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My dads new project car

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It's Gumby's fault.
 

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its disrupting the balance of the driveway...
It's Gumby's fault.

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hey shawn whats up..
  wow..nice, looks like its in decent shape...keep it at the end of the driveway with the recyclables...and the trash.....lol :rollin:

theres 2 mint ones for sale right down the road from my house...one fully restored if not original and another pretty well modified with chevy stuff and what-not...lol

the blue stripe on that looks tits man...
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its disrupting the balance of the driveway...


The powers of the darkside have swayed your father :giggle:

Nice car....needs a 383 with a nice TPI setup!
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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I had one of those! Actually, I had two, but the second one was just like that one except  white with blue velour interior and blue stripes. The glass was factory tinted a nice pale blue, too. It was a beautiful car, if only it didn't have that shiznitty 301 boat anchor in it. The first one I had was a '78 Trans Am with a '70 LT1 chebby (you should've seen the adapters to make the shaker, originally designed to fit a 400 Pontiac, work on a SBC). It also had the WS6 package, which back then was a suspension package - rear discs, heavy duty shocks & springs, etc). If only the '80 Formula had that engine and suspension I'd probably still have it. Of course I had both of them back when late 70's, early 80's Firebirds were sub-$1000 cars ($600 for the T/A, $800 for the Formula, to be precise). I sold the Formula and bought my first T-Bird, an '85 base V6 model. Believe it or not, that 2-bbl V6 would run rings around that 4-bbl 301. Boat anchor, I tells ya!

One of these days I will have another 77-78 T/A and will stuff an EFI LT1 or LS1 engine and 6-speed in. I know, Chevy engines in Pontiacs suck, but there are no cheap, widely available EFI Pontiac engines that I know of. I want the looks of the 77-78 with the reliability and power of modern EFI.

So Shawn, what are your father's plans? Resto? Restomod? Is he gonna use the 301 for a doorstop (assuming it has a 301)?
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its a 301, right now he just wants to get it running right, put a waterpump on it, fix the body work, get it painted, new seats and carpet, and drive it, dont let the pics fool you, its rough around the edges, and that blue stripe looks like complete shiznit, it looks like 3m painters mask

my dads not really a hot rodder, he just wants a decent cruiser, and something that sounds good, so we're going to mostly restore it, im trying to get him to stick some T/A ground effects on it, keep the formula hood, and repaint the car black, the nose is torn up bad, so it needs a replacement, the previous owner got into an accident, duct taped it all back together, and painted the duct tape, my dad and I threw a fresh coat of gloss black over the tape, and entire nose, just so it didnt look like a total POS sitting in the drive way

tomorrow im going to set out on cleaning up the interior, possibly throwing a coat of wax on it, then finally doing a little bit of clean up on the red bird, it became a parts shed
It's Gumby's fault.

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My cousin has an '80 Turbo Trans Am that he bought from my aunt who bought it new. It has the infamous 301 but it's all original right down to the paint and decals with like 21,000 miles. He lives down your way so you may see him around from time to time.

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ive never seen the car, but it looks sweet

my aunt used to have an 81, and while it was...well...it was still slow...it was a POS, constantly having problems, i think it ended up getting junked
It's Gumby's fault.

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Quote from: Paul Flockhart
The powers of the darkside have swayed your father :giggle:

Nice car....needs a 383 with a nice TPI setup!

TPI? ugh

TPI was great in stock form for a 350, but you need a full aftermarket setup, SLP runners, edelbrock base, and a hogged out plenum, and you still dont make much power in the upper RPMs, then stroking that 350 to 383, that TPI would choke it even more

my buddy is building a 383 stroker for his 90 Firebird, carbed, and looking to run 12.80's in the brackets
It's Gumby's fault.

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wow shawn, no maybe you can get that nice 5.0 I gave you into your bird????

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but you need a full aftermarket setup


I know.  My buddy has one in an '80 Malibu runs a 12.20
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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Tpi engines only look pretty in my opinion.  They are shagyer than a 5.0.  I know cause I got both beside each other in the garage!
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a little progress in the project, my influnce on my dad is showing through, he's letting me figure out how to get these on the car:


It's Gumby's fault.

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Bad. Freaking. Ass.