'65 GTO Sports Coupe Survivor on BAT

[napa68]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Without a doubt a very cool Survivor, but the seller is not completely forthright.

He has done a very nice job answering questions and providing photos.
At 90,000+ miles in the Midwest it shows what can happen to a car.
I lived my first 24 years in Springfield Illinois so I know.

I have several photos of this car in my files before the family parted with it that shows significant rust issues.
Obviously a patch panel was installed on the lower LH fender that the seller has not mentioned on BaT. The LH inside kick panel is in the trunk probably for inspection reasons.
Plus that area at the upper rear LH quarter panel is very concerning. These areas lead me to believe there’s more rust.
I’d like to see the trunk floor in this car.

Besides the patch panel the trunk weatherstripping has been replaced along with outside mirror, shifter boot, etc.

Like I said, awesome ‘65 GTO, but ……

I spoke to the seller as I questioned the body due to the rust hole on the inner wheel house. Here is the response I got........

"Hi,

We had the car dry ice cleaned and removed all the factory undercoating.
It revealed the still shiny floor pans that hadn’t been seen since 1965.
The wheel wells were the same revealing the original paint.
The rear wells had a little chipping where rocks or debris had penetrated the undercoating but there
really was no real rotting or rust, Just one tiny hole on the drivers side rear wheel well.
It was treated with Ospho to protect the metal and left alone.

After removing the undercoating on the frame there were a few spots that left exposed metal and it was touched up with GM undercarriage paint.

The exterior paint is original and I’ve tested all the areas on the car with paint meter and it’s pretty thin..
Averaging 2.5 mil to 3.5mil."

To your point Chris, he's not being as transparent as one would like to see. I was going to make the trip to look at the car as it's in northern IL. Once the bids rocketed to the neighborhood, I was not going to make the trip. I suspect the car would not MIL out as indicated

Tim