Lordstown Ohio Plant
 

I just bought a 1969 Ram Air III 4-Speed Firebird and it was built at the Lordstown, Ohio Plant. I have had a number of Firebirds and still do. All of them are either Van Nuys or Norwood Cars. These two are my girls and are both Norwood.

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Were most of the Ohio built Firebirds from the Lordstown Plant? Or are they pretty rare birds?

Ed https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif

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Wow, I did not know Pontiacs were built there.. Thought it was only Chevy Stuff. A friend of mine worked there back in the 70s and he was building the Vegas there... Thats interesting.. I'll have to ask him about that next time I see him... That place is now a Saturn Plant...

Rich

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You're right they refitted the plant to build Vegas in the 70's. I found that out through a Google Search.

One of the interesting things that I found was in my Firebird Redbook they write, "The 1969 Firebirds were also built at an additional location: the Norwood, Ohio plant." I read this as though the majority were built at Lordstown and I have never seen one before.

FYI, The middle character in the VIN is "U" for Lordstown and the cowl tag shows "LOR" for Lordstown.

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Thats cool.. Sounds like it might be a "rare bird"

Rich

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Rich:

According to the PHS, they built less than 1500 Ram Air III 4-Speed Firebirds and over 500 of those were Trans Ams. So, it's already pretty rare but, the Lordstown thing has me scratchin' my head.

Ed

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A friend of mine I work with is finishing the resto. on a 1970 GTO Ram Air IV car which I was told is also pretty rare.. He has owned the car since high school and a couple of years ago found the numbers block for the car in the Akron, Ohio area... Car is very cool.. I don't know too much about Pontiacs.. I'll tell him about your car.. He is a big Pontiac Buff..

Rich

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Thanks Rich. I'd be curious what he knows about them. I've always wanted to own a Ram Air IV car but every one I go to see has already lost it's motor. Ed

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Nice Birds! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Thanks. I also found out some more info on Lordstown on the PY site. Apparently, I must have owned a number of these cars as Pontiac did not move Firebird production to Norwood until April of 1968. I guess that I just didn't notice back in the day as I had a number of 67 and 68s. The only 68 that I have now in a Van Nuys car. Ed

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I had a 69 Firebird that was built at the Lordstown Plant. It was just a standard 350 model out of the factory. I specifically remember the LOR and being somewhat disapointed it was not built at the nearby Norwood plant.

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I beleive JohnZ was working at Lordstown when the change over was done... He said he had nothing to do with Norwood by the time the Firebird was moved over there...

Norwood would have been a heck of a place to work in late 69... with Pacers, T/A's, COPO's, ETC coming through

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If you can believe wikipedia they built 220230 Firebirds between 67-69.

They also built 453086 Caprice,Impala,Belaire,s