"Baby Pictures" of your supercar....

[muscle_collector]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

The 73 Z28 which I bought new in March of 73. Swore to my bride-to-be that I would leave it completely stock so it would be dependable. That promise lasted about 3 years Wound up keeping this car until August of 2000. Third picture is my wife and I on the way home from our honeymoon in April 74.

what prompted you to sell it? cant imagine it. what is the silver firebird in the picture?

[427425]

Wanted to add to the baby pictures thread with our Berger car from the early summer of 1971. Just got returned from the Army ( thus the haircut ! )and got the car out of storage. My fiancé and I posed for these at the end of my parents driveway. We were married in August and took the car on our honeymoon to upper Michigan for @ 5 days. We were out of gas $$ and came home early ! Notice the copper colored rally wheel centers. I could never afford mags, so we painted the wheels different colors, to change up the look. After we were married I wanted a Baldwin Motion look so we added Corvette side exhaust to go with the 427 numerals we had already added to the hood. We traded cars with a friend in 1974 to get a 66 Corvette. The car had 33,000 miles on it and was still under factory warranty. Bought the car back in 1994 and all the original paperwork from Berger was still in the glove box.
Yesterday I pried those numerals off the hood to strip it, but my buddy and I are putting them back on with tape after the new paint job. ONLY painting the car because it had been painted in 1986, when it was in a large car collection and had lots of bad lacquer checking.
My wife, same one from 1971, and I will be hauling the car to Berger in 2025 for their 100th anniversary.

[napa68]

That's AWESOME Kevin

[Xplantdad]

Originally Posted by 427425

Wanted to add to the baby pictures thread with our Berger car from the early summer of 1971. Just got returned from the Army ( thus the haircut ! )and got the car out of storage. My fiancé and I posed for these at the end of my parents driveway. We were married in August and took the car on our honeymoon to upper Michigan for @ 5 days. We were out of gas $$ and came home early ! Notice the copper colored rally wheel centers. I could never afford mags, so we painted the wheels different colors, to change up the look. After we were married I wanted a Baldwin Motion look so we added Corvette side exhaust to go with the 427 numerals we had already added to the hood. We traded cars with a friend in 1974 to get a 66 Corvette. The car had 33,000 miles on it and was still under factory warranty. Bought the car back in 1994 and all the original paperwork from Berger was still in the glove box.
Yesterday I pried those numerals off the hood to strip it, but my buddy and I are putting them back on with tape after the new paint job. ONLY painting the car because it had been painted in 1986, when it was in a large car collection and had lots of bad lacquer checking.
My wife, same one from 1971, and I will be hauling the car to Berger in 2025 for their 100th anniversary.

Here you go...

[427425]

Thanks Bruce, almost called you to post them initially. This looks lots better.....

[Xplantdad]

Originally Posted by 427425

Thanks Bruce, almost called you to post them initially. This looks lots better.....

You can always call me

[Bill Pritchard]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

what prompted you to sell it? cant imagine it. what is the silver firebird in the picture?

Long complex story that I don't want to bore everyone with, but suffice it to say this was really NOT the car I wanted to buy at the time. There was a silver RS/Z with 4 speed I really wanted, but it got sold before I could buy it. I was starting a new, good paying job in a few days and needed a reliable car to get me to work and back. Fast forward....As I was approaching retirement, I no longer wanted three collector cars so had to sell two, and this was one of them. It wasn't an easy decision.

The silver Firebird belonged to my college roommate. IIRC, it was a Formula 400.

[Bill Pritchard]

Forgot to include a few pics of the green 69 Camaro after I got it all done. Last two was its first time out at Byron IL Dragway, and the others were after I had paint & bodywork done,