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The March 2020 issue of The Legend features Dave Rasmussen’s 1973 Valencia Gold GTO, a beautiful example of the next-to-last of the classic Great Ones. “Typically, a confused onlooker at a car show, cruise-in or gas station will say something like, ‘I didn’t even know they made a GTO that ...

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The February 2020 issue of The Legend features Tim Guggisberg’s 1966 GTO hardtop, acquired in 2017, some 30 years after Tim, as a teenager, had first encountered Pontiac’s iconic performance car at an auction, with his father. “I wasn’t even born when my GTO was built,” he says. “That’s not ...

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The January 2020 issue of The Legend features Jim Rusch’s 1968 GTO convertible. Jim’s initial search for a GTO “was frustrating, often met with frauds, fakes and phonies,” he says. “Cars were listed as clones, tributes, restored or resto-mods, but many were being brought back from the dead, to ‘almost ...

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The December 2019 issue of The Legend features John Stickel’s 1967 GTO hardtop. John is the car’s original owner—and in a twist of fate, its third. He bought it new in May 1967—to date, his only purchase of a new car. He sold it in 1985. In 2012, John reconnected ...

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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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