Posted on 03/01/2018 6:00:17 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
How did Kevin and his business partner (and cousin) Don Emery score this very special Trans Am? It all started with an ad that is featured in every Ames catalog and on its website: "Wanted: Low Mileage Low Production Cars." One day Kevin received a call from a Don Larsen of Victorville, California. Don mentioned that he had a car that Ames might be interested in and said it was possibly the first production 1969 Trans Am ever built. "Don was thinking retirement and figured it was time to sell the TA," says Kevin.
That's a pretty bold claim to make, but Don had the necessary paperwork to back it up. The documents showed that it was the first TA produced at the Van Nuys plant, but Kevin wanted to see if it was actually the first Trans Am produced overall. Knowing that Norwood also produced 1969 TAs, it became a matter of finding out which plant built theirs first. He was still very interested in purchasing the car, as long as it was the first TA produced overall by Pontiac.
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What a beauty
I’m clueless as far as the specs of cars go, I’m strictly a ‘I buy what looks good to me’ guy. That said I’m tempted to look at a new Dodge challenger simply because it reminds me of my youth. I’d probably look absurd in it but what the hell!
This IS Hot Rod magazine pal.
Yeah, but it doesn’t sound good doing it.
Bought mine while it was still on the truck outside Jake Sweeny Pontiac in Cincinnati. Three years later I moved to California. Started taking the car to shows but on the side I really got into flying. In ‘84 I decided I wanted to buy and build a home-built plane. Had to sell the car to buy the kit. Worst decision ever made. I posted an entry here with pictures a couple of years back but the website that hosted the pictures started charging so you can’t see ‘em anymore.
To this day I think about the car,,,,, since the wall in front of me is not quite covered in pictures. Oh well.
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I had absolutely great results with Pontiacs.
I had a 1957 2 door hardtop in 1957- my first car as I was turning 18.
Had a 1959 Pontiac 4 door which my drunk ( EX0 husband put into a large stone church & he killed the car.
I bought a 1965 Pontiac station wagon in Feb of 1965 out the door, tax & license & the extras I needed for $3434. I had that car for 33 years, put over 444,000 miles on it, and sold it to a guy in Sweden who restored it. It still was a daily driver. Had one engine rebuild—at 231,000 miles. I often wish I hadn’t sold it. It was a work horse.
Due my somewhat diverse automotive tastes, I've always thought that a model-year focus would be the ideal way to base a car collection. In '69 and '70, so many great vehicles were available that you could cast a wide net and come up with all winners.
From a standing start, the fastest non-modified street car I ever saw was a 1973 Trans Am with the Super-Duty 455 engine. A very rare car to be sure. The owner really knew how to drive and knew how to control the throttle. There was a very short trail of burning rubber, and the car would sling shot down the street. If you were racing the guy from a stop light you got a good view of the rear end as he rocketed away.
Ping
Move your pictures over to imgur.com.
I was hoping for a suggestion. Get ‘em moved over in a day or two. I’ll update here when they can be seen.
Got one posted. Not many realized that there was an airdam/foil bolted across the bottom in the front. When I found it I painted it white (was black). Kinda makes the car look lower. Also tweaked the grill and took off the TransAm lettering. The first day at the drag strip the announcer came over while I was in the staging lanes and asked “what in the hell is this?”. I broke the engine in at the drag strip.
I use to know how to imbed pictures but here is the url.
https://i.imgur.com/yeD6wKn.jpg
Did not know it was a Chevy variant. I remember how exotic OHC seemed at the time. Since then I’ve owned OHC, DOHC, and a Ducati with Desmodronic OHC.
I think Pontiac was trying to market the OHC’s as the “poor man’s Mercedes”. The ones equipped with the Quadrajets would haul butt for an American made 6.
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