Trivia - per Jim Wangers, the '64 was borrowed from Bill Sherman for the shoot, and the post was airbrushed out to better marry-in w/the group.

Same car loaned again to GM a few years later ...

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It has the sunniest place on Earth The little city of Yuma in southwest Arizona is officially the world’s sunniest place, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Yuma gets more than 4,000 sunlight hours per year and has an average of 11 sunny hours per day throughout the year. Its average yearly rainfall is 7.8 inches (20cm) while its highest average temperature is 106°F (41°C) in July. Another Arizona city, Phoenix, comes in as the second sunniest with an average of 3,872 sunlight hours per year.

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The town of Unionville in Maryland got a record-breaking drenching on 4 July 1956 when 1.23 inches (3.12cm) of rain fell in just one minute. According to the World Meteorological Organization, it is the greatest rainfall to ever fall in one minute and be reliably recorded to date.

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The city of Mobile on the Gulf Coast in Alabama holds the record for being the rainiest city in the US with 62.45 inches (159cm) of precipitation (meaning water from the sky in any form) annually on average, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The city has a mild subtropical climate which means humid summers and mild wet winters.

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The city of Syracuse in New York receives an average of 114.7 inches (291cm) of snow annually, making it officially the snowiest city in America, according to NOAA data. The next snowiest is also in the state of New York: Buffalo which gets an average of 91.9 inches (233cm) of the white stuff each winter. Both cities are in a region impacted by so-called lake effect snow, which occurs when cold air moves across the open and relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes causing clouds to form in narrow bands. These clouds can produce as much as two to three inches (5-7cm) of snow per hour.

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Most of the world’s tornadoes occur in the US and usually take place between April and June with an average of 1,253 tornadoes per year. These powerful storms mostly result from supercell thunderstorms. Although tornadoes have been recorded in every US state, you're most likely to see one in Texas. With typically 146.7 tornadoes a year, the state has also experienced some of the worst in recorded history.

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A whirling column of air and water mist, waterspouts are most commonly sighted along the Florida Keys and elsewhere along the Gulf of Mexico. They typically form during the late spring and summer months and are classified as either fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts. September is the peak month for waterspout activity over the Great Lakes: the region had its largest outbreak ever in 2020 with 232 waterspouts recorded, beating the previous record of 186 in 2012.

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When the town of Vivian in South Dakota was battered with strong winds and scattered with giant hailstones during a heavy storm in July 2010 they broke the record for the largest hailstone ever to be recorded in the US. The whopping item, known as a hail bomb, measured eight inches in diameter (45.7cm), 18.625 inches (47.3cm) in circumference and weighed 1.9375 pounds (879g).

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'Lightning doesn’t strike twice' is an old wives' tale with repeat lightning strikes highly likely – the Empire State Building is struck on average 23 times a year. In 2020, the US recorded 15 deaths by a lightning strike, with 40 in 2016. June, July and August are peak months for lightning activity across the country with most outbreaks happening in Florida and Texas. The Sunshine State had the highest density of lightning strikes. While Texas had the highest flash count, with 2,483,805 negative cloud-to-ground flashes, according to Vaisala's US National Lightning Detection Network.

Goodies
 

1966 GTO consumer catalog.

Unfortunately the 8 lug wheels were never available on the GTO.