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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World's only 1964 Pontiac XP-833 Banshee coupe for sale by Kia dealer
Mon, Apr 20 2020It seems like there has been a spate of especially odd car sales in the first part of this especially odd year, from the numerous barn finds and homebrew specials to the time capsule cars — like the BMW wrapped in a protective bubble for 23 years. Napoli Kia in Milford, Connecticut, brings us another, via Motor1. Len Napoli is the dealership principal and die-hard Pontiac maven; his father opened Napoli Pontiac in 1958, and Len held onto the franchise until the early 2000s, just before GM shuttered the brand that built excitement. Napoli got hold of the 1964 Pontiac Banshee XP-833 coupe concept, and put the car up for sale through his Kia dealership for $750,000. The exceptional price comes from the fact that Pontiac built two Banshee concepts in 1964, one this silver coupe with a red interior, the other a white roadster, making each concept a one-of-one collector car.   Motor Trend wrote a detailed piece on this one in 2013, the editorial tour hosted by Bill Collins, the Banshee's lead engineer. The short story is that GM exec John Z. DeLorean — yes, him — gave approval to a small crew at Pontiac to create a two-seater sports car to compete with the Mustang, because GM had nothing to fend off the four-seat coupe that would sell one million units in just 18 months on the market. Collins and his team took inspiration from the 1963 Corvair Monza GT concept, working up a fiberglass body over a steel frame, with a 230-cubic-inch overhead-cam straight-six producing 165 horsepower and 216 pound-feet of torque, a four-speed manual transmission, and 9.5-inch drum brakes at all corners. The idea was that the XP-833 would be "an affordable and fun two-seat sports car," the concept demonstrating the base-model price leader offering a lengthy list of options for those who wanted more. The white roadster, in fact, fitted a 326 cubic-inch V8 under the hood. Rumor says that Chevrolet execs didn't like having another two-seater sports car in the GM fold, especially one with a fiberglass body that held weight down to 2,200 pounds. GM execs took one look at the two concepts in 1965 and shut the project down. The two XP-833s lived in a garage for years, Collins and his colleague Bill Killen getting permission to buy the cars from GM in 1973 before Collins left to help engineer the DeLorean DMC-12. It wasn't until just before Collins departed that the XP-333 got the name Banshee.
Junkyard Gem: 1964 Pontiac Catalina Custom Ventura
Mon, May 22 2023Like Impala, Skylark, Malibu and Silverado (among many others), the Ventura name began its career as the designation for a trim level or option package used on another GM model, then became a model name in its own right. Initially a designation for a snazzed-up Pontiac Catalina two- or four-door hardtop, the Ventura name moved over to a Pontiac-ized version of the Chevy Nova for 1971. Today's Junkyard Gem, found in a Northern California car graveyard, proudly bears both Catalina and Ventura badging. Actually, the Catalina name itself started out as a trim level for the Chieftain and Star Chief models of the 1950s, just to confuse everybody. By the time this car was built, the Catalina was the cheapest of four Pontiac models built on the same full-size B-Body platform as the big Chevrolets and Olds 88s of the time (the Star Chief, Bonneville and Grand Prix ranked above it on the 1964 Pontiac Prestige-O-Meter). The 1964 Catalina four-door hardtop with the Custom Ventura package offered a lot of swank per dollar, with a price starting at $3,063. That's about $29,821 when converted to inflated 2023 dollars. The main benefit of the Custom Ventura package was an interior done up entirely in Morrokide upholstery. Morrokide was the name GM applied to Naugahyde fake leather when used in Pontiac vehicles; when used in Buicks, it was known as Cordaveen, while Oldsmobile Naugahyde was called Morocceen. Naugahyde took its name from the town of Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was invented. This car's Morrokide is in rough shape. In fact, everything about this car is decayed and probably infectious. You know to be careful when a junkyard car has warnings about rat feces inked on the glass. That said, I couldn't resist examining the 8-track tapes that littered the interior. Here's Hotel California, the 1976 hit album by the Eagles. Supertramp's Paris, a live album recorded from the 1979 Breakfast in America tour, is here as well. Here's The Best of Carly Simon, from 1975. The tapes were played on this Sparkomatic player, which probably lived in the glovebox or under the seat. The factory radio was AM-only, and includes the frequency markings for the atomic-attack CONELRAD emergency frequencies. 1964 was the last year for mandatory CONELRAD radios in the United States.
6 car mashups that God never intended
Sat, May 17 2014In the 2000s, the musical mashup genre saw a peak of popularity with releases like The Grey Album from Danger Mouse that mixed The Beatles and Jay-Z. UK artist James Pursey from Carwow decided to take the same concept of shoehorning two disparate things together but applied the concept to cars. Your opinion on the results will vary with your sense of humor. These creations are either some funny pieces of abstract art or absolute monstrosities that prove good design should be left alone. Likely the best of the bunch is the Lambotomic (pictured above), which combines a Lamborghini Miura and an Ariel Atom. Granted, the Ariel is little more than a skeleton to begin with, and the outcome looks like a slightly stretched Atom with the new nose and tail from one of the most beautiful vehicles ever. This could actually work. Though, not all of the mashups are quite so pleasant. The Porschiac WW RS (pictured right) is absolutely disgusting. It combines a Pontiac Aztek, which isn't a beauty queen to start with, and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Obviously, the 911 is an iconic shape in autonobolia, but that can't save it from the horror of the Aztek. Pursey fits the its nose, wheel, wing, roll cage and stripes onto the Pontiac. The outcome: A design that will show up in your nightmares. Check out the gallery for the rest of the mashups, including the Humi (a Humvee and a Mini), Aston Smartin (Aston Martin and Smart), Rangerini (Range Rover and Lamborghini Aventador) and the Mazdafenda (Mazda MX-5 Miata and Land Rover Defender). They might not all be beautiful (or even pretty), but it's fun to imagine these oddball creations actually driving down the road. Featured Gallery Car Mashups News Source: CarwowImage Credit: James Pursey Design/Style Humor Lamborghini Pontiac Porsche ariel atom lamborghini miura pontiac aztek mashup