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by Sean Mattingly. 1973 GTO Parking Lot Biggest GTO image collection anywhere! |
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by Sean Mattingly. 1973 GTO Parking Lot Biggest GTO image collection anywhere! |
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Starlight Black 1973 GTO, left rear view.CLICK-> 
Starlight Black 1973 GTO, right rear view. If you're not a big fan of the 1973 GTO's, this car should convince you to love them! It's slick, black, got some custom-looking integrated window louvers, and more. This was called the Collonade bodystyle, although I'm not sure where that name came from. The aftermarket wheel choice is excellent for this car. This was the first year for the cool new door handles. They're flatter, and you pull up on them to open the door.CLICK-> 
Starlight Black 1973 GTO, interior view. It's got the optional three spoke Custom Cushion Steering Wheel and a manual transmission.CLICK-> 
Starlight Black 1973 GTO, further back interior view. It's got the optional LeMans GTO Sport Coupe Morrokide bucket seats.CLICK-> 
Yellow 1973 GTO was sent in by Jon Sev. It's an Ohio car which was our Picture Of The Week for 7/27/03.CLICK-> 
Yellow 1973 GTO, front end view.CLICK-> 
Yellow 1973 GTO, rear end view.CLICK-> 
Yellow 1973 GTO, left rear view. This one doesn't have the rear quarter windows inset with a set of vertical louvers covering it - as this was part of the LeMans Sport Coupe package. This car is the LeMans Coupe with the GTO option.CLICK-> 
Yellow 1973 GTO, left side view.CLICK-> 
Yellow 1973 GTO, engine view.CLICK-> 
Buccaneer Red 1973 GTO Sport Coupe that used to be owned by Don Zappone from Anaheim, California. This is our Picture Of The Week for 3/27/05. Don tells us a story, "In the summer of 1979, when I was between 11th and 12th grade, I totaled my rusty and ratty 1970 Maverick and found an absolute mint 1973 GTO with all the options; 400-4bbl, T400 trans, power steering, windows brakes and seats, A/C, tilt wheel, etc. I bought the car for $1650 and drove the hell out of it for a few years. It was Valencia Gold with a tan vinyl top (which was the only thing I didn’t like about it) and after a couple of years I took off the vinyl top and painted it Buccaneer Red. I put probably 50 or 60 thousand miles on that car over about a 5 year period. It never let me down. It always started and ran perfectly. Then one day, I found a 1965 GTO convertible with a 389-4bbl, powerglide, power windows, power top, tilt wheel, and Posi rear. I bought the convertible and kept both GTOs for about a year. Being a broke, single twenty-something didn't allow two gas guzzling muscle cars, so one of them had to go. I sold the 1973 GTO. Within 15 seconds of the new owner driving away I regretted it. I tried not to think about it and consoled myself with the fact that I still had a WAY bitchin' 1965 convertible. About a year later, I saw my 73 GTO being towed down the street and so I waved the wrecker driver over and asked him about it. As it turned out, the guy I had sold it to was a real jackass and had been involved in a police pursuit and had blown the engine. He was in jail and I was able to buy the car back for $300. I also happened to have at the time a rusty, wrecked low mileage 68 Catalina with a 400 in it so I put that engine in the 73. The SAME day that I finished with the engine transplant, I was driving it home, reveling in my good fortune and in a moment of temporary insanity, lost control on a slippery curve in the rain and center punched a huge oak tree. I spent the next month or so completely rebuilding the front end of the car with new suspension and sheet metal. Then I re-painted it. When I was done, it was absolutely beautiful and a real head turner. Since I still didn't have the financial wherewithal to maintain two muscle cars, I decided to sell the 65. I sold it for $1400. I know, I know, I can hear the horrified gasps now! All it needed was a new top. I shudder to think about what that car is worth today. If that's not bad enough, about a year later, I decided that I couldn't afford to keep putting gas in the 73 and I sold it to buy a new Nissan pickup. AGAIN, as the new owner was driving away, I was almost in tears. It seemed like the sensible thing to do at the time, but I have regretted selling that car (both of them for that matter, but mostly the 73) ever since. It has been almost 20 years since I watched that guy drive it out of my driveway but I remember it like it was yesterday. I will never forget that car and the great times I had in it. Now I'm in my 40s and all I have left of my GTOs are photos and memories. Some day I would really like to find another 73 GTO and start all over. This story can be filed under 'Stupidity masquerading as Common Sense.' I have no one to blame but myself. No one was pressuring me to sell either one. I made the unfortunate decisions all on my own."CLICK-> 
Buccaneer Red 1973 GTO Sport Coupe, left side view.CLICK-> 
Buccaneer Red 1973 GTO Sport Coupe, rear end view.CLICK-> 
Buccaneer Red 1973 GTO Sport Coupe, front end view.CLICK-> 
Buccaneer Red 1973 GTO Sport Coupe, in a snow storm. The vinyl body side moldings are missing. There are front bumper guards installed in this view.PICTURE SET CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE ... |
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