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Old 06-17-2025, 02:47 PM
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I have an original 74 SD Formula car. The passenger side fender has a Formula 350 emblem from the factory. I often thought it was a dealer installed "sleeper" option but the original owner confirmed it was just a goof up.
It's funny you mention that. I turned 16 in 1973, so one of my favorite things to do was go by the dealerships to look at the various cars on their lots. I remember seeing a brand new 1973 Formula with Formula 350 emblems on one side and a Formula 400 emblem on the other.

Lots of small stuff like that probably got past the quality inspectors.

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I still think I saw a white firebird on Daytona beach around 1978 that had emblems that said "Formula 500".

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I do like to casually say "My all time favorite car is a 1963 GTO" within earshot of classic car people. When someone inevitably tells me Pontiac didn't make a GTO until 64, I say, "No, no.....I mean a 1963 Ferrarri GTO"

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64 GTO's were made in 63 so you are correct!

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No, my neighbors uncles brother in law's cousin had a 66 GTO, with a big block Chevy from the factory. 427. He knew a salesman at the dealer who ordered it for him. It was so fast, the cops made him sell it.....

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This one takes the cake, & the trophy yoo!!

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This one takes the cake, & the trophy yoo!!
I think most everyone has heard a similar story at a car show over the years....

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About a month back, while at an event with a good friend.
We had Mr. ASSHAT expert walk up to her '67 Bench Seat Column Shift Automatic and proclaimed,
it' wasn't a REAL GTO because ALL GTOs were Manual Trans cars and became argumentative about his point

We just laughed him away

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I did meet a fella this past sunday that claimed his 72 LeMas Sport with a SBC was factory ordered that way...is this true?

I didn't think there were any Canadian LeMas chevontiacs...just Beaumonts, Acadians etc...

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In the mid-1980s, I took my SD455 Formula to a local Pontiac show.

I was told it had to go into the Modified class because Formula's didn't come with Trans Am hoods.

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Stories such as have been posted have been around for generations.

Unfortunately, as FormulaBruce pointed out, AI is proliferating stories.

Just remember that some of the AI generators are actually AS (artificial stupidity)!

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First Gettsyburg POCI. They were 4 1974 SD s together. 2 Formulas 2 TAs mine. The one Formula had tee tops which I never heard of or witnessed. If I remember he won 1st. I thought hmm that's not right,not stock. I guess dealer installed was maybe considered stock.

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