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| Convertiballin'! What have we here? |
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| Looks like a 1967 Pontiac GTO... |
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| ...and Triumph TR6. Love the Union Jack licence plate surround! |
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| Convertiballin'! What have we here? |
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| Looks like a 1967 Pontiac GTO... |
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| ...and Triumph TR6. Love the Union Jack licence plate surround! |
My favorite year, color and configuration of the GTO.
ReplyDeleteTam is probably not old enough to remember the "Monkee-Mobile" that George Barris built for the tee-wee show. A stretched '67 Goat w/a touring-car top....candy apple red, IIRC.....
ReplyDeleteThe Triumph looks just like Madeline Car, who is out in the garage, except she is red. Beautiful automobiles.
ReplyDeleteI love how the Triumph is positively dwarfed by the Honda Accord moored on its starboard side. ;)
ReplyDelete"I love how the Triumph is positively dwarfed by the Honda Accord moored on its starboard side"
ReplyDeleteBack when the Alfa Spider ran I pulled up next to a TR6 in traffic one morning and felt dwarfed by it.
Scott J,
ReplyDeleteIn the Zed Drei I was unsurprised to be looking down at the occupants of an early Miata, but looking down into a 4th Gen F-body caught me off guard. ;)
I'm always amazed to see a TR 6 outside of its natural habitat- which tends to be a garage in a coccon of rust...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful 67 GOAT! :-)
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I don't recall those F bodies being that low. Of course it could have been heavily modded :)
ReplyDeletethe monkee mobile was a '66 GTO built by customizer dean Jeffries.IIRC there were 2 built. I was stationed in san diego in the early 80s and had a gold/black/black '67 GTO convertible. good times cruising the 5 and listening to 91X and KROQ.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days,huh?
ReplyDeleteI had,not all at the same time,a 56 MGA,'64 GTO convertible,'67 Mercury Cougar,'67 GTO,'68 Cutlass convertible (with a 455),'72 Triumph Spitfire,'73 Triumph GT6,then I got old ,and since then it's been pickup trucks.
"F body"??
ReplyDeleteF bodies were the Camaro/Firebird.
The GTO platform was an A body.
drjim,
ReplyDelete""F body"??
F bodies were the Camaro/Firebird.
The GTO platform was an A body."
See Scott J's comment at 7:33 and my response and all will make sense. :)
Scott J,
"Interesting. I don't recall those F bodies being that low. Of course it could have been heavily modded :)"
I don't think so; it's just that the Z3 doesn't sit that much lower than a regular 3-series. That, and F-bodies are smaller than they look... :)
OOOPS!
ReplyDeleteYou're not hacking the computers in those wheels, because they don't have any. From a security perspective, that makes for a vanishingly small attack surface.
ReplyDeleteSure, if you have physical access you can hot wire them. But anyone pointing a HERF while you're driving down the street will just mess with the distributor. Pop the clutch and you probably blow past him.
I'm thinking that I need one of these (or a 1980s Honda motorcycle) as my next wheels. But I'm paranoid. Actually so much that I don't say "Sweet GTO" but rather "Try to hack THIS suckas!" Not a good thing.