That would be a whopper to tell just ten years after it happened. It seams like there should have been a bunch of Pontiac fans around that wouldn't be able to swallow such a big lie about Firebirds. I mean, Canada isn't very far away!
There is ofcause the possibility that it was true..
could be interesting to try to contact Michael Lamm and maybe even get ahold of more cool pics. (they are proberbly not digitized, unfortunately)..
-But the book is a good 'souce' -and it has some lesser known facts also..