So you're sitting at home watching the Barrett-Jackson Auto auctions on SPEED channel and you're amazed at the prices they are getting for '60s muscle cars! 1967 Camaro (restored) $36,000.00, 1969 Camaro (restored) $49,000.00, 1963 Corvette (restored) $43,000.00, 1966 Hemi Charger (restored) $59,000.00! WOW! Amazing what they are getting for these cars.

But if you watch a little longer, the "custom" cars are going for even bigger bucks! a 1967 Nova SS goes for $77,000.00, 1963 Corvette custom went for $83,000.00, it seems the well done custom will draw more money then the restored car. A restored 1967 GTO goes for between $40,000.00 to $69,000.00.

Then it dawns on me; I have a '67 GTO setting in the back yard of my parents house! Now granted, it's in bad shape, and there's not much of the original car there. But I figure with all the replacement parts being produced and what is there. I can do it. I can build a "Resto-Mod" '67 GTO.

Except for the main body and frame, the car would be all new, new fenders & doors, new updated suspension, and a new crate motor. I figure I can build the car for $40 to 45,000.00 and sell it at auction for $60 to 65,000.00! That would be a $20,000.00 profit for about two years hard work. The extra money would be seed money for my own Hot Rod, a '30 Model "A" coupe, built nostalgia style for the open road (but that's another story I hope to be telling you about in a couple of years).

This is what the car, (and I), looked like back in 1973. It was Metallic Maroon with Candy Blue flames! Yeech! Hey, it was my first paint job! I drove the car while I started on a second GTO that would be my "all out" project. This GTO ended-up being the parts car for my project car.

And this is what the car looks like today; barried under TONS of trash, (OK, pounds of trash) in my parents back yard. So book mark this page and come back often to follow along as we put together one sweet GTO Project Car. From "Rust Bucket" to "Resto-Mod" in two years time (I hope)!