I've been stalking... Since I got into SASS, I've been pretty busy along with the new job and new toys... heres a little back story
in 1994 i bought a 68 400/4sp GTO ram air ii for $800. it was a rust bucket but she ran like a scalded ape. over the next 18 months or so i drove the wheels off that car, she went everywhere. now prior to my goat, i had other really cool cars. my first car was a 57 belair 2 door hardtop, 327/4spd. second was a 67 "duece" 350/350 with an offenhauser single four tunnel ram, next was my 68 riviera with the 430... ive also had a 68 convertible stingray 427/4pd, a 74 340 duster, 91 stealth twin turbo and others not so cool (my current daily driver is a 09 smart cabrio)
of all those cars, i miss the GTO the most. again i bought it in 94 and drove it for a year and a half give or take. the clutch went out and it got parked and i bought a brand new nissan truck because, according to my mother, i needed a "reliable" car. a few weeks later i was attacked in a bar parking lot by 6 guys, one of which worked me over with a base ball bat. put me in shock trauma icu for 9 weeks. when i got out there was a long road of rehab. in the meantime my 94 nissan PU was repossessed. my gto needed a clutch, one of my girlfriends busted out the windshield with a maglight when my other girlfriends visited me in the hospital
and i managed to lose the keys to it. i cried the day i sold the car to buy something i could drive. since i only had $7.47 to my name after all the rehab was over, i couldnt fix the goat. to make matters worse i only got $500 for it and the guy that bought it parted it out and cut up the rest. i ended up buying a rusted out 68 f100 that would throw itself into reverse every time i would make a left hand turn it was so rusted out. i drove that POS for the next 18 months until i bought my 93 c1500 4.3 5spd short bed for $14,000 with $4500 down and a 24.9% interest rate. i always said one day i would buy another GTO when i had the extra money.
in the court trial for the guy with the bat, he was ordered to pay $16,612.20 in restitution. of that money, i saw $25....
until last september...
unbeknownst to me, MD parole and probation had been collecting the money for the last 25 years but since i had moved, they didnt know where to send it. last spring, my father got as letter from a lady at P&P asking if he was related to me or knew me and got in contact with me (we usually dont speak) I got in contact with a very nice lady at AACO P&P and last september, after 25 years, i got a check for the $16k...
so i went looking for a 68-69 gto...
and found this:
