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Left & right - 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge hardtops Center - 1968 GTO Convertible. Canon EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM
A rare outing into our street of my 1/18th scale model Ferrari 250 GTO by CMC models.
I get nervous handling it as it is far and away my most expensive model. I can only imagine how owners of the real thing feel, given that the last real one sold for about 85,000 times as much as I paid for this! I don't feel quite so extravagant now.
A 9 image focus stack taken with the Canon R10 and RF100-400 lens.
This GTO pulled up just as I was leaving the premises. Most of the Cars & Coffee participants had left by this time. The driver of the GTO it seems was this young woman whose dressed matched the dark green color of her car! I have no idea what was being discussed between the young lady and the older gent next to her. I think that he was just an owner of some other car that was on display.
This 1968 heralded a new generation of Pontiac (and other GM) intermediate models. It still has the triangular vent wing window on the front door, a feature that would be gone in the 1969 model year on the GTO.
For my video; youtu.be/q7-BMzAuyl4
12th Annual, Summerfest, Show & Shine, Marpole, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
Don't be fooled by the empty parking lot. The conditions under which I took this picture (of the car) were very much different. People and other cars all around. This black GTO was obliterated with distracting reflections all along its side. Red, green, blue - every color shape and configuration imaginable. Spent hours doing my best to eliminate the reflections while trying to retain some semblance of highly glossy, reflective paint. The car was black......with the traditional red wall stripe tires (a Pontiac GTO trademark for awhile).
The GTO of 1968 and 1969 are extremely similar to one another. However, for model year 1969, the triangular vent window on the door was eliminated.
This picture was not taken by yours truly. So why am I posting it, you say? Well, because, No.1 - I wanted a picture of a 1967 Pontiac GTO to complete my Album titled; “The Golden years of the Pontiac GTO” and No.2 - I do not have any pictures of a 1967 GTO in my computer. Furthermore, I have no idea if and when I will ever get an opportunity to take a picture of same.
If I ever find a ’67 GTO at a cruise night event - and am able to get a decent picture of it, I might replace this picture with one of my own. I did have several pictures of what I considered, a gorgeous white ’67 Pontiac GTO (the one seen here; HERE) but all pictures of this car were swallowed up when my back-up hard drive crashed. A hard lesson learned. Since, not only do I back-up to a 2TB SSD drive but I also store pictures on two 256GB Flash drives. No, I do not back-up to the Cloud because I refuse to pay monthly fees to any company (except utility bills and credit card banks).
In conclusion, the only edit I did (other than some sharpening, to the car in this picture is change its color from red to black. Although I do not find a copyright license on this picture, for the sake of attribution, this picture is in the possession of, American Classic Rides