[77 TRASHCAN]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Ok - I'll start.

a. "only the fourth vehicle to roll off the assembly line at the Pontiac" - not sure how one can even begin to spin that line. For the '64 model year VINs started at 1001, so the fourth vehicle off the line would be closer to xxxP1004. With this vehicle's VIN of 824P8954 it's not even close.

Perhaps the author misspoke, and meant the 4th GTO off the line? Not sure how one comes up with that, either, since GTOs were not built or VINned one right after the other. You'd have to go through every invoice, one by one at PHS (ala Fred Simmonds) to make that determination. Maybe Jim Mattison did that on behalf of an earlier owner, as he does occasionally add notes to the cover letter as warranted.

b. We have the VIN and build sheet for the purported first GTO, as presented by John Sawruk. That car was built September 11, 1963 and the VIN is P3147. Am I to believe that there were only 4 GTOs built between 3147 and 8954? Seems like a pretty big gap.



I'd love to see the cowl tag but could not find any additional pictures at this Saratoga Motorcar auction site.

So - anybody here have a '64 GTO earlier than VIN 8954?

K

Many classic car sellers seem to have the dominant "BS" gene.