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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nineisfine" data-source="post: 4102639" data-attributes="member: 30113">Here's my "I was such an idiot for letting it go", story.  Sold this '65 GTO in 1979 for $2k. I still kick myself 40+ years later!Not a restoration of course but a lot of work went into that car at the time and was a long, drawn out convoluted process to get there. Several years earlier, I had bought a 66 GTO for $300. (pile of junk really) I blew the trashed motor in the first month and it took 6 months to save enough to rebuild another 389 as well as the original muncie 4 speed - work performed by my cousin and myself on my grandmother's garage floor. (she claimed to not see very well but dang if she couldn't point out each and every oil spot on the floor. lol) Got the motor/trans done with a nice cam and headers, reinstalled everything and then the car was stolen shortly after. I got it back - they didn't take anything valuable other than the Chevy rally wheels/tires. Lots of damage to the body though when they just dropped it to the ground after pulling the wheels (bumpers were off at the time).Oh well. Wasn't really crazy about the '66 body style anyway ... a lady I worked with had a '65 body for sale with no motor or trans. Perfect, I thought. Think I paid $100 for it. I swapped everything over, had it painted and the result is what you see here. Damn, I was a stupid kid... stupid, stupid, stupid! lol[ATTACH=full]405240[/ATTACH]</blockquote>