Above, when he bought it, below, as it it now is returned to day two glory, with the same rear tires!
Ain't that a kick in the head?
In the summer of 1967 14 yr old Larry Porteous and his twin brother, Lee, saw it roar by them on the highway, raised up gasser-style, looking mean and ready to rumble. He decided then and there that he had to have a GTO like that one.
2 years of GTO fever later, determined that at age 16, it was time to buy... they looked in a newspaper, and this very same GTO that they'd spotted on the highway, was for sale at $2200. They sold the trumpet, the bicycle, busted open piggy banks, searched couch cushions, etc and drummed up 600, and mom took out a loan for the rest. (Wow, that's a mom that got a parade for every moms day after that, am I right?)
The speed parts on the car, alone, were $1200 dollars worth. Isky race cam, Mallory dual points, Goodyear Blue Streaks, with super-wide cheater slicks in the back, were mounted on a set of 15-inch American Racing wheels, Edelbrock dual-quad intake topped with a pair of Carters, a Hayes 3,200-pound three-finger clutch and an exhaust system with cutouts.
plus, it's a factory 4 speed.
He street raced it a couple times, never lost, but heard rumors that it was going to get stolen for it's unbeatable engine, and installed a hidden kill switch... which saved it from being stolen, FIVE TIMES!
He did lose 3 8 track players and 2 cassette stereos to those car thieves, but they never got the car.
A year later, it was returned to stock suspension and stock height, with regular wheels, and went sleeper, and all those goodies were put in storage, never lost, and returned to the car in 2018
Until 1992, he put over 200,000 miles on it... in '95 to 96 it got a fresh paint job, and 7 year old son Lance helped polish the rims, and clean the tires for car shows.
In 2018, at age 30, Lance finally convinced his dad to replace all the crazy gasser looking speedfreak parts, and return it to what it looked like on a day in 1967 when Larry was just a 14 yr old kid looking out his parents station wagon window at cars going by on the highway.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/gasser-style-1967-pontiac-gto-returns-day-two-attitude-altitude/
