Shot-up GTO brought back from the dead...

[Ace-Garageguy]

My backside's always chapped when I find something cool in the desert, but that generations of mouth-breathers couldn't think of anything better than to use it for target practice. This one got a second chance.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1970-pontiac-gto-muscle-car-shot-to-death-in-texas/

[1972coronet]

3 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

My backside's always chapped when I find something cool in the desert, but that generations of mouth-breathers couldn't think of anything better than to use it for target practice.

I agree completely. Especially when said mouth-breathers find a "not-our-preferred-make" to be worth more as fodder for target practise or other "Gummo" activities. 

[keyser]

I want to know story on Fury/Valiant thing in background. Shortened into a Starlight coupe thing. 

Edited May 22, 2022 by keyser

[Scott8950]

Here is one of the clowns who used it for target practice. 

 

[bobthehobbyguy]

Unbelievably stupid. If they had sold it before totally destroying the poor car they would have gotten some decent money.

Makes one wonder how they can manage to walk and breathe at the same time.

[Ace-Garageguy]

7 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

I agree completely. Especially when said mouth-breathers find a "not-our-preferred-make" to be worth more as fodder for target practise or other "Gummo" activities. 

It's not really "target practice" when all ya do is engage in an orgy of mindless destruction. I shoot, and far as I recall, it doesn't take much "practice" to hit a stationary car from a few yards.  

Far as Gummo goes, I had to look it up...and I could have lived my whole life without knowing somebody whizzed away 2 million bucks making a piece of dog-squeeze like that, but what do I know? It's apparently Great Art.

According to Wikipee: "Film websites Mubi and They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? have listed Gummo among their 1000 greatest films of all time", and "Werner Herzog praised the film and talked about being impressed by the bacon taped to the wall during the bathtub scene."

Great art, eh? Maybe I'll encase a few of my cat's droppings in a big blob of polyester resin tinted yellow to look like amber...or something. Oughtta be worth hundreds of thousands and gain me international acclaim, wot?    

 

Edited May 23, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[Oldcarfan27]

8 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

That'll buff right out!!

That and a few gallons of Bondo and it'll look like new!

[Plowboy]

I don't see what the big deal is. The car literally doesn't have a single usable panel on it anywhere. A couple hundred bullet holes sure didn't hurt it. Have to give KTW credit for putting his initials in the door though. 

[1972coronet]

1 hour ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

That and a few gallons of Bondo and it'll look like new!

If only George Barris was still with us in this realm...

[1972coronet]

2 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

It's not really "target practice" when all ya do is engage in an orgy of mindless destruction. I shoot, and far as I recall, it doesn't take much "practice" to hit a stationary car from a few yards.  

Far as Gummo goes, I had to look it up...and I could have lived my whole life without knowing somebody whizzed away 2 million bucks making a piece of dog-squeeze like that, but what do I know? It's apparently Great Art.

"[O]rgy of mindless destruction", indeed. I was attempting to apply some semblance of tact in my drawing a comparison between the destruction of the GTO and the activities of those in an outrageous semi-documentary which exhibits similar actions.

I happen to be one of those freaks who enjoys Gummo (and oddball cinema in general -- pre-1970 Warhol films included). Concurrently, I also enjoy a wide variety of cinema and art, etc. As a visual and conceptual artist, I dig on shock value -- not truly extreme and definitive pornographic stuff done purely for shock value (i.e., no intrinsic value), but rather stuff that makes one think.

Edited May 23, 2022 by 1972coronet

[Oldcarfan27]

2 hours ago, Plowboy said:

I don't see what the big deal is. The car literally doesn't have a single usable panel on it anywhere. A couple hundred bullet holes sure didn't hurt it. Have to give KTW credit for putting his initials in the door though. 

I'm thinking the body wasn't this bad until it was shot up and beat on (look at the hood). The car still had it's original numbers matching engine. The article said that the property owners had interests in Mopars, so I'm guessing anything else was fair game. 

Edited May 23, 2022 by Oldcarfan27

[NOBLNG]

I don’t see how it could be feasible to restore that.? Hopefully it managed to draw fire away from other potential victims.

[Scott8950]

28 minutes ago, NOBLNG said:

I don’t see how it could be feasible to restore that.? Hopefully it managed to draw fire away from other potential victims.

Odds are it will donate it's id tags to another car that'll be sold as a "real deal" gto.

[Rob Hall]

Lots of patina.

[von Zipper]

Thats what you get for knocking down peoples mail boxs !

The red neck hill billies around here would have packed that car full of tannerite

[Raoul Ross]

I thought Gummo was one the Marx Brothers.

https://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/gummo.htm

 

[Carmak]

There is a YouTube series about the guy that bought the car. He is a Pontiac guy that has a nice GT37.

He made the car drivable (not really street legal). He replaced the engine/trans and rear end to do it.

The roof on the car is really bad and I think the chassis is twisted. It looks like it was rolled before being shot up.

There is an engine teardown episode and it is REALLY nasty. Some of the pushrods are rusted thru.

[Oldcarfan27]

3 hours ago, von Zipper said:

That Joe Dirt?

[von Zipper]

19 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

That Joe Dirt?

I think that is Jim Dirt...Joe's brother/cousin 

[Mark]

Maybe it's Phil Dirt.

[Tabbysdaddy]

Sort of reminds me of mine, except mine is a LeMans. It's far to rusty for me to do anything with it, but I drove it around my yard with no brakes once. 

[OldNYJim]

Wonder if it whistles when you drive it down the street?

[Oldcarfan27]

Guess it's time to start shooting it up! ?

[iamsuperdan]

I'm a firm believer in the idea of saving a car instead of scrapping it, but I don't understand why anyone would bother with this one. 

There does come a point when restoring or rebuilding doesn't make sense. 

I mean, maybe if this car had some sort of strong sentimental value for the guy, but it doesn't appear so.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

...I don't understand why anyone would bother with this one. 

If you think it through, I'm pretty sure you'll come to the realization it's never going to be a restored car.

It's just a runner made from a sad mess that most people would crush, surely an attention-getter at shows, a conversation-starter, possibly a statement condemning mindless destruction, and arguably "art"...at least as artistically valid as some of the horrible cobbled-up bubble-gum-welded semi-operational and often undrivable rat-rods built by people who couldn't turn out a functional vehicle if their lives depended on it.

Edited May 24, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy