It's hard to keep a project car secret so after talking with Rob Wolfe from Mopar Collector's Guide Magazine on Sunday morning of the Carlisle Chrysler Nationals this past July and having him be very interested in the car including doing an Under Construction article I am letting the proverbial cat out of the bag.
The December issue has a short article on my GT and I am kind of surprised that no one on this forum has posted anything about the article since there are a lot of GT fans and owners on FCBO.
I bought this car 4 years ago from Dan a/k/a @ph23vo after having Trev a/k/a @Fury Pursuit look at the car for me since it was and still in the greater Seattle, WA area. Trev spent a lot of time and I spent a lot of money getting accurate stripe kits made for this car and for anyone else who needs them (contact me) and the restoration of this car is being done by Trev and is well underway.
The owner before Dan did an amateur restoration on the GT with a re-spray in the same color, he dyed the vinyl roof black from white and instead of patching up the quarter panels he put on the entire after market half quarters that lack the correct gauge of steel and lack the correct contour that the quarter panels should have. Then he added a plain black stripe down the side of the car.
Granted the car looked good from 10 feet away but with this car possibly being the first 1971 produced, the fact that it has an August 2nd scheduled build date, has the lower sequence number of the 2 promotional 1971 GT's produced and the fender tag has the correct coding for a promotional car I felt that this GT deserved a correct restoration, however this will not be a trailer queen. I plan on driving this car.
I am attaching 2 photos of the magazine article and some additional photos. I want this thread to document the restoration of this car and I will add additional photos as I have time.
The December issue has a short article on my GT and I am kind of surprised that no one on this forum has posted anything about the article since there are a lot of GT fans and owners on FCBO.
I bought this car 4 years ago from Dan a/k/a @ph23vo after having Trev a/k/a @Fury Pursuit look at the car for me since it was and still in the greater Seattle, WA area. Trev spent a lot of time and I spent a lot of money getting accurate stripe kits made for this car and for anyone else who needs them (contact me) and the restoration of this car is being done by Trev and is well underway.
The owner before Dan did an amateur restoration on the GT with a re-spray in the same color, he dyed the vinyl roof black from white and instead of patching up the quarter panels he put on the entire after market half quarters that lack the correct gauge of steel and lack the correct contour that the quarter panels should have. Then he added a plain black stripe down the side of the car.
Granted the car looked good from 10 feet away but with this car possibly being the first 1971 produced, the fact that it has an August 2nd scheduled build date, has the lower sequence number of the 2 promotional 1971 GT's produced and the fender tag has the correct coding for a promotional car I felt that this GT deserved a correct restoration, however this will not be a trailer queen. I plan on driving this car.
I am attaching 2 photos of the magazine article and some additional photos. I want this thread to document the restoration of this car and I will add additional photos as I have time.
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