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The November 2019 issue of The Legend features Dick Smart’s 1968 GTO. The best way to describe this heavily modified, 467 ci/750 hp, Butler Performance-equipped beast is “1970s Street Machine.” Dick, who street-raced in his youth in the mid-1970s with his first GTO (also a ’68) and has a history ...

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The October 2019 issue of The Legend features Greg Fitzgerald’s 1966 GTO hardtop, which he acquired in 2002 as a rusted-out “but mostly complete except for the gas tank” project car. The Goat underwent a frame-off restoration that took the better part of 12 years. Greg, with assistance from his ...

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The September issue of The Legend is devoted exclusively to the 2019 GTOAA National Convention in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. All the winning cars are included, plus a few writeups on how things went. We’ll let the pages do the talking. Also in the September issue: “Convention Wrap Up” with Don Kruse; ...

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“No, that’s not a vinyl top. Yes, those are wheel covers. Yes, those are whitewalls.” So begins the story of Tom Losekamps’s two-tone – Tyrol Blue body, Cameo Ivory painted roof – 1967 GTO. Tom bought his Pontiac in 1970 with 30,000 miles on the odometer for $1,645. Like all ...

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Al Leiby’s 1972 Cameo Ivory 1968 GTO, featured on the July 2019 issue cover, is one of the rarest of its type, being one of only 240 Y-Code—D-port-head, 455 CID, 250 (SAE net) hp, 375 pound-feet of torque—built. Al found the car, which was located in Canada, in late 2017 ...

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Ted Rosen’s 1968 GTO convertible, featured on the June 2019 issue cover, is very, very close to the GTO he bought new in 1968, and was stolen a year later in downtown Boston, never to be recovered. Ted’s original ride was Aegena Blue with a parchment interior and white top—a ...

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Jerry Ravencraft’s 1967 GTO hardtop, featured on the May 2019 issue cover, is a real plum—literally. The fully restored and upgraded, automatic-equipped, heavily optioned Pontiac “is a true Plum Mist car with black interior,” Jerry notes. “This color is rare (one year only) and many have never seen it. PHS ...

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