1966 - Pontiac Gto on 2040-cars
Wray, Colorado, United States
1966 GTO Family Owned Nearly 49 Years My father factory special ordered this GTO on the 16th of April in 1966. It was Built on the 18th of May and my father drove it down our driveway on the 21st of May 1966, I was waiting for my father to come home and still remember him as he turned down our driveway for the first time! Double click on picture to get full sized images---ebay doesn't tell you that! Call/contact me for more detailed info and pictures. Moving overseas and can't take it with me--- I can assist in shipping arrangements 1966 GTO Tri-Power Automatic It has the Original Drivetrain Including Starter and Alternator Engine and trans have been completely rebuilt. The car has had a complete frame off restoration and has been painted in the original Palmetto Green Color I have the Original Title as well as a Duplicate in the same names, so you can keep the original, I also have the original purchase order, 30 day tags, most of the original license plates, all of the registrations, repair receipts, two folders worth to include letters to dealerships getting the best price for the car order! Notebooks of our bi-yearly cross country trips to include fuel stops, cost, gallons, mileage, our hotel stops, some receipts and a 1966 AAA map highlighted showing our cross country routes! I keep finding more! I have a few pictures of our documented cross country trips that also show the license plate numbers and my family, including the GTO behind my brother and I with the go-kart in 1967. RESTORATION DETAILS: The Radiator has the original HD tanks with a new staggered 5 row core, original radiator cap and lower radiator hose! The cooling fan is the larger HD aluminum 7 blade clutch type. New heater core. ENGINE DETAILS: The original engine has been bored .030 oversize using TRW forged pistons, an oval dish has been machined to lower the compression to 9.8:1, the pistons also have a Thermal Barrier applied to the tops. Piston rings are "Total Seal" Gapless second, moly top ring. The crank is a 421 piece that has been machined to fit the original unmodified block and is now 421 cu.in. The crank assembly has also been balanced. I still have the original std. never turned Arma Steel crank . The original 093 heads have been completely rebuilt using all new guides, all new TRW valves, hardened valve seats, new screw in studs, 3 angle valve job, pocket ported, new pushrods, all original rocker arms and nuts! Camshaft is a Pontiac Tri-Power cam Starter and alternator are the originals and have been rebuilt. Included, is a ram air/cold air air cleaner pan Transmission is the original ST-300 Turbo Hydramatic that has been rebuilt with new clutches, Kevlar band and shift kit Included, is a 200-4r 4-speed overdrive trans that has been rebuilt in detail with extra clutches, hardened splines, shifter cable, Console shifter position plate and all hardware needed for trans conversion. No driveshaft modification needed. Driveshaft has new vintage GM Saginaw u-joints and has the original driveshaft and yoke Differential is the original Safe-T-Track 3:55 ratio with new axle bearings and all new seals The cover has never been removed and still has the original whale oil in it! Body and Frame: Have been completely disassembled and media blasted clean (see pictures) All tie rods, ball joints, center link, idler arm, front springs and shocks, bushings have been replaced with Moog parts and Polygraphite bushings. All new fuel, brake lines, fuel tank and sending unit Exhaust system has the original dimension replacement mufflers with 2.25" diameter pipes Brake Shoes: are the Kevlar and Ceramic, by Muscle Car Brakes. Unbelievable stopping power! All weatherstrips, window channel and track felts replaced, vent window, trunk, and door rubber seals replaced. Floor soundproofing and carpets replaced. Front seat covers are new with preformed seat foam Instrument panel new real walnut insert (best I could find) Firewall; heater box and steering column seals replaced Car runs very strong, drives excellent and sounds great!
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GM recalling 1.4 million older vehicles for oil leak fire risk
Tue, Oct 27 2015General Motors is recalling 1,411,332 older vehicles with its 3.8-liter V6 yet again due to a fire risk. Specifically, there are 1,283,340 of them in the US, and the affected models are the: 1997-2004 Pontiac Grand Prix 2000-2004 Chevrolet Impala 1998-1999 Chevrolet Lumina 1998-2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 1998-1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue 1997- 2004 Buick Regal The fault with these vehicles is that oil can drip onto the hot exhaust manifold during hard braking, which can potentially cause of fire. In the last six years, there have 19 reported minor injuries from this problem but no crashes or fatalities, according to the company. Spokesperson Alan Adler also told Autoblog: "GM has reports of 1,345 fires in vehicles that were repaired under two previous recalls for this issue." At this time, GM is still developing a remedy for the problem. According to Adler, the company advised owners to park these vehicles outside for the previous recalls. "The cars can be safely driven. In cases where a customer reported an engine fire while driving, smoke was reported, which would be an indication of a malfunction," he said. This is GM's fourth recall for this problem since 2008, according to The Detroit News. At one point it was believed that aging valve cover gaskets allowed the oil to leak out and drip onto the manifold. A campaign in 2009 covered nearly 1.5 million of these models through the 2003 model year for the same issue. At the time, dealers installed new spark plug wire retainers as a fix. Related Video: GM Statement: General Motors is recalling 1,283,340 older sedans and coupes in the U.S. from the 1997 to 2004 model years because drops of oil may be deposited on the hot exhaust manifold through hard braking, which can cause engine compartment fires. GM is working on a remedy. The company is aware of post-repair fires in some vehicles but no crashes or fatalities. There have been 19 reported minor injuries over the last six years. These vehicles with 3.8-liter V6 3800 engines are affected: 1997-2004 Pontiac Grand Prix, 2000-2004 Chevrolet Impala, 1998-1999 Chevrolet Lumina and 1998-2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, 1998-1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue and 1997-2004 Buick Regal. Including Canada, Mexico and exports, the total population is 1,411,332.
AMC Trans Am Javelin SST, an ultra-rare underdog, is up for auction
Sat, Sep 9 2023Among the rarest of the American muscle cars that went racing in the early Seventies — cars including the Camaro Z/28 and the Boss 302 Mustang — the 1970 AMC Trans Am Javelin SST may be the most hard to find, and among the most valuable. Only 100 units of this unique Javelin were produced, and one of them is up for auction at the Mecum event in Dallas on September 20. The Trans Am Javelin was fashioned in a patriotic livery of tricolor paint — red, white and blue — and arrived after the American Motors Corporation had decided in 1968 to compete in the Trans Am racing series against Ford and General Motors. The company's chief driver, Mark Donohue, would dominate the 1971 season, taking seven wins in his Javelin AMX and that yearÂ’s SCCA Trans-Am Championship. AMC took the trophy with 82 points, well ahead of Ford's 61, Chevrolet's 17 and Pontiac's paltry 7. The example listed for auction came equipped with a 390-cubic-inch V-8 engine with 325 horsepower at 5,000 rpm and 420 pound-feet of torque, power steering and brakes, dual exhaust, BorgWarner four-speed manual transmission and Hurst competition shifter. Its “ram induction system” sealed a chamber around the air filter so that cool air from the functional hood scoop would be funneled into the intake. This JavÂ’s factory price was $3,995 — a mere $32,000 or so in today's money, though it was expensive by the standards of the time. The 100 Trans Ams were among 19,714 Javelin units built in 1970, so they started out rare, and today the surviving examples are highly collectible, if and when they come up for sale. No bid estimate is available yet. Related Video: Motorsports Chevrolet Ford Pontiac Auctions Automotive History Racing Vehicles Classics
Junkyard Gem: 1989 Pontiac 6000 STE AWD
Sun, Aug 1 2021During the middle to late 1980s, General Motors made a big push to grab back some of the sales swiped by makers of European luxury machinery during the previous decade. Around the top of the prestige pyramid, there was the Turin/Hamtramck-built Cadillac Allante taking aim at the Mercedes-Benz 560SEC and the super high-tech Buick Reatta trying to seduce away BMW and Jaguar shoppers; even the Riviera offered a futuristic touchscreen computer sorely lacking in anything out of Stuttgart or Bavaria. The General had a plan to take on the smaller German sporty sedans, too, and Pontiac of the "We Build Excitement" era offered a midsize sedan packed with modern hardware at a great price: the 6000 STE. Here's one of the rarest 6000 STEs of them all, an all-wheel-drive-equipped '89 found in a Denver-area yard last week. Any 6000 STE is extremely hard to find today; when I wrote about a front-wheel-drive 1987 6000 STE back in 2018, desperate owners of these cars filled my inbox with requests — sometimes demands — for parts that continue to this day. Many of them pleaded with me to help them find an all-wheel-drive version, and now I have managed to find one at Colorado Auto & Parts in Englewood, just south of Denver (in fact, the same yard at which I shot the '87). You may recall CAP as the old-school yard whose owners built the amazing airplane-engined 1939 Plymouth pickup a few years back. The all-wheel-drive system on the 6000 STE was introduced for the 1988 model year, and it became standard equipment on the 1989 STE. At this time, the automotive industry had taken note of the success of the idiot-proof all-wheel-drive systems offered by AMC and Audi/Volkswagen; Toyota began selling Americans all-wheel-drive Camrys, Celicas, and Corollas, while Ford offered the Tempo and Topaz with optional AWD and Subaru was just beginning to make the switch from manually-selected four-wheel-drive to genuine all-wheel-drive around that time (it took a few more years for everyone to standardize on the 4WD/AWD terminology we use today, though). The 6000 STE AWD was intended to compete with such all-wheel-drive-equipped sedans as the Audi 80 ($23,610), Audi 90 ($28,840), and BMW 325iX ($30,750); its $22,599 price tag (about $50,700 in 2021 dollars) certainly made it seem like a bargain compared to those cars. In addition to the all-wheel-drive system, 1989 6000 STE owners got a digital instrument panel and more switches and buttons than the Space Shuttle.