2026 Greenwood Car Show: General Motors

It's my biggest car spotting day of the year, the Greenwood car show. Let's start with GM.

With GTOs, you may be looking at a "tribute car" which is a polite name for "fake". Take an ordinary Pontiac LeMans, update the engine and the badges, and you've got a much more valuable GTO. Both this 1969 GTO Judge and this 1968 convertible appear authentic to me, though the Judge doesn't have the correct air cleaner to make the ram air induction system work. Fun fact: When the Judge was first offered, it only came in this color.

I've posted this incredible car before, but there's nothing more amazing than seeing a fuel-injected 1963 Corvette split-window.

Restored 1957 Bel Air convertibles like this one sometimes go for over $100K now. The hardtop coupes aren't much less. Always interesting to compare them to a car that's never been restored, like the sedan here. That off-pink color looks odd today but was popular in the 50s.

Very nice 1966 Sting Ray.

The 1970 Chevelle Super Sport is considered the pinnacle of GM muscle. This one has the 396. The truly legendary examples have the 454.

This 1964 Pontic LeMans coupe has 326 badges, but it appears the owner has dropped a 389 tri-power engine under the hood.

This 1948 Buick is just a great looking car.

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2025 Greenwood Car Show: Ford

  

From 1954 to 56, Ford would sell you a car with a transparent plastic top, like this 1955 Crown Victoria. Not for Arizonans I think.

 

  

You're looking at about $200K these days to purchase a 1968 Shelby GT500 Mustang in top condition. Many of the factory Mustang body parts were replaced with fiberglass.

 

 

This 1940 convertible is one of the best-looking cars Ford ever made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The original Ford F-100 made between 1953 and 1956 is the classic truck everyone wants. This 1953 has the last of Ford's old-fashioned flathead V-8 engines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A very rare 1966 Ford Fairlane GT 390. Ford sold only 4,200 Fairlane GT's that year. They sold 607,000 Mustangs.

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1968 Chevrolet Chevy Van 90

GM introduced the first Chevy vans in 1961. That van was the Greenbrier: rear-engine, and air-cooled like a Volkswagen. 1964 was the first year for a front-engine design. For a Chevy product, I sure don't see these very often. I guess most were just driven to death. I like the five windows on the side. This is the one Chevrolet product with "Chevy" as part of the model name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1968 Ford Galaxie 390

Big Fords just don't draw the same interest from collectors that cars from GM and Chrysler do. I'll probably spot ten Chevy Impalas before I spot another Galaxie like this one.
* This car was available in two distinct body styles: this fastback as well as a "formal" coupe.
* The Galaxie was available with hidden headlights, but this car doesn't have them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1968 Ford Mustang GT convertible

"LFS GOOD" reads the license plate. Yes, life is good when you own a Mustang GT convertible, well-optioned with a center-console and fog lamps. This car has the 289 V-8. Late in the model year the 289 was replaced with the 302. The 302 was made all way up to December, 2000.

Hmm... I think this is not an authentic GT. I think it's a regular Mustang with GT wheels.

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1968 Chevrolet C10 Pickup Truck

 This post is a reader submission, and not actually in Seattle. But it's my blog and I'm making an exception. Note the wood bed. My father's '77 Chevy pickup had one. Apparently they were available as late as 1987.

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1968 Ford Mustang convertible

This car is distinctive in that it appears to have nearly every factory option. V-8 with dual exhaust, center console, fog lamps, wire wheel covers, pop-open gas cap, luggage rack. Have you ever seen anyone actually use one of these luggage racks?

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1968 Pontiac GTO convertible

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1968 Chevrolet Camaro

This particular Camaro is a curious car. It's the bare bones model - 6 cylinder engine, 3-speed stick, dog dish hubcaps. Yet it was apparently ordered with paint stripes and a spoiler. It also appears to be an unrestored daily driver in very good condition. Yet it's filled with junk and its California registration expired six years ago.

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1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu

End of an era. 1968 was the first year for the 307 V-8, the last new Chevy engine in the rock-simple days before pollution control and various tweaks designed to improve gas mileage. 68 was also the last year you could buy a car with low-back seats. Beginning in 1969 all cars were required to have high-back seats or headrests.

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1968 Pontiac Firebird convertible

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1968 Volkswagen Beetle

Unlike the '59 we spotted in Georgetown, this Beetle has a speedometer and a gas gauge.

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1968 dodge Charger 383

   

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