Very neat and rare GTO! Looks quite solid for a Canadian car, being from Alberta helps a lot, Eastern cars literally dissolved in a few years. I notice you have the blackened "Judge" grilles, seems like many later Ram air (and Ram Air IV) cars got those dark grilles.
As for the resto I'd think a good starting point would be to strip the car to metal anywhere it looks like there is bodywork so you can assess what your sheetmetal needs are before sending the car out to resto. From what I see in the pictures you might be able to salvage things with quality patchwork rather than starting to cut away original panels. For example is the quarters, NOS is better than repop but if you can avoid changing them by careful patching if its just a few soft spots in the wheel openings that would be even better. Even NOS quarters are still changed quarters, nothing like factory spotwelds and joints.
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1969 Fbird (base OHC, 350, 400HO & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA ht’s)
1969 Custom S 2dr ht
1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 LeMans Safari wagon
1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 ht & Judge ht)
1969 Cat (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr ht)
1969 Ventura wagon 2 seat
1969 Exec 4dr post
1969 2 Bonnie Cvt's & 2 wagons
1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 Grand Prix 2 SJ’s
1969 2+2 2dr ht (Canadian)
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