[4birds]

Congrats on the Formula purchase Todd! It will be a beauty when you get it back to its former glory.

Keep us updated and post lots of pictures too!

[johnta1]

I tried to change the 1st post and reposted it with corrections.

I still see it?
(but maybe because it's in my cache)

I can try doing it again?

[dxeven]

PHS not showing up for me either.

[johnta1]

See if this shows:
(I'm still seeing both)

[78Macho]

Todd-

Congrats on the car! Wow, talk about some options! This was obviously a special order car and someones pride and joy back in the day! I think the Rosewood color and white interior are really cool. Good luck with the journey and keep us posted!

John, thanks for the PHS, finally. Have been sitting on the edge of my seat all morning!

Jim

[trishieldchief]

Todd
Yes the Rosewood is unique and very nice.
Cool car especially being a true RA car.

[Todd Mullin]

Thanks everyone its been a fun ride this week. This was pretty much the story book find for me.
Like a lot of board members, I saw the car on e-bay but there was no pictures posted of the motor. I e-maild the owner for the numbers on the heads and when he replyed I was off for a two hour drive into farm country.
The owner had the car stored in a nice dry "You Store It" warehouse for the last 16 years. He purchased the car from a friend in Florida who needed the money. The car was titled but never put on the road...it turns out he's a Mopar guy. After reading "whats it worth" lets just say members would be proud of the deal I made. After a handshake..... he was offered more money but kept his word.
A couple of things that stand out....parts on the engine that usually show a lot of ware do to heat are in realiy nice shape like the choke, stove pipe, cross over.... the title shows 65517, could this be actual milage? I would say that 90 percent of the car parts are original.
It do's seem that it had a hood tach...would that of been listed on the options?

Todd

[The Boss]

If on from new the hood tach would have been dealer installed - none from the factory.

[Brewster]

Post some pictures or have Johnny do it for us to review.

[Judge273]

The nice thing with today's paint choices. Factory blends tend to be boring, and not much pop.

But, a Rosewood with some pop can be a major improvement over the stock blend. The white interior in 71 has iradeescent in it too.

[Diego]

I've always loved Rosewood. For the 1971 GTO, it's the rarest color. I suspect it was something more common on a full-size car than a performance car. I don't see it as brown - ya gotta see a fresh pic of a car to see what it really is. It's kinda a reddish bronze but even that may not be an accurate description. All I know is I'd love to have a Goat in that color.

[keith k]

It is interesting that a car ordered with so many options wasn't ordered from the factory with the tach (has Rally Gauges w/ Clock, rather than Rally Gauges w/ Tach). That had to have been a special ordered car. So either the original owner wanted the hood tach and ordered it without the dash tach intentionally. Or there was a screw-up or misunderstanding, and when the car came in without tach the owner decided the easiest "fix" was the hood tach.

All around cool car - will be beautiful when restored.

[unruhjonny]

I thought the hood tach had a legitimate RPO in 1970 & 1971 - but the clincher was that it couldn't be ordered on a car that had an in dash tach;
I had understood that when ordered it was shipped with the car, and installed at the recieving dealership;
Am I way off?

I would say that it is quite possible that this car was ordered with the 'gauges w/clock' by accident - and thatbit was "fixed" by the servicing dealer - that seems highly plausible to me.

Congrats on the stellar Formula!

[Held for Ransom]

Originally Posted by Brewster

Post some pictures or have Johnny do it for us to review.

Look at them while you can...
http://s44.photobucket.com/user/wego...?sort=3&page=1