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Originally Posted by drailed
I use to have a blast when I would go out in visit my father and we would cruise Az, NM, and CO. I remember back around 1990 finding a nice rust free fender off of a 67 tempest in a junkyard in springerville AZ. Then going back 10 years later and finding the same car in the same spot and grabbing the other fender and front bumper. I havent been out there in a long time but I remember seeing a lot of GTOs nice old musclecars sitting out on indian reservations and in junk yards. Im sure alot of them are gone now.
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I bought as many of them as I could. Once I bought my acreage and obtained the proper zoning and permits, my first goal ( 1995 time frame ) was to buy every inexpensive GTO I could find. I combed yards all over the state buying GTOs. After that, started buying other models. My thinking was there would always be repro parts in the coming decades but, there are only so many real GTOs out there. At one time had close to 50 of them, now down to less than 40. In '95 I bought the last GTO in the Springerville yard you mentioned. I was on a Colorado ski trip in my '70 GTO with 2 friends when we detoured a bit on the way home to visit a few years. Bought 2 GTOs that day. An endura delete '68 4 speed and the '67 ht, a/c, auto with headrests at Springerville auto wrecking. The '67 still has the original matching eng and trans.. Do you remember that car? It was repainted white.
There is still a lot of old iron around here. You just have to keep your eyes open.