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Originally Posted by jerry455
I had a Spyder,1977 and yellow, like that in high school. I loved that car. One day I will find another one. That looks great. Mine was manual steering and no A/C. I will probably put an EFI on my Firebird in the future.
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Thats what I had in high school. Prior to me purchasing mine in 1985, it was only 8 years old & getting pretty rusty form the Wisconsin Winters. Looked good, but door seams were already letting go on the bottoms. Lots of great memories. Dropped a tired 350 in with a cam, intake & carb to replace the anemic 140hp 305 & the fun factor went way up. Then started looking for one 20 years later & it was nearly impossible to find a nice one. By chance of fate / luck I found one out of Florida. Low miles & ron solid. All the plastic & rubber was dried up, but completely rust free. So I started a 3 year restoration on it.
You almost had to own one of these cars to have any interest in them. Kind of a cult thing I suppose. Extremely hard to find nice used & NOS parts for. The car was easy to restore, but getting parts was another story. I am guessing thats not getting any easier as whats out there ends up in a few more of these H bodies.
Probably near the bottom on the collectibility scale, but thats not why I wanted it.
I have another set of wheels I run as well as the rallies in the pic.
