How to Restore Your Pontiac GTO 1964 - 1974

The 1964 Pontiac GTO started out as a hopped-up Tempest. Equipped with a 389-ci V-8, heavy-duty suspension, quick steering ratio, and a floor shifter, the GTO delivered awe-inspiring performance and sparked the muscle car wars of the following years. During the muscle car era, the GTO established itself as a performance leader as one after another top GTO model hit the streets—Ram Air IV, 389 Tr-Power, Judge, and others.

How to Restore Your Pontiac GTO does not just discuss the restoration of engines and drivelines, bodywork, interior and trim, suspension, brakes, chassis, and steering, it shows you how to do it. With detailed step-by-step captions and full-color photos, critical procedures to restore a GTO to factory-like new condition are shown. Don Keefe, editor of the official Pontiac GTO newsletter Smoke Signals guides you through this entire process. He shows you how to verify the authenticity of a particular GTO, the most desirable models to restore, and how to select the right GTO for your budget and skill level. Selecting the best body parts for your restoration is also covered. Bodywork is a critical aspect of muscle car restoration, and to complete major repair projects is challenging yet within reach, so you learn how to repair quarter panels, trunk, floorpan, and other major components. Painting or guiding the car through the painting process is also examined in detail, so you get the best results from your investment.

Specific procedures for returning the engine to top-running condition and how to guide the engine through machine shop services is explained. In addition, you're shown how to rebuild a Muncie 4-speed transmission. Also, electrical, interior, suspension, and other component restoration are covered in detail, so you get it right. Once each step of the restoration process has been completed, you will have restored an authentic and strong-running classic GTO for show and go.

About the Author

Don Keefe has been a die-hard Pontiac and GTO enthusiast his entire life. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Smoke Signals magazine, the Pontiac Oakland Club International's monthly publication. He is also a contributing editor for High Performance Pontiac and is a former editor-in-chief of the now defunct Pontiac Enthusiast magazine. Don is an authority in the Pontiac muscle car community and has restored Pontiacs himself.

Book Details:

Publisher Code: CT-SA218
ISBN 13: 9781934709696
Author:  Don Keefe
Published: 2012
Pages: 176
Dimension: 215x280mm
Soft Bound, colour ill