1973 SD Trans Am with 1774 miles

[1969z280]

My 4,000 mile 73 Formula, 63,000 mile 73 Formula and Legend Award 35,000 mile 73 Z/28 all have gray spirals.

Hmmmm?

[Charley Lillard]

Maybe Larry is really thinking his gray ones are light blue ?

[LNavarro]

LOL.....
it's new years but I haven't hit the bottle that hard.... Yet.
I removed the shocks off of the car last year and they are definetly blue.

[resto4u]

Charley, item found in trunk might be new car smell. But factory usually hide those under the rear package tray.

[SmallHurst]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SmallHurst</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Radials were already being used in Europe, but the heavier cars in America put strains on the tires that were not seen over the ocean. I will ask my friend again, but I believe that the tires were Michelins.

A friend of mine once worked for Firestone. He said that at one point, &quot; if it had 2 holes and it was black, it shipped!!&quot; </div></div>

I talked with my friend today about the radials on his Ram Rod W-31 in 1968. He said that they were Goodyears. These tires were available as an option on Cutlasses but not on 442's. They had like a 3/8&quot; white pinstripe on them. He received a recall letter on them the next spring and put a set of G70-14 Polyglas redstripes on it. He said that he has pictures hidden away.

He was an engineer on the line at Lansing in final. He said that alignment to get the radials on the cars was all over the map.

[Charley Lillard]

As I recall the paperwork on my other red SD that I had. It had optional Radial tires. I remember people telling me it was rare.

[SmallHurst]

Charlie,

Sorry I have butted in on this tread. The car is amazing and I commend you to have the 'nads to keep these cars as they were. Truly amazing!!!!

[JoeG]

I think Charley is part bloodhound ....SuperCool-SuperDuty!!!!!!!

[markjohnson]

I'm sure it's neat to see this fantastic Survivor '73 Super Duty 'Bird sitting next to C-Lill's other amazing Survivor......the 70 1/2 super-low-mileage Z/28! Probably the best and two most significant 2ND Generation GM F-Bodies on the planet! I gotta agree with the general consensus that the '70 Z/28 was probably the best Z/28 ever made (arguably, I'm sure!) and the '73 Trans Ams have alway held onto a slight edge styling wise with that beautiful front nose over the slant-nose '74 models. I think the only other 2ND Gen. Bird that would come close in significance is one of the extremely rare 1970.5 Ram Air IV cars and because they are so rare, I'm not even sure if a textbook, super low mileage example even exists.

[Tracker1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markjohnson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm sure it's neat to see this fantastic Survivor '73 Super Duty 'Bird sitting next to C-Lill's other amazing Survivor......the 70 1/2 super-low-mileage Z/28! Probably the best and two most significant 2ND Generation GM F-Bodies on the planet! I gotta agree with the general consensus that the '70 Z/28 was probably the best Z/28 ever made (arguably, I'm sure!) and the '73 Trans Ams have alway held onto a slight edge styling wise with that beautiful front nose over the slant-nose '74 models. I think the only other 2ND Gen. Bird that would come close in significance is one of the extremely rare 1970.5 Ram Air IV cars and because they are so rare, I'm not even sure if a textbook, super low mileage example even exists. </div></div>

Robert Lozins 1970 Ram Air IV T/A that was auctioned off by Mecum is the only one that comes to mind. 21,000 miles, he bought it off the original dealer in the 80s or 90s, it wasn't even licensed for the road - they ran it on a dealer certificate or something(?). One repaint, by that same dealership with NOS stripes applied. That was about the only work ever done to the car.

But anything approaching this '73 car in a 70.5 RAIV would be a cool find too.

Great find Mr. Lillard.