1965 Pontiac GTO & 1971 Oldsmobile Cutless SX

11/16/2018: pm

This is a story of 2 muscle cars I owned back in the day of General Motors building some iconic
muscle cars that I love and now miss.
The 1st I bought was a 1965 Pontiac GTO.  Kiddingly the GTO had 2 nicknames.  The first was a
"Goat"!  Secondly it's model GTO stood for "Gas, Tires, and Oil".  The real name shorted to GTO was "Grand Torisimo Obligato"  I am sure I miss spelled the name as it was in Italian.

The GTO I had was red in color and was a two door coupe with a center roof support, so it was not a true hardtop.  It had the 396 cubic inch engine with a single 4 barrel carbuerator.  The engine was rated at 330 horsepower and it had a 4 speed manual transmission with the shift in the floor.  The interior was black with only an AM radio which was common back then.  It did have dual rear speakers which was standard for this model GTO.  The original tires were Goodyear with white lettering.  More on the to follow...

I sold it 3 years later and bought a Volkswagon bug for my better half to drive back and forth to nursing school at Ida V. Moffett Baptist School of Nursing.  We keep the VW for just over 3 years and after nursing school we bought the Oldsmobile.

We were driving back home in the rain when I noticed that Royal Oldsmobile had this beautiful gun metal green and black up on a lift where you could walk around and under this special edition of Cutlass called an SX.  The SX had all the engine and under carriage of the 442 but without all the center stripping the 442 had.  The only indicator that this was a high performance car was the tiny SX under the Oldsmobile Cutlass signing on both front fenders.

This car featured the 455 Cubic Inch engine with 380 horsepower rating.  It had a single Holly 4 barrel carbeurator and a 3 speed automatic transmission.  It had color coordinated wheels that matched the burganday color of the chassis.  The interior was green to match the exterior and the dash and steering wheel was black.  This had an AM/FM radio with front and rear speakers on each side and back.  The twin exhaust came just under the bumper with the twin horns giving the engine that beautiful Oldsmobile muscle car sound.  We keep this car 5 years and then buying another Oldsmobile.

I have looked on the internet to see what either of these cars would sell for today.  Depending on what all was done in restoring and how long ago..$25,000 to $79,000.  And they both cost less than $5,000 new.  Should have kept one or both.  Go figure.

Jeff