it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car, and here's this week's winner, this is my 1970 Pontiac GTO, GTO stands
for a Gran Turismo and it is an Italian term
meaning grand tour class racer and it was actually used by Ferrari for their
racing car back in the 60s and John Z DeLorean the chief engineer for Pontiac
decided it was a good name to use for his new muscle car, also the GTO is
arguably known as the first factory muscle car and the reason why is because
at the time only the Chevrolet Corvette, and the Ford Thunderbird was available
to the public along with larger size cars like the Chevrolet Impala with the
large high horsepower engine, so this was the first mid-sized car to offer a high
horsepower large engine, anyways this is the second-generation body style for the
GTO which was around from 1968 to 72 and this is a cardinal red with red interior
car and in fact this car is as close as you're going to find to a survivor that
is out there, it has the standard 400 cubic inch engine, along with a turbo 400
automatic,
here's the factory 400, I've been told by the previous owner which was the
fourth owner, I'm the 5th now, that they believe that the engine has never been
opened up, it's never been cracked open, the motor has about 135,000 36,000
miles on it
the AC works, everything runs fine, we had the air conditioner completely rebuilt
along with all the power brakes and power steering, and the radiator,
and really the only thing not original on this car is that the second owner added the
judge spoiler was added, and the exhaust was upgraded back a while ago and the
exhaust tips factory dual exhaust tips were not added
and I am looking for a factory pair, I search for about two years for this car, I found it
in Florida on Craigslist, so don't let anyone tell you that you can't find good
cars on Craigslist, you just had to be careful when you're shopping, and after
inspection I really decided this was a nice clean unmolested original example
of the 1970 GTO, I wanted this year since my first GTO when I was young about 20
was a 1970 it was a coupe, so this was a bonus finding a convertible, this is
actually my fifth Pontiac GTO and it also has a power driver seat
air-conditioning, AM radio, not am/fm, and a factory 8-track player and everything
still works, the 4th owner that owned it before me, he did not replace anything
with reproduction parts, he went ahead and had everything repaired to working
order, the only thing that has been replaced it and it's because they're not
available anymore, are the seat covers, the front seat covers were replaced with
reproduction Pontiac seat covers, here is the paperwork that I show when I take it
to car shows, and down below is the salesman vehicle pre-delivery service
check sheet, and it's all checked and signed by the the girl that bought it,
the daughter, along with a copy of the service owner manual for the car
and the hard find and mainly lost, Pontiac protective plate, of the window sticker
for the car you can see, back then the car total was $4,013.85 it's
handwritten but if you look at their, it's kind of a poor print, it does show that
it's $4,013.85 and everything in here is exactly how this car is, like I said
this is a closer you're gonna find to a surviving car,
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