[Steve Barcak]

This Mayfair maze 68 GTO ht was the first Pontiac I saved from the crusher ( little did I know at the time there would be hundreds more saved later. 1st pic is the 'before' pic. Second 2 was when car was finished and was selling it.
Bought it for $1OO and saved it, age 17. Towed it home and, 'for some reason', mom didn't like it sitting in front of the house. Father abliged and I was ordered to get rid of it. Not wanting to see it get crushed, I found a place to stash it for about 2 years when, situations changed and I was able to 'get it back'. This was the first GTO I restored, 35Ohp 4OO, auto Dual Gate, a/c, I was painting lacquer in those days and it was hand rubbed out. Quite a bit of work, built bone stock. I think I sold it for around $1,2OO. Just wanted to see the car live on. Did all the work myself except a handful of things. age 18 to 19. Taking body shop really helped as it was too expensive to pay someone to paint your car for you.



The bottom pic shows part of my stash at around the same time. 2 '68s, '69, 2nd '65 conv. '72 was not in pic. Dog 'Judge' in foreground.