[Chevelle-list] OT: Monkees' GTO

[Tom Rightler]

That car just sold at the B-J auction for an insane amount of money. 
$650,000 IIRC.

Tom Rightler
MCC Newsletter Editor

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From: "John Nasta" <69ec at johnnasta.com>
To: <chevelle-list at chevelles.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:53 PM
Subject: [Chevelle-list] OT: Monkees' GTO


> Since it's a slow night...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> #2 had a yellow/orange color around the grill rather than silver, and  the 
> same yellow around the headlights, rather than the body color.
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> You can see pix of both here:
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> http://ultimategto.com/1966cars1.htm
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