1966 was a beautiful year for the GTO, my personal favorite. It's something about the stacked headlights and the slit tail lights that just epitomize the Sixties for me. In 1980 I had the opportunity to buy a project `66 GTO at a friend's car lot in Seattle for $600. I passed it up. That was dumb.
The Humbler runs a gauntlet of bleach blondes, cheeseburgers, and street racin' wannabes down at the drive-in. Optional Exhaust cut-outs give the car straight pipes with the pull of a lever. This commercial tells us all that in 1970 it only takes cutouts to attract the attention of some other guy's woman.
Check out the camera work in this commercial! The fish eye lense is everyone's friend at this Drive-In. There's no doubt in my mind why GTOs are popular; even this one from 1970, built in an era past the Goat's heyday, still stands out as an impressive machine. And why not? It speaks volumes about what was right about American cars in the 60s and 70s, without being the behemoth that later 70s cars became. In 1970, all you needed were two doors, 455 cubic inches, and if you believe this commercial - exhaust cutouts.
Kurt is a perpetual gearhead; he has been riding a bicycle since 1970, working on a car since 1978, and riding a motorcycle since 1986. He usually has 3 or 4 mechanical projects going at a time, plus a houseful of things that need to be fixed. He's also a habitual sketcher, drawing pictures of cars, airplanes, and trains in pen and pencil since he was four years old. Kurt and his wife are life-long Pacific Northwesterners and WSU Cougars to the core. When he's not doing technical support or working on his `59 Chevy Biscayne, Kurt is camping, watching movies, or photographing trains and railroad subjects with his sons David and Jack.
