Brer Rabbit
Pursuit Specialist
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2005
I love the talk on this thread.
Im enjoying the comments on the 67GTO but I only wish most of what was said was actually true---My 67 H.O. GTO hardtop is no way worth the money that was mentioned and its a super super clean car with 19,000 original miles. Ive got well over 25k into the car just for the restoration that isnt even done yet. Considering the car was handed down to me by the original owner(dad) I dont think I would break even if I tried to sell the car at this point. Not complaining just being realistic. Pontiacs have not seen the value boom like the Mopars have, but I'm hoping that they soon will. As far as performance my Pops said that his Goat ran 14.19 on the 14" polyglass tires and thru the factory exhaust. Not exactly lightning quick but very comparable to a stock GN. Maybe someone could adress this---Why dont we ever see any real nice GNs or even a GNX on the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction? One more question for the experts --Whats this love affair with the HEMI name going on all of these cars and the average consumer believing that Chrysler is giving them a super engine in these new cars? Wake up people---its just a cylinder head design that can always be made better with a good port job! I had to argue with a new Charger owner for 20 minutes before he understood that Hemi refers to the placement of the damn spark plugs in the heads . He actually bought the car and had no idea. BRILLIANT!!!!Maybe thats why the Mopars are going for close to half a million on the Auction.
Im enjoying the comments on the 67GTO but I only wish most of what was said was actually true---My 67 H.O. GTO hardtop is no way worth the money that was mentioned and its a super super clean car with 19,000 original miles. Ive got well over 25k into the car just for the restoration that isnt even done yet. Considering the car was handed down to me by the original owner(dad) I dont think I would break even if I tried to sell the car at this point. Not complaining just being realistic. Pontiacs have not seen the value boom like the Mopars have, but I'm hoping that they soon will. As far as performance my Pops said that his Goat ran 14.19 on the 14" polyglass tires and thru the factory exhaust. Not exactly lightning quick but very comparable to a stock GN. Maybe someone could adress this---Why dont we ever see any real nice GNs or even a GNX on the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction? One more question for the experts --Whats this love affair with the HEMI name going on all of these cars and the average consumer believing that Chrysler is giving them a super engine in these new cars? Wake up people---its just a cylinder head design that can always be made better with a good port job! I had to argue with a new Charger owner for 20 minutes before he understood that Hemi refers to the placement of the damn spark plugs in the heads . He actually bought the car and had no idea. BRILLIANT!!!!Maybe thats why the Mopars are going for close to half a million on the Auction.