Had Jim sign my cars a few years ago.. What a super nice guy..

Jim and I


Jim and my friend Brian

 

ok i'll bite. who is Jim Wagners?

 

The father of the GTO.

 

I always like the judge! They only made them for 3 yrs. Here is a link for those that might want to do some good car history reading.http://geetotiger.com/Jim-Judge_small1.png [img]

 

now ya need to get it signed by Lou Wassel, the father of the GTA and FORMULA.

 

Jim owns some beautiful, rare, low milage Pontiacs. And its fitting that he should since he spent his entire adult career as an insider at GM. Hes a walking encycopedia on Pontiacs.

I met him a couple years ago at Floyd Garrett's muscle car museum in Sevierville, TN. And yes indeed, he's a super guy and a true gentleman.

 

If you can't tell, we recieved a scanner for x-mas this year.
I expected chevy people to not know Jim W..

I did also have my car signed by John Schinella and Jim Mattison (of PHS)..

In 1971, Bill Porter moved on to another studio, and John Schinella became Chief Designer responsible for the Firebird. (John also worked on the 3rdgen body design)

 

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Wangers and Pete McCarthy every other week as a youngster during the old pontiac drag days here in so cal. Real nice guy. I think my pops had him sign everything haha.

 

I heard Wangers sold a lot of his cars in 2011 - anbody know for sure?

Would love to own the 1969 Trans Am bird in his collection.

 

Met him at the tiger run in Bend Oregon about 10 years ago. Nice guy, also met Arnie "the farmer" Beswick before his horrible crash, at the same event.

 

There's a story about him in the Dec 2011 Muscle Car Review magazine.

 

mr396, Jim Wangers and I were in the same Pontiac club in San Diego(pic), we had plenty of conversations, even Jim himself would correct you on this one, John Delorean was the Father of the GTO, and Jim will tell you he was the Godfather of the GTO.

 

True. Jim's image was used as the 'front-man' in many early newspaper and magazene ads promoting the GTO. I think people naturally but incorrectly assume hes the godfather.

 

Wanger's is a colorful fellow. Pontiac could have used a guy like that in it's last decade, instead of the comatose leaders it got.