[Pantera]

Thanks guys I am glad to hear that.

If anybody has a broken GTO grill emblem in their junk box I would like to buy it just to see if it will corespond to the bolt holes that are filled in on the back of my car. From what I can see it must be only one bolt per letter? At the top R of each letter. Of course there were no pins to locate it at the bottom since it had a thin metal strip that holds the three letters together. I asked Joel about it but no reply so far. I think I will pose it to Gary the Painter as he must have had them off to paint the Black stripe on the car for Joel.
I would be suprised if anybody else bothered to research this back then as it was "THE" only one made by Joel this way. In 70 they came out with the 454 and when He made this first 69 car, nobody knew that they would have the bigger motor in 70.On the 70 GT cars he used a 67 Mustang GT emblem (see pic of my documented 70 Phase III) No doubt about what this one is off of.

That was the my problem. I spent two weeks looking at Mustang GT emblems on the internet and here in Town. Finally some one said they thought it looked more like a Vega GT emblem (but they were not built in 69) so that started me to look at any of the other car makers that had the GT models and that was a dead end. Then by accident I found a site that had every emblem for cars back then by maker and I went through every 65 to 69 car till I noticed the GTO grill emblem just by accident and realized why he used it.

It is the only one that comes close to matching the SS on the 427 impalla emblem above it. also it is the right height to boot. all he had to do was cut the brace off at the bottom of each letter and use the GT and it looked good. they probably came loose everytime you washed the car though with only one bolt holding them on. (I guess I will find out but nowadays I have some good glue to hold it still.)