Question for Pontiac folks

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Like I said, I'm a long ways from an expert on 80's GM stuff, but I've heard that the Firehawk underwent separate emissions certification, as well as separate crash testing because SLP changed something structural in the car. I don't know if that's true, but I was told Ed Hamburger about went bankrupt after he had to crash three new Firehawks on his own dime. There were a couple of aluminum block 383 stroker cars built, I think. I'm not sure how they fit in the picture.

There weren't many emissions legal hard parts back then; not like today, where practically everything has a certification. I've heard of some blower Firebirds out of a dealership in Chicago, but I don't much about them. I know there were several Ford dealers doing modified &quot;package&quot; Mustangs back then that were even more illegal than usual since they were modded before sale. Most of them got away with it, but not all. There was a dealer in Kansas City that got popped pretty hard for illegal modifications. They'd been selling them with a notation on the sales contract that said something like &quot;This vehicle is intended for off road competition use only and is not legal for use on public highways.&quot; Shockingly, the feds didn't care about their note. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]