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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Stampf on August 29, 2013, 07:45:32 PM
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Still sitting on 'roller' wheels and rubber, and always something more to do...but brought her home from the shop today, after an brisk shakedown cruise...of course. Some of my best work to date, and the car is so flat and straight, and the paint so over the top perfect, I am having trouble actually taking good pictures of it. It is just so damn reflective I am going to have to go out in the middle of an empty, newly paved lot somewhere.
Anyway, here's a few shots of the results of a lot of hours of sweat, and love...
1968 Pontiac Firebird 350
350 4bbl cid / 3 speed manual transmission/factory Hurst
10 bolt posi rear
Multileaf and staggerd shocks from the factory
An original triple black car.
Another one lives on:
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:aok Very nice Stampf
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:O thats PURTTY good work :aok take any "along the way" pics? I have always enjoyed seeing the before to the after :cheers:
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That's one of the nicest Firebird's I've ever seen. The 4 speed is icing on the cake :rock
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Nice work. You should get a '65 GTO and a 57 Chieftain to go along with it. :aok
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Beautiful!!
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I see wax in the cowl vents! :devil
Told you I hate waxing cars.... :rofl
Nice to see it outside,the paint did lay down nice! :aok
:salute
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the rims arnt poncho then?
is this a "Red stripe" tyre car?
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Very nice! :aok
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Nice work :aok
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fk'n beauty man! love those cars.. :rock
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Kickass car man, wow.
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Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. In H.S. I had a buddy with a '68 Firebird but not black. Yours is just stunning.
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Iv got a 81 t/a wish it looked as good as yours does
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Very very nice! I love it. Great work. (you do know your MOPAR card has been suspended temporarily right?)
Very nice work. Firebird one of the best examples of Pontiacs former glory. I bought a new one in 78 and enjoyed it greatly (Trans Am).
I'm starting some work on my new SRT. Nothing great just some bling for now.
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That is one good looking car!!
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:O thats PURTTY good work :aok take any "along the way" pics? I have always enjoyed seeing the before to the after :cheers:
I'll get some up for ya Homer.
the rims arnt poncho then?
is this a "Red stripe" tyre car?
The rims are correct...just in rough shape. Certainly qualifies for Redline tires yes...but these were not standard across the board equipped. Depended on the dealer and the purchaser. This particular car was ordered with the Wide Oval option, not Redline...
Thanks a lot everyone. I am very happy with this one.
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Dave. I am a Ford guy but that style Firebird has always been the lone non-Ford product I would get. Look around locally to have those wheels refinished, they aren't as expensive as most people would think. That car is gorgeous Dave. Kudos bro. :cheers:
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Dave. I am a Ford guy but that style Firebird has always been the lone non-Ford product I would get. Look around locally to have those wheels refinished, they aren't as expensive as most people would think. That car is gorgeous Dave. Kudos bro. :cheers:
Thanks brotha.
You'll like this: (you may have seen on fb)
This is an 11th grade photography class project of mine. 1984 - My High School parking lot.
My first car. 1967 GT Fastback.
(https://sphotos-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/1176329_10151883993194108_896080136_n.jpg)
Starting with that as my first ride, it's pretty easy to imagine why I am still hooked on the cars of that era to this day.
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Sorry for the drool stains on the hood.
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Thanks brotha.
You'll like this: (you may have seen on fb)
This is an 11th grade photography class project of mine. 1984 - My High School parking lot.
My first car. 1967 GT Fastback.
(https://sphotos-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/1176329_10151883993194108_896080136_n.jpg)
Starting with that as my first ride, it's pretty easy to imagine why I am still hooked on the cars of that era to this day.
S or K code? Regardless, a beauty.
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S or K code? Regardless, a beauty.
S. BB 390 and a top loader.
Was my older brothers friends car. They lived on the next street over from me growing up. I walked past it everyday...wishing it was mine. It was parked with a blown clutch and flat tires...just sinking into the backyard. I was 14 years old when I offered him $750.00 for the car in 1981. 500 I had saved up from my paper route, and my mom pitched in the balance.
Spent the next 2 and half years bringing it back with my Dad. The hook was set... I was 17 and driving to school in a bad pony.
:rock
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S. BB 390 and a top loader.
Was my older brothers friends car. They lived on the next street over from me growing up. I walked past it everyday...wishing it was mine. It was parked with a blown clutch and flat tires...just sinking into the backyard. I was 14 years old when I offered him $750.00 for the car in 1981. 500 I had saved up from my paper route, and my mom pitched in the balance.
Spent the next 2 and half years bringing it back with my Dad. The hook was set... I was 17 and driving to school in a bad pony.
:rock
:rock
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That's diddlying sweet Dave!
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68 Firebird...my very first car!! Mine was green with black interior.......350ci...she was beautiful
Very nice Stampf :aok
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Yanno .. friend of mine had one o' those in that dark metallic green long ago.
Met him when he came into the speed shop I worked at in Victorville, CA.
He said he wanted it to go fast.
I told him to stuff a Rat motor in it, best bang for the buck there was, then.
He refused, spent a couple grand on that 350 instead.. cam, pistons, intake, carb, headers an such.
It picked up 3 *tenths* in the quarter mile.
Well ..he was 'disappointed' so I offered to help.
We got a 2 bolt main 396, big port heads, 11.5 to 1 pistons, real nice solid lifter cam setup for 5500rpm redline,
balanced, printed, tunnel-rammed with two Holly 750's (the ones Holly used to make for a tunnel ram)
We put a 4.88 12 bolt rear in it.
I told him to go with the cast iron T-10 4 speed but he insisted on the Muncie.
Muncie's are great if you have no horsepower or traction .. if you have either of those they split right down both sides ..which he did in his first race,
..then we got that cast iron T-10.
The car was an animal.
First time goin up an onramp onto the freeway, right after we got it running ..
..120mph at the 'merge' and he had to brake hard to keep from eatin the car ahead ..it kinda caught him by surprise.
It was *fast* :)
We lined up one evening from a 30mph roll .. he just blew my lil Duster's doors off.
Tuff to beat a good breathin Rat :)
-GE aka Frank (Duster was a tunnel-ram solid lifter 440 car w/4.89's and an 8" converter back then)
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Sweet! :aok