Finally progress on 67 GTO vert...pictures!
 

Well we are finally making some progress! Sorry for the poor picture quality. Hope to purchase a digital camera this week. From here out I will try to keep this threaded updated and include pictures!

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very nice

Looking good

nICE!

Lookin' Good!! Moultrie is two weeks away. Some of us are going to Panama City next Saturday for the show there.

Phil are you going to Moultrie? We may try to come up for a day!

I am going Saturday to pick up my exhaust system. Y'all should come up Friday evening.
I like to get there around 8am.

Hey Paul, all you need is a great looking vacuum guage for that beautiful 67 LOL

Congrats,it is coming along nicely. Larry B.

Larry, that beautiful vacuum guage I purchased from you...stays on our roll top desk (face down) and will soon be mounted on the console! Console bezel is rechromed, dual gate rebuilt by Hurst and now waiting to have the console painted and than I will refock it and build the complete unit.

Thanks again.............

A little more progress and learning to use the new camera!! LOL

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Nice, What color combo is your vert? Should post in the 66-67 tech forum too.

Thanks....tyrol blue, white top and supposed to be 219/blue interior but I'm going parchment!

Your car is coming along nicely. I wish mine was closer than it is. I went to Moultrie today and picked up my exhaust system. It was the biggest show I have ever seen there. I never did get to see it all. There were some beautiful cars and a lot of them. Someone said there were over 4,000 this time. It took me over 6 hours just to walk the vendor area.

That engine looks great. Is it a big block?

P-Dude built IA-II 535!

Man I really wanted to go to this show. Oh well maybe next year!!!!

It will be back in February. The Novemeber show is the bigger of the two.

Looking good.:)

Just finished installing my gauge cluster restored by Pete Serio!
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Great work, looks perfect. I hope you'll keep the original radio.

I nearly spit out my snack.....:)

LOL...................

Hi Paul,

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Coming along really nice. One question for you. I see in one of the photos you provided that there is a hose going from the passenger side valve cover around back, is this "Tee'd" into the PCV valve or to a vacuum pump or a header pipe ? what gives ? am curious. Love the color combination (interior, exterior / top) of the car too.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Paul.

Tim john---

Hello Tim,

Everything is good here on the home front and thanks for asking! I hope the same for you all. Hose....PCV in the valve cover and the other end to the intake. This how I received it from P-Dude.

Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving!!!!

67
That looks wicked nice (New England way of saying very nice)
Geepers, what's with all the convertibles coming out of the woodwork??
Looking forward to seeing updates....
dave

Thanks squidtone! Yeah I know what you mean about all the verts. I've owned this one for 14 years and only drove it the first month. Took it off the road to "just" change the heads and...........well look where that has taken me!! LOL

Can't beat a '67 drop top :D

Well boys and girls I'm getting tried of waiting and throwing money at this project. I'm really thinking about stopping the project and selling the car as is or at least get it running. I know this sounds crazy but I'm ready to ride in something now!!!! To top it all off I have CRAZY money in this car that I will never recover by selling!!

Somebody please talk me out of the above!! LOL

How close are you? If you buy something else will you end up doing the same thing to it? I drove mine to the gas station and back home the day after I got it. I have been working on it since then. It has been almost 4 years now and I will be lucky if I get it done by this time next year. But, it will be done and I can say I did a lot of it.
Think long and hard about it 'cause once it's gone you won't get it back!

Get her running, might just be what you need to keep going. A P-Dude motor to terrorize the ford and dodge boys will be worth the wait. Drop top GTO's are as good as it gets and yours is an A-1 example.

Hammertime Mike,

Hopefully you're right about being encouraged once it's running. It's suppossed to be running by the end of next week. However, I have heard this before!!!!

Yep, get it running and you'll change your mind. Either that or a bunch of us will paying you a visit to change your mind. ;) LOL

BTW... there's only one thing better than a 67 droptop. And that's a 66 droptop. ;) :D

Hang in there Paul, it's well worth the wait!

Amen to that brother. Had a guy offer us $50k for my mom's original owner 66' and turned him down for that very reason.

Well I did get to hear her run and see her move under her own power last Saturday. I must say that P-Dude built 535 sounds pretty sweet through 3" exhaust!!!

that's great news, and a huge milestone

That alone will keep you going. There's nothing like the sound of that Tiger under the hood purrring. And it's growl is pretty cool too. ;)

Hopefully your on the short road to enjoying her this summer!

This is an old thread which menas updated pics please. :D

Update......
 

Not much has changed!!! However, I do plan on picking the car up the week of Thanksgiving. It will be painted but I will be finishing the car, such as.....interior, installing all the bright work, bumpers and glass. Just want to get the car home....even if I don't work on it...it's home!!!!

She's Finally Painted!!!
 

Going over today to see the paint job and start bringing some of the left over parts home! Hopefully in the next week or two I'll bring the car home. As stated above once home the interior and glass still needs to be installed. I'll try to snap a few pictures and post for your enjoyment later today!! LOL

Pictures with fresh paint!
 

Still doesn't look like much but it sure does shine! Instructed my paint guy to paint the opening in the hood insert black!

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Looking Good! I can't wait to see mine in paint!

Very nice Paul! Looks like it's about at the same point as mine was last January.

I painted my hood scoop black. It really brings out the color of the hood. You've come a long way, keep going. At least bolt in a seat(1) and drive it around the block. When I got my motor in it put rad support and drove it down the block, NO fenders or hood. Who needs body panels??? That p-dude slug needs to be beat on, its not for the faint hearted.

Q: Looks like you have tall valave covers, how close is the brk booster to the vc. Mine ti close with short covers.

It will be awhile yet before the car is complete. However, you can bet I will bolt in a seat and have some fun.
The original size booster did hit the valve cover...switched it to a smaller diameter.

Thanks Phil and I hope yall are doing well?

Hello Jeff,

It's been a long time getting this far and I must say seeing some paint on the car sure relieves some of the pain! LOL

Looks great! At some point you may want to put a coat of black paint over the front of your radiator & trans cooler so they don't show through the grills. Keep plugging away. They may never be totally "done", but they do get to the point where you can have a lot of fun with them!

Like I said before, it's worth the wait!

Wondering if you did any mods to the chassis to stiffen things up? The convertible bodies flex quite a bit, I notice it on mine when I get on it, so I can only imagine what yours will feel like...