Tri-power air cleaner swap
In 1969 I was a wet behind the ears teenager but I had an eye for cars. I bought a black on black '64 GTO 4 spd. convertible at a local used car lot. It was really fast and of course I drove the s%$# out of it. It had the ugly big car bathtub air cleaner on it so I went to the auto parts store and bought three small chrome air cleaners. The center studs were too short so I got three one foot redi-bolts. I installed the air cleaners.... it looked so cool! I slammed the hood and punched three holes in my hood. Then, to make this a double stupid, I threw the ugly air cleaner in the trash! This story does have a happy side. When I changed my oil I couldn't get my oil filter off because it hit the lower A-arm. I looked at a bunch of Pontiacs and noticed that Tempests had an angled oil filter and big cars had a straight one. It had a big car engine in it so that would explain the air cleaner. I took the code on the block and looked it up......44B 1964 421 350hp! Wish I had that one back!
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