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Year: 1967 Firebird Owner: Rick Bohler Location: Jacksonville, Florida AllGenTransAms Member: 1Insaniac Rick Writes: On June 2nd 2006 I purchased this car from e-bay for 10K. I could drive it and it looked good, The car had almost 70% new metal, but most of it was installed incorrectly. It had mostly stock parts and a 455 Oldsmobile motor. I wanted a truly custom bird, I started updating performance parts like the suspension breaks and such but the gaps in the body lines were driving me nuts so I took the Bird to some trusted body workers and got the news the car was butchered. I found out that the car was once a HOMEMADE convertible and needed to be cut apart and re-welded correctly back together. We had agreed upon a price that turned out to be 1/3 of what I would eventually pay to the shop. As a professional I designer drew up a design and stuck with it. The Bird spent a little over one year in that shop 2 months by me installing the interior, then three months getting a new Pontiac motor. (See the parts list below) Now I am enjoying driving the car on the weekends to car shows and local Pontiac events. Some Highlights of my Firebird! 1967 400 Pontiac Block Ross custom pistons +.060 400 4.180 bore Total Seal Piston Rings BOP Neoprene rear main seal Comp Cams Hydraulic Roller Camshaft Duration @ .050 236 intake 224 exhaust Lift .520 intake .540 exhaust Comp Cams hydraulic roller lifters Edelbrock 877 cc cylinder heads Custom chrome moly pushrods PRW 1.5 ratio roller rockers Eagle H-Beam 6.700 ESP connecting rods Milling double roller timing chain Melling 60 psi oil pump AED performance 850 HO Carburetor Kauffman North Wind intake and water crossover Doug's D568 ceramic coated headers Accel HEI distributor BOP composite distributor gear MSD distributor cap Taylor plug wires MSD ignition Power Master hi-torque starter March Performance serpentine system Engine built by: Harrison Racing Enterprises (Gary Harrison) Jax FL Race built Turbo 400 Transmission Gear Venders overdrive unit Ridetech complete Air Ride suspension set up Mark Williams 12 bolt rear end 373 gears Wilwood Disk brakes, 6 piston calipers with slotted rotors Flaming River Rack and pinion / Searing column Ron Davis Aluminum Radiator SPW power windows Vintage Air A/C Spin Tech Exhaust Rick's stainless steel fuel tank Complete Alpine sound system Paint by Old Iron Customs Jax. FL 1969 TA (replica) fiberglass hood American Racing rogue black wheels 18" X 8.5 rear 17 X 8.5" front Goodyear Eagle F-1 Tires