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"You are pre-approved at the credit union, stop by at 10 and they will give you a certificate, tell Russ you need the rest of the day off and let's go buy your car!" So we did. The next morning, Monday, I am at work in my office and the phone rings at 9:00, it was the wife. All the while I am thinking that this was the car I should have bought in the first place, wife not saying much at all. They were asking $19k for it but the sales guy said "he's not going to get that" and knocked a thousand off. Whoever was selling it must have treated it like a queen because the thing showed no signs of use at all. The little nubbins were not even worn off the Eagle F-1 tires, I could not tell that it was not a brand new car. They were selling it on consignment for some guy and it only had 14k miles on it. Well there was a salesman there, old guy who used to run the lot was watching it for his son who was away hunting. It was a Sunday and I thought no salesmen would be there to bug me so we stopped to take a look. Then one day about 2005, the wife and I were returning home from a weekend away and I saw my current 2002 WS6 on a private car lot in Longview, Wa. It was a fine car and quick off the line for a v-6 with the gearing. It also had the 3800 performance package which was P235/55R16 touring tires, up level steering, dual outlet exhaust, Zexel Torsen limited slip rear end with 3.42 gearing. The 2001 had T-tops, chrome wheels, leather, all the good stuff. Navy Blue Metallic like the WS6 I have now. I saw it after and it looked like they tried to turn but the car slid into something.īGM was traded in on a 2001 also v-6. Traded it in and someone totaled it about two months later. Nothing special, not even T tops, but it sure was a pretty color, I got many compliments on it. My first Firebird was a basic 1997 v-6 in Bright Green Metallic. After ~ 17 yrs I sold it and all the parts I had acquired to a buddy who flipped it to someone else that bought it back to life. and acquired an entire new front clip (subframe, bumper, core-support, fenders, hood.the engine still ran and was otherwise un-damaged except for the clutch fan), but I never got around to restoring it. A little over a year after I bought it, I hit a wet patch mid-corner, slid into the oncoming lane and hit another car head-on. Not fast by today's standards, but was a blast to drive and handled like a dream. It had A/C (didn't work) and factory Hurst shifter w/ the foam-covered T-handle (worn down to the metal). I ditched the factory Y-pipe to a single cat (all that was on it when I bought it) and installed a system for a '74 (no cats), that really woke it up. It had been hit in the front and the PO had repainted it and applied blue-charcoal decals / bird before I got it, but it still had the original red pin-striping around the side mirrors showing through the spray.: I bought it used in the mid '80s and it had been driven hard and put away wet. This isn't my 1st 'Bird, but here's a photo of one that looks just like it, a 1976 T/A 455-4sp. Please register or login to enable Dark Mode.Hot Rod Power Tour/ Pump Gas Drags/ Drag Week.Gen 5 Camaro Tuning, Diagnostics, Dyno results.
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