[thews]

79 Trans AM in Illinois at $12K BIN. That engine prolly cost that alone. I had a 70 GTO convertible 4-speed car in 1983 that had a dash fire. I went to the junkyard and bought a new dash and harness out of a 70 Lemans. Put that in a replaced the windshield and I was back on the road. It wasn't this bad, but if this was a rare car it would be worth fixing. A 79 T/A is easy to find and there's a lot of good parts on the car. No pics of the suspension.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/19689907783...Bk9SR76oyfT6ZA

[thews]

70 Trans AM with the brown interior again at $65K NR in Massachusetts. This is one hellova nice car.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/37587163073...Bk9SR76oyfT6ZA

[thews]

67 Firebird in Washington at $27K BIN.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/12683593720...Bk9SR8CoyfT6ZA

[thews]

68 Firebird 350HO 4-speed in Pennsylvania at $64K BIN. Rumor has it that two waterbeds were used to make the steering wheel. Nice enough car, but at a minimum $20K overpriced. The chrome hood springs and engine bling don't do anything for me, but they do add weight, so there's that. Interior is nice, but the carpet in the trunk looks sketch.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/12683941999...Bk9SR_art-z7ZA

[thews]

67 Firebird convertible in AZ at $66K BIN. Another overpriced car by at least $20K IMO. The white arrow thingy on the hood and "Lola" on the trunk lid detract. It's a nice car, but what you can get for $66K is a lot. I'm not dumb, but I can't understand...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16718846021...Bk9SR_irt-z7ZA

[thews]

73 Firebird Esprit with very tasteful mods IMO. I like the 17" honeycombs and the green looks great. $46K in Missouri.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35639325309...Bk9SR4ji6-n8ZA

[keith k]

Originally Posted by thews

73 Firebird Esprit with very tasteful mods IMO. I like the 17" honeycombs and the green looks great. $46K in Missouri.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35639325309...Bk9SR4ji6-n8ZA

Appears to have a legit '70-'72 T/A dash bezel in it (although it looks to have had the swirl pattern redone).

[kingbuzzo]

Wow thats really sharp...

[thews]

67 Friebird 400 4-speed in Texas at $59K. Not sure what color it is, but the blue interior looks good with it. Nice car, but on the high side.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16719358050...Bk9SR47YjpL9ZA

[thews]

69 Firebird in Kentucky at $11K BIN with a rebuilt 350. If you lived close, you may be able to negotiate if this project is up your alley.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/14465001152...Bk9SR4iokZr9ZA

[thews]

69 Firebird seats in CA at $1200. I expected the pleat in the seat to be puffier because you guys can spot a PUI seat cover. These look flat to me.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/36408392867...Bk9SR4qokZr9ZA

[Shiny]

Unusual and exceptionally nice to my eyes.

Thanks for posting this one.

Those wheels and blackwalls are quite striking with the paint and overall vibe.

I would like to know what the paint is... looks like a modern version of Palisade but classed up with pearl.

Who makes these 17" honeycomb wheels?

!!!!!!

Originally Posted by thews

73 Firebird Esprit with very tasteful mods IMO. I like the 17" honeycombs and the green looks great. $46K in Missouri.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35639325309...Bk9SR4ji6-n8ZA

[JSchmitz]

Originally Posted by Shiny

Unusual and exceptionally nice to my eyes.

Thanks for posting this one.

Those wheels and blackwalls are quite striking with the paint and overall vibe.

I would like to know what the paint is... looks like a modern version of Palisade but classed up with pearl.

Who makes these 17" honeycomb wheels?

!!!!!!

Good looking car. Fast Lane is about 60 miles from my house.

[Scarebird]

One would think the seller would repair the torn driver seat.

[Shiny]

I often wonder why these nicely finished, high-priced cars often have small but obvious cosmetic issues like a torn seat. I guess the seller figures he'd rather let the buyer decide how to fix it than spend money and guess wrong on a buyers' preference?

For those of you selling nice cars like these, how do you make those decisions?

[7t4mula]

Originally Posted by Shiny

Unusual and exceptionally nice to my eyes.

Thanks for posting this one.

Those wheels and blackwalls are quite striking with the paint and overall vibe.

I would like to know what the paint is... looks like a modern version of Palisade but classed up with pearl.

Who makes these 17" honeycomb wheels?

!!!!!!

Yes, that’s a really nice looking ride I must agree! That Slate Green looks very close to the original Palisade Green that my ‘70 Formula wore. I almost chose those 17” Honeycombs also, (pretty sure those are made by Year One) but I changed my mind due to the fact they wouldn’t show my new Wilwood brakes as well as the 17” Billet Specialties I went with.
I do like the look though. Had factory honeycombs on my 73 Formula years ago and had so many comment on that look.

[north]

Originally Posted by johnta1

The W62 is the TA option. (322)
The seller is selling both the 69 Birds posted.
(may be on PY?)

Wonder if that doc is a reproduction though?

This is going back to the guy selling the 69 Canadian TA. I don't believe that the W62 is the code for the TA, that code is WS4. btw, I do think this is a real TA since if you look on the manifest sheet the options listed include WS4, I think the guy at GM Canada forgot to copy it onto his letter (what an option to forget!).

What doesn't help clarity is that it's hard to tell the difference on a smudgy manifest sheet between the WS4 TA and the W84 extra fuel that all canada destined cars had. The trick if it is hard to read is that any canada bound TA must have both WS4 and W84 showing!

As for W62, I can't find an explanation anywhere but I noticed that all 17 cars on that manifest have it. I suspect it is an alternate code to Y86 decor group or some other option group that was standard on Firebird but not on Camaro for example?

[johnta1]

Here are a few 69 TA Canada reports:
(none are mine, just copies at different times)

Plus the one in the ebay ad.

[johnta1]

Another:

[north]

Those GM of canada sheets are often error prone, for example one of the ones you just posted has the 400 option marked as Formula so he was obviously using the wrong year option list in that example. The gold standard is the shipping manifest sheets they used to give you when you ordered the documents from the canadian guys since that is the actual source material.

If you look at that shipping manifest from the TA in question there is some odd things going on:

Of the 16 cars (the very last one isn't complete) there are three TA's (including a cvt!) , three 350 HO cars, two regular 350's and 8 400 HO (non TA cars) and every one of those 400 HO non TA cars is Cameo white!

This sounds very suspect. The W62 can't be the TA code since every single car on this manifest including all the 350 cars have that option code.