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1967 Firebird Sprint Repowered W/sbc 283 High Perf Engine on 2040-cars

Year:1967 Mileage:132000
Location:

Aberdeen, Maryland, United States

Aberdeen, Maryland, United States

 Professional built high performance street engine (approx 10,000 miles)
  • Professional Ported/Polished 327 Double Camel Hump Heads 
  • Stainless Steel Valves (2.0"/1.5")
  • 1.6 and 1.5 ratio Roller Rockers
  •  Manley 3/8" Screw in studs
  • Z-28 dual valve springs
  • Forged Flat Top TRW pistons (.040" over)
  • Sealed Power Plasma Moly Rings
  • Forged Steel OEM Crankshaft (hard to find never turned std journals)
  • OEM Steel Rods (Only had 60K original miles since new)
  • Comp Cams High Energy 278/218 degree 480" lift
  • Clevite 77 bearings (std mains and rod brgs)
  • TRW Double Roller Chain
  • Fel Pro Gaskets
  • Edelbrock Torquer II Intake
  • 465cfm Holley Econo-master Carb
  • Electric Engine Fan (The quiet one from an Acura Legend)
  • Large diam p/s pump pulley

Fully rebuilt Chevy TH350 trans (approx 6,000 miles)

  • Pat's 3000rpm stall converter
  • All brand new GM OEM wet clutch packs
  • All new GM OEM seals and gaskets in trans
  • Valve body mods and Mr.Shift shift improver kit
  • New universal joints 

Interior redone about 10-15 years ago

  • Year One replacement vinyl seat covers
  • Year One door panels, rear side panels, rear package shelf (uncut, no rear speaker holes)
  • Year One headliner
  • Year One Carpet
  • Kenwood In dash AM/FM Stereo CD player

16" Alloy Z28 wheels

4 fairly new 245/50R16 Michelin Pilot tires

Suspension is nice and tight other than rear springs. Have replacement rear mono leafs but no time to install them.

Re-chromed  front bumper (never bent) and re-chromed rear bumper

Car has had both rear quarters replaced, small metal welded repairs near rear shock towers, floors still original with fiberglass inside at rear foot area (looks nice from below) Will need rocker repair, some small spots on lower doors, and some front lower fender repair. (See photos)

Needs rear end gears installed, has 2.78? ratio now. I have carrier bearing set and  4.11 ring and pinion (new in box). Need to get rear wheel bearings and pinion crush sleeve to complete that job.

Overall, this is still a very good car. Drives well and looks very nice from about 30 foot. Very smooth and powerful for a 283.



On Jan-29-14 at 22:03:25 PST, seller added the following information:

Just remembered something I should also mention. The front seat plastic backs and the rear window inside trim need replaced. They are overly dry from ozone and/or sun exposure. Also the drivers seat has a welt worn to the cord from getting in and out. I will post better picks of this by Sunday.


On Jan-31-14 at 12:15:27 PST, seller added the following information:

I needed to clear up some details and add some more requested pics to the listing.
 I mistakenly wrote the wrong mileage above. In 1994, when I bought the car, it had 53,002 on the odometer. My assumption is that that was 153,002.
When I put the motor in it I reset the odometer to 00,000 and the current reading is 06044. Actual mileage on the engine is about 20,000. The trans has 6044 miles.

Those are vintage NOS CIBIE Halogen Flat Face H-1 hi beams that came out of the box last spring! They do not even have 2 hours time on them. Cost on a pair of these is about $250+ (IF you can find them).  Some one stole the MSD unit when the car was in my storage garage this winter so it will not be included. Car is not locked at my home so no more surprises.



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Junkyard Gem: 2000 Pontiac Sunfire coupe

Thu, Feb 21 2019

In a few months, we'll reach the tenth anniversary of GM's axing of the venerable Pontiac brand. G6s, Vibes, and Matizes continued to be built until 2010, but I'm noticing a marked decrease in discarded Pontiacs lately, as I perform my junkyardy rituals. Here's a 2000 Pontiac Sunfire, photographed in a Colorado wrecking yard. The Sunfire was the near-identical sibling to the Chevrolet Cavalier, based on the long-running (1982-2005) J-Body platform. It was cheap and simple, looked pretty sporty (at least in coupe form), and every parts store in North America carried just about everything you'd need to keep one running. This coupe had to compete for sales not only with a vast and menacing array of imports but with GM's own Saturn SC2 (not to mention the Cavalier itself). Meanwhile, the J platform was showing its age more with each passing year. This car sports what must have been the complete line of Fatal Clothing bomber-nose-art/skate-punk/gang-tag-influenced decals, circa 2010. I actually photographed this car back in 2011, then misplaced the image files until last week. The stickers are very California-centric for a Colorado car, but then plenty of Californians — including me— move here. When you know you're a car's final owner, it's a lot easier to whip out the paint pens and redecorate the interior. Power came from the engine GM developed for the very first J-Bodies: the 2.2-liter 122 pushrod four-cylinder. 2002 was the last model year for 122-powered Sunfires and Cavaliers; the most affordable S-10/Sonoma/Hombre trucks got this engine through 2003. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. It even came with a remote, so bad Midwestern farmgirls could make quick getaways when caught in the act by enraged broom-wielding mothers. Featured Gallery Junked 2000 Pontiac Sunfire View 30 Photos Auto News Pontiac Automotive History

Junkyard Gem: 1984 Pontiac Fiero with supercharged 3800 V6 swap

Tue, Dec 31 2019

Like the Corvair, the Vega, and the Citation, the Pontiac Fiero was a very innovative machine that ended up causing General Motors more headaches than happiness, and Fiero aficionados and naysayers continue to beat each other with tire irons (figuratively speaking, I hope) to this day. The General has often proved willing to take the occasional big gamble and huge GM successes in engineering prowess (including the first overhead-valve V8 engine for the masses and the first real-world-usable true automatic transmission) and marketing brilliance (e.g., the Pontiac GTO and related John DeLorean home runs) meant that the idea of a mid-engined sporty economy car (or economical sports car) got a shot from the suits on the 14th floor. Sadly, the Fiero ended up being the marketplace victim of too many issues to get into here, and The General pulled the plug immediately after the 1988-model-year suspension redesign that made the Fiero the sports car it should have been all along. But what if the plastic Pontiac had never suffered from the misery of the gnashy, pokey Iron Duke engine and had been built from the start with a screaming supercharged V6 making way better than 200 horsepower? The final owner of today's Junkyard Gem sought to make that very Fiero, by dropping in one of the many supercharged 3.8-liter V6s installed in 1990s and 2000s GM factory hot rods. The first Fieros came out in 1983 for model year 1984, and the only engine available that year was the Iron Duke 2.5-liter four-cylinder, which generated its 92 horsepower with the full-throated song of a Soviet tractor stuck in the freezing mud of a Polish sugar-beet field. The 2M4 badging stood for "two seats, mid-engine, four cylinders," just as the numbers in the Oldsmobile 4-4-2 once represented "four carburetor barrels, four-speed manual transmission, dual exhaust." This car is a top-trim-level SE model, which listed for $9,599 (about $24,200 today). The no-frills Fiero cost just $7,999 that year, making these cars far cheaper than the only other reasonably affordable new mid-engined car Americans could buy at that time: the $13,990 Bertone (aka Fiat) X1/9. The Toyota MR2 appeared in North America as a 1985 model with a base price of $10,999 and promptly siphoned off the car-buying cash from a bunch of potential Fiero shoppers.

Junkyard Gem: 1964 Pontiac Catalina Custom Ventura

Mon, May 22 2023

Like Impala, Skylark, Malibu and Silverado (among many others), the Ventura name began its career as the designation for a trim level or option package used on another GM model, then became a model name in its own right. Initially a designation for a snazzed-up Pontiac Catalina two- or four-door hardtop, the Ventura name moved over to a Pontiac-ized version of the Chevy Nova for 1971. Today's Junkyard Gem, found in a Northern California car graveyard, proudly bears both Catalina and Ventura badging. Actually, the Catalina name itself started out as a trim level for the Chieftain and Star Chief models of the 1950s, just to confuse everybody. By the time this car was built, the Catalina was the cheapest of four Pontiac models built on the same full-size B-Body platform as the big Chevrolets and Olds 88s of the time (the Star Chief, Bonneville and Grand Prix ranked above it on the 1964 Pontiac Prestige-O-Meter). The 1964 Catalina four-door hardtop with the Custom Ventura package offered a lot of swank per dollar, with a price starting at $3,063. That's about $29,821 when converted to inflated 2023 dollars. The main benefit of the Custom Ventura package was an interior done up entirely in Morrokide upholstery. Morrokide was the name GM applied to Naugahyde fake leather when used in Pontiac vehicles; when used in Buicks, it was known as Cordaveen, while Oldsmobile Naugahyde was called Morocceen. Naugahyde took its name from the town of Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was invented. This car's Morrokide is in rough shape. In fact, everything about this car is decayed and probably infectious. You know to be careful when a junkyard car has warnings about rat feces inked on the glass. That said, I couldn't resist examining the 8-track tapes that littered the interior. Here's Hotel California, the 1976 hit album by the Eagles. Supertramp's Paris, a live album recorded from the 1979 Breakfast in America tour, is here as well. Here's The Best of Carly Simon, from 1975. The tapes were played on this Sparkomatic player, which probably lived in the glovebox or under the seat. The factory radio was AM-only, and includes the frequency markings for the atomic-attack CONELRAD emergency frequencies. 1964 was the last year for mandatory CONELRAD radios in the United States.