[pontiac_fanatic]

Sweet T/A SmileE6975.

Your engine looks great--mine looks terrible
Have to do something about that...

[Acidpool]

heres some small pics of mine !

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/385201

[dragracer56]

Well its been along time since Ive been on this site. I have been busy winning another Championship with my 1975 Trans Am. Just wanted to share some of my pics from this year. Its not much just an old 75 Trans Am. The car everyone forgets about....Til Now that I have won three Championships with it Oh Well.........

[dragracer56]

Hope you Liked that last Pic Here's some more PhatDaddy and PhatDaddy Racing

[poncho-mike]

Here's a 75 I used to own.

[poncho-mike]

And another one.

This car did a spiraling end over end.

Mike

[poncho-mike]

Just so you don't think I only have junk, here's a photo of my 74 SD455 4-spd T/A.

Mike

[mothermuxer]

Beautiful 74.... ouch on the 75!

[dragracer56]

Boy, you sure know how to bring a tear to a mans eye. Not to mention, my daughters when we saw the pics of your car. I hope everyone was ok from that. I had a good friend lose control of his 74 and hit an Oak tree. The Oak tree won the battle. The car was totaled and Mark was ok. When I saw yours it reminded me of that sad day when a 74 saw its last day on the road. Nice 74 you have that made up for the criing i did for your 75. Hey was that a 69 in the backgrown of that pic in the boneyard? Well, heres another pic of my all but forgotten 75. Hope you enjoy it PhatDaddy and PhatDaddy Racing

[poncho-mike]

Phatdaddy,

The T/A was wrecked around 1990.

I was on my way to see a friend who lived out in the country in rural NC. It was a two-lane curvy backroad with lots of trees.

I came to a straightaway, and was met by a cube van passing another car. My decision was between the ditch or the van, so I chose the ditch. I tried to straddle the ditch, but I let the driver's side wheel get down into the ditch. It hit a culvert and did a spiraling end over end. I was alone and fared pretty well. I had some compression fractures in the vertebrae in my neck, and a bunch of small cuts. The windows shattered and glass got between me and the seat. I had no broken bones. It was a wild ride.

I was less than a mile from my friend's house when the accident occurred. My friend was also a Pontiac nut and owned the 69 Firebird. We hauled my T/A to his house with his dad's tractor, rather than letting it get taken to a wrecker service lot. Since I had no collision insurance and the driver of the van never stopped, I never collected any insurance on the car.

My friend helped me yank the motor and tranny out of the car. The photos were shot with it just beginning to rain. I salvaged what I could off of the car and sold it by the pound.

It was a quick car. It was running a 455 with 96 heads, TH400, and 3.42 gears

Mike

[poncho-mike]

Here's another photo of the T/A.

Take a look at the chunks of rubber taken out of the steering wheel. I had such a tight grip on the wheel, the rubber sheared off.

I had my seatbelt fastened.

Mike

[SmileE6975]

Ohhhhh my... that's just makes my skin crawl looking at it. You are soooo very lucky you are here to share those pictures.

Oh and that 74, hmmm seems to look very familiar to me, I wouldn't know why though LOLOLOL That's purrrdy!

[poncho-mike]

I read in one of the Firebird books that the second generation Firebird was designed with the most severe rollover standards in mind. That is why the Firebird roof was double walled. As you can see, it held up extremely well. The rear pillar supported the roof during the rollover.

I came out with no stithes and no broken bones, only a bunch of tiny cuts and some compression fractures in my neck vertebrae. My leg and hip hurt some, but I was later diagnosed with a degenerative hip condition. Overall, I fared very well.

Mike

[formula74]

Heres a picture of my 74 ram-air 455

[Held for Ransom]

A picture of our old '74 Formula (BIR, circa '83). Someone else wanted it more than us and took it in Oct. '83. Never recovered by us because of Police copying down a Trans Am VIN letter (V) instead of the Formula VIN letter (U). Could have been seen cruising Central Ave. weekly. Still have plans to buy another one, same colors, 4-speed and rear spoiler. Anyone?

[pontiac_fanatic]

Nice cars guys! That gold is sharp.

[briann]

here is the link to mine.

www.bbgraphics1.com/formula455

[thefirebirdm@n]

Whats up with the bias towards '76s?? I thought this was the 74-76 forum?

[pggto]

Here's a picture of my latest purchase. 75 Formula 455, 4spd, 3:42 rear, 4 wheel disk brakes, global west suspension, and 17" torque thrusts.

[briann]

a 75 formula 455? thats interesting as Pontiac never made a formula 455 in 1975. a formula 400 or formula 350 yea..but the formula 455's only came in 71-74.