Filed under: Aftermarket, Classics, Convertible, Auctions, Etc., Pontiac, Specialty, Design/Style
Say what you will about The Monkees, but the guys in the band had great taste in automobiles. Take the Monkeemobile, for example. Built off a
1967 Pontiac GTO Convertible, the custom featured genuinely interesting bodywork and some wild engine bolt-ons. If you're a fan of 1960s pop and yearn to relive the genre's glory days,
eBay Motors may have what you need. A recreation of the 1967 Monkeemobile has showed up for auction. This particular replica was built by Dakota County Customs using an four-speed GTO, just like the original.
Built for the band's 45th anniversary and the final Monkees tour last year, this Monkeemobile is faithful down to every last detail. Unfortunately, the trumpet exhaust poking out of the front fender wells and the massive gold-flake blower are for show only. Seems fitting.
If you like what you see, this machine is up for bid in Richfield, Minnesota with two days left on the auctions. So far, bidding as whipped up to $60,000 with the reserve not met. Head over to
eBay Motors to have a look.
eBay Find of the Day: 1967 Pontiac GTO Monkeemobile originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Classics, Performance, Pontiac, Specialty
Jim Wangers' 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge - Click above for high-res image gallery
Got a hankering for a new
Pontiac? Well, we've got bad news, then... you can't get one. But today we can offer up something even better: a new-to-you classic Pontiac GTO, Firebird, Trans Am, or even a Holden Commodore HSV GTS-R. Now we're talking.
The cars in question come from the personal collection of Jim Wangers, who famously served as Pontiac chief marketing manager during the brand's halcyon days of muscle cars, sportscars and a favored position right behind Chevrolet in
General Motors' brand index. As such, we'd expect these 10 machines to be excellent examples of the breed.
Now, on to the actual cars. First up is a
1965 GTO Sport Coupe, a car that represents the second year of the model's existence and stands as a tribute to the classically warmed-over Royal Bobcat cars. If wind-in-your-hair motoring is more your style, may we direct you to the
droptop 1966 Goat behind door number two. Also available are two
Carousel Red (a.k.a. 'orange')
GTO Judges from 1969.
Perhaps you prefer the F-body? Choose from a
first-year Firebird from 1967, a real
1969 Trans Am (super rare, very expensive), a
1979 Trans Am 10th Anniversary car with less than 100 miles on the odometer, a
20th Anniversary Trans Am with the turbocharged V6 engine from the
Buick Grand National from 1989 or, finally, a white and blue 30th Anniversary Trans Am convertible.
Still not caught your fancy? Well, there's one more option: the aforementioned year
2000 Holden Commodore HSV GTS-R, which Wangers describes as "the very car that inspired Bob Lutz to seek from Holden (GM's Australian car maker) a car for U.S. buyers - the '04 Pontiac GTO." Interested? Peep at the gallery below and then
click here for the rest of the details.
[Source:
GeeTO Tiger via
Motorator]
Legendary Pontiac ad-man Jim Wangers selling off his collection originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 May 2010 19:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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