I am looking for magazine pictures or any pictures of the Myrtle Motors (Maspeth, NY) 68 Firebirds. They had 428's w/Ram air cam, heads, pan and TH400 tranny.Pictured cars were in an old muscle cars magazine and I am told that the one shown was red w/black stripes.Camaro rear spoiler & 428 emblems on the hood. If any one has any magazine articles or photographs of these cars please imput any information. I am building a 68 428 Firebird and thinking of going with the Myrtle Motors theme.

I think it was HPP that featured one several years ago. I definitly remember reading about it.

It was in HPP in the 80's I believe. I have the mag, it might take me a day or to dig it out.

By the way I'm in Plantsville too, are you Bill??

Hey Rick,
No, my name is Dan. I live near the golf course. We need to touch base if that's possible. It would be a great help if you can find that article and maybe we can get together over a copy machine with pizza and do some bird talking.My phone is 621-5832.

Article on the car:

http://www.geocities.com/~lobird/428rt.html

I'm not at home now, else I'd scan in the photos for you. The issue was September 1968 Popular Hot Rodding.

Myrtle used 428 emblems on the hood, but left the 400 emblem on the trunk lid. I believe their reasoning behind this was that the trunk lid emblem signified that the car was a "Firebird 400" model (like a "GTO"), yet the hood emblems told you of the engine change. Either that, or they couldn't get a 428 emblem to fit on the trunk lid back in 1968.

Here ya go. The original article, and on page 2 of this thread, there are color photos.

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat...true#Post137585

Stealthbird,
Thanks allot! This info is great.I now know allot more about the set-up they were using. I'll be using a Doug Nash five speed instead of the turbo-hydro. I'm not sure about their paint scheme.I might go with Royal's instead.

Dan,

I found the HPP mag, Aug 84. I'll try to give you a call tomorrow, I can scan it or make copies for you.
-Rick

Not to hijack this thread ;-) -but I did a similar thing with my imaginary royal bobcat hood emblems,-


IMHO it looks 'Factory' or 'Speed Shop' If you will.

Here's a VERY interesting article comparing all sorts of Pontiac Super Cars: (there is a '68 myrtle motors test -12.55 in the 1/4)

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:KcniWqVd5qsJ:www.angelfire.com/on/geebjen/roadtest.html+myrtle+motors+428&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2

Here's another pic shared by FGFer Lazman1968:

Dan,

I emailed you the article from HPP, if you haven't seen it yet let me know.

-Rick

i found this item on ebay thought it might be of interest .it's a magazine from 1969 on myrtle motor firebird. http://cgi.ebay.com/Feb-1969-Car-Model-m...1QQcmdZViewItem