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FOUND MY 'NEXT CAR" at Pumpkin fest


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

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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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It is nice, and he is a very nice guy to talk to.. I bet he would love your wagon..

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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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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. smile

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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 ownerweirdface I just about bought a 67 red Lemans on Ebay that was totally rebuilt,but lost it by $100



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Red is cool!    This car at Port Elign was sweet.. I love them all!!!

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Hey Carl...Seen this car on Ebay. Looks like the brother of yours. It's in Oregon as well....

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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     coolbiggrin

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Looks like you got the better end of the trade biggrinbiggrin
That hood tach and GTO badging don't seem right on that car.

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427carl wrote:

I meet Paul Smith, and saw his beautifull RED "Canadian built" 4 speed southern GTO 



Carl2, explain what you mean by "Canadian built"?confused





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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. smile



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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427carl wrote:

I meet Paul Smith, and saw his beautifull RED "Canadian built" 4 speed southern GTO 



Carl2, explain what you mean by "Canadian built"?confused





        I cant explain it cry 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..idea



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I was wondering that too. They never build them here, did they?

I had heard we couldn't even import them when they were new, or it was cost prohibitive to do it.

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Had to be a car that was exported to Canada and then imported back to the US.

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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. wink

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455gto wrote:

Had to be a car that was exported to Canada and then imported back to the US.


I agree. Has anyone ever seen an  original Oshawa built GTO of this vintage?

 



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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

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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



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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shawns6t6gto wrote:

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.



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