The Wide Track King With A 1,000 Hp Crown Is A Double-Chopped 1969 Pontiac GTO
We’ve already hinted that we’d prefer a car with a chopped body to one with a widebody. Who however said we couldn’t have both?
Most definitely not the factory that produced this 1969 Pontiac GTO, which has a double cut and substantial fender additions.
Pontiac debuted the second generation of the GTO (MY68) by the 1969 model year, building on the enormous popularity of the first version, which was one of the first 1960s vehicles to combine an intermediate body with a huge engine typically reserved for a full-size vehicle.
The Gen II also had a lower profile than the vehicle it replaced and did away with the vertical headlamp arrangement in favor of a horizontal one.
We may therefore conclude that this initiative is inspired by the automaker’s own work, even though traditionalists are likely to disagree.
This is due to the distance between this Poncho and home, and it is at this point that we can explain the double-chopping aspect.
The roof has lost the first three inches (7.6 cm), but the main part of the body has shed an additional 4.5 inches (11.4 cm).
Moving on to the additional width, the widebody design is rather conservative and most definitely unable to support the enormous wheels and tires that the muscle car now sports.
But if we ignore that small portion, we’ll notice that the wheel wells have grown to be a full 7 inches (17.8 cm) wider.
Due to all of these modifications, the 1969 GTO appears bizarre, as if a dinosaur walked on it but nevertheless took care to preserve the muscle icon.
This project was created by Pennsylvania-based Pro Comp Customs, which has some experience modifying various machines, including old muscle cars.
One example is the $500,000+ Twin-Turbo 1931 Chevy “Sho Bird” that the expert worked on and won the Ridler Award at the Detroit Autorama exhibition in 2022.
The project, which I had discussed in a 2020 article under the title “GTO Shortie,” reached the expert’s hands in 2018.
The vehicle appears to have attained, or at least grown closer to, its ultimate form for the Pittsburgh World of Wheels 2022 this January.
The GTO is now painted a flaming shade of orange, as seen in the introduction image.
And although though there isn’t much information available about this new Pontiac GTO from 1969, I can only hope that its creator was able to fulfill all the tasks it had planned for the GM slab.
After all, the Art Morrison GT-Sport chassis, with its inner-angled frame rails that tuck under the body, was intended to support the GTO. One thousand horsepower will be produced by a V8 engine provided by Sonny’s Racing Engines, so that’s the power.
Because of this, the Pontiac can certainly reach triple-digit speeds faster than it takes a person to comprehend the monster’s incredibly wide appearance, which, incidentally, seems to suit the “Wide Track” moniker the now-defunct automaker first used to stress its sporty image within GM.
