Ferrari was the first to use the GTO moniker on their 1962 250 GTO Gran Turismo Omologato or, Grand Touring Homologated. Two years later, Pontiac gave us their version of a GTO but it was never powered by a 462 like this one.  

We’ve seen dozens of ’69 Camaros—from mild to wild—and it’s always the sleepers that get our attention. Sleepers like Jeff Pont’s stack-injected 502 Ram Jet re-imagined by Mick’s Paint.  

Earlier this year TT made the trek to Spaceport America for the inaugural Spaceport America Invitational organized by the East Coast Timing Association (ectamile.com).

“Then it was time for it to go to a body shop where it sat for a year and a half with nothing done to it. Then we took it to another shop and they went out of business and said, ‘come get your car.’ Well, the convertible top frame, the fenders, the hood and many of the other one-year only parts had just disappeared.

When I first spotted this little aluminum-bodied bolide I thought it was a three-wheeler because it’s called ‘Rocket 3’.