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The 1964 Pontiac GTO started life as a loophole in GM’s own corporate rulebook, and the rarest version of it packed three carburetors instead of one. Only a fraction of that first model year’s production carried the Tri-Power option that made the GTO a genuine performance threat. Here’s what separated the base car from the one everyone really wanted, and why a correct restoration is harder than it looks.
Ask ten muscle car owners what a quality repaint should cost and you’ll get ten different answers — some of them off by thousands of dollars. One refinishing shop tackled the question head-on with numbers that immediately split its comment section, with some viewers pricing out paint classes as a cheaper alternative. Watch to find out what actually separates a 2,000 dollar respray from a 10,000 dollar one.
Greg Hillyer walks through the welding and prep work behind one of the more ambitious Mustang modifications an owner can attempt: converting a 1966 coupe into a fastback by grafting on a donor roof. It’s a job that demands precision most home builders never attempt, and the stakes for getting the fit and structural integrity right are high. At least one viewer credits a direct conversation with Hillyer for the success of their own conversion. Watch to see exactly how the roofline transformation comes together.
Rust doesn’t ask permission before it eats through a Mustang’s rear quarter panel, and fixing it properly is slower and more exacting than most people assume. This video follows Greg cutting and welding a patch panel into a 1967 Mustang coupe, doing the kind of careful sheet metal work that separates a repair that lasts decades from one that fails in five years. Watch the process and see why commenters call this a dying craft.
A cracked, sun-baked steering wheel is one of the fastest ways to undercut an otherwise correct restoration, and unlike most classic car parts, there’s no factory reproduction sitting on a shelf waiting to be ordered. Instead there’s a small network of specialists — from a Georgia shop that duplicates factory urethane finishes to a Pennsylvania restorer who’s spent decades perfecting wood-rimmed wheels — each with their own approach to bringing a ruined wheel back to something close to new. Read on to find out which one fits your car.