1968 GTO Resto-Mod
 

when my parents met in felton, california in 1977 this was the car my mother was driving.

i was born in 1979 in south lake tahoe.
the black goat was our daily driver.

one late night on the highway my mother narrowly avoided a direct head-on collision with a drunk driver who crossed centerline coming over the crest of a vertical curve in the grade.

the only thing salvaged from the wreck was the muncie 4 speed manual transmission and the hurst shifter seen in this photograph.

they found another goat not too long after that.
we drove it up the alcan highway when my father moved our family to alaska in 1982.

my father fired that car up every spring so we could rip around town in it during the summer.
we always talked about fixing it up, but dad never thought he would have the time or money.

my father died in 1998.
i was 19 years old.

the goat didn't get too much attention in the years after my father's death.

when i look at this photograph it's easy for me to understand why this project is so important to me now.

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