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But do you like it? Would it be something that would stir your emotions enough to consider buying one? Is this the Retro GTO that Bob Lutz should have pushed thru instead of the Austrailian model in 2004?

OH WOW! VERY COOL! and a very cool design. Thank you so very much. I am 'forever" grateful.

PM sent JIm, a 3XL if possible? I'm not a fatass but I conceal carry and 3XL "prints" a lot less. Thank you sir for the shirt and a great site.

The fire could have grounded something and be as simple as blowing a fuse. Check ALL fuses and relays.

Good stuff Justa, Ive gotta fix my horns as well. Im also looking to find some 71-72 bullet  mirrors both sides for the GOAT. Lemme know if you spot any at the Dream cruise for sale?

I'm your Huckleberry!

Yowzaaaaa!!!

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=715360

Its funny how we collect catastrophic failure trophies. lol I've got spider gears saved with only 3 of the  or so teeth remaining on the gears from a 4 gear to a second gear drop in a race against a blown Mustang. I was owning that ass until the rear gave up the ghost. ha ha good times.

http://www.pro-touring.com/threads/77425-crankcase-evacuation-vs-breather-help

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/crankcase-evacuation-system-opinions-126374.html

Steve you can build positive crankcase pressure and have enough of it to launch a valve cover plug if there is no other way for the crankcase gases to escape the engine thru another purge elsewhere. The crankcase pressure is usually caused by some enivetable blow by the rings. I run an oil cap on drivers side and a breather on the passenger side. I'm pretty sure on some valley pans there is a provision for a PCV valve as well. Jim Butler of Butler Performance will tell you "breathers are for tractor motors" but I'm sure you have to have some type of system to evacuate crankcase gases.

When I first bought the Pro Street blown Trans Am, I had a bad issue of pushing oil out of the valve covers and on to the headers at Boost and high RPM's to the point it looked like a mosquito fogger or smoke machine going down the road. I had to run  3/4" hoses from the valve cover breathers on both sides to welded bungs in the collectors of the headers to let the exhaust form a vacuum on those hoses to pull the crankcase pressure from the engine because at boost there is no vacuum to pull the noxious gases from the crankcase.

Nice work Frosty.

X ellent pics, thank you.

great find! Congrats.

latest project. When I buy a car, I like to take it apart and inspect so I know what needs attention and what I can consider done and reliable. I pulled the gas tank to 1. Look for a possible build sheet and 2. check the fuel lines and look for body rust. Well I found plenty of rust between the tank and trunk floor and in the axle tub for lack of a better word. So for 2 weeks I've been sanding/grinding, primering, chassis painting, and then truck bed liner all surfaces including the suspension, floors, torque boxes, shocks, exhaust, axle,frame, and tank , She shouldn't see a speck of rust for a couple of decades hopefully,The truck bed liner only really went on the floor panels above the axle and the underside trunk between the gas tank and the floor above the tank  here's some pics.

Nice work Eric. My C6 runs Billy Boat bullets with no resonator or cats with LG motorsports long tubes. Luckily I got cool neighbors that like it.

Hey is that bearing burners swap meet a vintage and classic parts swap meet? We have one here the first Sunday of every month that I attended this past Sunday, I haven't been in years. Good time, didn't find or buy anything I did or did not need.

Hope to see your luck turn for the better Frosty. I haven't driven the GTO in over a month. Its the longest I've had her on the stands and off the road since I've owned her. Hope to have her tires rolling down the road next week.

New/used pulley stripped and ready for the powdercoater shop.

I think some of the rarest Pontiacs could be the swiss cheese era Darksider or large bodied factory built race cars from the early 60's. The Ram Air 5 motored cars, the 1970 VOE exhaust optioned GTO's, and the 70's era T-37 455 optioned cars get down into the single digit produced numbers as well. A friend of mine here in Tampa has a LeMans/T-37 in 1+ rated concours condition with a documented race pedigree that was optioned out to like 1 of 2 built.

4 hours ago, stratman said:

If it's not the rarest, it's certainly the most valuable, regular production Pontiac- 1969 Trans Am convertible... only eight made. Last year, one was at a Mecum auction, the bid got to $1.2M (I think) but did not make reserve and did not sell.

I was there for that Mecum Kissimmee 2016 auction that hosted not one, but two of those 8 T/A convertibles, both were "NO SALES" if I recall correctly at $1.2 million and $1.4 million respectively. Beautiful cars for sure. They also had a 69 T/A clone with an LS motor and modern suspension that sold in the low 6 figure range.

Glad that I decided to park this car until I found out what was wrong. Not too many RPM's left in this pulley!

20 hours ago, Frosty said:

I give you credit on that one 360. That is an excellent observation. My counter question to your theory then is why is JUSTA his shoulder hurting?

 

The blue pills are effecting the wrong muscle?

1 hour ago, JUSTA6 said:

Justa keep swingin til ya can't swing no more.  Even as messed up as I am, refuse to quit until I'm no longer feared or respected.   Have no idea how I missed the cracked pulley.  Must be slippin in my old age. 

C'mon brother, I would have never expected you to catch that one. I bet it happened when I put on new belts and tightened up the squeaky power steering pump. belt. Hell I didn't even notice that the pulley required or was missing a reinforcement plate. No worries my brother.

Now Frosty, to answer the volleyball question with a theory? Have you ever noticed in every picture with the volleyball team that Justa is always surrounded with hot volleyball women? Just sayin'. He works smarter, not harder.

4 hours ago, Frosty said:

Truly a buyer beware market. I know the guy that inspected it for you too! 

and he is good people too.

The car was thoroughly inspected before purchase but you certainly can't catch it all. I was the dumbass that drove it for 2 years and never caught it so in the end, its really on me.

Its funny because I went online to try and find the reinforcement plate with not much luck, so just on a hunch I went to the original motor sitting in the corner of the garage and BINGO, not only the plate but the original bolts holding it to the balancer as well. Just gotta find some room on a credit card to order a new pulley. I looked up the numbers on the pulley and wouldnt you know, Its not even for a GTO but a Trans Am, lol. Its amazing what people will throw together and sell on the internet, ha ha.