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01-08-2016, 05:26 PM
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Goldie, My Y88
I bought her back in 1979, here a pic, I bought her 1 year old because all I could find had 403's in them, and I didn't care for the new front and rear design, Here I pulled her out one day in November. I still have it, now she has 46,000 miles on it.
The interior is orig, except a Headliner, Pkg tray, but I have a nOS one from Reaper to put in, and a Console lid, mine had a big Crack, so a nOS Black one was used.  
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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#2
01-08-2016, 05:33 PM
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Nice car Burd! Love the Color keyed Rally 2's. BTW, do you still have the battery resto kits available?
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01-08-2016, 07:14 PM
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Nice Roger...
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01-08-2016, 09:14 PM
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Sweet car Burd. Thanks for sharing.
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01-09-2016, 05:12 PM
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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01-09-2016, 05:25 PM
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I had these Custom, 2 1/2" Stainless Steel tips made for Goldie, I'll be putting on in the Spring.
heres one of My Freedom Cap Kits in my car, they really turned out nice, the Missing Detail, I also had the upper Rad hose Scanned and a Laser Decal made out of thin plastic to stencil the Factory Markings on, its on loan now up in Wisconsin, lol if anyone wants to use it post it here, just send it back when your done.   
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers Last edited by burd; 01-09-2016 at 05:31 PM. |
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01-09-2016, 05:58 PM
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Sweet T/A Burd.....I really like it!
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01-09-2016, 09:16 PM
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Thanks, It's a Driver. Bob's would put her to shame. Lol I'm glad I still have her, who has their car they bought when they were 19, through 5 girlfriends and a wife, my Ex used to say, WHY DON'T YOU SELL THAT CAR? I miss the Ex sometimes
 It has an Edelbrock intake on it now, the orig will go back on one day but for now it's ok. Only the real Pontiac guys know. I've been wanting to go up to the old Golling All Pontiac show here by me, see if anyone sees it.
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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#9
01-09-2016, 09:08 AM
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Here's MINE...we're "almost" twins.....
The pics on the lot were taken April 3/78....made the deal on Sat April 2....and picked it up on Monday the 4th.....IIRC... My FIRST brand new car. Still have it....mileage is about the same as yours... I retired it in July of 1980....and it's had a "charmed life" since...
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01-09-2016, 05:10 PM
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Thanks Guys, I found that pic cleaning out my Moms house when she passed away, you can see Firestone Tires on it, all these years I thought it had Goodyears on from the Factory, then I had to find a Firestone Warranty Card, lol, I didn't get any Glovebox paperwork from the Dealer, It took me 25 years from the swaps collecting nOS brochures, now, I sell new lit to help people find their paperwork. the blank Warranty cards turn up at the Swaps here in the Detroit area, I buy them when I run across any nOS lit. I found a Seatbelt function Sleeve at a swap, it came on the Visor of a new car, very hard to find.
I had to Detail the Engine, it started to rust after all these years. I still have the 7" flakes, swapped out to Rallys for a change. my dr side seat belt sleeve was cracked so I put a nOS one in there. 
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers Last edited by burd; 01-09-2016 at 05:16 PM. |
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01-13-2016, 09:51 AM
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Nice, I retired my car around the same time, I bought a used 1980 GP LJ, prob in 1983.
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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#12
01-10-2016, 09:22 AM
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Very cool car - congratulations for holding on to it all these years!
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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01-13-2016, 09:43 AM
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I looked for a Jim Causley Chrome lic plate frame for 20 years at the swaps here! I found one a few years back, the dealer moved so it had to say Detroit, I bought it for $3 and it was well, I can't even say how much to re plate a throw away dealer frame. Lol I must have pitched the one that came on the car when I bought it.
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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01-13-2016, 09:47 AM
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I really need to paint the hinges again, I went black, but I think it's a gray? And the hood latch Nirwood already told me wasn't back from the factory either. When I painted the latch, I masked off the cad plated pcs inside, but it looks wrong in black, Bob what did you use on both?
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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01-14-2016, 11:03 AM
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12-25-2016, 08:40 AM
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I only just saw the new version of your blow-out clip sitting on the roof, Burd. Toss it. See my post on UFB after yours showing the MCI version. Looks like your original is bent up too, window isn't going to be held up there, meant to angle down as per Steve's pic.
I pop-rivetted and then hammed flat, some also self tapper into roof through channel. http://stillvisionstudios.com/Camaro...utClip_02a.jpg Last edited by Aus78Formula; 12-25-2016 at 09:03 AM. |
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12-25-2016, 02:12 PM
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Thanks guys, the set I have don't even look close to the original. I'll pick up the set your talking about. Who has them again?
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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12-25-2016, 02:13 PM
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Oh, just saw. Lol thanks.
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🧩 Burds Parts, Finding those Hard to Find PCs, no Fisher Price Toys Here Southern Hamtramck Institute of Technology , Alumni Put some 8” flakes and BFG’s on dude!, like everyone does🙄 Burds Literature, nOS factory Brochures, Glovebox literature, & black & blue freedom toppers. 1978 YEE 1995 Q45 #whoremembers |
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12-25-2016, 05:16 PM
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I've seen 2 different styles of factory blow-out clips. The clip on the channel in my photos above is from a Camaro, maybe 80-81. I pulled them from a Camaro at the junkyard so don't remember exactly. But I have an 81 Firebird with the same ones. So, based on that observation, the factory may have come out with this style clip in 80-81. The black plastic on it is molded over the spring metal. The plastic is pretty thickly molded on there, so it seems to hold up much better than the other type.
The other type is what is on all 4 of my 79 TA's. Below are photos of one. Looks like spring metal that's been folded over itself a couple times, and dipped in black. But the black didn't hold up, so they rusted. Interestingly, none of the clips in Ben's link to the clip pictures look like either of my original clips. I bought some of the "ebay clips" like in the link, from S&S classic on eBay I believe, but I haven't used them, since they look too different from original.    
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12-25-2016, 06:07 PM
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That lower one is very flat and high up like Burd's. Is the glass anywhere near it? If not then you'd have to think the seal has been pushing it over for many years. I can't see how it would be functional like that. Not sure if being a t-top affects it, are the channels simply cut from hardtops? It even looks like the channel has flared out at that curved point allowing the clip to go with it.
I said MCI, mine are actually Classic Headquarters as per comparison link. Last edited by Aus78Formula; 12-25-2016 at 06:51 PM. |
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