[fbirdinconcord]

Hi all,
I have been lurking on this forum since I bought my Trans Am about 3 years ago. I am now getting ready to start the resto and thought I had better introduce myself since I have a feeling I will be asking alot of questions.

My name is Richie and I live in Pleasant Hill, Ca which is about 30 miles east of San Francisco. I have the car in my warehouse in Concord, Ca.

I have restored quite a few first gen birds and I am starting to find out these 70 Birds are not quite so easy to piece together.

Has anyone made a list of all of the 1970 only parts?

About the car. I had an acquaintance call me 3 years ago and tell me he had a Trans Am he needed to get out of the garage at his mothers boarding house in Berkeley so she could rent the space.

Apparently, he parked the car there in Oct 1992 and started to disassemble the interior. About the same time he found a 1973 Z/28 and decided to restore that instead. So the Firebird just sat in the garage until I bought it.

The photos are of the car the day I brought it home. I put the car in my carport until about 6 months later when I changed the fluids and got it to start and then let it sit for another 2.5 years.

I have now had the car moved to my warehouse to start figuring out what all I need for it. My friend did some adjusting on the engine and I got to take the car out for its first drive since 1992 today. The car drives excellent and has a ton of torque. It sure likes getting sideways

Anyway here are the pics of the car at my house. I will post new pics as I do things to the car. I already have a few questions that came up today as my friend and I were going over the car but I will post those tomorrow with pics.

http://picasaweb.google.com/carbuffs/TransAm

Thanks for the long read and I look forward to sharing this adventure with you. Let me know if you guys see anything on my car you would like better pictures of and I will get them for you.

I will post my PHS info as soon as I find it.

Thanks,
Richie