Salt Water Flooded Trans Am Is Finished! We Restored a Flood 1973 Firebird from Hurricane Ian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Most of you remember the flooded Trans Am we bought from Hurricane Ian. She is back and 99 percent finished! We went through the whole car, replacing mostly just the wiring and a few smaller items. We were told the car is totaled, never should be fixed, and will rust away. We love proving people wrong and this video shows how well this car has turned out.
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Thank you for saving the bird instead of destroying it 👍
Thanks for saving this beauty. Great work. Enjoy it.
The door's close nice. 🙂
Reminds me of the trans am in Cannon Ball Run
Car looks great..keep it up
looking good
Buy the book written by Cliff Ruggles on how to reman the Q-Jet for your specific engine. Even a factory motor can benefit from the proper setup and tuning for the motor. Cliff is a great guy and will help/answer questions you have. If you don't want to learn yourself then you can have him build your carb for your motor.
Take it to cars and coffee in Plymouth on May 6th. It’ll get a lot of looks there
She's sweet wish I could get something like that
Best looking tire lathe I've ever seen, sounds like a perfect idea!
Put a dehumidifier in it for a few days, it will pull all the moisture out.
If I was that cars last owner I would be heartbroken seeing this video.
Yup perfect cruiser to rip into town, cut some donuts and not have to tune all the time.
Personally have a 91 GTA, love that car, soooo much history and nostalgia from when I was younger but the early 2nd gen is my dream. That body is soooo sexy
I am really impressed by the final result of this bird. I remember all the water in that engine and I thought it would need a rebuild for sure. Great job on reviving this ol gal. Wonder how many hours went into getting it to where is it now.
You going to send that Pontiac motor to Tony. would it be legal to run Big Chief heads on that in the modified class just kidding that is a beautiful car
You did a very good job. I've owned a 70 and 74 Firebird. Both handled extremely well. I heard once that when a Firebird went down the assembly line people were added just for the suspension. Those also look badass with Hooker sidepipes. GM screwed up big time when they dropped the Pontiac line. Hey I hope you have a fantastic racing season, won't be long till it starts. Take care be safe.
GREAT car. Fantastic job bringing a classic back to life.
It's the wiring that rots out. You will need to replace every wire eventually.
70-73 T/A's....best looking car ever built
Absolutely
Is a sway bar making that noise?
Now THAT is how to open a video!!!! Awesome job so for on it!
Love this car!!! I am a Pontiac lover. The color is awesome. Nice job cleaning it up.
I’d love to own it good repair
If you are going to use the car primarily for burnouts have you considered putting a proportioning valve on the brake system? Turn the bias 100% to the front when you want to do burnouts (cheap line lock) and then turn it back when you are driving it normally. 😉
Curious what was this car sold for at auction?
The TA would be awesome at a small town car show!
You need to do a giveaway on the
trans am. I'd love to have it!
I wish we could! We don’t have enough followers for that yet.
Hey guys the ta is looking good I got my tee-shirt great quality n it fits great thanks keep up the great work
Glad you got it! I sent you an email but never heard back. USPS didn’t approve your address, so we shipped it UPS.
Sorry I'm working not a ton of time. I'm a driver messed up hours. Thank you. I will grabbing. Some more merch. You guys rock
Now its for sale
Nope still got it.
Great Video Guys. Love the 70-73 Trans Ams. Love to see What it Dynos
Coolest thing to do with it is when it's all done bring it back to the original owner and let him take it for one last spin!💗
been waiting on more uploads from you guys!!!!
Love the Trans Am good looking car always love that body style
To add to Phillips' comment about the shifting. When I put my back drive rods in my 73 Z-28 it also was a little tight in the column when shifting into gear. The lower column bushing was shot and needed replaced.
That car is perfectly suited to go to the pure stock muscle car meet in Stanton Michigan..👍
It would. We haven’t been there since they told us to slow down or not come back.
@@HorsepowerDepot The first-year nobody even ran in the twelves.. now they have 1150 cutoff.. there for a few years they had a certification certificate you could get by doing NHRA stock eliminator type care down .
Well maybe it's time to go back up there and tell them . In your Arnold Schwarzenegger voice "I'll be back" lmao 🏁
You could never get by their 11.50 cut off after they decided to go with that. We’ve gone through every tech, tore engines down in the pits at Stanton to prove its stock. Something no one else has done. They put the 11.50 rule in due to “safety” and not wanting cars to go that fast, but won’t let anyone run with a roll bar that is an actual safety item. We won’t be back.
So you decided you will not be taking the trans am at all? That car could run in the 13 s range that would be cool.. just by looking at it it's definitely a 14-second car
Poncho is a tire shredder!
Seabird🏁
I enjoy watching you tinker with the more stock stuff like this and the yellow ‘69 Camaro (what happened to it?) just as much as the FAST stuff! Just fun watching them get put through the paces as they were back when they hopped Coke cans 😂
I sold the yellow camaro to a friend.
I'd like to see you guys run the T/A in the pure stock class.
Shifting problem may be the rod from the column to trans out of adjustment
Good job. Will it be for sale?
The clunk. Was there any water in the rear axle?
I believe the noise to be in the front end. We drained the rear differential and put fresh fluid in it.
the mystery sound .. is it a cracked rear end U-bolt ?
It’s in the front end. Can hear it during a slow turn. Not sure what it is. Honestly never looked in to it. Possibly a sway bar link?
@@HorsepowerDepot just a wild guess ... heres another idea ? it may have been there sense new , maybe the coil spring isn't quite seated in the pocket (i've seen that before - good luck - we have a 1978 Macho T/A , black with gold no T-top and no bird on hood bought new in 78
The car is too nice to use as a race car
Back in the fall of 1973 we took a high school field trip to Norwood , OHIO to tour the Camaro/Firebird assembly plant.
I remember it well. The plant closed about 1989. Norwood had a very good assembly quality rating by GM.
The production was moved to Van Nuys , Commiefornia.
Van Nuys had the absolute worst quality of all GM plants. For years. GM strikes again.
A buddy worked for a dealership after all production was moved to Van Nuys.
The stories of the garbage cars coming from Van Nuys is quite astounding.
One memorable car was a Camaro on one side and a Firebird on the other.
Thank you for saving the bird instead of destroying it 👍