I meet Paul Smith, and saw his beautifull RED "Canadian built" 4 speed southern GTO Did I say , it was a POST CAR!!!! He told me, he would sell it to me, if he ever had a "brain fade"...lol I would buy it in a minute, Its BEAUtifull!!! He's very nice too.. Carl
That's a real nice ride. Any one would be proud to own . I Would love a car along those line but way out of my budget. But I will keep buying my 649 and maybe one day I'll get lucky.
Vern
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1957 Pathfinder deluxe 4 door wagon 1961 Pontiac Parisienne bubble top Traded for a Harley sorry guys.
I like my wagon to but the value is it the 2d hp cars . I've got a lot of time and money in the wagon. I bet you I would have a hard time to get 10 for it. But I knew that going in and I guess it's all irrelevant cause my car is with till I die or my kids put me in a home
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1957 Pathfinder deluxe 4 door wagon 1961 Pontiac Parisienne bubble top Traded for a Harley sorry guys.
Wagons, 4drs, pick ups make the hobby affordable. I notice that wagons are getting real popular, saw a one owner 67 Chrysler 440 factory wagon yesterday. It was nice. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's there were two bad a$s cars we always respected, Cop equipped cars and Wagons. Usually you could find the biggest darn engine offered in either one.
Never worry about the value of a car until you sell it. Chances are it's to expensive to bury you in the wagon and by that time wagons might be in high demand. Carl2 I never thought you would be a GTO owner I just about bought a 67 red Lemans on Ebay that was totally rebuilt,but lost it by $100
Very Good!! thats the one, I won on July 27 for 11,501.00 I traded it to him, over the phone, for the yellow one... The yellow one was sold on e-bay in June, and traded back in July!! He had 3 cars I have the yellow one now, and he is selling the tan one, and his green 72 cool
Wagons, 4drs, pick ups make the hobby affordable. I notice that wagons are getting real popular, saw a one owner 67 Chrysler 440 factory wagon yesterday. It was nice. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's there were two bad a$s cars we always respected, Cop equipped cars and Wagons. Usually you could find the biggest darn engine offered in either one.
Agreed, wagons have always been cool and seem to be coming on a bit now in the collector car marketplace. I certainly have noticed more of them for sale and at cruises and at big events like Woodward. Several of my friends in the GTO club have "cloned" GTO wagons.
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1970 LS4 (eventually an LS5) Laurentian 2dr hdtp -and a bunch of other muscle cars...
I meet Paul Smith, and saw his beautifull RED "Canadian built" 4 speed southern GTO
Carl2, explain what you mean by "Canadian built"?
I cant explain it He said it, and I never thought, anymore about it.. The window sticker, said it was sold in southern U.S. I have a shifter handle for him, I will ask what he meant..
You could always order a GTO new in Canada. I have copies of advertisements for them from Hogan Pontiac Buick on the Danforth in 1964! The only problem was that before the Auto Pact was fully phased in they were subject to duties and tarriffs which added about 25% to the US price making them prohibitively expensive for most people, especially when we had a ready alternative in the form of the Acadian/Beaumont SD's.
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1970 LS4 (eventually an LS5) Laurentian 2dr hdtp -and a bunch of other muscle cars...
I always thought of Beaumonts as our substitute and no Canadian Tempests built in the same years.. What years include Canadian plant digits in a Tempest Vin?. Does the subject car have GM Canada documents?.
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1969 was the first year GTO s were built in Canada. They were always avalible but a tarriff was charged from 1964-1968 from what I have been told. the run on 1969 GTOs were later in the year along with 1970 GTO from the Oshawa Plant. I have a friend who sold the first Canadian made GTO in Edmonton in May of 1969. I actually seen the newspaper add. Kind of cool
1969 was the first year GTO s were built in Canada. They were always avalible but a tarriff was charged from 1964-1968 from what I have been told. the run on 1969 GTOs were later in the year along with 1970 GTO from the Oshawa Plant. I have a friend who sold the first Canadian made GTO in Edmonton in May of 1969. I actually seen the newspaper add. Kind of cool
Only the 1970 and 1973 model year GTOs were built in Oshawa. If you mean that 1970 model year GTOs were built here during the 1969 calendar year, that would be correct, but no 1969 model year GTOs were assembled in Canada. Any 1969 model year GTO sold in May of 1969 would have been assembled in the US. This can easily be confirmed by checking the 7th digit of the VIN for the plant code.
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1970 LS4 (eventually an LS5) Laurentian 2dr hdtp -and a bunch of other muscle cars...
I have a friend who sold the first Canadian made GTO in Edmonton in May of 1969. I actually seen the newspaper add. Kind of cool
Then that car would be a 1970 model. Car was probably delivered some time later, most likely in late August or early September.
I purchased a 1986 Monte Carlo SS in August of 1985, it came on November 10, 1985. The reason I did this was because only selected dealers in Canada could sell the SS due to the limited production run to meet NASCAR rules. If you did not order one it was virtually impossible to get one.
Selling a car and actually having the car there to deliver are two completely different things. Same thing happens now with Challenger and Camaro.