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Originally Posted by Kegracing
My 67 Firebird convertible is an origional Sprint car. I have the complete motor and 3 speed manual trans in the shop. When I found the car in 1986 it was sitting in a field with sunflowers growing up thru the engine bay. Motor and trans was in owners barn. He had taken it out years earlier and put in little chevy 6 for his daughter after several tickets. I restored car and put the OHC motor back in. Parts were tought to find then, have not even looked for years.
I took it to the Nat. Pontiac meet in Kansas City a couple of years after that. Hundreds of cars, and only a handful of OHC's.
I know some people will freak when they find out that I have turned it into a stocker and even worse, with a chevy crate motor in it for now... I do have a Pontiac 400 with the 67 only "670" heads and proper intake, but that motor will take a little while... will hopefully have it ready to race in another month with crate motor.
I did drive the car for a few years with the OHC. Was a fun little motor. Would outrun most mid 70's smog camaros and birds... not that I ever "street raced" -  when in highschool or college.
One thing I never found was the proper hood emblems for my car... Hood has the holes for them, and owner did not know what happened to them.
Should see me on the qualifying sheets in div 4 IHRA soon!
Ken |
Good luck w/your Firebird stocker, Ken. If the right person reads this post, I'll bet they could lead you to a correct pair of OHC Sprint hood emblems as well---so don't fill-in those holes! That car is surely worth some good $$ w/correct powertrain.
WJ