Chip off the old ‘Goat’
Dan Staehle had plenty of reasons for grabbing his beautiful 1966 Pontiac GTO hardtop almost as soon as he saw it. It’s a stunning car in almost every way. It had been very nicely restored, wears a gorgeous red exterior with a black interior color combination, and, well, almost everybody likes a classic GTO.
But the best reason of all? His old man had one.
“Yeah, my dad had the exact same car, that he bought brand new in 1966. It was the same color and everything. So, yeah, I had to have one just like my dad,” chuckles Staehle, a resident of Brownsville, Wis. “He had traded his in on a ’71 Buick [GS], and I think he kicked himself in the butt for a lot of years because the Buick wasn’t that good of a car.”
It took him about 37 years to do it, but
