Did they keep track of colors for the Trans Am in 70-72? From my tracking over the years almost all 72's where Blue.

Did they keep track of colors for the Trans Am in 70-72? From my tracking over the years almost all 72's where Blue.

This car looks to have a 73 front end on it ?? and missing the dual snorkles on the shaker base ??

http://forums.performanceyears.com/g...icon_smile.gif that front end looks like a 70-72 to me

Original blue??? Why's the inside of the trunk burnt orange???

The "orange" in the trunk is the original red oxide primer used on these cars. My white 72 TA has the same look as well as on the underside of the car (when you wipe the grease away.) The paint code on the cowl tag "26" is correct for Lucerne blue. The grills are correct 72 "honeycomb" units. The fenders are later (73 and up) fenders with the cutouts for the two anti-flex bars, so it probably has a later model radiator support as well. Too bad the motor's long gone: It's a rare car.

Looks as if the rear tail light wires have been spliced ? ouch but still a very nice car. Makes me feel proud to own one my self - 4spd. A/C white on blue

70 blue on blue
70 blue on blue
70 white on sandlewood
70 white on black
72 white on blue

When I was shopping for mine I was looking for a four speed car with a/c. Nothing like shifting gears in the cold! Mine has its complete original drivetrain and rust free California floors. It needs a small section of the center of the trunk floor replaced and a 2 inch square patch in one lower quarter, otherwise it's amazingly rust free, still has the red primer on the floorboards. I actually found it on ebay last year and drove to the guys house nearby and bought it on the spot, the second day of the listing. Paid less than the current bid on this blue car ($18000). Boy, have the prices gone up in only 6 months!

The front seats are comfort weave, which came with the custom interior. The back are standard as are the door panels.

455HO engine is gone. http://forums.performanceyears.com/g...icon_frown.gif

I wish he had posted the VIN.

I might have the motor out of that car. During the early 80s, I picked up a couple of early T/As with bad motors. Since they weren't very valuable at that time, I just stuck a regular 455 in and used them as drivers.

I've had five 72 4-spd cars over the past twenty years. Three were white and two were blue.

One thing I've never understood about 72 T/As is what determined which engine code was used. I've seen both YE and YB blocks in automatics, and WD and WM in manuals.

Anybody know the answer to this?

Mike

YE and WD had a standard distributor,the other 2 had the Unitized distributor.

I have a 72 WM code motor, and build sheet shows it came with a unitized distributor.

I'm pretty sure my 72 T/A with WD coded block came with the unitized distributor.

Mike

Bummer that the 455HO is gone, but still sweeeeeet!

Nice looking Bird it wouldnt need much to get her back to stock.To bad about the missing 455 HO. http://forums.performanceyears.com/g...icon_frown.gif

My WD coded HO is a standard distributor car...and I'm still looking for a 1112126 distributor. I did find an NOS 1112145 1972 455 4 bbl (Non HO) dist on ebay last month for $100 so I'll be using that for the time being.

The floor of the trunk looks like a flat black, shouldn't it be speckeled/spackeled paint there if original/no repairs?

Mark

poncho-mike, do you have the PHS and/or the build sheet for the car?

John,

I sold the T/A about fifteen years ago. The guy I sold it to did nothing with it for about twelve years, then sold it. t went through a few hands, then ended up in with a new owner from GA who restored it.

In retrospect, I'm not sure if the car originally came with a unitized distributor. When I bought the T/A, it came with a bunch of parts the owner had purchased from another 72 T/A. The engine in the car had a bad knock, and the owner was worried that the block was bad. The crank and two rods were bad, but the block was fine.

The engine in the car was original, with the exception of having the incorrect carb and an HEI was installed. There was a unitized distributor in the parts that came with it. The seller told me the unitized distributor was the original distributor out of the car, but I never verified it.

I can probably dig up the VIN, but I don't have the PHS on it any more.

Mike