[Steve Barcak]

Here is yet another 70-72 GTO I built and enjoyed before selling it. This is another vintage Pontiac I saved from the crusher and is an original '71 455 d port GTO. I bought it as a hulk at a west Phoenix wrecking yard as it was about to be crushed. The engine, trans, most of the int, glass and front clip was gone. It was originally Cardinal red and had a/c and pw, disc brakes, etc. I located a correct 71 YC coded 455 and proceeded to rebuild the entire car, this was around 1986. Most of my friends thought I was nuts buying such a stripped carcass but, it was a real 455 GTO and I could not let it die. I was about 27 at the time. The hulk was completely rust free and not wrecked. It was just parted prior to me buying it.
Here it is in my garage being lovingly built to live another life.

[Steve Barcak]

Here she is all together. I drove it to work daily and all over Az and Ca many times. It has my favorite polished 8" snowflakes and wide 50 series rubber and a trailer hitch.



This front shot as at Falcon field in Mesa, Az where the Champlain fighter museum used to be.
The rear shot is at Santa Monica beach, Ca.



after I built and sold this GTO, a '69 followed.

[Steve Barcak]

It was at this time in my life, mid 20s, that I learned how to ski and really liked it. Here is the 71 at Taos New Mexico on one of its many ski trips. 1987