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Old 10-09-2006, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by thefirebirdm@n
This is not a production car. Its a '72 prototype Trans Am designed by and built for Bill Mitchell. Not only is not white or blue (at least not Cameo White), it received one of the first SD455s and an unusual graphics package. I lot of you probably read about in HPP a several months back.

http://www.firebirdgallery.com/72lot1.htm
A friend of mine owns the Mitchell car. After some decoding, the engine was found to be a 455 h.o. block with Ram Air IV s.r. heads. The compression was 11 1/2 to one. The original reporting was wrong.