Michael T. Lynch provided the background story to this GTO. Here Hugues Vanhoolandt gives us a full round of the ex-Perkins GTO.
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Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
At the end, or beginning of the day, even a singular GTO can get lost in a crowd. Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.
Hughes: Not only are your pictures shot at Monterey right on in terms of color, and mood but
also in terms of composition (especially the 250LM next to the GTO) . I’m embarrassed that I was at the same locations but
didn’t capture the cars the way you did. However, I’ll be writing to
ask if I can select one of yours as the subject for a painting…..if it’s possible to improve what we see here.
F.Y.I.: There is a gentleman, here in Minneapolis,who has a front end from a GTO, and he insists it is off of the very first GTO ever built. It is stripped down to it’s bare metal; aluminum. It looked like it was crunched a little bit and repaired. I’m pretty sure Phil Hill was the first driver of the GTO. So, did he ever have an ”off”(fender-bender)? It’s sitting collecting dust. I think it would look good over somebody’s mantel, or as garage art.
I’m glad the final GTO lost the downturned mouth and instead went with the open chromed oval.