Long overdue intro Firebird

[blakgoat]

Well its has been 4 years since I started my Firebird build another "Tans Am" clone. I have always gone the pure stock direction, numbers matching concours quality,I have one a concours gold award on one of my I call tropy cars, because after finishing them you can"t drive them. you guys get the picture, I got bored at just sitting around people admiring my GTO's. Then a friend of mine who is a regular here introduced me to pro-touring and have been amazed at what you guys do with your cars and can't wait to join you all with my bird.



So on with my build, I started off with what I am somewhat familiar with, Pontiac,and am somewhat bias to 69 GTO,s because I have had 5 of them and I have never had a vintage F body before, so it was obvious it was going to be a 69 Bird. I found one at some dudes place that was an Oldsmobile guy, no motor or trans perfect for my build and was reasonable, also pretty easy to pry from this guys hands. I brought it home stripped it and on the rottisery it went. First to the blasters and then to the body shop, to asses what it needs. new trunk floors and drivers floor. I started researching here on pro-touring, and decided to go with Blake from Speed-tech, what a great bunch of guys! they shipped me a new front subframe and there upper lower control arms, rack and pinion steering, ATS spindles,