[Scarebird]

Since the 71 garnered no interest in sales, I decided to keep it and throw a bunch of time and money at it. For those who are not familiar, it is a late June 71 Pontiac build Lemans Sport convertible, factory 400/400 car.

I was always messing with it, currently it is:

#26 Lucy Blue with blue interior and black top
428 with 85cc KRE heads and 2801 cam, Crosswind intake, Cliff Q-Jet
AutoGear M22Z rockcrusher with Peter Serio Hurst shifter
2.93 TruTrac in a 8.5" out of a 71 Cutlass
4 wheels disc, Savitske SC2 front stuff, Konis, 71 442 springs

It will get new Lucy blue paint, the frame stripped and checked for cracks, rewelded and painted. Edelbrock Port FI with in tank pump, reworked rear sway bar, Delphi steering box and Sport wheel along with the dash pad refurbished.

I am torn on the wheels - they are vintage Centerline AutoDrags - strong but very light. Thinking about 17" Bandits but hear they are quite heavy.

This is what it looked like a few years back:



and the now pic...



Noted several discrepancies, ie one side had phillips srews holding the rear courtesy harness, the other hex - missing captured nut for the folding top.

This rubber shim on the body mount was interesting - wonder if the body or the frame is out of spec?



I am sure we will find more interesting thing as I go along!