[14therode]

If you have a moment...please Google MapleMotors.com. Click on inventory there you will find the '66 GTO (post) (gold w/black vinyl top) along with video...what is your initial impression of the car? Apparently, the business model doesn't allow for room to negotiate price.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 14therode

If you have a moment...please Google MapleMotors.com. Click on inventory there you will find the '66 GTO (post) (gold w/black vinyl top) along with video...what is your initial impression of the car? Apparently, the business model doesn't allow for room to negotiate price.

https://www.maplemotors.com/inventory/5321/detail.php

Pretty car; presents well. I didn't see anything glaringly obviously wrong. I appreciate them showing all the little nicks and scratches. Probably nicer than any of my stuff.

Dipstick location is a bit weird. Perhaps correct for A/C? Looks like an air conditioning equipped car with the compressor removed.

Cooper Cobra tires get a lot of disdain in the high end community (but since they are blackwalls that mitigates the hate a bit, I presume).

K

[14therode]

Keith, appreciate your comments. Unfortunately, if I purchased this car I would'nt have allot of extra money to throw at. But I would own a '66 GTO...just to add to the list of other muscle cars I have bought and sold in years past.

It's a want not a need. But they are all for that matter. We're nothing more than caretakers.

I don't believe that Goat will sit on their car lot very long.

BTW, I just had to go back and look closer at the engine bay passenger side firewall and just like you pointed out it was born an A/C car...still has the compressor mounting bracket. You guys are the best.

Thanks,
George

[Kenth]

Nice car but engine needs some help.

Smoke from oil filler cap means shot piston rings.

Smoke from passenger side tail pipe only means shot head gasket.

Rear carb has no fuel line to it, could be flooding issues that caused the smoke issues above.

[14therode]

Appreciate the hard facts and observation. This is why I called on the team of experts...that own and drives these cars. Besides, the things you point out...blower motor and or fan relay and heater core are probably shot. Replacement A/C compressor BIG bucks. Suspect rear window glass leaking into trunk floor. Those butresses on these cars were a cool styling feature but prone to many problems as were vinyl tops later in life. Not to mention an entire repaint $$$$$$$$$ and who knows how much bondo is yet to be discovered.

It's the pure definition of a 20 footer.

I've been down this road before on a 55 Chevy and I've been the poor SOB that got suckered in. An expensive pill to swallow.

All in all asking 39.9K with zero compromise is a NO GO for me.