Okay,
I’ve been commenting on posts for a few months now and thought that I’d introduce myself. I’ve been messing with 67-81 Firebirds since I was 14. I’m a little over 40 now so I have a little experience with them. My father used to own Fabulous Firebird in MO, before he sold the business. My first car was a 1973 Formula that I built from the ground up. It has a dash fire in it and I had to replace all the interior and wiring and so forth. It was a nice car afterwards. I’m still partial to 1970-1973 Firebirds. I moved on from there and built a 1967 Firebird, orig 326. I put a 67 400 in it and super T-10 4spd. That was the car I drove is high school. It matched up well against the Chevelles and Camaros at the time. I joined the Navy and spent time touring the world to go back to work for my dad in the late 90’s to early 2000. Some of you have probably met me at one point or another. We always tried to give the correct information and help that we could. Our saying was if we didn’t have it we would try to point you in the right direction. I re-entered the Navy after being offer to let fly and that is what I’m currently doing now.
Now for the car in my profile picture (which is probably what most people really want to know). We bought that car out in San Jose Ca back in 1995-6 timeframe. It was the nicest body I’ve seen on one for a while. No rust just damage in the Qtr where a tire was run off. It didn’t have a motor at the time but judging from the exhaust and the vin it was a sprint 6. I wanted to build a car that was mine so I started with it. So if I could have ordered one from Pontiac and had it made my way what would it have been? I decided on a 428 HO 4spd.
So here’s the spec I decided on :
Engine: 1969 390HP 428 4-Bolt (Bought out of 69 Grand Prix SJ in Ridgecrest CA from Alice)
Long Branch Manifolds.
Transmission : M-22
PWR windows
Tilt Steering
4-Wheel Disc brakes (Rear Disc from 1969 Camaro)
PWR Top
Deluxe Interior
PWR Trunk lock
8” Snowflakes.
Intense Blue/with white top/interior.
Console

Okay I think that is all. I’ve been asked about the hood a few time. It’s a one of a kind (that I know of). I took the scopes out of 1976 Formula’s hood and welded them into a 1968 flat hood. When it was done you would be hard pressed not think it was factory. I built the car for myself so I wasn’t concern about stock option and so forth. I’ll include pictures in the following posts. I sold the car to buy my first house and have been kicking myself ever since. The gentleman that I sold the car to back in 2004 still has it and doesn’t want to sell it. So I guess he loves it as much as I do. It’s time to do another one so hopefully that will come soon.

This is going on long enough but I have to talk about the car that I’m currently doing a little bit. It’s a 1968 400 4-spd all numbers matching car. We bought the car around the Oakland area in CA. It’s probably the nicest body I’ve seen. The car is sitting apart in my garage ready to be put back together at this time while I’m deployed to the Arabian Gulf. I’m hoping to get started on it when I get this fall. I’ll post pictures of it later. That’s about all the time I’ve got and probably all the time someone wants to read so here are the pictures that I promised.

Larry