Since the vast majority of my restoration parts over the years came from PY, I thought you may be interested in seeing the finished product.

1974 SD455 Trans-Am:
I purchased the numbers matching car in 1994 from a guy who I worked with. I traded a freshly restored 1972 Formula clone and cash. After approximately two years of restoration work, the car was hitting the show scene (POCI sponsored) and did extremely well. The SD had subsequently been published often in the following years in various media. The first publication was in Muscle Car Review Nov 1997 (Tom Shaw), and had also been published in two hard-bound books (Mike Mueller), four more magazines, a calendar, and most recently featured in 2001 as the "poster car" in HPP or PE (Paul Zazzararine); I cannot remember which at the moment.

It is Buccaneer Red, with a black deluxe interior, automatic transmission with 12-bolt 3:08 rear, A/C, tilt, honeycombs, AM/FM 8-track, and has currently 71K miles on the odo. There have been no performance modifications made to the car. I am the documented fourth owner. The car was originally ordered and delivered to a dealer in Tampa, Fl, so it has remained local all it's life.

1969 Firebird:
After finishing and successfully competing with the SD-455, and my wife having an additional two years of her bachelor degree left (no kids yet), I began the quest for a new car project in 1997 to keep me busy. I set my sights on a first generation Firebird, and concluded that I would stop at nothing less than a numbers matching 400, 4-speed, convertible; either 1969 or 1968, but preferably the '69 model. After scouring the US for an original, non-restored, solid car; I finally found my '69 in the South Shore of New Jersey. When I purchased it, it had a milky-red Maaco type cheap paint job, a ratty white top and the original interior was totally in tact, including the original carpet and trunk mat.

There was very little rust in the front fenders behind the braces, and rear wheelwell lip, that's it. Nothing that a die grinder and a welder couldn't fix. The trunk and floor boards were in excellent shape. The car was originally from N. Carolina, and had to have been garaged and decently taken care of in order to be in that good of shape for a convert. I almost did not call the owner, since I had figured that it would have been a rust bucket coming from New Jersey.

I completely rebuilt the motor, tranny, brakes, suspension, and all subsystems of the car. I then disassembled and stripped the car of four previous paint jobs and epoxy primered it. I then began pursuing a full time Masters degree which took me 18-months to complete, while working full time. We then purchased a new home and began the move-in and house painting phase. So the restoration process stopped during this extended 2-year period. I then picked up the car heavily until we welcomed our new baby boy in Sept 2001, so '69 car project slowed a little, but did not stop. I did all the body work welding, painting, etc. myself. I would estimate that I personally performed about 85% to 90% of all work completed on the car. It was completed April 2003.

It is carousel red, with a white top and parchment interior, and optioned with A/C, pwr disc brakes, pwr top, in dash clock, pwr steering, 14x7 ralley II's, AM radio, pwr antenna, hood tach, pwr trunk solenoid, tilt steering column, wood wheel, and the walnut shift ball, 10-bolt 323 posi, and has currently 84K miles on the odo. No performance modifications were made to the car. I believe that I am the fourth or fifth owner of this car.

Thanks to Performance Years for supplying most of the needed parts to complete these two classic Pontiacs.

For a daily driver, I currently drive a 1999 WS6 Trans-Am, 6-speed. No doubt that I like my old and new performance Pontiacs!

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