[Loffen]

Originally Posted by gto4door

Should have smooth tailight lenses.

And smoking hot tires !

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by gto4door

Should have smooth tailight lenses.

Ok, cool, I can swap those back easily enough. Thanks for the answer.

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by Loffen

And smoking hot tires !

Like these?

Until this morning, these were NOS, in the box, 14" Honeycomb wheels & centers - I also have NOS trim rings but since they weren't available in 71/72 I couldn't bear to put them on the perfect rims. I got these with my 72 Convertible and they will be on it soon enough, but I didn't feel like swapping tires/rims on 2 cars tonight.

The tires came off the KU rims I took to get blasted & powder coated along with 2 sets of boxed lower control arms and a couple Y-99 rear sway bars.

[marxjunk]

i had a 71 GT37 with a sword stripe like this and it had the 71 GTO style tail lights in it, they where all busted, but it was soooo long ago, i cant hardley believe someone changed them..

i just parted a 72 LLM, an early car and it had 712 GTO style lights in it too..i thought that was weird..and i know that car had never been touched..

[Steve Hoog]

I like the new wheels, they would stay if it were my car.

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by steved400

I like the new wheels, they would stay if it were my car.

I do too, but for racing it's going to get the KU wheels with a set of Firestone Wide Ovals. But for tooling around town & upsetting my neighbors it's going to get the 15" honeys off the convertible.

Mark thanks, sounds like I'm going to need more input from other owners.

[Steve Hoog]

If you want to smoke the tires off the line at the drag strip then go ahead with Ovals; if you want to get down the track, get some slicks.

[goatmanmitch]

Nice honeycombs!

[goatless]

Originally Posted by steved400

If you want to smoke the tires off the line at the drag strip then go ahead with Ovals; if you want to get down the track, get some slicks.

Them ol' bias ply tires hook way better than you'd think! Hopefully with a little tweaking we'll have Chris's "White Wonder" launching like this.

[wrenchmen]

Love it with the Honeycombs!!!

[71 lemans sport 455]

Real nice color combo and congrads on the new purchase.So whats the third car under the cover in the garage?

[The Boss]

That's my 72 GTO, 54,000 mile WW5 car, also a honeycomb car.

There's a few others that loiter around here too on occasion.

[71 lemans sport 455]

So is the boat pontiac powered?LOL

[gloryrestoparts]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Also do the non recessed wipers have the narrower lower trim piece? I thought it was wrong & went to put a spare one in & the holes were only there for the narrow one.

Yes. Also, the wiper arms are different, as is the wiper arm transmission and the wiper motor. Most of my cars are non recessed wipers, except my W-31.

As John and some others have suggested, you need the rear end of the car lower. The rallye IIs are perfect for racing the 37. You don't want that added weight of the honeycombs. Those babies are heeeavy.

The repro polyglas is nothing like the old bias ply hockey pucks. And once they get seasoned, they hook that much better. Sub 2.0 60s with that HO shouldn't be that hard.

[Steve Hoog]

goatless, it would take a skilled driver to hook like that and limited HP. Not saying Chris can't do it; just that it would be 10xs easier to roll slicks. I farted with bias ply for two decades; then I got slicks and thought what an idiot I was all those years.

[goatless]

Steve, I don't know about the "skilled driver" thing... that's me driving.
Sure, slicks hook better, but then that's part of the fun of FAST/ Pure Stock racing.

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by gloryrestoparts

Yes. Also, the wiper arms are different, as is the wiper arm transmission and the wiper motor. Most of my cars are non recessed wipers, except my W-31.

As John and some others have suggested, you need the rear end of the car lower. The rallye IIs are perfect for racing the 37. You don't want that added weight of the honeycombs. Those babies are heeeavy.

The repro polyglas is nothing like the old bias ply hockey pucks. And once they get seasoned, they hook that much better. Sub 2.0 60s with that HO shouldn't be that hard.

Great, thanks. What about the tail light lenses? Ribbed like the GTO or smooth like the 72? I'm not planning on running the honey's on the track - those are just for looks.

[Mr_GTO]

On a side note either of you CT guys see the '70 Green GTO 'vert for sale on craigslist? 53K miles. Looks like it needs restoration. $17K. Just wondering.

[The Boss]

Haven't seen it - got a link?

[Mr_GTO]

1970 GTO convertible - $17500 (wallingford, ct)
Date: 2012-04-30, 2:28PM EDT
Reply to: sbvmz-2988138304@sale.craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
1970 gto convertible 53,000 original miles. need to sell 400 cubic inch engine 4 barrel carb. really good shape underside very good. any questions call me, john @ 203-265-4448

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http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/clt/2988138304.html