1968 Pontiac GTO Pro Touring Restomod – Full Restoration Project

1968 Pontiac GTO Pro Touring Restomod – Full Restoration Project

This 1968 Pontiac GTO was built by the guys at MetalWorks Classic Auto Restoration in Eugene, Oregon as their personal “shop car.” The first recorded history of this GTO dates back to the early 80s when Rick, a customer of MetalWorks, purchased it for $2500. After about three years of ownership, Rick had blue velour interior installed, since that was the style at the time. After a while, the GTO was sold to a guy, then to another guy, until Rick eventually lost contact with it.

Then one day, Rick heard of a GTO for sale in the area. He went and checked it out and the blue velour interior tipped him off to the fact that it was his old GTO. He bought it back and after a few years of collecting dust, he convinced Jon Mannila of MetalWorks that he should buy it. He did, and decided he didn’t want to bring it back to stock. This new direction would allow MetalWorks to build a car the way they wanted to build one, and to show people what is possible.

An Art Morrison chassis and a new GM Performance LS1 were ordered, but the build soon began to snowball, as many builds tend to. The LS1 was used as a mock up engine, but a custom build LS3 by Wegner Motorsports had already been ordered, running a stage 2 cam, and pushing 600 hp. Then, before the LS3 was installed, it was topped with an MSD Atomic LS fuel injection system and coils. Initial thoughts of an automatic were replaced with a TREMEC 6 speed manual.

While the crew was hard at work on the chassis and drive line, the body was stripped, then sent to MetalWorks acid-dipping facility. They applied several coats of “MetalWorks Red” paint and then buffed the body to mirrored perfection. Then the assembly process began. The hidden headlights were converted from vacuum to electric to do away with any “lazy eyed” driving.

-Specs:

Engine: Wegner Motorsports 6.2L LS3 (600 hp)
Transmission: TREMEC 6-speed manual
MSD fuel injection, coils, starter
Chassis: Art Morrison
Wilwood brakes
Budnik wheels
Dakota Digital gauges

Built by:
MetalWorks
1045 Arrowsmith St.
Eugene, OR 97402

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Jeffrey Rivers says:

I hate the ass end of these cars; do not match the front, seems like it is missing somethin' but does not take away you great job of the build.

Luiz Andrade says:

Fantastic 👏👏👏👏👏

DavidGP says:

I didn't quite get how the car went from a total wreck to the painting stage without weeks of metalwork in between

Major Rager says:

That is tits and tits are good👍

Julián Ramirez y S/p says:

excelente 👌🏻 saludos cordiales ✌🏼

Gearhead 6971 says:

To bad it's not a 69 JUDGE Ram air IV

Raj Cha says:

Cheers from India!! Mind blowing.

michael lamotte says:

That's a very nice GTO I love it thanks for the video

Unknown Name says:

Невероятно круто

Usman Marwat says:

I don't like the colour or the roll cage. Otherwise as usual a work of art. Beautiful car turned into a stunner. Beautiful work on chasis and exhaust in particular. Well done.

Domingo Garcia says:

excelente reconstrucción, saludos de Venezuela

Omar Dorack says:

super bien quedo ese pontiac

Jonathan A. Paredes E. says:

🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

Saul Zuñiga says:

😮 que maravilla de trabajo siempre termino sorprendido los admiro demasiado por ese empeño que siempre le ponen Asus proyectos a y así quede 🤤. 😁

Oleksiy Savrasov says:

Playlist, please)

Gianfranco Piralli says:

Fantastic the best😨😰😱👏👍💪😬👅

Son IQ Bükücü İlber Ortaylı says:

On numara olmuş…

Ayanda Vellem says:

You Boyz never seem to amaze me.thanks for the Timez off to the next.

Oleg Murillo says:

шикарно , просто шикарно

Nicky Aldyano says:

P E R F E C T I O N

Николай Ознобихин says:

From Russia with like👍

scanspeak00 says:

Old cars are just so much cooler.

Luciano Lima says:

Perfeição e requinte em cada detalhe!

Luciano Lima says:

Que bela obra de arte..E que som maravilhoso desse motor!

ABDULRAHMAN OMAR says:

How much it cost?

ABDULRAHMAN OMAR says:

Give this car it is my dream car 😭😭😭😭

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