[Jerry H.]

After following this posts since its beginning, I must chime in. I bought my first GTO in 1969, and have been restoring them since 1977, long before it became popular. I have owned and restored GTOAA concours winning GTOs. I have also judged the concours classes (67) at the GTO Nationals before they went to their present format. I have owned over 1 dozen 67 GTO's, including 4 original paint cars, 1 with 26,000 original miles, one with 29,000 original miles, one with 53,000 miles, and one with 75,000 original miles. 2 were red, one was blue, and one was cream. Every 67 GTO that I have owned OR seen (with original paint) has had extensions painted body color. Now, I am not arguing with anybody on this board. I do not have the knowledge of the plants that these cars were built, although most of the cars,at least in my area, were built in Pontiac. Again, I don't care to start an argument. If someone has a true original paint car that has black extensions, then evidently it was built that way. It would sure be great to have someone who worked at a plant during that time would could clear up things like this. I do know of these 'assembly line' pictures that have caused controversy in the past. Just my opinion.

[irgoatmike]

My fender extentions are black and everything I've seen leads me to believe that they are original. Built in Kansas. irgoatmike

[Brad B. Hillebrand]

My 67 is black as well.
Brad

[400 4spd.]

The ones on my 67 (Baltimore built) are black, as they were when I bought the car in 73. I parted out another 67 (Kansas City) with black. BUT, I have bought some other 67 fillers that were body color, and a pair of 66's that were body color. I beadblasted most of these, and the colors appeared original.

[24207]

Hi:
New to restoration and would like to extend the question a little...
what color black and was it just the extensions or did black also include
the filler?
Thanks in advanced.

[3 Deuce 64]

my 67 is black . build date 9 66 from Pontiac It's the only 67 here I can say for sure is original .

24207 inner fender color not flat or gloss but a satin 60 % as was mentioned it blends in the the color of the surrounds

[GTOGreg]

My Baltimore-built '67, built 2nd week of January had black extensions - original car.

[jeffhhs76]

Very interesting thread guys. So can we safely assume that both body color and black are correct or is the answer black? I have to say that I bought my first GTO in 75'. It was a 66' original paint car. I don't know the plant it came out of but when your 17 you don't give a crap where it came from The extensions on this car were body color. That also goes for the red 66 ragtop I bought in 76', body color. I know both of these cars were original paint. Every other GTO I owned were repaints so I can't speak to what those extensions were but they were repainted body color.

Interestingly enough, in 89' when I had my 67' ragtop repainted the original color, the shop painted the extensions black! I thought they simply screwed up and for a while, I was pissed off. Now after reading this thread I'm not so sure....

Here's a pic of the 67' rag with black extensions after the repaint. Can't see them but the blend with the grill surrounds was nice. The other pic is my 66 ragtop which had body color extensions. Don't know if 66 was the same as 67 when it came to the extensions because the header panels were different.

Cool thread....one of those things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmm..

Breaking news: I just got off of the phone with a member of my car club who had purchased a brand spankin' new 67' GTO back in the day. He was certain that the extensions on his car were painted body color. He is gathering his old photos to see if there were any that proved or disproved this. I'll keep you posted on what he finds.

[Old Goat 67]

Whatever, mine have been black since day 1.

[24207]

Thanks all, seems it varies from location of birth.
Since they are hardly visible at 100+ think I'm goin black.

[leecorrell]

Not that it really adds anything to this topic, but... FWIW the ones on my '67 Lemans are originally silver to match the silver Lemans grills.

[Old Goat 67]

Makes sense to me.

[RA6T7GTO]

my 67 was very original before it was redone, car was originally from framingham plant and the extension pieces were black,seems that black would make sense so they would match the grill surrounds,