awesome day 2 GTO

[Salvatore]

I think it needs more gauges!

[GTO_DON]

Ive got plenty of those gauges sam!! You need some for the ZEE?????

[mockingbird812]

Trying to learn and just curious. I was surprised to see that this was a Candadian built car. McKeesport is very near Pittsburgh. Would it have been possible to get a Canadian built GTO delivered in the USA? Or would it have been possible for a dealer trade across the border?

Cool car - love ALL of the gauges.

Thanks!

[427TJ]

The whitewalls are my favorite part.

[SUSQ]

To each his own, I guess but the whitewalls are killing me.
I had a '70 GTO convertible as a high school senior. Really nice piece. That's the one I still wish I had today. It had a 4 speed and the standard 400/350. That car ran REALLY well, especially considering it probably wasn't the lightest car on the road. The RA cars and the 455's must have been real beasts based on how well the 400 performed.

[427TJ]

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To each his own, I guess but the whitewalls are killing me.

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Yes, 35 years ago whitewalls would have been 100% UNCOOL. Today they seem to add to the sleeper look, especially in a sea of Rally-wheeled, redlined or white-lettered, cookie-cutter musclecars.

[mockingbird812]

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To each his own, I guess but the whitewalls are killing me.
I had a '70 GTO convertible as a high school senior. Really nice piece. That's the one I still wish I had today. It had a 4 speed and the standard 400/350. That car ran REALLY well, especially considering it probably wasn't the lightest car on the road. The RA cars and the 455's must have been real beasts based on how well the 400 performed.

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Abe,

What a great ride to have had as a senior! Do you think Sharon and her sisters would remember your car? I'll bet your goat didn't escape Bernard's attention. He has always appreciated fine motor cars. I'll bet you had the baddest ride on Park Avenue !

[SUSQ]

Sam,
I got the GTO in the spring of my senior year and they probably would not remember the car as I grew up on the other side of town.
'70 GTO convertibles bring strong money these days. Oh well, so much for hindsight! I later had a Tahoe Turquoise '67 Chevelle SS396 (black vinyl top and black interior) with the base 325 horse engine. In all honesty, I think the GTO would have out run the Chevelle.
Now I drive kids to soccer games in a Jeep Grand Cherokee. What the $!*% happened to me? It's not even a Hemi! (although it is a V8. I guess that counts for something!)

[PeteLeathersac]

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Trying to learn and just curious. I was surprised to see that this was a Candadian built car. McKeesport is very near Pittsburgh. Would it have been possible to get a Canadian built GTO delivered in the USA? Or would it have been possible for a dealer trade across the border?

Cool car - love ALL of the gauges.

Thanks!

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Being such a late delivery, a dealer trade isn't impossible but more likely this car was just another result of the 1965 Auto-Pact which eliminated many automotive trade tariffs between US and Canada.. There's a lot of fine details but the meat of the agreement allowed GM and other manufacturers to schedule available units (and parts) to flow freely from whichever Canadian/US plant could supply the requested orders..

Also since this is a Canadian built car, the seller or buyer of this car may as well grab the GM Canada Vintage Service documents to 'the stack' since they'd be available anyway!.

Is this where we should bring up the old debate on Oshawa built GTO's w/ factory MK1V power?.

~ Pete

[mockingbird812]

Thanks Pete. I was thinking the same about the GM of Canada docs.