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1965 Pontiac Gto Roadracer Pro-touring Car on 2040-cars

US $250,000.00
Year:1965 Mileage:1
Location:

Livermore, California, United States

Livermore, California, United States
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Thank you and welcome to this Auction for a one of a kind 1965 GTO, The car is currently under construction and looking for a new owner who will want to fund and take delivery of the car.
The car is a tribute to Bob Tulius, Herb Adams, Carrol Shelby and the 1960's road racing scene. This car is supposed to look like something that these minds of the 1960's could have produced.
This is a auction for a car currently under construction  at our shop in Livermore,Ca and is a High Profile build with over 16 Manufactures Involved The following manufactures are involved: ARP fasteners, Original parts group, Synergy Motor sports, Modern Drive Line, Melrose Metal finishing, Borla exhaust,American auto wire,Paradise wheel, Wilson manifolds, Wilwood brakes, vintage air, Ron davis racing products,Hogans racing,Classic Instruments,Valley Machine, Rushforth wheels , This car is slated to debut for the 2014 SEMA Show in Las Vegas,NV. The car is a tribute to Bob tulius, Herb Adams and Carrol Shelby. This build started from a idea of WHAT IF and after seeing so many cars being built with the current trend, COYBILT decided to throw there twist on a 1965 hardtop GTO. The body sits on a roadster shop chassis with the IRS option, the engine is a dual throttle bodied twin PAXTON supercharged  408 cubic inch LSX, the transmission is a T56 magnum six speed and Wilwood 6 piston narrow super lite calipers on 14 inch two piece rotors help stop this combo. Now you can see with these basic components the car is  into the super car territory. The body is being massaged but left stock appearing mostly except for weight reduction through out. A 12 point roll cage will exists through out the entire vehicle, not only for safety but to promote the vintage race theme the car is aimed after. The interior will represent just two seats in the front and the rear seat will be deleted for weight reduction and once your sitting in that front seat you will notice a Stewart Warner font gauges in the factory cluster housing. The gauges are a custom built unit from the team at classic instruments. Now lets get to the wheels, The wheels are a custom one off unit made by Rushforth wheel, they are a  1963 Corvette grand sport wheel with functional knock off centers the wheel size is a 18x8 front and 19x12.5 in the rear. The wheels are covered in a set of Pirelli Pzero Corsas 265/45/18 and 345/35/19 with a tread wear of sixty. This is just lightly scratching the surface of this car, if your interested please email us for further details.

There are two renderings of the vehicle one is with Mini lite wheels one is with the current grand sports wheels.
Color could be changed upon request since it will be YOUR car.

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ENGINE: twin McCullough/Paxton supercharged 408 lsx with dual quad throttle
body's, making 900-1000hp.

TRANSMISSION: T56 with twin disc clutch and quick time bell housing

CHASSIS: Roadster shop fast track with IRS

BRAKES: Wilwood 6 piston super lite's with 14 inch rotors and 4 piston
super lite's with 13 inch rotors rear.

INTERIOR: Stewart Warner gauge font in factory gauge cluster, toggle
switches like used in jags and cobra's instead of factory switches, 8
point roll cage semi tucked, factory buckets with tmi bolstering or low
back buckets with heavy bolstering, etc...

EXHAUST: 3 inch Borla Unviversal 304 stainless kit with XR1 Mufflers

WHEELS: Rushforth Grandsport 18x8,19x12.5 inch combo

TIRES: Pirelli p zero corsa's






 



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