1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 Completely Restored on 2040-cars
Palm Harbor, Florida, United States
1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 "Project Resurrection"
Selling my Firebird due to a job change. Car was restored over the course of 2008-2012 by a Church group in Lakeland Florida to be raffled off in 2012. This was basically a rotisserie restoration. All body panels are new, entire floor is new all the way from the front through the trunk. all new fenders, quarter panels, roof, trunk lid, aftermarket 400 hood. All new chrome bumpers, emblems, glass. NO RUST on this Florida beauty!! Interior seats are leather from a 2000 Trans Am in great condition. One minor snag in bottom of passengers seat. Motor is a built Pontiac 400 block XX with 6x heads, hydrolic roller cam, bored .030 over, forged pistons, hardened pushrods 3 speed Auto with shift kit Holley 650 performance carb Pro Comp Intake Hooker long tube headers 4 core performance radiator. New dash gauges from Dakota Digital, tach, speedo, etc. car has just over 11,000 miles since rebuild, a lot of miles were put on doing the Detroit Power tour and touring to car shows. New "vintage air" climate control system, ac blows ice cold. B&M Hammer Shifter New headliner, dash, carpet, interior panels, etc Rears brakes and hubs from 2000 trans am Front brakes/hubs from 2000 corvette. c5 corvette brake booster Power steering c5 corvette rims Competition suspension 4 wheel disc brakes stop this car quick. 4 new tires to be installed as well. New JVC stereo with sony speakers, Pioneer subwoofer and amplifier sound great Car runs and drives great,everything works, turnkey. I wouldn't hesitate to drive this car cross country if you don't mind the gas mileage. Due to age of vehicle and me being a private owner it is sold as/is where/is. I can make the car available for physical inspection and shipping. Please call me with any question between 9am and 10pm EST. My cell is 860-406-1297. Car is for sale locally, seller reserves right to end auction early. $500 non-refundable deposit due within 24hours of auction end, remainder by cash, wire or cashiers check due within 5 days.Please see below for photos There is a website dedicated to the restoration of the car and photos/backstory can be seen here: |
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2013 Hurst Edition Trans Am
Mon, 13 May 2013No, you didn't read our title wrong. This is a 2013 model year Trans Am, and yes, that is a Pontiac logo affixed to the front of the car. But don't bother dialing up your local General Motors dealership just yet. This is the new Hurst Edition Trans Am created by the Trans Am Depot located in Tallahassee, FL. Having spent a number of years restoring early Trans Am models, the crew at Trans Am Depot finally did what many Pontiac enthusiasts wish GM would have done - create a modern Trans Am using the fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro.
As the former owner of a 1977 model, I've been wanting to check out Trans Am Depot ever since I first saw the company have American Choppers build a trio of motorcycles inspired by its Pontiac remakes. So I jumped at the chance to head to Florida's capital city to visit the shop and drive its latest creation, the new Hurst Edition Trans Am. As a collaboration with Hurst, this car made its debut at the 2012 SEMA Show and then popped up again on our radar with a cheesy yet perfectly fitting video back in March.
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GM recalling another 2.7 million vehicles in five separate campaigns
Thu, 15 May 2014The recalls keep rolling in from General Motors, evidently keen to avoid repeating the mistakes of the ignition-switch debacle and clean house. This time they're all coming at once, with five separate recalls announced together covering approximately 2.7 million vehicles.
The largest of the five actions involves over 2.4 million units of the previous-generation Chevrolet Malibu and Malibu Maxx, Pontiac G6 and Saturn Aura in order to fix brake light wiring harness, which have been found to be susceptible to corrosion. The recall is separate from the 56k Aura sedans which GM recently recalled over faulty shift cables, not to mention the previous massive recall of 1.3 million vehicles - some of them the same models - but appears to have resulted from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation that started with the G6 almost a year ago.
The second-largest campaign involves the 2014 Chevy Malibu, specifically those fitted with GM's 2.5-liter engine and stop/start system, approximately 140,000 examples of which has been found to have problematic brakes. The issue does not appear to be connected to the recall of 8k Malibu and Buick LaCrosse sedans (also involving brake woes) which we reported upon last week. Four crashes have been reported in such models, but GM admits it's not yet clear if the problem was a contributing factor in the accidents.
GM knew about fatal Chevy ignition problem decade before recall
Fri, 21 Feb 2014Well, this is not good for General Motors. Following a report last week that GM was recalling 778,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 compacts over concerns that the ignition could switch out of the "run" position without warning, USA Today reports that the Detroit-based behemoth knew about the issue, which affected 2005 to 2007 Cobalts (the Cobalt shown above and in the gallery is from 2010) and 2007 Pontiac G5s, all the way back in 2004.
The information comes from a deposition in a civil lawsuit against GM, obtained by USA Today, which claims that a GM engineer experienced the issue while the then-new model was undergoing testing. The issue was "solved" when a technical service bulletin was issued in 2005, informing dealers to install a snap-on key cover on the cars of customers who complained about the issue. According to the Cobalt's program engineering manager, Gary Altman, the cover was an "improvement, it was not a fix to the issue."
The case where the depositions were made was from 2010, and involved Brooke Melton, a 29-year-old pediatric nurse in Georgia who was killed on her birthday. At the time, police claimed she was going too fast on a wet, rural road, although it later came out through the black box that her car's ignition had come out of the "run" position at least three seconds before the accident (the max amount of time a black box records before a wreck), disabling her airbags, power steering and anti-lock brakes. According to USA Today, police said Melton was "traveling too fast for the roadway conditions," although it's impossible to know if she'd have been in the wreck, which injured the occupants of another vehicle, had her 2005 Chevy not shut off. GM settled the Melton family's case, although the details remain confidential.