Pictures to follow.
Description:
1968 Firebird convertible
OEM 400HO Engine
Auto Trans
Console floor shift, lighted w/ Clock
Parchment White interior
Power windows
Power steering
Power Front disc brakes
Cowl TAG reads "SPECIAL"
VIN "SPECIAL" Rendering car available with one of four colors ALL at owners choice Proper!
This one painted Windslow Blue.
White- Power Top.
Dual 2.5 Free flow SS exhaust & All components SS
Car has about 30 options OEM on PHS build sheet.
Exh pipes tips, side HO striping white
Rally 2 14" Rims
Hood Tachometer
Proper 7028268 Carburetor
Proper Cast Iron Long horn Exh OEM manifolds
I thermal wrapped them near critical pieces like starter & oil filter
Proper OEM intake
Proper #16 cyl Heads
Proper Block
A/C factory
At this point I am still NOT settled on selling price as I have ultra RARE pieces to make it a RAII car.
4 Bolt Main "WU" Block-Heads-All manifolds.
Minimum will be $65K .
Have lots of rare impossible to find parts to go with as ONE package.
So Price again is a Minimum and completely Subject to my assessment of items .
Will require ALL interested parties to QUALIFY verify before ANY inner actions .
Any person whom researched this 1st Gen knows what this car is and is not found often.
With this many Options on it!
Will provide PHS documentation its build.
The is a car you DON'T want to drive as working on it is TOO much a task!
Likely will wind up a museum Piece.

Sounds beautiful!

Would like to see photos.

A couple minor points;
I believe the 7028268 was a Quadrajet for larger 400/428 HO Pontiacs. The '68 Firebirds with a 400HO and TH400 got the same carb as the 400's, a 7028264. see: Carb AMA Specs
By "Windslow Blue" did you mean the special color windward blue? See: Special Colors

A proper 400HO car would not have HO stripes on it...

Jimc2002,
I value your help and input.
I Have 7028264 Carb Also, yet my research shows the XXXXX68 Carb for this application.
Please supply more information to help me be Proper to represent this correctly.
thx..
Rob

wovenweb,
I do have PHS documentation showing this car was furnished with this stripe option.
I looked it over and went by it to inform others what it shows.
Knowing there are unusual Factory -dealer events not clear in options, I believe what I have is correct this car did come these stripes from factory.
My typo color needs to be corrected too..
Windslow Blue , I meant windward blue..
My humanity to err is telling!!!

Thx,

Rob

Rob,

All the following show the 7028264 for the '68 Firebird 400HO (and 400) with AT.

- 1968 Pontiac Service Manual (scroll down to the table at the beginning of the "Rochester 4MV Quadrajet Carburetor" section)
http://www.thefirstgensite.com/library/68sm/engfuel/engfuel.html

- 1968 Firebird AMA Specifications (Carb Supl Info)
https://firstgenfirebird.org/1968-info/1968-technical-information/1968-ama/ama_page_4/

- GM Firebird Parts Catalog - Rochester Carburetor Chart Section (The 24th and 25th page of the PDF) Page - 400 Engine with 4BC - Exc RamAir 1968 Rochester Carburetor Model 4MV
http://www.thefirstgensite.com/library/qjrepair/carbchart.pdf

I believe your 7028268 is from a '68 400/400HO GTO with AT.

I had remembered the 7028264 from my years of looking for one at swap meets. Never dreaming I would still own the car decades later, in the mid- 70's I had my original replaced as a quick fix for a problem I had with it. I now have a 7028264 but have not put it on my car yet.

Rob,

The board has been through this a few times so please pardon me if I seem short tempered regarding this. Yes, a 400 HO could come with rally stripes and somewhere around here the car/stripe color combinations are listed. The consensus, held for a decade/ two or more, is that a 400 HO would not come with HO stripes. Those were available on the 350 HO optioned vehicles only. There are differences between the rally stipes (no embeded H.O. in them) and the H.O. stripes. The rally stripe was available on all vehicles, the H.O. stripe was available on 350 HO only. A dealer could have certainly installed something different, but as you know, the PHS would not document that.

Here is the discussion from when this board was stil in listserv format.

https://firstgenfirebird.org/f-a-q/ho-stripes-for-1968/

If you have evidence to the contray, that would be great new information for the board!

Brian Y.

Also more references here:

https://firstgenfirebird.org/f-a-q/category/emblems-and-stripes/

wovenweb,

I will always try be first in the line to get what it correct information on things.
To misrepresent to anyone such as this is embarrassing!
In my exploring I have seen so much information on the first generation of Firebirds, I wondered at points what really was 10% correct.
This data you provided I believe is most correct, as the car came with Upon my Purchase, a Rochester "mid section" XXXXXXX64 that is currently unusable.
Yet I have acquired a good XXXXX64 Full carburetor since, along with several xxxxxxx68 full carburetors.
This is my saving grace here I believe, having this components on this matter.
Your information and sources are very Valuable to me and I appreciate it much.
This is a golden moment that makes us all have trust and integrity!!!
Very appreciated!
Rob

wovenweb ,

I have a Dealers sales manual and will lookout over again to see what I can find that shows what was dealer sales available on this.
Again, I might be in the whirlwind of Rhetoric on this one subject (stories) , so I need to anchor down things from my 1968 dealer sales manual, and what was actually available.
I cannot figure how to send you a PHS document of my car and wanted to, so you can maybe shed some light on things for my need to realize possibly.
Thx,
Rob

Rob,

You can always post the PHS here. Geoff has recreated parts of the sales manual here at this site:

https://firstgenfirebird.org/1968-info/1968-technical-information/sales_manual/

BY

Hi Rob. Is this '68 convertible for sale? I have sent you a PM. Thanks!