Please don't chop up the GTO....

They are great vehicles, and someone out there would definitely take it off your hands and restore it to it's former glory.

 

Maybe I messed something, what year chevelle frame are you in need of? Also, I thought the only difference between the cocupe and the convert frame was one length of boxing in the center section, on each side. That's an easy do for a welding shop.

I'm gonna have a complete 67 coupe frame with running gear availble in the spring. If that'll help, let me know.

BTW - I'd rather have a Chevelle than a goat any day. Especially a rag top.

 

find a frame and leave the goat in one piece. Frames pop up here every so often. What about the guy that just located that junk yard in NY that hhe says has a bunch of velles in. Maybe there is one with a good frame there.

 

Absolutely, contact Sundell. His son sends them up from N.C., where my 72 frame came from. Some surface rust, blasted and powdered....better than new. If it needs bushing holes fixed, he has a local shop (excellent welder) do the repair. I paid $550. about 2 years ago. I hauled it out of Slippery Rock in the back of my pickup.

 

leo p, it is a '71 gto convertible, with a really nice chassis. i had been pointed to sundell's, but they wanted a small ransom for a chassis. tomorrow i lift the gto body, get the chassis ready for my chevelle. for now, the gto will be mothballed. in the years to come perhaps me or my son(s) will get to her. they are great cars too, but money does'nt grow on trees.
thanks, guys.

 

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Originally posted by Derek69SS:
I'd use the chevelle as a parts-car for the GTO. I'd rather have a GTO than any chevelle of the same year. You can't deny they're better looking
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Sorry, I indeed love some year GTO's, but I can deny that they are better looking The only year GTO I would consider swaping my 69 Chevelle for would be a 65, and it would have to be damn nice

Gaz and his Goat eating Chevelle

 

Originally posted by Derek69SS:
I'd use the chevelle as a parts-car for the GTO. I'd rather have a GTO than any chevelle of the same year. You can't deny they're better looking

We're all entitled to our opinion,but that is one that I don't share

..I will say a black on black 68 Goat is a bad ass looking car (and my favorite year GTO),but I wouldn't give up my 70 SS454 for it.

 

Ditto, I think every year Chevelle is better looking than the same year GTO.
Taste is subjective.

But the GTOs do have a nicer interior most years, tend to have more nice options.

But for heavens sake don't destroy a restorable one. They are bitchin cars in their own right.

 

me too....nothing meaner looking than a beefed cranberry red 70 SS..

 

Originally posted by Derek69SS:
I'd rather have a GTO than any chevelle of the same year. You can't deny they're better looking.

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I would deny that

 

as said before, if it ain't a convert GTO, it won't be right. Call Sundell's for a frame for the Chevelle. ph# 724-794-6827 in Slippery Rock, Pa.

 

Pat, you have e-mail.

 

I'd use the chevelle as a parts-car for the GTO. I'd rather have a GTO than any chevelle of the same year. You can't deny they're better looking.

I love my chevelles, but I'd trade in a heartbeat for a GTO in the same condition.

 

I know of a yard that has at minimum 4 chevelles with good frames in So. Cal.

 

You have to come on to this website to answer that question?

 

if it were just a lemans hack it up
but a goat
the gm gods are gonna stike you where you stand
don't do it man
theres parts out there keep looking

 

Old cars are not made anymore,
cut up one for the other, shame, if the GTO
is in better condition... sell the GTO to buy the parts for your ragtop. sheetmetal , such as floors, trunk, etc... is avaliable in all
restoration parts cataloges.. ae YEAR ONE.

I will buy the goat, before you cut it up.

as to the frame, I hope the gto is a ragtop,
the hard top cars have a different frame
from the convertibles.


AGIAN... DO NOT CUT UP THE GTO

 

DON'T DO IT!

 

What year GTO ?? maybe sombody down here in the great south could find you a chassis and make a little trade post some pics if you can
TROY

 

Originally posted by pat mc:
would it be sacrilege to hack up that old goat?

I think you know the answer to that question...

 

In a word, yes.