[Lloyd-TX]

Originally Posted by Brewster

Looks nice but notice the exhaust is not GM and wonder where that came from? No resonators either. Metal Valance was used and no emissions decal on the rad support. The front looks pretty high from this angle but the paint looks killer for sure.
Do you have any pictures of the motor compartment???

Why do you comment that the exhuast is not GM? It most certainly is/was.

Your comment about the lack of resonators is apparently correct though. I suppose the OEM system must have been damaged when it was wrecked? You are aware that GM parts just serviced the '74 pipes?

It sat perfectly when on the ground, but Mike had various levels of blocks to set the car on for show display, plus as you can see he has the LF wheel of to display the brakes and suspension and that really messed with the way the car sat.

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Brewster was looking in the mirrors at the seemingly larger and seemingly fabricated pipes. I wouldn't complain, and he probably isn't either. He's just bench-judging.
Looks like a NICE system.

We all know the story on the metal valances.
My 73 had a metal replacement.
Tried to inform the guys it needed a plastic one back on it.
And that repo's were available now/then.
Shop owner had a similar mileage B.Grn 73 455 with a metal replacement.
He swore his was original and correct.

Told him yellow turn signals meant plastic valance - as one clue.
But they restored it with the metal valance anyway.
I'm not complaining - just bench judging.
And i'd never seen a 73 with the Pontiac decal on rear spoiler.
But the car is Most Definitely Primo now.

And so is this Green SD.

The valances are what a lot of us look for on most 72's and all 73's.
We can't help ourselves.

[Lloyd-TX]

And please - I didn't mean to come off so harsh to you, Brian. That was indeed a VERY poor choice of words . . . and I apologize.

I do recall, at several of the Houston Autoramas, Mike under his BG car, scrubbing, cleaning and fussing around. Same as I used to do on my '75, only 100 times more . . .

Any way - back to the exhuast - as Mike was prepping the car, every year, I watched him working tirelessly along the entire length of that exhaust system, polishing it with finer and finer wads of steel wool . . .

The thought never crossed my mind that it might not be a GM system. I need to ask him - he'll recall . . .