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Can anybody ID this GTO restoration shop?
All of you Pontiac experts, I figured somebody may recognize this shop from the exterior, from the engine test rig, from the interior/office area with the posters on the walls, etc. Or maybe you recognize one of the GTO's sitting around waiting to be restored (one of yours? ). Bonus points if you recognize the dog!
I'm trying to find out what shop did my frame-off restoration, and the dealer I purchased from doesn't know, but provided me a folder with pix. I have more pix but can only post 5 at a time, so let me know if more could help. This was an in-theory approx 2011-ish? restoration. Any ideas, THANKS for any help! Mainly, I'd like to know exactly how the engine was put together (compression, valve seats, etc for gas/timing purposes), but it would just be great to know who they are and be able to contact them. THANKS! |
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That engine test stand is wild!!
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You know these guys are Pontiac guys when the test stand has GTO splitters pointed left and right on the back!
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These appear to be film photos, so I'd wager they were taken quite a bit earlier than 2011. They kinda give me early '90s vibes.
Do you have any idea of the town or even the state where these photos were taken? That would help people search. Also, there's also the very real possibility that the shop that did the bodywork is not the shop that did the engine work.
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Looks like someone's house, garage and yard to me.
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That engine test stand, though... What a unit.
If there is anything in these photos that will yield a clue to who was behind the restoration, it's probably going to be that wild test stand. You don't see something like that very often.
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I'll be posting 10 more photos this weekend, I created another thread in the 64-65 GTO Tech forum and got a follow-up there. Agreed the restoration must have been further back than 2011, the car is in such great condition and the oldest receipt I have changing hands is 2011 so I was assuming it may have been around then. It would be great to find out who runs/ran this shop, they had the full complement of paint booth/etc and had quite a few GTO's parked around the facility, along with the one Impala that has a rear plate that I can't quite make out for the state. Plus they have _one_ photo of the car shot from the rear that shows the very obvious/significant dent I put in the drivers rear quarter panel, which was still on it when I sold the car in 1985. |
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I know Ron
He is restoring a car for me now.
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More shop/car pix.
Last edited by tallrandyb; 12-16-2021 at 01:05 PM. Reason: images got rotated |
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Well, I posted and the images were rotated, so I deleted the images and uploaded again and they are rotated. Sorry!
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Possibly...
mid to late 90's is my reference point.
Ron Hamm Autobuilder shop near Rogers or Springdale Arkansas (can't remember which). While on the road to north central Arkansas to pick up a project car, once stopped in Ron's place. Ron "built" a bunch of early GT0's in the late 80's up into mid to late 90's, dabbled in later GTO builds (at least one early Lucerne blue 71 Judge... Uncle Judge & I know it). Not sure how much later Ron kept going. Been in & out of a BUNCH of restoration/body shops since, the most organized ones are the ones that gave me ideas that I incorporated putting up my own shop. Do remember Ron's place as a long narrow old school shop, multiple garage doors, some concrete block walls, lot of native trees around the place as well as future projects & partscars.
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Makes sense it would be restored around this area, that is only about 100 miles east of Tulsa (where car was first sold) and I sold the car in Stillwater (about 180 miles west of Rogers). Now I just need to find out how it got to Connecticut and Napoli Classics! Last edited by tallrandyb; 12-17-2021 at 12:33 PM. Reason: more data |
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What would it cost to have a GTO restored back in that timeframe?
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No problem. The layout of the place stuck in my mind, as well as the Irist Mist '65 convert, loved to have viewed the PHS on that one.
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Randy, are you looking to contact that guy? I lived in Rogers and Springdale from 2011 to 2016. My friend Richard from back there is a Mustang guy, but only because his dad took him to buy his first new car in 1971 and wouldn't let him buy a GTO because it was "too powerful". He still has the 1971 mustard yellow Mach I that he bought new at that time.
Rogers was still a very small town that far back, so he may know this guy. I'll text him and ask if you like. By the way, are those the redlines I got from you in those pictures? |
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Just found the shop! Ron Ham's Classic Auto Shop 2114 Little Flock Drive, Rogers, AR is the address https://www.google.com/maps/place/21...!4d-94.1477177 This shows the building on Google Maps, same front with two rollup doors and two "regular" doors in the middle. I've tracked down two phone numbers and left VM's to see if Ron is still around. |
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Thanks! |
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Check in to see if you were able to figure out your engine build. If the answer is no can you describe your curb idle (lumpy or smooth), RPM and what vacuum you see. Thanks |
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