Another week...another Firebird!
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Another week...another Firebird!
This is my new "project"! I found today just out side of Plains, GA (home of Jimmy Carter ) under a equipment shed on a large farm. It had been sitting there since 1991....no motor or trans but a super straight body and next to no rust anywhere! I am not sure what I am going to do with it but I suspect a LSX and protouring set up are in its future!
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I did pull all the seats and carpet out of it today and there is zero rust on the floor boards and very minor rust in the floor of the trunk. The frame is clean as hell too. Infact I washed it and it cleaned up fairly decent all over.
As far as finding it. A friend from church (he sells farm chemicals) had told me about it a few years ago but that he wouldnt sell it. And honestly I had forgot about it. And to make a long story short he was out there again last week and asked him again and he said he might as well sell it he wasn't ever going to do anything with it. He told me about it again at church Sun and said I should go look at it....so I did. Stopped and talked to the farmer and not only got the car but invited back to come deer hunting this fall with him! Not bad for $750!
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nice find man, looks like a 350 model,
My 68 began life as a 350 H.O. model but the guy that owned it before me put a 454 in it and hacked up the firewall supposedly to make it fit, but mine has a ton of rust that I will eventually have to deal with.
so you are going the LSx route eh? I am going to make mine a pro touring bird also, except I will be putting an EFI Pontiac 400 and a T-56 in mine.
Good luck with the project
My 68 began life as a 350 H.O. model but the guy that owned it before me put a 454 in it and hacked up the firewall supposedly to make it fit, but mine has a ton of rust that I will eventually have to deal with.
so you are going the LSx route eh? I am going to make mine a pro touring bird also, except I will be putting an EFI Pontiac 400 and a T-56 in mine.
Good luck with the project
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I'm glad the owner was honest with himself and realized that he'd never do anything with it. Too many classics rot away while their owners refuse to sell them to people that actually have the time and resources to do them justice. Good find, and nice collection.