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Welcome to the DKM Macho T/A Gallery! This website aims to comprehensively catalogue all the remaining and missing Macho T/A’s.
Welcome to the DKM Macho T/A Gallery! This website aims to comprehensively catalogue all the remaining and missing Macho T/A’s.
Last previous owner: Rob Thomas
1978 #101 was previously part of Rob Thomas’ collection, and was sold at the Nevada 2019 Mecum auction. This one has an absolutely spectacular two-tone Martinique Blue/Cameo White with rare matching factory two-tone 11N/24X deluxe blue and white interior! This one was reported to have approximately 90,000 miles on the clock in 2019, and retained the original numbers matching 400 W72 and TH350 3-speed automatic driveline.
Owner: Last seen at RevUp Motors
1978 #102 was fully and meticulously restored by Macho Manny, the owner of 1978 #100. This one is an automatic TH350 3-speed / 400 W72 numbers matching car. Manny fully restored the car around the late 2000’s, and it was sold a couple of years ago through RevUp Motors by Stephen P. The Adidas jacket is pretty baller too Manny! It is now in Belgium along side 1979 #32, owned by husband and wife!
Owner: Ted G.
Ted bought 1978 Macho #103 back in 2003, he had seen it up for sale on an online classic car site. The previous owner before him had drunkenly bid on the car at a Barrett Jackson auction a few months before, and didn’t really know what to do with #103. Ted scooped it up for $1,000 less than what the drunken bidder bought it for, and this got Ted a numbers matching Starlight Black on Solar Gold Macho T/A with a Doug Nash 4+1, the original owners jacket, interior matched Scheel seats, and fibreglass lift off hood! He has had the original 400 W72 built to a 461 stroker, so this is one very heavy duty Macho!
Owner: Currently located in Dubai
1978 #102 was rescued back in the early 2000’s by David H, who had fully restored the car at the time. However, Dave had found that the original 400 W72 engine was destroyed and replaced by the previous owner before he got the car. It was apparently featured in an episode of Fast n’ Loud. This Mecham car was passed in at a Mecum auction (couldn’t resist) in 2018, and was recently spotted in Hamburg, Germany, and is on it’s way to the current owner in Dubai, UAE. It was also used as the basis for a Greenlight model car!
Owner: Jon S.
Ah. The Bruise. 1978 #106 is a bit of a heavy, and has a bit of a race history, and it was bought by Gary C. in 1999. Michelle R was one of the previous owners, who was a lady that raced the car pretty extensively at the time! Gary had sold the car to Heath at one point, and it is now owned by Jon. This blue and black livery was the only car to come from DKM in this combo, although there are a couple of Machos that have been repainted in this scheme. Richard G. captured these photos of the car when it was for sale in the late 90’s.
Owner: ???
1978 #109 was in a very rough state back in the early 2000’s, these photos were snapped by one of the previous owners, Cameron H, when he had spotted it parked with no registration plates or tags on it at a gas station in Phoenix, Arizona. He recalled that 12 years before he had spotted it, he had sold the car in a good, highly original state. This one doesn’t seem to have resurfaced since.
Owner: Dustin C.
Dustin rescued 1978 #111 from behind a barn, where it was dumped for over 20 years! What’s even better, is that Dustin owned the car when he was much younger, and is fortunate enough to get his old car back! The bad news is, boy it’s rough. Sadly, it sounds like the original engine had gone missing in this time, but may retain the original transmission. The car has serious rust, but that’s been no issue for Dustin as a lot of the panel work is underway, with plenty of work done to get #111 back on the road soon.
Owner: Gary H.
Shake N’ Bake baby, 1978 #112 was owned by Gary C for a while, and is no stranger to the track. Gary H. is now the owner, and has given #112 plenty of track time.
Owner: ???
Unlucky number #13. Well, #113 anyway. #113 was last spotted by Jim M. in around 2006-2008 after copping a very bad hit. It was smashed pretty badly in the back left quarter, and the glass was missing from the front and sides. It looks like the front bumper took a hit too. Jim reported it was a 400 (unsure if L78 or W72) automatic TH350 3-speed car. This one hasn’t resurfaced since, and I hope someone in Colorado had found and saved it.
Owner: Tim C.
This one was apparently being chased by a few of the Macho collectors, as it was reported to have very low mileage for a Macho, with a few people recalling from the early 2000’s that it was highly original and in excellent shape. It was reported to be a 400 W72 with the TH350 3-speed automatic. Tim from Jackson, GA was a big Corvette collector and bought this one in the early 2000’s. After trying to look up Tim’s information, I think he has sadly passed away in 2007, and it’s unclear where this Macho has ended up since then.
Owner: Rich Olivia
As seen in the pictures, 1978 #116 was very heavily built back in the early 2000’s by Rich, who had owned the car for a couple of decades. It’s unclear if Rich still owns the car, but he was based in the Marlboro, NJ area. It was completely decked out as a show car with now full Hotckis suspension, a 455 Pontiac that was producing over 500HP backed up by a 4-speed 700r4 automatic transmission going to a Ford 9” rear end. Rich’s eyesight was apparently not as good as it used to be, as he had asked his friend JT from JT's Restoration Services in Aberdeen, NJ to promote the car for him back in the mid 2000’s. This car hasn’t resurfaced, so if anyone has any further information about it, please get in touch with us!
Owner: Randy C.
1978 #121 was another Macho rescued by Rob Thomas. In the early 2000’s, it was for sale in the early 2000’s in a tired state, rough interior, and all four original WS6 wheels sitting on deflated tyres. Rob had restored #121 and had sold it in Utah, however it was missing the WS6 wheels at the time. Randy is now the owner of #121, and has been making sure it’s represented well at local shows.
Last reported owner: Randy S.
Funnily enough, a Randy also once owned 1978 #122. Although we don’t have any great or current photos, Randy S. from Utah apparently owned 1978 #122 when he was 18, and it seems it was a Cameo White/Carmine Red Macho with no hood decal. His father had made him sell the car for $4500 many decades ago, and this seems like the last anyone’s heard of Macho #122. Interestingly, this one appeared to have standard vinyl 74R Carmine Red interior, when most Machos had deluxe interiors. This one hasn’t resurfaced, so hopefully we can find more information on this one.
Owner: Wayne H.
Wayne’s Macho goes down the track as easy as 1-2-3, and has owned 1978 #123 for a few decades. At one point, Wayne had also owned 1978 #87 at one point (which can just be seen poking out of his garage in one of the older pics). #123 is powered by a beefed up turbocharged 455 Pontiac with NOS, and spends plenty of time smoking up the track!
Owner: Bill G.
On this episode of Hardcore Pawn, we have a look at 1978 #124 that was found dumped behind a pawn shop in Idaho back in 2008 by Jim M.! John McK. had owned this car at one point, and it had since made it’s way to Restore a Muscle Car, which was then purchased by Bill G. who had spent a great amount of time and detail fully repainting #124 to a much higher standard to how he got it. This is one of four DKM Silver Anniversary cars, and this one is different as it was the only one out of the four with a 4-speed manual / W72 400 combo. (Unrelated to the Pontiac Y89 Tenth Anniversary Trans Am)
Owner: Chris J.
Here’s another Silver Anniversary (again, not the same as a Y89!) This one is an automatic, and it looks like this one came from Rob Thomas too, and was sold to Chris. (who also owns #28!) This one is an TH350 3-speed automatic / 400 W72. Chris meticulously restored 1978 #126, and the before and after pictures speak for themselves!
Owner: ???
1978 #129 has bounced around a couple of times, with Steve J. being the most recent owner that comes to mind. Steve J. was considering selling this one within the last year, and had only purchased it a year or so ago from Jack. N. And again, only a few months before that, Multiple Macho Jim M. had helped sell #129 for the owner to Jack N. Hopefully it finds a good long term home soon.
Owner: Devin Z.
1978 #130 was one of Rob's cars that he sold at the 2019 Las Vegas Mecum auction. I got the scoop on this one on Macho Jim, who had found this one many years back missing the original driveline. He then powered this one with a heavily built LS1 from a 2000 WS6 T/A, backed by a 6-speed gear box and finally topped off with very rare 1981 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am Pace Car Recaro interior. It has since been bought by Devin Z, who has further upgraded the car with an S1 sequential shifter. He has hidden the Macho livery under a black wrap as well.
Last recorded owner: Gary C.
Another one with a storied history, but this one doesn’t really have a satisfying conclusion. According to Gary C. (who’s had plenty of Machos under his belt), 1978 #131 was one of the E-Type Machos, and featured a Brentwood Brown/Solar Gold paint combo, with no Macho lettering, just the rear spoiler numbers, and the E-Type sail panel decals. It apparently had some hang-on Scheel seats trimmed in the Camel Tan material, a Concord HPL deck with a matching Fosgate “The Punch” audio controller, Fisher T-Tops, a TH350 3-speed automatic, zero emissions equipment, and the 400 W72 was modified with 1968 RA II heads as part of the E-Type upgrades requested by the customer who ordered the car. Gary remembers the car intricately, and had plenty of stories behind it. Gary bought the car for around $20,000 in 1980 when it was only two years old from a used car dealer called "Biarritz Motors" that was on Camelback Road in Glendale, Arizona. He didn’t know much about the car, but had seen that it came from the Mecham Dealership not too far away. He’d brought the car to the Mecham Dealer to show the car to Dennis Mecham, who was apparently surprised to see the car. Gary explained that the original owner of this E-Type had seen the car in the dealership when it was being prepped to be exported to Saudi Arabia, and this guy from California was so infatuated with it, that he was insistent on buying that he convinced Dennis to sell him that Export only Macho, and paid the full retail cost, which was significantly over the sticker price of a standard Macho T/A. That’s apparently why Dennis was so surprised to see the car back so soon. He thoroughly enjoyed the car throughout it’s life, and even recounts that he was carjacked! One night, when he was heading to a friend’s ballgame with the T-Tops off, he was carjacked at gunpoint, and they took the car and ran! Gary wasn’t one to take that lying down, and he recalled the carjackers had a black Mercury that he kept an eye out for. Eventually, he thinks he figured out who had taken the car, and after turning over some rocks and knocking on doors, the car was found by the local police relatively unharmed, with the keys in the ignition.
After all that, Gary ended up selling or trading the E-Type in for a Ford Highboy in the late 90’s, and even though he’s spent plenty of time looking, has never heard from the E-Type again. We would absolutely love to try help him find his E-Type (again!), so if you have an information, please fill out the contact form! While the photos below are NOT his E-Type, the E-Types all seemed to look the same, so we imagine this is what the car looked like.
Owner: Kevin D. F.
This one you’ve probably seen doing the rounds on a few pages, Kevin’s Macho is beefed up with an LS, and wider billet snowflake wheels. This one was previously owned by Gary C. too, he bought it in 2000’s from the original owner. Gary took out the original drivetrain and had sold or traded it to another Macho collector in Pheonix, and had LS swapped the car with a 5-speed box. Jim G. the Dentist (a few dentists ended up with Machos, don’t know the connection!) who had collected a few Machos bought this one from Gary before he had passed away.
Owner: ??
This one was reported as KIA a few decades ago, and was rumoured to be a body or tag swap. I don’t think there was anything to substantiate that, and nothing else has surfaced. The story goes, that the real #137 was destroyed or wrecked in New Mexico, and when someone had checked the VIN for the car pictured below, it didn’t actually correspond to the DKM records for #137. This was over a decade ago, and the car was listed for $5,500 at the time, and never resurfaced again. Upon closer inspection, little details suggest that it does look like a legitimate Macho, and it’s not recorded what the actual VIN from that listing was. Otherwise, not much else is known about 1978 #137 and there hasn’t been anything on this car for some time. Hopefully the owner gets in touch with us!
Last recorded owner: Tym L.
1978 #140 had made a bit of a round trip over it’s lifetime. The previous owners had kept good track of it, as it had around 5 owners by the early 2000’s. It was sold new at Larry Miller Pontiac in July 1978, and then repossessed in February of 1982 with 21,000 miles on the clock. It went without an owner for a year or two until Duane B. from Phoenix, Az bought the car after his other Macho, 1978 #151, was wiped out in an accident. Duane frequently drove #140 around and got the mileage up to around 48,900 miles in 1988, at which point, the T/A was parked up for around 11 years. Paul R. then bought the car in March of 1999, and had it transported to Weston, FL. It then changed owners again in June 2002 with 51, 345 miles on the clock, when it was then sold to Tracy Pruitt in Tampa, FL. Between all of these owners, it was kept in excellent shape. It even had the original DKM owner’s leather jacket neatly stored in the trunk! Eventually, Tym L. ended up with the car, and recently sold it within the last few years.
Owner: David D.
1978 #142 was Dennis’ wife’s personal Macho! Gary D had first bought this one decades back from the first owner who had bought the car from Mecham. As seen in the earlier pictures, it had Foilers on it painted to match the Macho livery, and was a bit tired back then in need of a bit of a tidy up. Gary sold it to his friend Lauren, who then restored the car but omitted the Foilers. This one was not a W72 400, and was instead the base L78 400 / TH350 3-speed automatic from factory. It has since been through a couple of dealerships. Most recently, it was sold through the Mutual Enterprises Dealership in Springfield, MA. As seen in the pictures, it looks like everyone’s made sure the boss’ wife’s car was nice and clean since then! A few of these photos show #142 brand new on the Mecham showroom floor! David D. is currently the owner of this one.
Owner: Bill P.
Poor #146. Editor’s note: I remembered how badly I wanted this one, I tried so hard to make it work when this one came up for sale a few years back! Some of these photos came from when I had the car inspected. Macho #146 was another rescue by Rob Thomas who had found this one in a junkyard in Idaho, the T/A had rust issues, and the original WS6 wheels were missing. This one interestingly enough, was a L78 400 automatic car, not a W72. When Rob had found it, it still retained the original Delco stereo, Starlight Black/Solar Gold paint and Camel Tan deluxe velour interior. Bill has owned it for a few years and is currently restoring the car. He has added a Concord HPL stereo and has a Hooker show bar to this T/A since he had purchased this one.
