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

[Rob Hall]

It's all about clicks and YouTube ad revenue..

[NOBLNG]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

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"...

 

1 hour ago, Rob Hall said:

It's all about clicks and YouTube ad revenue..

Those two statements pretty much sum it up?

[iamsuperdan]

2 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

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.

Yeah, like those goofy rat rods this is "art" and an attention getter, but I just can't wrap my head around why someone would spend their time and/or money and/or parts to get this pile of scrap metal moving again.

To each their own I guess.

 

[Sandboarder]

9 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

Yeah, like those goofy rat rods this is "art" and an attention getter, but I just can't wrap my head around why someone would spend their time and/or money and/or parts to get this pile of scrap metal moving again.

To each their own I guess.

 

I saw this months ago and believe the story is their kid wanted it and placed a $7 bid. Good old Dad bumps it up to $200 and wins. Father and son project to do the engine, gearbox and diff. A mate pulls some dents out and have fun with the car. There’s a YouTube series on the build if anyone’s interested. Also show the son’s new project a 1959 Ford 

 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

14 minutes ago, Sandboarder said:

I saw this months ago and believe the story is their kid wanted it and placed a $7 bid. Good old Dad bumps it up to $200 and wins...

If that's the real story, all I can say is what a great dad.

I always wanted to save rusty wrecks when I was a young kid, and didn't understand why something that had been a running car once couldn't be one again. Probably part of the reason I gravitated towards the restoration business, and eventually got burned out on it. Some things are just too far gone to even try to save...unless it's something like a GT40 with history in this condition.  

[von Zipper]

After reading and watching videos about this Pontiac I wondered if the authentic Bonnie and Clyde death car could have been repaired mechanically enough to drive the way they 'repaired' this GTO

then i read this version of the story about other fake death cars people tried to replicate 

https://www.hotcars.com/where-is-bonnie-and-clydes-car/

even if it did run and drive there is no way i would sit in it let alone drive it

[Tabbysdaddy]

I wanted to Mad Max mine, until parts started falling off.

[JFK]

Did anyone notice that none of the rounds hitting the car itself never penetrated the body!  It appears that the rounds that actually killed Bonnie & Clyde where through the Windows only?

 

[Scott8950]

59 minutes ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

I wanted to Mad Max mine, until parts started falling off.

What are your plans for it?

[Tabbysdaddy]

2 minutes ago, Scott8950 said:

What are your plans for it?

It's my favorite lawn ornament, but I would sell it to someone that could use the parts. It has a Pontiac 400 with a 350 transmission. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

...until parts started falling off.

Just say it's a rare Lotus-Pontiac.  

[webestang]

50 minutes ago, JFK said:

Did anyone notice that none of the rounds hitting the car itself never penetrated the body!  It appears that the rounds that actually killed Bonnie & Clyde where through the Windows only?

 

Some shots did go through the doors......

[JFK]

I stand corrected!  It appears that the 2 or 3 on Clyde's door might have hard an impact the the 4 or 5 Window holes might have had immediate impact on Bonnie from what the holes seem to indicate!

Thank You for showing me what I missed!

 

 

 

[Smoke Wagon]

If bullet holes in a wadded up Poncho gets you guys in a twist, wait until you hear about Cash for Clunkers, or any hollywood production made in the 70s, 80s, and 90s when it wasn’t sacrilege to wad up a numbers-matching Z-28 to get a good action shot. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Smoke Wagon said:

If bullet holes in a wadded up Poncho gets you guys in a twist, wait until you hear about Cash for Clunkers, or any hollywood production made in the 70s, 80s, and 90s when it wasn’t sacrilege to wad up a numbers-matching Z-28 to get a good action shot. 

The heartbreaker for me was seeing the Miura, the E-types, and the Aston Martin DB4 drophead...and of course the 3 little Minis pushed out of the bus...destroyed in the original "Italian Job".

I've never researched whether they were real or not. The Miura looked like it might have been a f'glass fake with no guts, but the others looked really real-deal.

Edited May 25, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[OldNYJim]

Apparently the Muira that got wrecked WAS real…but it had already been crashed and was one of two supplied to the movie by Lamborghini as a rolling shell with no engine.

The second (main) car used for filming was immaculate and escaped unscathed, before going missing for a while.

They DID destroy SIXTEEN Minis though, but they were presumably plentiful enough at the time that they weren’t too concerned with NOT ruining a bunch of them…

[keyser]

https://motor-car.net/trivia/film-tv/item/14433-italian-job

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/goofs/

 

Edited May 25, 2022 by keyser

[Scott8950]

11 hours ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

It's my favorite lawn ornament, but I would sell it to someone that could use the parts. It has a Pontiac 400 with a 350 transmission. 

It appears to be restorable and pontiac stuff is getting tougher to find nowadays,  I'd probably sell it while it's still buildable.

[Tabbysdaddy]

3 hours ago, Scott8950 said:

It appears to be restorable and pontiac stuff is getting tougher to find nowadays,  I'd probably sell it while it's still buildable.

Looks can be deceiving. When the rear view mirror fell off is when I decided it was too far gone. Technically, the mirror didn't fall off. The roof structure that the mirror is screwed to fell off, the part the upper windshield glues to. It's pretty much an engine, transmission and rear end surrounded by large chunks of rust. 

[Scott8950]

8 minutes ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

Looks can be deceiving. When the rear view mirror fell off is when I decided it was too far gone. Technically, the mirror didn't fall off. The roof structure that the mirror is screwed to fell off, the part the upper windshield glues to. It's pretty much an engine, transmission and rear end surrounded by large chunks of rust. 

You'd be surprised at what people restore these days. 

[Tabbysdaddy]

39 minutes ago, Scott8950 said:

You'd be surprised at what people restore these days. 

That's a good point. I've been wanting to get it running again to relist it. I probably should get on that. 

[Scott8950]

9 minutes ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

That's a good point. I've been wanting to get it running again to relist it. I probably should get on that. 

I would definitely do that, someone will buy it.

[Can-Con]

4 hours ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

Looks can be deceiving. When the rear view mirror fell off is when I decided it was too far gone. Technically, the mirror didn't fall off. The roof structure that the mirror is screwed to fell off, the part the upper windshield glues to. It's pretty much an engine, transmission and rear end surrounded by large chunks of rust. 

How's the frame?

[Tabbysdaddy]

2 hours ago, Can-Con said:

How's the frame?

I think it's bent. I was told it was cracked but from what I remember (it was long ago) it looked like someone welded it. The car sat in the woods for at least 15 years. Well, it wasn't woods when it was parked there. 

[Scott8950]

34 minutes ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

I think it's bent. I was told it was cracked but from what I remember (it was long ago) it looked like someone welded it. The car sat in the woods for at least 15 years. Well, it wasn't woods when it was parked there. 

Sounds like the perfect candidate for a drag car.