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Pontiac GTO MARCH 23, 2013 CARL MAAR |
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Shipped on January 8, 1971
the car was originally sold by Originally pained Quezal Gold
with a Black Cordova top & Black Interior. Equipped with
a push button radio, The current motor is a correct
1971 YC code 455 with mild cam, stock intake and correct carb.
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Engine removed, rebuilt & ready to re-install |
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031611 Painted steel wheels & dog dish hubcaps are
installed and the OEM 8-track is installed & working. Now
we need a good couple of rains to get all the salt off the roads
so I can take it around the block.. Bowling Green POCI Nationals
& Dream Cruise in Michigan on the agenda this year. 062809 Car show at Findlay State Park in Wellington. I have about 150 miles on the car. Needs several adjustments but runs & drives fine.. 062709 Car won't start. Rolls over, won't fire. Wiggle
the distributor wires & it fires up. Take it for a test ride.
It stalls & won't start. Long story short... the module in
the new Summit HEI distributor , that I just bought, was no good.
Took one out of another HEI dsitributor I had & the Car is
running again. What a PITA. Got it running in time to take it
for the maiden cruise in at Brunswick, Ohio. 062509 AM/FM with Sirius is hooked up. Tape player & gauges are installed and working. Got the 2 1/2 "mandrel bent exhaust put on today only to find that there was an intake leak. The wrong gasket got installed on the right side. Intake is out, cleaned and sitting on the bench. Re-install tomorrow. Still no chrome. Still need to put the passenger seat together and get it installed. 062309 Front bumper installed... Gaps are within GM tolerance. Stll no chrome for the nose... 062109 My brother helped me put the hood back on it today
and I took it for it's first drive. Still need an exhaust but
I got about 3 miles on it... I've been waiting a long time to
do that.... 061909 New HEI distributor is installed. Car is running & driveable. Haven't driven it yet because the hood is still sitting on the roof. Should be able to remedy that tomorrow when the AC guy comes & we get it hooked up & blowing cold. Chrome guy still has my grill surrounds and an excuse every Friday when I contact him for the parts. Probably gonna have to use my 72 grills for awhile... 061809 PCV valve installed, Carb parts, accelerator brackets and the cable all installed. Air Conditioning wire harness and oil pressure switch wiring is repaired & dummy light is working. 061709 Carpeting, console, shifter and drivers seat all installed. New foam and springs on the seat make all the difference in the world. It's like sitting in a new car. 061609 Dragged a 1971 Lemans Sport home today for parts.
No rear-end, no front tires, body came off the frame when I dumped
it off the rollback. Pretty ugly.... But, I have scrounged the
PVC elbow for the manifold, the accelerator cable ( it was like
new), some window cranks, front seat screws. Some wireing and
some plugs... Well worth the effort. 060309 Fired the motor tonight.. Gonna need to get a new
distributor, as we had some timing problems, but it's running...Leaving
for the HotRod Magazine Power Tour Monday so the car gets a break
for a week while I am gone. Plan on driving it in two weeks..
060109 Motor is plumbed & ready for distributor.
Gonna fire it Wednesday evening. Rear interior and seat are installed.
AC is mocked up. Drive shaft installed, trans lines installed.
Power steering is done. Rally wheels & Radial TA tires are
installed (275/60-15's rear, 245/60-15's front). Wheel bearings
have been cleaned and repacked. New Brake cylinders on the rear
wheels. Windshield wiper motor installed. Problems with the turn
signals that will have to be worked out. 052209 Power steering & alternator, with all brackets, motor mounts & ram air exhaust manifolds installed. 051809 Motor is home & painted. 051609 Motor guy called today, shortblock is together...
Should be ready for pickup Monday. We got the window fuzzy's,
the rocker panel moldings & the wheel well moldings installed
today. Spent some time putting bolts in that the body shop over
looked, & lining up some panels. 051009 New left front caliper on the F250.. leak is fixed. On the GTO I have installed the rear bumper, headlights, turn signal lens in front and the mirrors. Painted the rear deck and the top of the dash. Pulled the rear wheels, cleaned the wheel wells and sprayed with rubberized undercoating. Sprayed half the bottom of the car with Ford semi gloss black motor paint. 050909 Car is home, less the front bumper, which they
will be repainting.... Had the brakes go bad on the F250 while
towing the car home... Made the ride a little more tense. Use
the trailer brakes to stop and drove real slow. 050109 A lot has happened since the last post. We were gonna change the rear seal but, upon taking the motor apart we decided to send it to the machine shop for a tuneup. The motor & heads are at a local motor shop. Crank will be turned, rods checked, pistons nerled, new valves, some minor head work & reassembly of the short block. Supposed to have it back today but it wasn't done... Wednesday I should have it... Legendary interiors has delivered the vinyl top, headliner, package tray, seat foam, seat covers & carpeting. Ames & PY have also been making regular shipments to my garage, to include new rear bumper, body side molding, tailight splash guards, etc. Got everything piled up & ready to go. Paint on the car is cut
in, the fenders & doors rehung & the car is all masked
off & sitting in the paint booth. First real coat of paint
goes on tomorrow. Another 10 days or so & I should have the
car at home... 040609 Motor is in primer & ready to paint . Pulleys,
brackets & misc are also painted & ready to put back
together... RA exhaust manifols, rear bumper, rocker panel molding
& clips, seat piping, exhaust pieces and a bunch of other
neat stuff arrived today from Ames. Also got the headliner from
legendary. Body shop has trunk & front fenders in primer
with the doors and front & rear valance getting prepped for
primer today. 032309 Darren from A&D Coating Removal, Mobile Soda
Blasting (Cell Phone 419 571 3966), New Washington, Ohio 031709 Ordered the interior & top from Legendary.
Four weeks delivery time... 021409 This painter bailed on me as well... 020809 Got another paint guy. We should be getting started
soon... Went to the GTOAA swap meet in Columbus today. Got a
set of 1971 GTO grills. 121908 Everything is unbolted & disconnected. Tomorrow morning we should be able to lift the engine & trans out.. 120608 Removed the stainless trim & glass today. Painted some small parts. 113008 Been busy & haven't had time to update the info... The car is in my garage, interior, shifter, door panels removed. All stainless has been removed. Today I picked up a set of new tail lights. Hope to pull the motor & trans this week. Glass comes out this week as well. Goes in for paint Jan 1, which isn't really that far off. 110408 Picked up a 1973 Muncie M-21, a pair of 15x7 Rally II rims & some other goodies today from another local GTO guy. Spent some time buffing stainless pieces & sandblasting motor brackets. Picked up a 71 455 carb on ebay & it arrived today. Needs a rebuild. Gonna wait till the first snow to start tearing the car apart. 103108. Did a little research on the title history and
learned through Ohio BMV that the car had been sold by Ricks
Auto Sales in Kenton Ohio in 1995. Made contact with Rick &
he was extremely helpful. Still had the file on the car &
took the time to scan & send me some documents. 101008 replaced the hose on the two gas-tank vent lines. Both were rotted away and leaking. Installed new rear shocks. Cleaned & painted the dual snorkel air cleaner & inner fenders semi gloss black. 100908 4 speed conversion is sitting on the shelf. Trans looks like a fresh rebuild. 100708 Bought a complete 4 speed setup with clutch assembly, flywheel & everything else I need to convert the car to a 4 speed. Driving up to New York in the morning to pickup the parts. (ultimately I chose to stick with the origianl 400 turbo). 100608 PHS came today... This is one of 534 original
455, automatic cars (there were no 455CID 4 speed cars built
in 1971). It is fairly well optioned 093008 Put the exhaust system on it today. 3" pipe off the headers into 3" flowmasters then into a turndown dump. Sounds good. Fixed the front turn signal sockets. Trunk is done & dry. Took it for it's first long drive (20 miles). Drives well. Trans shifts are tight. the 12-bolt posi works. 092908 Got the title, plates & insurance.. Refinished the inside of the trunk, installed new sockets for the left rear turn/brake lights, topped off all the fluids, painted the jack. Sept 28,2008 Trunk cleaned, sanded & primed.
Left rear taillight disassembled. Some interior cleaning. Friday Sept 26, 2008. Trailered the car home & took
it for a short ride. Sunday Sept 21, 2008 Gotta love my wife. She spends
time on line looking for GTO's for sale. Found several |
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There were only 10,532 GTOs sold in 1971. 534 of those were equipped with the 455 motor & TH 400 trans. The 4 speed was not available with the 455 motor. It was, however available with the 455 HO motor. The 1971 GTO had a modest facelift with wire-mesh grilles, horizontal bumper bars on either side of the grille opening, more closely spaced headlamps, and a new hood with the dual scoops relocated to the leading edge, not far above the grille. Overall length grew slightly to 203.3 inches (516 cm). A new corporate edict, aimed at preparing GM for no-lead gasoline, forced an across-the-board reduction in compression ratios. The Ram Air engines did not return for 1971. The standard GTO engine was still the 400 CID V8, but now with 8.2:1 compression. Power was rated at 300 hp (220 kW) at 4,800 rpm and torque at 400 lb·ft (542 N·m) at 3,600 rpm. An option was the 455 CID V8 with four-barrel carburetor, 8.4 to 1 compression ratio and 325 hp (242 kW), only available with the automatic transmission. The top GTO engine for 1971 was the new 455 HO with 8.4 compression, rated at 335 hp (250 kW) at 4,800 rpm and 480 lb·ft (651 N·m) at 3,600 rpm. The Judge returned for a final year, now with the 455 HO as standard equipment. Only 374 were sold before The Judge was discontinued in February 1971, including 17 convertibles—today the rarest of all GTOs. |