The road to restoration is long and not for the faint of heart
 

This is the beginning of a very long road....

Beneath all that ugliness is Tiger Gold paint...

Hah, that's nothing. You shoula seen mine when I started. Other PY members will vouch for me on that :rolleyes:

Bryan

tripower 4-speed

very neat, keep us updated

This is the first GTO I ever owned. I bought it back in 1980. It was rusty then. It was last driven on the road in 1985. I've owned, and still own a few other GTOs, but I decided this year it was go for broke, or sell it.
I had parted many other cars, but this one was kept intact except that I had sold the 4 speed console.

Restoration is being done by Florida Pontiac in Stuart Florida.

neat pictures

i like the pictures of rough/unrestored GTO's much more than show cars
they're more interesting

neat car!

Awesome...best of luck! And I thought my '65 was rusty when I started.

As you noted, the road to restoration is long. I wish I had started off with one that good! 4 years and counting. Good luck!

I can top that :)
 

That's nothing at all. Check out these pictures. I took these back in January...this was the last I saw it like this before it headed out to the sandblaster, was taken off the body, and frame was sent to the powdercoated.

Thank goodness I get to do all the fun stuff now :D

Thank you so very much! I feel so much better about my car now I thought it was bad but now looking at yours I know that it can get done eventually.

Yeah, at least you had floorpans and a trunk...mine didn't...or a gas tank, or an original motor.... :Peace:

maybe, I'll drink beer and scan pictures of mine tonight. Someone on here will like the story.

There is a 67 A/C dash on e-bay right now.

Here the frame has been releived of the motor, transmission and rear end.

Some miscelleaneous including the front suspension needs to be removed prior to degreasing and a trip to the media blaster/powder coater.

Anyone know what steering box that is?

Manual

The disassembly of the 389 engine reveals a less than stellar crankshaft. This indicates that I must have had a lot of fun driving this car in the early 80's. I remember some of the smoky burnouts, but that is about it. In short, the crank is toast, and will be replaced with a rotating assembly from one of the premier Pontiac engine builders.

It looks like if I had driven this car a little more, the crank would have broken in two.

The flywheel has seen too many holeshots. It is blue with a multitude of cracks. One more good holeshot would have probably grenaded it.

Hey Andre, that sure looks like what I had and I NEVER thought it would get back together again. After YEARS of work and waaaayyy to much $$$$$, it is finally done. I feel your pain.

I don't have the skills or time to do it myself, so I have a top notch shop called Florida Pontiac working on it. The only pain will be in waving goodbye to the $$. Based on the progress that has been made thus far, I wouldn't be suprised if this car was wrapped up by the end of January. Maybe even earlier than that. Right now my bottleneck is the engine/rotating assembly.

Great pics and story Andre. Keep us updated. I love the before, during, and after photos. For some reason the before photos are the most interesting I agree with baron on that.