[JohnnyHorsepower]

Thanks for the nice words and thanks for the carb info!! (I was struggling to find out even where to go after I pulled the #.)
And yes, I am digging the car, more so now that I got the paperwork. I am usually not an automatic guy or, on these cars, a vinyl(cordova) top guy. I have a white vinyl top on my 4sp orange hemicuda, and that works pretty well.
Anyway, here is what I find to be special about the car, besides it's killer survivor condition.
1. Who would order a loaded (2 pages) firebird that with color combo (which is stunning in person), and no spoiler, yet the SD455. Kind of a gentlemen's sports car. $3500 base for a formula and this car was $6500!!
Answer: A banker in Co., who had enough dough to take factory delivery of what is the first 74 SD455 Formula built. Backed up by a GM communications telegram that notified the buyer that his car was ready for pick up. Complete with notes scribbled on it for hotels and cab pricing. And how about a map of PMD's location with instructions on the back for a retail purchaser taking factory delivery!! This pillar of his community probably just wasn't into big birds and spoilers, so he got his power and his options in a Formula instead. Oh, and I have the order sheet filled with Xs for all the options he ordered.
2. An AMAZING personally signed letter from J.T. Wilson, director of Pontiac's car distribution, responding to a letter the buyer wrote, and telling the banker that his order was "released to our Norwood plant" and that the cause for the delay was waiting for the EPA to approve the SD455! It also noted that "Pontiac has forwarded ten engines via truck to Norwood Assembly Plant, and this is our current total supply due to lack of connecting rods." The whole letter is amazing, but I hesitate to post it for fear of some scumbag making a fake one for his car......
Anyway it is a cool car and I am looking forward to exercising it. Especially with the A/C mandated 3:08 gear set on the highway. (I have a 4:10 and a 3:90 car)
When the weather breaks, I will shoot some nice pictures. In the meantime, enjoy these..

John

[tr709]

love it, nice score!