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Old 04-20-2016, 11:10 AM
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Megaphone exhaust ... wonder if they used Helmholtz formulas to design them.

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Old 04-20-2016, 12:21 PM
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Megaphone exhaust ... wonder if they used Helmholtz formulas to design them.
I think they were designed to clear out the burnout area.

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Old 04-20-2016, 03:10 PM
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I think they were designed to clear out the burnout area.
Of smoke? or people?

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Of smoke? or people?

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Both, Imagine the sound-not like regular open headers, but like the trumpeters at the Roman Coliseum !

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Both, Imagine the sound-not like regular open headers, but like the trumpeters at the Roman Coliseum !
you mean like this?
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Old 04-20-2016, 10:37 PM
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I changed my mind, like this!
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Saw this on Facebook. Interesting car..


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Saw this on Facebook. Interesting car..
They had a whole line up of Formula X cars.

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Photo taken at the GM Tech Center in Warren, looking east from the pond (the red brick building in the background is the Engineering bldg).

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So whats the FormulaX story??

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So, Linda Vaughn or Jungle Pam?





Personally, I think either one is a winner.
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They were design proposals to offer a line of performance Pontiacs under one banner called Formula X, similar to how Pontiac marketed the GXP line decades later (Bonneville GXP, Grand Prix GXP, Torrent GXP, Solstice GXP, etc.). The Formula X idea was scrapped, but some of the styling cues found on these three prototypes appeared later.

The 1973 Ventura Formula X styling ended up becoming the base for the 1974 GTO. The 1973 LeMans Formula X foreshadowed the styling of the 1977 Can-Am. The 1973 Firebird Formula X used a combination of Trans Am parts such as T/A fender extractors and shaker hood.

The red, white, and blue paint scheme was not necessarily intended to cash in on the then popular 1976 Bicentennial craze, but it would have fit in well with all the other special patriotic editions that other manufacturers were releasing.

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I like blondes so I pick Linda.

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Kind of a brunette guy myself so I'm going with Pammy.

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Not really a photo .... but vintage non-the-less.

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