sweet 73 Formula Firebird!

 Cragars, spoiler and air dam, side pipes, and hood scoops, very cool! Thank you John S! 

I never have had a ride in a Firebird or Trans Am

 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1357307291924993&set=pcb.2564713240404484

50 years after Julio’s beloved Pontiac Firebird was stolen his son Josh surprised him with a replacement (I can embed one video that tells the story not very well, but recommend instead, you click the link and watch the other, it's a 100 times better)

Seriously, some amatuer made the above video from screen shots. It sucks, trust me, click the link below, and really enjoy the real story with the people involved

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=848959209788956

The new issue of Hot Rod is all about the protouring autocross cars, and that incredible 73 Firebird from SEMA 2023 made the cover

For the whole gallery of up close photos I took at SEMA: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/11/its-3-way-tie-for-most-awesome-car-at.html 

Cool 67 Firebird in the 3rd Matrix movie, looks like Cragar SS rims, with a perfect match of big back and small front for the RIGHT look!

there once was a Pontiac plan to have a large Firebird decal on the deck lid.

Revision 7 of the 1969 Pontiac Parts Manual contains a diagram outlining exterior ornamentation of the 1969 Firebird with the W66 400 Sport Option.

Revision 7 also revealed that Pontiac intended to accent the plateau of the Sprint-6 hood with a smaller, but similar bird.

https://www.pontiacv8.com/blog/2024/1/1/what-a-large-bird-decal-on-the-1969-firebird-400deck-lid

some fun vehicles in the Disney movie Million Dollar Duck, and shocking for a Disney movie, an Intermeccanica Italia

if anyone realizes they have these cars because the license plates match.... that would be epic!

here's my guess why it's in this movie (there are only 4 ever in tv shows and movies according to IMCDB)... it's made in California, and, the came company made the Apollo GT, and Vette Ventura and Disney used an Apollo GT as the Thorndyke Special in The Love Bug. I'll guess they made a deal to get their cars into Disney movies   https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-thorndyke-special-64-apollo-3500-gt.html

they crashed it? 

https://www.imcdb.org/v077602.html

to see the list of all the cars in this movie https://www.imcdb.org/m66728.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_GT

A son found the Firebird that had been stolen from his dad 50 years ago, and bought it for him

it's a 3 way tie for most awesome car at SEMA this year... the Galaxie 500, the Welder UP Carnival Car, and Hammerhead, the 73 Firebird. This Firebird is from Cavan Cameron, engineering school son of a guy who spent 25 years in Indy car

45% front 55% rear balance, with Indy Car suspension and brakes. Race version of an LS motor capable of 1000 hp

 

It reminds of the 70 Trans Am from Riley Stair

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/11/race-ready-trans-am.html because of the unheard of builder from no where (if you hear Bill Murray in Caddy Shack saying " the incredible Cinderella story, the unknown to lead the pack " you know what I mean)

I'mjust going to be over here listening to Brendon's Firebird, come get me if something happens, but if not, I'll just be listening to the horsepower roar, and admiring the custom body mods explained

In 1979, an excavating company owner bought four or five new Trans Ams as investments, one ended up at the Oct '22 Mecum. Now it's headed to get flipped at Barrett Jackson next weekend

https://journalstar.com/news/local/watch-now-lincolns-35-mile-trans-am-time-capsule-headed-to-auction/article_57d275ae-c94c-51b0-9348-f7ab3918a997.html
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/barn-find-1979-pontiac-trans-am-auction
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1979-PONTIAC-FIREBIRD-TRANS-AM-261634

an abandoned farmhouse has a base 1969 Firebird in the barn

 https://www.autoevolution.com/news/farmhouse-abandoned-for-50-years-has-a-1969-pontiac-firebird-stuck-in-the-barn-194324.html#

Van Der Brink Auctions sold a cool collection, of Pontiacs, in Kansas.... last year

to the left of the above and below photos, is the side of the barn, and the entire wall is covered with tire, some rims

the opposite wall has hoods

Another barn is full of engines, heads, etc

unfortuneatly, no one told her how to hold a phone to record video, HORIZONTALLY so people can look at the thing you're trying to show them

1971 Pontiac Firebird, 400 V8, AT, 

1973 Pontiac Firebird, 350 V8, AT, 

1973 Pontiac Firebird, 455 V8, AT, 

1974 Pontiac Super Duty, 455 V8, 4 speed, 

1974 Pontiac Trans Am, 455 V8, AT, 

1974 Pontiac Trans Am, 400 V8, AT, 

1975 Pontiac Trans Am, 400 V8, AT, 

1977 Pontiac Trans Am, 455 V8, AT, 

1978 Pontiac Trans Am, Project, 4 speed car, 

1978 Pontiac Trans Am, project, 4 speed car, 

1978 Pontiac Trans Am, 400 V8, AT, 

1978 Pontiac Trans Am, 400 V8, AT, 

1979 Pontiac ESPIT, 305 Chevrolet V8, AT, 

1979 Pontiac 10th Anniversary Trans Am, 400 V8, 4 speed, 

1979 Pontiac 10th Anniversary Trans Am, 400 V8, 4 speed, 

1979 Pontiac Trans Am, Gold, 400 V8, 4 speed, 

1981 Pontiac Trans Am, 301 Turbo V8, AT

https://www.vanderbrinkauctions.com/auction/amazing-trans-am-pontiac-cars-and-parts-hoard-the-larson-collection/

There was quite a few cool cars seen on today's walkabout, several under car covers

been in the driveway undercover since 2011. Looks like a late 70s Camaro

This wasn't effective at hiding that it's a jeep. 

well, that looks like a Jeep to me

here's what it looks like on Street View history, it's been there since before 2007

looks like a shoebox Ford to me, but street view shows it's been in a tent (see the frame work around it?) since before 2007

interesting art piece by the front door

parked in the front yard probably a decade or 2 ago, and never left

using the Cadillac's natural eye magnet appeal to advertise his real estate business

and google street view shos this Opel GT and VW ... next door to an Airstream, but neither of them were out when I walked past