instead but he declined :lol: Oh well...