Muscle Car Review – September 2019

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14 SEPTEMBER 2019

I HAVE OWNED my 1967 GTO
convertible for almost 35 years
now. It is an all numbers-match-
ing car and highly optioned, with
power steering, power brakes,
factory air conditioning, power
windows, a Dual-Gate automatic,
an AM/FM/eight-track player,
a posi, an N.O.S. wood steering
wheel (found in a box in the
trunk), a tilt wheel, Rally gauges,
trunk release, buckets with head-
rests and passenger recliner, and
even a lighted ignition switch.

Dennis Parus 19 6 7 GTO

It has most of the original fac-

tory sheetmetal. When it was

restored in 1981, I replaced the

front fenders and tail panel with

N.O.S. GM pieces. It even has all

the original tinted glass.

It has been restored twice,

once in 1981 and then in 2009.

My future wife and I found it

at a local car showwhen it was

for sale. I told the owner that I

would be by the next weekend

to drive it.

I drove it and told him I would

let him know. As we got into

our car to go home, when the

radio was turned on, it played

“Little GTO” by Ronnie and the

Daytonas!

My future wife screamed that

this was a sign! I went around

the block back to the GTO’s own-

er. Gave him a check for $

and said I would be back the

next weekend with the money,

please have all the keys and title

ready for me.

The rest, as they say, is history.