The Ultimate Pontiac GTO Picture Site By Sean Mattingly. There's no bigger GTO image collection anywhere!
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BACK AT THE CAR SHOW...
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'65 GTO race car white was fast.
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'65 GTO race car white engine compartment.
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'70 GTO hardtop blue race car with striking graphics. This one
made many passes at the drag strip on Friday.
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Hurst wheel closeup with gold center caps.
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Tameless Tiger drag car was on display indoors.
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Tameless Tiger has a "wild" paint job.
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Tameless Tiger rear view showing parachutes.
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'68 GTO hardtop green with a computer modified front plate.
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'69 GTO convt was nice.
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'70 GTO Judge blue showing reflective stickers at night! This was
snapped shortly after the hotel burnout contest one evening.
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Lucerne Blue 1972 GTO hardtop blue #1 multi stripe radical closeup. This car
belongs to Pat Brown.
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Lucerne Blue 1972 GTO hardtop blue #2 side view with multi stripe.
PARKING LOT BUMPER PROJECT...
I bought a reproduction bumper from Ames at the show. Then I decided
to install it one evening. What a mistake that project turned out to be!
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'68 GTO bumper project #1: The new bumper sits on a chair. We had no idea
this shiny new part would be too narrow to fit the rear of the car correctly.
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'68 GTO bumper project #2: with old bumper off.
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'68 GTO bumper project #3: We took off the old bumper and disassembled
the tail light housings.
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'68 GTO bumper project #4: Several GTO people stopped
by to watch us put it on. Too bad the reproduction
bumper won't fit on the car where it wraps around the rear quarters. The
top bumper "corners" are not angled as much as the original bumper. The
repro also has fat top edges that don't look much like the original. Two
people stated their '68 reproduction bumpers would not fit either. Each
person had returned their repro bumpers twice with the same result! Uh-Oh!
I measured the repro bumper and found its dimensions to be way off. Measuring
between the widest inside points (marked with a blue dot here), the repro
measures 67 1/2 inches. The original will measure 68 1/2 inches. To make
matters worse, four of the 6 bolt holes in the repro are too small. You'd
need to file the square holes bigger to be able to squeeze the bolts in
them. Damn waste of good "car show vacation" time!
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'68 GTO bumper project #5: Here's your first clue
that your new bumper ain't gonna fit. See this
red sticker? It says "Grand Bumper - Plated in USA". Ames gave me a refund
on their ill-fitting bumper the next morning. What? It fits "tight", huh?
They promised to work out the problem with their bumper manufacturer. I
suspect this manufacturer makes ALL the '68 repro bumpers. The car next
to us had one of these dimensionally challenged repro bumpers on it. You
could see where it does not slide all the way over the rear quarters. And
the wraparound sides were jammed into the car paint, instead of properly
spaced away from it. Thanks to the New Jersey club guys who tipped us off
to the bumper fit problem! They had known about the bad repro fit problems
from their own experience.
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If you have some interesting snapshots of the show, email them to me.
Or U.S. Mail them to me. I can return photos after scanning them. Just
ask.