[robz]

Ahhh...The advantages of living in Arizona...Rust free carcasses...Great job, Steve....!

[Steve Barcak]

Here is another GTO I built. This car was found in a newspaper "parting out" ad. Car had no eng/trans/title. I went to look at it for parts but, just had to buy the whole thing and rebuild it. This was around 1983. Brought it home for $100 with a bill of sale. Got a bonded title for it. I had seen this GTO sitting in a gas station a few years earlier. '72 always caught my eye because you never saw very many of them and I liked the way they looked.
Here is a pic of what it looked like when I put it in my back yard.

[Steve Barcak]

This GTO was Lucerne blue with white int. It did not have air but, was an automatic and had few other options. I decided to make this one a hot rod as I really liked the color combo and that it did not have a/c. I built up a nice med compression 455 using 670 heads that I opened up the chambers to around 80cc and a highly modified Torker I put a million hours into. This was the first engine where i bought calipers and mikes and other specialty tools like a CCing kit to become a better engine builder. This car was also the first time I used a roller cam. Interior looked completey stock including shifter, etc. I added factory tach and gauges, manual disc brakes, ps and a decent stereo. I then repainted this rust free body at a friends shop Lucerne blue, added my favorite polished 8" snowflake wheels and big rubber, etc. It used headers with full stock exhaust and tail pipes.

I used a factory ram air set up. The air cleaner was from a Formula I had parted out and saved. The hood ram air pan was actually still available from the dealer in 1983/84 timeframe was was surprisingly cheap. I think I paid less than $20 for it though I had a discount because I bought so much from them. It also had a 4.11 12 bolt. My quickest ET was 11.73 which is not bad for 1985. I was 25 at the time. The car could have been much quicker but, never really had it set up correctly.

After I got the car in the 11s the drag strip made me put in a roll bar which fit pretty well.


I ended up selling it to a gal who really wanted the car. She gave me a deposit well before I was ready to sell it. It was sold with a stocker 455, auto and open rear and different wheels and no roll bar. I actually ended up buying it back in the late 90s in very poor condition and it has passed hands a few times since and remains in poor condition as best I know.