Thomas Glatch
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1964 Pontiac GTO Convertible
Offered here is a two-owner 1964 Pontiac GTO. Part of the first year the GTO was offered for public sale, this car has been through professional frame-off restoration in 2011 to truly bring it back to life. With a stack of photos documenting the process of the rotisserie restoration, one can be assured that all…
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1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88
In Corvette’s almost 70-year history, there has never been another variant like the L88, an earthshaking machine of raw, unbridled power that redefined Corvette performance and amassed a winning record in FIA and SCCA production competition that went unchallenged for years afterwards. Just as Zora Arkus-Duntov intended, the L88 left no doubt that it was…
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1969 AMC AMX/3
While it was respected for producing sensible, economical cars, American Motors responded to declining market share in the mid-1960s with a change in focus to performance. Given new creative freedom, American Motors styling director Richard “Dick” Teague and his design team unleashed the bold “Project IV” concept cars that toured U.S. auto shows during 1966…
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1967 Chevrolet Corvette 427/435 Convertible-The “Survivor Platform Car”
In recent years the word “survivor” has gradually entered the collector car lexicon as a way of describing a well-preserved, original, unrestored vehicle. “Survivor,” in context, is also a trademark registered to Bloomington Gold founder David Burroughs. And in 1989, this Marlboro Maroon 1967 427 convertible became Burroughs’s benchmark for establishing standards for the Bloomington…
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1954 Mercury XM-800 Dream Car
In the 1950s, concept cars-often referred to as Dream Machines-were built to test new ideas. For 1954, Ford Motor Company fielded two new entries in the show circuit: a sporty little two-seater called the Thunderbird and a full-size two-door hard top produced under the Mercury banner and called the XM-800. Ford’s head of design, George…
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1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Z16 Prototype
It’s quite possible the Z16 was the first Chevrolet product to be powered by the legendary big-block, beating its counterparts by a few weeks The early success of other GM division big-block cars pushed Chevrolet to pump up the power in its 1965 Chevelle in a big way, stuffing the smallish mid-sized mainstay with the…
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1964 Ford Thunderbolt – Galaxie Lightweight
Thunderbolts were designed for high-profile Factory Experimental and Super Stock classes; Galaxie Lightweights targeted regional Stock-class competition {vsig}2009-5_2319{/vsig} In March 1963, General Motors dropped a bombshell by banning factory support of auto racing. Ironically, just one month later, Ford Vice President Lee Iacocca issued a press release that read, in part: “Our attitude is based…
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1963 Pontiac Super Duty LeMans Coupe
Imagine if an unknown Van Gogh was discovered on eBay. In the musclecar community, the discovery of this Super Duty is no less stunning {vsig}2009-3_2280{/vsig} By the late 1950s, the horsepower race was on, and stock-bodied racing was the perfect place for Detroit to display its latest engineering feats. Pontiac was the car to beat,…
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1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429
The aluminum heads had intakes that could swallow a tennis ball, which was great for 200-mph laps around Daytona {vsig}2008-9_2218{/vsig} In 1969, Ford introduced a limited-production model to the Mustang line. This addition was the Boss 429. It was the most powerful Mustang, and the name referred to its 429-ci engine, which was built in…