Introducing Ms. Firebird

[MARBIL]

I have been a member for a short while and have bought some things from other members. I bought my firebird in 1982, I flew to Wisconsin and drove it home to St. Louis, I drove it for a year and decided to fix some minor rust and a few other things. I then got married, had three kids, built a house, sent our kids through private schools, our youngest graduated college in 2013 and I told my wife, I’m going to finish the firebird so I can drive it before I’m dead (LOL). I worked on it very little off and on over the years, buying things like weather stripping, a 455, 400 hood, hotchkis TVS, tubular uppers etc….
So in 2014 I tore the 455 down after it sat in my garage for years, wish the guy I got it from would have told me it sat outside, it still had standing water in 3 of the cylinders. Took the block to an awesome machine shop, about a month and a half later had the block and heads back ready to assemble.
Here is some info on the engine and drive train, forged pistons, forged rods, mild cam, mild head work, HEI ignition, port matched stock intake with a Q-jet built to Jeff Ruggles specs for the engine, a T56 out of an 01 ws6, a strange S60, C-5 brakes all around.
At this point the floors are welded in and I am trying to decide how to clean all the nooks and crannies prior to painting the underside, once that’s done it can go back on its wheels, and that is the short version of it.
She will be the factory colors Liberty blue with a pearl interior.
So! everything above this I wrote several weeks or months ago, HAHA!
I had the bottom of the car dustless blasted, holy crap the s#@t gets everywhere, in hind sight I would have had it dipped, bottom of the car is done ( I’m in St.Louis if anyone wants to buy a rotisserie cheap).
Here are some pictures.