72 TA (clone)

[1965gp]

First pro-touring (light) build... Everything else I have is stock or lightly modded.



The car is a 1972 firebird that I picked up from a friend of mine. Originally going to be a Formula (clone) day 2 car with yellow spark plug wires, big Accel super coil and anodized valve covers and honeycombs the car evolved and took on a life of its own.

This is the car when I got it:




the car had obviously been hit in the rear to give it that rake. We found out it was originally a vinyl top car and figured that if we put full quarters on it we would get rid of 95% of the rust on the car:




we needed to put new metal around the rear window:



At this point I got a great deal on some 18's from a friend that look great on the car. That's when the day two plan went away- and looking at Pro Tourng 2nd gens I just really like the flares. So we decided to make th car a TA clone. I know it's a 72 and it should be white or blue... But we have a 69 TA clone, all of. The anniversary cars and a blue 70 GTO- the garage needed some color so we decided to set it up like a Buc red 73: