Beautiful car! I have all of the records with options and VIN numbers to verify these cars. Someone did a beautiful restoration on this one. Records show this one originally was gold with heritage brown stripes. Seats are redone in a different material but look great! Looks to be an awesome car. Can't wait to see the price and specifications
Very nicely done. But you aren't going to get another 50 hp from a cut shaker. It might sound like it, but t's already got a 4" air duct feeding the carb from the front of the car. So, it makes very little difference, hp-wise. The sunroof works nicely, but it wasn't a "factory" option, since American Sunroof was aftermarket, and GM didn't offer sunroofs as an option in TA's in 79, only T-tops. Could have been dealer installed after delivery at the request of the buyer though.
The cars had Hooker headers with twin cats and no mufflers, also the carb was tuned, the distribution recurved and the shaker opened, those were all stock DKM mods and that's where the 50hp came from. Hot Rod tested one of the 4-speed cars and it ran 14.29 @ 98 mph or over a second quicker in the 1/4. Factory rated at 220hp, the NHRA said 260-280 hp then add the 50hp on top and considering the weight, these DKM cars probably probably made 310-320hp.
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Beautiful car! I have all of the records with options and VIN numbers to verify these cars. Someone did a beautiful restoration on this one. Records show this one originally was gold with heritage brown stripes. Seats are redone in a different material but look great! Looks to be an awesome car.
Can't wait to see the price and specifications
I remember when Hot Rod magazine tested one of these 😊
In the words of the Macho Man ,"oh yea!!".
What a beauty!
seat belt? :)
Very nicely done. But you aren't going to get another 50 hp from a cut shaker. It might sound like it, but t's already got a 4" air duct feeding the carb from the front of the car. So, it makes very little difference, hp-wise. The sunroof works nicely, but it wasn't a "factory" option, since American Sunroof was aftermarket, and GM didn't offer sunroofs as an option in TA's in 79, only T-tops. Could have been dealer installed after delivery at the request of the buyer though.
The cars had Hooker headers with twin cats and no mufflers, also the carb was tuned, the distribution recurved and the shaker opened, those were all stock DKM mods and that's where the 50hp came from. Hot Rod tested one of the 4-speed cars and it ran 14.29 @ 98 mph or over a second quicker in the 1/4. Factory rated at 220hp, the NHRA said 260-280 hp then add the 50hp on top and considering the weight, these DKM cars probably probably made 310-320hp.
All 79 TAs had black window molding