Looking for 73 Trans Am Super Duty pics

**SamLBInj** · #1 01-15-2004, 05:02 PM

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Thats because the Pontiac Guys Suck.....Just kidding. Actually the last Pontiac I restored was a 70 SJ 455 4 spd. Grand Prix. Cool car but slow. No I'm not trying to sell the SD. My big decision is ...1-do the car myself to a lessor degree than I know someone like Micky can do....2-Beg Micky to do it cheap

since by the time it is finished it won't be worth what I have in it...3-Just build the engine myself and have it painted and drive it. The third option is the easiest except in reality I probably won't drive it much and I also think this car is so untouched in many areas that it is important for someone like Micky to do so all those details can be referred to for other restorations. This car looks great but my hair is getting Grayer and I lately don't seem to have the enthuasium to tear into a car. I think of all those Guys that have beeen collecting projects to build when they retire. By the time they retire they either don't have the Physical abilities to do them or the desire. Or they have moved on in life to other interests.

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It seems by reading into your post that you are turning all gray and crusty and are about to get an estimate from your local undertaker. Sooo,can you see your way clear to sending some of those red and yellow cars?

Geeze, one minute I see a video of you melting tires in your driveway and the next your barely able to rock your rocking chair...what gives?

Sam

**Charley Lillard** · #2 01-15-2004, 06:54 PM

Doing a Resto on a car is alot different than just driving the Cr*p out of one. I spend enough time just keeping them running. I already spend a bunch of time just working on what I have. Yes I could probably do just about everything except paint but I don't think I have the patience to do the research to make sure I get every detail right. I have a real appreciation for those Resto Guys that do put that extra effort in to get the little stuff right. So I could do the engine and have it painted but it would be a # 2 type car. This car at some point will get a correct resto so in essence the work I do would have to be repeated again anyway....I have had this discussion with myself before. Last one I did was a 63 Vette about a Year ago. Before that was a 65 Shelby GT 350 that I chose to send off for a Resto that has been going on for 2 Years....I dunno...I guess I just think this car is so neat that it deserves better than I would give it if I did it myself. Ask me again tomorrow and I might give you a different answer.

**SamLBInj** · #3 01-15-2004, 07:53 PM

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Doing a Resto on a car is alot different than just driving the Cr*p out of one. I spend enough time just keeping them running. I already spend a bunch of time just working on what I have. Yes I could probably do just about everything except paint but I don't think I have the patience to do the research to make sure I get every detail right. I have a real appreciation for those Resto Guys that do put that extra effort in to get the little stuff right. So I could do the engine and have it painted but it would be a # 2 type car. This car at some point will get a correct resto so in essence the work I do would have to be repeated again anyway....I have had this discussion with myself before. Last one I did was a 63 Vette about a Year ago. Before that was a 65 Shelby GT 350 that I chose to send off for a Resto that has been going on for 2 Years....I dunno...I guess I just think this car is so neat that it deserves better than I would give it if I did it myself. Ask me again tomorrow and I might give you a different answer.

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I was just trying to fire you up a little and it seemed to work

Feels good dont it!

Those restos take time dont they, I had a 40 ford sitting in a shop years ago waiting for paint and a few parts, took almost 5 years to get it finished right..When is the shelby suppose to be finished?
Sam

**Charley Lillard** · #4 01-15-2004, 09:19 PM

I think the Shelby will be finished by Summer. It is at the point where it is just a big puzzle that needs to be put back together. Almost all the parts are there and refinished, the car is painted, engine rebuilt etc...

StealthBird · #5 01-15-2004, 10:51 PM

Pontiac geeks?

yellowjudge · #6 01-16-2004, 05:00 PM

Hi Charlie, I have a guy here who does nothing but SDs. He has done them for 25 yrs. He just did my 71 455 HO 71 TA I got in Wash. Email me if you need his #.

**Charley Lillard** · #7 01-18-2004, 01:37 AM

Just steamed cleaned the car.. Found LS2 written in Crayon on the bottom side of the core support...

**Charley Lillard** · #8 01-18-2004, 01:44 AM

Floors

yellowjudge · #9 01-18-2004, 04:18 AM

That's neat, they wrote engine code there.

GOAT72 · #10 01-15-2004, 08:11 PM

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<font color="red"> I guess I just think this car is so neat that it deserves better than I would give it if I did it myself. Ask me again tomorrow and I might give you a different answer. </font>

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Charley,
I was a senior in HS when that car came out and the Buccaneer red was the ultimate. I had soured on the GTO because of the severe body change in '73 (it turned into a battleship), so the Trans Am was the car I HAD to have.

As soon as I had a fairly-decent full time job, I bought a brand new '75 T/A, and I would KILL to have an SD455 red Trans Am!!
You are lucky, man!

~GOAT72

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