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This is, without question, the most sentimentally important car in the collection. My Grandmother bought this car new in 1967, and since that time it has never left the family! It is a relatively low optioned 1967 GTO, with the Rally One wheels, Automatic with His and Hers shifter, reverb unit, and not much else. However, this is a very rare and special car. The thing that makes this GTO so special is the paint color. This car is a factory Omaha Orange '67 GTO. Has anyone ever seen another one? I doubt it. The reason I am so confident is that this car is one of 11 '67 GTO's produced by the factory in this paint color. When my grandmother purchased the car, the salesman told her that the paint color was a factory experiment, and that there were only 11 such cars produced. As the story went, 3 of these cars were sent to Los Angeles for sale, where my grandmother purchased this one. My father remembers seeing one (or perhaps both?) of the other two cars around town on occasion during the late 1960's. Now some folks will say that this story is merely a yarn spun by a salesman trying to make a sale. This GTO can back up its claim to factory rarity. The cowl tag under the hood of '67 GTO's gives, among other information, a code for the exterior paint color of the car. This code normally takes the form of two letters, with the top letter being the lower paint code, and the lower letter being the upper paint code. This GTO has no letters in the paint code section of the data plates. It only has the number "1". This does not correspond to any known factory paint code. A few years ago, we were told by a Pontiac expert that this code probably denoted something "experimental." So you can see that this car is definitely something special. I tried to get a picture of the data plates, but it did not come out. However, I will get one up soon.
Besides all this, the car is a mostly original '67 GTO with about 90,000 miles on the clock. The numbers matching engine was recently rebuilt by Jim Butler of Tennessee, and is incredibly powerful and responsive, given its fairly mild specs. At the same time the original transmission was rebuilt, and received a shift improvement kit, and a more performance minded torque converter. The only major mechanical part of the car that is not original is the carb. The original was destroyed by a small fire sometime in the 1970's.
This car received its nickname of "JAWS" after an incident that occurred in the late 1970's. The car was parked on the flight line of a small airport. An aircraft taxied into the car, and the spinning propeller cut "gills" into the quarter panel! The damage was repaired, but the name stuck.
This car has a lot of fond memories for three generations of my family. It is the car that got me interested in cars in the first place. It is the nicest, and classiest, as well as the most original of the GTO's in the collection. This car gets a LOT of attention wherever it goes. In fact,it is probably the most attention getting vehicle in the collection. This car has literally been a part of the family for nearly 40 years, and there is no way that it will ever be parted with. Take a look at the pictures, and let me know what you think? Dont forget to leave a message in the guest book.
Interior pictures.
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Here is the engine just after it came out of the car.
Pictures of the engine and transmission re installation.
Here is the '67 with some of my other Pontiacs.
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