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LIL' GTO COUPE

Don Salisbury put quite a bit of effort into finding a GTO for a friend and when the friend decided against it, wasting that effort wasn’t in the cards.

“I called Dave,” Salisbury recalled. “I said, ‘Hey, I found your car. It’s got 31,000 miles, it’s been in storage for years. From the pictures, it’s got the normal GM paint-fade on it and they brushed stuff on it. It’s an original car.’ So after I sent him the pictures, we discussed it on the phone and after 20 minutes, half-an-hour on the phone, he said, ‘No, I just don’t want it.’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why am I talking you into this?’”

The Pontiac GTO was a 1965 hardtop coupe he’d found after more than a year of searching. He’d come across it while using his son’s computer during a visit to his Boston home and called the owner, who was in Alabama at the time and promised to send photos of the car as soon as he returned

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