[PONTIAC LARRY]

I just was recalling the time when my "unrestored" real 70 Trans Am was my daily driver and I had no truck and had found a 400 small block chevy at Pick U Part I wanted...so I took off my deck lid put it in the back seat so I could chain hoist from the rolling A frame the SBC 400 short block into my trunk on the TA.... It worked BTW.... Next....

[1969GTO]

back in 1977-79 I owned 2 GTO's a 68 and 69.
My 68 GTO was my Winter Rat and my 69 GTO was my summer car.
Hey back then at that time you could get a muscle car easy.

[David Jones]

I got my GTO wet in the rain once on the way back from a cruise in. Actually had to turn on the wipers for about 5 minutes.

[Ben M.]

I went to the boneyards in my '72 regularly. I pulled a core support for my '78 Bonneville and inner fenders. Stuffed the inner fenders in the trunk with a bungee cord and had the core support hanging out the rear quarter window in the back seat. It was quite a sight driving up 805 in San Diego! A truck would have made more sense...

[b-man]

Originally Posted by David Jones

I got my GTO wet in the rain once on the way back from a cruise in. Actually had to turn on the wipers for about 5 minutes.

The HORROR.

Nobody can top that, scary stuff indeed.

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by David Jones

I got my GTO wet in the rain once on the way back from a cruise in. Actually had to turn on the wipers for about 5 minutes.

You are just some kind of a monster
Regret reading this thread already.


One time i let a technician drive my SD/TA into the service stall for state inspection.
He wanted to drive it back out too ... some guys just don't know when to quit.
I told him NO !

[Jerry H.]

I'm still up in the air over whether to let my future son-in-law to drive my 65. He's 43. I've not let my son or my daughter drive it, so I'm still debating it.

[NBF823]

Dozens of burnouts and donuts.

[fiedlerh]

Not my car, but around 1978 I was in LA on business and went to OCIR one afternoon to watch test and tune. There was a guy with a 67 or 68 bird that looked fairly stock. He would launch it by flooring the gas pedal in neutral til the engine was screaming and then slam it into drive. It enabled him to get about a foot of air under the front wheels. He did this over and over the entire afternoon and the car never missed a beat.

[Racer81x]

78 Bonny 400 car, ran it in one demo prebent the ass end too much before hand, ended up gernading the 7.5 4:11 welded rear end. got 1 run out of it at the end of the year, and junked it after, should have kept it swaped rearends and pulled the ass down and ran it again









85 pontiac wagon, chain car, ran it in one chain demo, then ran it again at the end of that year against welded 70's cars.

[NBF823]

Yea, I'd say that was abuse^^

[poncho-mike]

I went to look at a car advertised in the bargain trader in the early 80s with a buddy of mine. I was driving an orange 72 GTO I had bought a few years earlier. It was a decent looking car, but kinda high mileage and the paint was dull. The GTO served as my daily driver for several years. The car we were going to look at was about 2 hrs away.

Anyway, I'm driving down this narrow 2-lane road near where the car was located, and I saw a couple of old cars sitting beside a mobile home. There were probably a dozen old cars, but there were at least two Pontiacs, a 70-72 Lemans and a 69-70 GP. I decided to stop and see if the owner was interested in selling any parts.

The guy was about as redneck as you could get, and he was definitely interested in selling some parts. The motor was out of the GP and sitting under a tin shed, all intact. I looked, and it was a 71 dated SR block with 64 heads. The trunk lid on the Lemans was perfect (this was probably 1984 or so), as was the dash pad. I struck a deal to buy the trunk lid, dash pad, the GP engine and rear end (which turned out to be a 3.31 12-bolt posi).

The guy had no way to lift the engine, and there was no way I was leaving the engine sitting there. We pulled the heads and intake off of the 455 and put them in the back seat. The guy had some old lumber around, so I suggested we put the short block assembly on a long 2 x 10 and use it as a ramp and slide the short block into the trunk. Everything was going OK until we pulled the oil pan and the guy saw it was a 4-bolt main block. The seller said he had a bad back and couldn't help, so me and my buddy managed to slide the short block up the 2x10. It landed in the trunk with a thump. We then pulled the rear end out of the GP, which to the seller's surprise was a 12-bolt. We stuck the rear end in the trunk, leaving about 2 foot hanging out.

The seller dug up an old blanket. We put it on the roof and put the trunk lid on top of it, then tied it down with rope. By the time we got everything loaded, we were about four hours late getting to the car we went to see. The car had sold earlier that day, but with the haul I had I wasn't concerned.

We made one more stop for some ratcheting tie downs to better secure the trunk lid. On the way back home, I got pulled by a state trooper. He checked to see that everything was properly secured, and let us go. The GTO was squatting pretty badly.

After getting home and unloading, I found the trunk had a couple of big dents in it and was covered in oil. The GTO cleaned up pretty well except for the trunk gasket and the dents in the trunk pan.

[Jack Peters]

Drove the T-37 up the Alcan when brand new in April '71 and then drove it out and back in October of the same year. BTW, no cruise. Did it to 2 other new vehicles also. Nothing special with them. Oh, yeah, took a new '94 GP Special Edition that looked like a Bandit TA, over the Alcan. They only made 2k of them. Only had about 6k miles on it at the time. Oh, yeah. Made 2 trips I '69 with a new Torino GT with about 4k miles on it in fall of '69.

[Cerberus]

In High School I had a '71 Ventura with a '68 350, 3 speed manual and one wheel wonder rear. It was a real beater, but could burn up the one tire on launch. It developed a really bad knock in the engine. I didn't have the funds to repair so I revved it up to over 7000 RPM until the engine grenaded - took about 5 minutes. Upon disassembly there were 5 broken rods - two of the pistons were sideways in the cylinders.
I believe it was a completely original HO engine...............

[marxjunk]

i used to torture my 71 GTO..and i mean torture it street racing....i mean run it over and over and over....3 or 4 times a week...sometimes with a car load...that poor thing would take it..

it would run so hard its tongue would hang out..and fire up every morning for the drive to work...

man i tortured that car...

[PONTIAC LARRY]

[QUOTE=Cerberus;5195410]In High School I had a '71 Ventura with a '68 350, 3 speed manual and one wheel wonder rear. It was a real beater, but could burn up the one tire on launch. It developed a really bad knock in the engine. I didn't have the funds to repair so I revved it up to over 7000 RPM until the engine grenaded - took about 5 minutes. Upon disassembly there were 5 broken rods - two of the pistons were sideways in the cylinders.
I believe it was a completely original HO engine...............[/QUO

Nice ! and now that 350 HO engine would be worth more than that car cost you ! LOL

[PONTIAC LARRY]

Originally Posted by marxjunk

i used to torture my 71 GTO..and i mean torture it street racing....i mean run it over and over and over....3 or 4 times a week...sometimes with a car load...that poor thing would take it..

it would run so hard its tongue would hang out..and fire up every morning for the drive to work...

man i tortured that car...

I have lived that story and know many others and THIS is why we are Pontiackers !

[twov8sandat4]

When I first got the T/A in 1990, my friend and I were cruising, when we saw a bunch of girls hanging out. Ended up picking all of them up. Five girls in the back seat, and two in the front on my friends lap. Don't know if you can classify that as abuse though

[69goatboy]

Not abuse by me, but one of the PO's of my car had installed shag carpeting and VW front seats.

And a neighbor friend tells me of another neighbor that has a 67 LeMans vert with a chevy 350 under the hood.

[ho428]

Date night at the Drive In movies.