A car I grew up watching come to life.

[carguyinok]

1500 HP rag top GTO

This is a car I grew up as a young man watching it go from raw motor block to what you see here. In no way am I saying I have done any work at all on it. Only that I was a 16 year old kid watching this thing come to life down the block from where I grew up. I would lay in bed at night and dream of this thing because I was always watching and drooling. It blew my mind to see her up for sale. After watching her come to life over the YEARS. Only to find it almost 16 years later. I hope you enjoy the photos half as much as I did the trip back in time. O yah, yes it was street driven ALL THE TIME in the summers.

I am not saying I would pay the asking price :stupid: But I do know he spent many many years getting it to this point. It is just fun to come across a car that had a real impact on my love for hot rods.

[v12horse]

That is one extreme goat. I am not much of a muscle car guy(although I have grown a fondness to fastback mustangs), but I drove a 67 le mans with a 400 in it and man, that thing was crazy fast. Not even close to as scary fast as this beast though. I wonder if it is legal for the engine to be that high. It seems like it would be a huge blind spot, oh but what a blind spotROFL . Nice story.

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Take care,

Ben

[Victor Laury]

Looks like a "Rat Fink" cartoon, come alive!

[Zrush]

That is truly a beautiful GTO. Man-o-man would I love to own something like that. That's the type car you see at the World of Wheels shows. Even for all the "show and glow" that car has, I think the price is a bit high.

[2ManyZs]

Nice, but a bit overdone IMO..... take the blower off and put a hood on it and it would be a lot more interesting....