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View Poll Results: How would you prefer to see these cars, Dead stock or as raced | |||
Dead stock | 9 | 13.85% | |
As raced | 56 | 86.15% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 65. You may not vote on this poll |
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That’s really cool how come I’ve never seen that car before really cool have any pics of it back in the day?
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Some Pics of that car on here soon. My car has 15k on it still thought that was low. Div 1 is my area too dying to see the car
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I would rather have the car bone stock. A car all lettered up is "someones" race car. I'm not interested in owning or driving "someone elses" car.
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Current Pontiacs - 1973 Formula SD455 - #'s auto orig paint 1972 Trans Am - 4 speed orig paint 1974 Formula 400 - Ram Air automatic 1966 2+2 convertible - 421 4bbl automatic 1967 Grand Prix - 4 speed orig paint 1967 GTO - 4 speed orig paint 35k orig miles |
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For me I grew up next the dealership and knew the driver. It was owned by the dealership just like every other Pontiac ever sold so I don’t think of it that way. More like it was used in advertising. Allow me to play devils advocate on that theory though, if you bought your cars used they were someone’s else’s cars before anyway and if they were new The dealer owned them previously,. But if it makes you feel better that’s what’s important. Everyone has to do what makes them happy.
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Great pictures Jeff!
I`m in for "as raced". I think bone stock Pontiacs are worse than fat broads in yoga pants.
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It depends on the car and the history for me. Some should be returned to stock original and others kept or restored to as raced.
I’d go back to stock with the first RAII Firebird..
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If I was at a car show, and there was a concours restoration sitting next to a race car, same color, model, and year, I'm going to look at the race car first.
I worked on the cars when they were new, and drove other peoples cars, so I know what the stock car is all about. I want to see what modifications were made over factory to further enhance the performance. If the modified car happens to been raced on a course, other than a drag strip, (oval track, road course) I'm not even going to hesitate to go first to the modified car first. At last years Norwalk event there was an as raced, 65 GTO oval track car sitting under a tent on the edge of the show field. I poured over that car looking at all the details under and all around it. I would never crawl on the ground to look at the bottom of a 65 GTO restoration, since I've seen the bottom of dozens of 65 GTO cars when they were fairly new, (I owned 3 of them) just from working on them, and owning them. I want to see the modifications they made to make it corner. What they used for a rear axle, front suspension modifications, etc. I already knew what it looked like before it was raced. Just my take on it, YMMV..... |
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Post #3
Does anyone here know Bob Rhoades in a photo in post #3? I have never seen anyone who spells their name the same as me and most of my family comes from the Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota regions. If you know him and he's still around I'd like to speak to him. Sorry for the thread steal.
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My vote is to keep them "as raced" because that's where the story is. I appreciate a nice restoration but there's plenty of them around.
Interesting car show story: the place where I work used to have an employee car show. Over the years, I took the Grocery Getter and the Boss Bird. I got the most attention BY FAR, the year I took the Boss Bird right after the fire. Body was junk, shedding burned fiberglass, engine was trashed, windows melted...nothing done to "fix it" except putting on tires that would hold air. It had a story...... FWIW: Eric
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https://youtu.be/HOYYTD_db0A Eric
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" noted philosopher Mike Tyson Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” |
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Wow that was a crazy fire, original body I presume?
Have you seen the steel pro stocker? Anyone know what happened to it?
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Happiness is just a turbocharger away! 960 HP @ 11 psi, 9.70 at 146. Iron heads, iron stock 2 bolt block , stock crank, 9 years haven't even changed a spark plug! selling turbos and turbo related parts since 2005! Last edited by turbo69bird; 05-17-2022 at 11:16 PM. |
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We had a mold made at VFN to make new bodies. We didn't use any actual vintage Boss Bird parts.
Eric
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" noted philosopher Mike Tyson Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” |
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Oh cool that’s great that an original didn’t get hurt then Really cool car looks like it would be one really fun ride! .
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Happiness is just a turbocharger away! 960 HP @ 11 psi, 9.70 at 146. Iron heads, iron stock 2 bolt block , stock crank, 9 years haven't even changed a spark plug! selling turbos and turbo related parts since 2005! |
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Would much prefer to see them....."as raced."
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Bump for poll exposure
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Happiness is just a turbocharger away! 960 HP @ 11 psi, 9.70 at 146. Iron heads, iron stock 2 bolt block , stock crank, 9 years haven't even changed a spark plug! selling turbos and turbo related parts since 2005! |
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I enjoyed the vintage race car pics and kept checking back on this thread for more! Voted, “As raced”.
Bump for a stirring thread!!
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You know me, "Safety Forst" 68 GTO-Verdoro/Black/Black, what else was available in ‘68? Has to be longest resto in history. 69 GTO Vert-Liberty/Blue/White Top, 4spd, match #’s 68 Mustang FB-Green/Black (Bullitt) |
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