[Chevelle-list] OT: Monkees' GTO

[John Nasta]

Since it's a slow night...

Does anybody else have the Flowmaster 2008 calendar? The Feb car is  
the fully restored Monkees 1966 GTO. What a bizarre car. The nose is  
like a big wind scoop and I don't think that convertible top was meant  
to travel over 15mph. I like the headers though.

I wonder what they did w/ the inside of the trunk and the area behind  
the rear seat. Looks like there might actually be a third seat, or at  
least it's padded out.

Two "Monkee Mobiles" were made. The one on the calendar appears to be  
#1. This car went on tour w/ the band and was apparently abandoned in  
Australia at the end of the tour. It apparently re-surfaced in 1992 at  
a government foreclosure auction in Puerto Rico, and sold for the  
minimum bid of $5,000.

#2 had a yellow/orange color around the grill rather than silver, and  
the same yellow around the headlights, rather than the body color.

You can see pix of both here:

http://ultimategto.com/1966cars1.htm