[njsteve]

Better change sides!

Don't make me sick Enrico Stein on you. (the 6'8" tall, original owner, who is very protective of his car's legacy).

:-)

Cant beat this for proof: Photos of the car, the two days after he bought in August 1973, with those tires on it. Even has the polyethylene valance, too (the dealer later replaced it when it fell apart)

And the PHS.

Never did find an invoice in the car though I did look when I pulled the seats to do the heater core.

If you go here:

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...=736345&page=8

There is a little discussion on the white letter version of the GR70 radials replacing the whitewall version, late in the model year. That would explain the initial whitewall equipped cars. Since the SD's came out at the end of the 73 production run, they got the white lettered versions.

[Transamric]

My assumption would be that the content of the Sales Code 341, Y99 Formula Handling Package changed more than once during production. My 1973 Pontiac Accessorizer & Selling Facts shows two tire choices for Y99: F60-15 white lettered or GR70-15 whitewalls. But neither of these match Steve's package MSRP of $167.00. The most expensive as of this booklet's printing (March 15, '73) was $157.00 (GR70-15 w/o Space Saver spare). Steve's N142xxx was likely a 07B build, so perhaps the later additional offering of White Letters to the GR70's accounts for the extra $10.00 MSRP.

BTW, gotta love the "Hony comb wheels" noted on the dealers own invoice.

[muscle_collector]

hey steve I just noticed your partial vin # and thought for some reason it looked familiar and pulled up my copies of the sd formula phs sheets on my computer and realized it was a different one that I had it is the same vin with the last 3 digits of 376 without asking for your last three, is yours pretty close to this one? which brings me to the question I never gave any thought to, were all the sd formulas built really close together and anyone know what the breakdown between plants were.

[Transamric]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

were all the sd formulas built really close together and anyone know what the breakdown between plants were.

Between plants?? All '73's were Norwood built. But then, you knew that!

[njsteve]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

hey steve I just noticed your partial vin # and thought for some reason it looked familiar and pulled up my copies of the sd formula phs sheets on my computer and realized it was a different one that I had it is the same vin with the last 3 digits of 376 without asking for your last three, is yours pretty close to this one? which brings me to the question I never gave any thought to, were all the sd formulas built really close together and anyone know what the breakdown between plants were.

Mine is high 142s, almost 143000.

The other SD Formula sold at Suburban was the Admiralty Blue, four-speed that another member here has. They were delivered together from what I recall. If you read my car's thread you'll get the whole story on how Enrico scared the hell out of the zone manager and the dealership wound up getting two allocations instead of one.

[muscle_collector]

Originally Posted by Transamric

Between plants?? All '73's were Norwood built. But then, you knew that!

lol I am getting old and forgetting a lot of trivial stuff. after 50 it just seems to get worse every year.

[Nocar]

Agree on the hitting 50 with Muscle Collector!

[Transamric]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

lol I am getting old and forgetting a lot of trivial stuff. after 50 it just seems to get worse every year.

X2 (or is that X3?).

Wait...........did I post something!?

[Judge273]

Yeah, me too I thought this thread was about a 73 survivor TA?

[Wareagle]

Very nice survivor 73 455 T/A

[72projectbird]

Originally Posted by 2manyT/A'S

For ME....any white Trans am with a rubber nose and chrome rear bumper NEEDS to have blue stripes.....JMO

Or a blue bird. These hoods are far to large to have nothing on them (if they're a T/A).

Sharp car though

[Transamric]

Anyone call for a price on this beauty? It is an amazing piece of "how it was".