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
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Restoring and maintaining old cars and old boats....oh what fun we invent for ourselves. Seems to go in stride with ....You don't live it until you own it....Three steps forward....two steps back ....
