<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Old Man Taylor</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Unfortunately I don't have any of it when I got it, or when I got married in it. I didn't own a camera. </div></div>
LOL, OMT -
That's always been my regret, too - that we didn't take more pictures back then. But, in our defense, it wasn't as easy then as it is now -
At any rate, here are a few from my growing up years:
Me, with my first car (...the red one...):
The Pontiac shown is a '63 Catalina; built as a Super Duty car, it was converted over the counter to an HO configuration (tripower and hydraulic lifters) so that we could run the "higher" classes (B/Stock, B/FX) while the Swiss Cheese cars covered the others. It was built with the aluminum front package (hood, fenders, bumper) and aluminum decklid. It also was one of the first 1963 cars to have the Bobcat appearance package, with silver highlights on the grille filler panel, down the side and the vertical surface of the trunklid. Sadly, this is the only still photo I have of this car.
Goin' racin' -
The '64 shown above was the first GTO in the twelves, at least here locally.
Our '64 on display at the Michigan State Fair, fall of 1964:
Typical Sunday afternoon:
Rain on raceday - Lapeer International Dragway, 1968:
Me, doing my first engine teardown (a '69 GMC straight six), while the GTO sleeps behind me:
Goin' racin again:
The '64 Lemans was a factory mule car, purchased from the GM Milford Proving Ground. It came equipped with a 421 cubic inch engine (and close ratio 4 speed) and was actually quicker than our '64 GTO race car.
Lastly, this is not a "vintage" shot, but it is a "vintage motif". Here's how the GTO looks today:
