1965 Pontiac Gto on 2040-cars
Lewisville, Minnesota, United States
PHS documents show the car was originally Iris Mist and was changed to Mayfair Maize. During the upgrade, some small paint imperfections were repaired when the glass was out of the car. The car received new lenses on all the factory lights. All the stainless trim was removed and professionally refinished. All of the factory trim was repainted where necessary and a new windshield was installed.
The biggest change to the body was done to the hood scoop. Since ’65 GTO’s have a solid metal hood scoop, this one was removed from the car and CNC cut out so that the motor could breathe fresh air into the tri-power air cleaner pan which was added.
Interior: The interior of the car received the biggest change, as it was completely redone.
All NEW carpet, headliner, door panels with pulls, seat upholstery front and rear with new foam.
The dash was freshly painted with new trim panels and the gauge panel itself was re-chromed by MR G. vacuum plating. Anyone who knows Pontiacs knows that Pete Serio at Precision Pontiac builds the best gauges, so the stock panel with “idiot” lights was replaced with a fully restored rally Gauge panel at the cost of $1400.00 alone.
The other big change was the driver’s seat. After a long exhaustive search, we located an original 1965 Pontiac Power driver’s seat. That seat was completely rebuilt and recovered and then installed with a factory style seat harness. I’ve been told that the seat alone could be worth $2000 because it’s so rare. The trunk was also completely refinished with all new mats and tire cover.
Motor: The motor on the car had been rebuilt shortly before my purchase of the car, so it didn’t require anything but a little freshening up. The biggest issue was the tri-power carbs set-up. Since this was an added on original set, they hadn’t been rebuilt in years. The carbs were shipped to the best in the business ‘Sparkys Carbs” for a full rebuild and detail along with all the necessary linkage pieces to make everything function properly. The motor was given all new gaskets’ as well as a new ignition system. We installed a new aluminum radiator with overflow and shroud. The motor got new HOOKER jet hot coated headers and exhaust system. The tri-power pan sealed to the hood is a great addition along with the custom cut hood scoop. Everything was detailed and shows amazingly well and runs fantastically.
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While NHTSA's document didn't include a model-by-model breakdown, General Motors spokesperson Alan Adler estimated to Autoblog that roughly 85,000 Vibes in the US would be covered under the latest recall. Like the rest of the affected models, the airbag inflator could rupture in a crash causing the bag not to work correctly, possibly spraying metal fragments at the occupant.
Toyota spokesperson Cindy Knight told Autoblog that the reason for the disparity between the earlier press release and NHTSA document was that Toyota was continuing to comb through VINs to create a list of affected vehicles. The original number was an estimate of that process at the time. Scroll down to the recall report from NHTSA.
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