Also someone please contact Harrold and inform him my car needs to be removed from the "HO" registry
I also need to find out whom to contact at the Pontiac Historical Society and inform them that the docs. they sent me are wrong because they say I have and "HO" car
Guess I'm confused regarding your comments for HO registration. In 2013 Harold B brought a 1968 vert with some questions and advice from this site (No disrespect to Harold B but sticking with the premise) you can see his posts if you are a member (which I assume you are). The Harold B 1968 Is NOM engine vert. Harold does obtain the PHS and finds it "was a HO 4 spd. He sources a WZ block (coded 400 4spd but not WQ HO 4 spd block) for his rebuild, and, it qualifies as a 400 HO car? And he now registers the 1968 HO cars?
Guess it fits your cars pedigree but I side with Banshee regarding what brings the "true value" with these born-with vehicles as in "original" drive-train. Check out Banshee's posts and you will see that he has a 1968 HO coupe that fits the true definition. The period correct cars are nice to see back in action (as well as the resto-mods I guess) and the owners that spend the $$ and time to restore should be complemented for their efforts (lots of engines and drive trains were blown up back in the day) but if the #'s are not matching, for the performance level that it was intended to be, It is a tribute or a clone.
The vin or the firewall tag do not make a HO an HO, the engine and drive train do (Although, I would give a proper coded period correct WQ coded HO a pass with the correct intake and exhaust manifolds, and carb).
Good luck with your justification for your car but when you go to sell, a studied buyer will see exactly what they are purchasing.
KTB
