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03-22-2014, 12:04 PM
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Very cool thread!
I just came across this. And being that I'm a Pontiac fan, I enjoyed reading the article.
I have driven the 1 of 1 X-men car. I went on a road trip with my friend (the owner of it) to pick it up. We left California and towed his car trailer back to Troy, MI to pick it up.
We got to meet the people of SLP and take a tour if there design and fabrication shop.
That was an awesome adventure. The funniest part was when we left CA, it was 80 degrees here and we were all sunburnt. We got to MI and it was snowing and about 30 degrees outside. We drove non-stop through the night taking shifts to drive. So when we stopped for breakfast, we still all had our shorts and flip flops on. The look we got when we walked into a Denny's was classic! Everyone stopped there eating to stare at the 3 sunburnt Californians in shorts, t-shirts, and flip flops.
He still has that X-man car. He took it to a lot of car shows. That was a great time!
Hell, I still own my Firebird Formula!
I agree with the author. I like the plain look of the Formula over the Trans Am. Since mine is a 2002, the WS6 option was unavailable. So I ordered the car as a base Formula and I installed a WS6 hood later on.
I've always enjoyed the car.. I took delivery of it on Dec. 27, 2001. It is still in my garage all these years later. I drive it when I can but I've only been able to put about 26k miles on it.
Pontiac has always had a cool history and I will always be a fan!
Thank you to the author for a great article!
I just came across this. And being that I'm a Pontiac fan, I enjoyed reading the article.
I have driven the 1 of 1 X-men car. I went on a road trip with my friend (the owner of it) to pick it up. We left California and towed his car trailer back to Troy, MI to pick it up.
We got to meet the people of SLP and take a tour if there design and fabrication shop.
That was an awesome adventure. The funniest part was when we left CA, it was 80 degrees here and we were all sunburnt. We got to MI and it was snowing and about 30 degrees outside. We drove non-stop through the night taking shifts to drive. So when we stopped for breakfast, we still all had our shorts and flip flops on. The look we got when we walked into a Denny's was classic! Everyone stopped there eating to stare at the 3 sunburnt Californians in shorts, t-shirts, and flip flops.
He still has that X-man car. He took it to a lot of car shows. That was a great time!
Hell, I still own my Firebird Formula!
I agree with the author. I like the plain look of the Formula over the Trans Am. Since mine is a 2002, the WS6 option was unavailable. So I ordered the car as a base Formula and I installed a WS6 hood later on.
I've always enjoyed the car.. I took delivery of it on Dec. 27, 2001. It is still in my garage all these years later. I drive it when I can but I've only been able to put about 26k miles on it.
Pontiac has always had a cool history and I will always be a fan!
Thank you to the author for a great article!
04-15-2014, 01:07 AM
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Cool old thread- I thought I posted this a while back but guess I didn't. Here is a pic of my 97 Formula WS6 vert. I still have the factory 16" wheels but the 94 Firehawk wheels look a lot better:
04-16-2014, 08:16 AM
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Now that particular car in the photo looks like its one of the earler 3rd party conversions, not a factory-built 'vert. You may very well be correct that this was the work of ASC in their early days.
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04-23-2014, 11:08 AM
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I have a 1999 hugger orange slp ss hardtop option delete, for sure 1 of 52, slp belives with all options delete it could be 1 of 1. 12k miles only
My silver 2002 1SC 1SZ pretty rare too, 2000 miles only
My dads car 2002 yellow berger " Hotrod test car" the only 1 in the white book, 12.5k miles.
Dads GTZ 1999 hugger orange car pretty rare, the ground effects on the car is what gm had intended but due to cooling and curb issues was cut back. delphi, spector werks and gm built this car. Car featured im magazines
My silver 2002 1SC 1SZ pretty rare too, 2000 miles only
My dads car 2002 yellow berger " Hotrod test car" the only 1 in the white book, 12.5k miles.
Dads GTZ 1999 hugger orange car pretty rare, the ground effects on the car is what gm had intended but due to cooling and curb issues was cut back. delphi, spector werks and gm built this car. Car featured im magazines
04-23-2014, 06:20 PM
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I have a 1999 hugger orange slp ss hardtop option delete, for sure 1 of 52, slp belives with all options delete it could be 1 of 1. 12k miles only
My silver 2002 1SC 1SZ pretty rare too, 2000 miles only
My dads car 2002 yellow berger " Hotrod test car" the only 1 in the white book, 12.5k miles.
Dads GTZ 1999 hugger orange car pretty rare, the ground effects on the car is what gm had intended but due to cooling and curb issues was cut back. delphi, spector werks and gm built this car. Car featured im magazines
My silver 2002 1SC 1SZ pretty rare too, 2000 miles only
My dads car 2002 yellow berger " Hotrod test car" the only 1 in the white book, 12.5k miles.
Dads GTZ 1999 hugger orange car pretty rare, the ground effects on the car is what gm had intended but due to cooling and curb issues was cut back. delphi, spector werks and gm built this car. Car featured im magazines
04-29-2014, 06:26 AM
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Cool old thread- I thought I posted this a while back but guess I didn't. Here is a pic of my 97 Formula WS6 vert. I still have the factory 16" wheels but the 94 Firehawk wheels look a lot better:
http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/a49c700e.jpg
http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/a49c700e.jpg
04-29-2014, 07:18 AM
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I know my car isn't super rare but I doubt there were too many exactly like it. It's a red 95 z28 with black hard top. Traction control, graphite leather, M6. Common color yes, but those exact options pry not alot of them i'm thinking. This is a cool thread even though it's almost ten years old!
05-12-2014, 01:33 PM
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I know my car isn't super rare but I doubt there were too many exactly like it. It's a red 95 z28 with black hard top. Traction control, graphite leather, M6. Common color yes, but those exact options pry not alot of them i'm thinking. This is a cool thread even though it's almost ten years old!
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You might be surprized how rare your car might be, especially w/ the M6. Before I purchased my '98 WS6 (1 of 50 w/ WS6, M6, black/black top, graphite leather) I traded in my '94 Z28 'vert ("Polo" green, M6, tan cloth, black top), which I later determined to be 1 of only 37 with that color/trans combo. Who would've guessed that a "plain old" Z28 would end up being a more rare trans/color combo than a WS6 (and of the most rare model year at that). I guess that triple-black thing killed the rarity factor though.
05-13-2014, 09:47 PM
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There were 1,559 bright red hard top m6 z28's.
1,177 of them had traction control
2,183 had the am/fm casette delco/bose sound system
2,625 had graphite leather with 6 way pwr driver seat.
Out of the 9,209 M6 z28 coupes and 3,010 hard tops made that year the car seems pretty rare but nothing to write home about lol.
05-15-2014, 09:51 AM
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Ok so I checked out all the stats on my car and they are as follows.
There were 1,559 bright red hard top m6 z28's.
1,177 of them had traction control
2,183 had the am/fm casette delco/bose sound system
2,625 had graphite leather with 6 way pwr driver seat.
Out of the 9,209 M6 z28 coupes and 3,010 hard tops made that year the car seems pretty rare but nothing to write home about lol.
There were 1,559 bright red hard top m6 z28's.
1,177 of them had traction control
2,183 had the am/fm casette delco/bose sound system
2,625 had graphite leather with 6 way pwr driver seat.
Out of the 9,209 M6 z28 coupes and 3,010 hard tops made that year the car seems pretty rare but nothing to write home about lol.
It'd be more accurate to break-down your car like this:
Total '95 Z28 Coupes: 33285
w/ M6: 9209 (27.7%)
w/ M6 & HT: 3010 (9.0%)
w/ M6 & UU8 Radio: 2183 (6.6%)
w/ M6 & 81U Red: 1559 (4.7%)
w/ M6 & Graphite Leather / AG1 seats: 2625 (7.9%)
Considering that HTs made up less than 10% of the M6 Z28 coupes, yours is probably less than 1 of 200 M6 HT Red Z28s built in '95, possibly as rare as 1/140.