The Most Significant First Gen Firebirds & Camaros

[black69]

I was looking at Kevin Suydam's cars on his website, and was surprised to see he had a L89 pace car convert. What a holy grail car. That trumps an L78 convert. Wow. It should be the one pace car convert that is there, the ultimate.

[Charley Lillard]

Both of the actual Pace cars in 69 were factory built as L89's.

[bashton]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Geoff</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I agree with others with trying to focus more on 67's as 68's and 69's will have their day in the next few years.

In the absence of any 67 Cutaways being available , how about the 67 350 display engine that was recently sold? (think it was also coupled to a powerglide maybe and was in a large Perspex box.

Would be super cool to also see some of the original advertising of the 67 Camaros too. I passed on a very large poster / billboard (because it was too large for me to transport all the way home)advertising the &quot;new&quot; 67 Camaro - pretty sure it was blue and white from memory... advertising under $3000.

Pace car , L78 , Z28 , 396 - 325 and 375HP. Any experimental engines? </div></div>

Love this! If anyone knows who currently owns the 350 display engine or any others please let me know. [email protected]

Looks like I better do some digging through the archives to create a First Gen Camaro ad collection display too. Of course, related memorabilia is also a must for this.

Bashton

[bashton]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: black69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was looking at Kevin Suydam's cars on his website, and was surprised to see he had a L89 pace car convert. What a holy grail car. That trumps an L78 convert. Wow. It should be the one pace car convert that is there, the ultimate.




</div></div>

Both of these cars were Unveiled at MCACN a few years ago and are currently owned by two very good friends/supporters of MCACN.

Bashton

[StealthBird]

Bob, if you're looking for historical Firebirds, the first two 1967 Firebirds would be a must for this display. They aren't restored correctly, but they are still significant to the story of the 1967 Firebird.

Another significant 1967 Bird is the one in the Daytona museum, repeatedly claimed to be the first Firebird built (I've never seen the VIN) and it paced a few races at Daytona. I'm not sure you could finagle them to haul it to Rosemont IL for the show though, but it might be worth a try. Honestly, this car would get more exposure in 2 days in Rosemont than it gets at the Daytona museum in a year.



The first Fitchbirds were evaluated by Pontiac as a potential &quot;special&quot; Firebird (the car that would eventually become the 1969 Trans Am). Pontiac rejected the Fitchbird, and it slipped into oblivion. Fitch sold a few conversion cars to recoup his tooling costs. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a part of Pontiac history, but it's a possibility.

There are a couple excellent examples of finely restored 1967 Firebird convertibles in Tyrol Blue, and this would make an awesome display if you could find someone could create a life sized cardboard cutout of DeLorean to prop up next to the car. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Charley Lillard]

I have no interest in having those two first Firebirds or the #1 67 Camaro. The white Firebird shown above with all the autographs is kinda interesting though.

[the427king]

Invitation to view the &quot;magnificent five&quot; that came with car #000001

[the427king]

pic

[StealthBird]

If you want memorabilia or promotional material, contact Tim at the Pontiac-Oakland Museum. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Tracker1]

Great idea Stealthbird. DO THESE CARS BELOW STILL EXIST? SOME ROYAL DRAG CARS AND BOBCATS ARE A MUST! But those Fitchbirds? I hate the idea of a nicer Bird being displaced by those ugly mucks. Pontiac was right to reject that proposal. Yuck.