[Craig Hendrickson]

I hope I'm not jumping the gun and embarrassing either of these guys, but I've been in phone and email contact recently with a couple of reputable guys who are doing restoration or what-ifs on the H-O TurboForce. I figure they can use the encouragement as well as other information and knowledge that I am able to give them and maybe some can come from replies on this thread.

1) Mike Barefoot is the webmaster of TransAmCountry.com. He's doing a combo TurboForce and FireAm "what if". I'm a sort of "consultant" on this project. Mike has written up an intro:

http://transamcountry.com/site/turbo-fire-am

2) Jim & Joe Hand are doing some kind of resto/upgrade on a Turbo Macho T/A. I'm also a sort of "consultant" on this project in that Joe is talking to me by phone on some of the long forgotten details and "what to avoids" on it. I don't have a website for this one (yet).

Also, if you want to see my "TurboForce Revival" on my website, see:

http://originalho.com/TurboForce.html

My 1976 Firebird Esprit "TurboForce Revival" car is for sale and a couple of guys are interested in it. We'll see where that goes. I need to move on to other projects.

By way of performance index, "back in the day", I was once asked to do a drag strip test on a customer's 1979 T/A T-F, we took it to the old OCIR. Without much tuning, but with slicks, Cal-Tracks and open exaust it ran 11.97 @ 115 on a stock engined T-F. Pretty spectacular in 1979 for a "street car". LOL

Anyway, as I get more info on these two builds, I'll update this thread.