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Old 11-22-2004, 04:09 AM
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I would have prefered a blue interior but this car was so nice and so close. The other car I was looking at was in Michigan and I dreaded driving 1400 miles round trip to look and possibly buy it. That one is now on ebay, though it's a 71, white, 455 HO auto, w/ac. He wanted 18,500 a couple weeks ago. Has some weird dashboard rust though. I paid less than that for my 72. If the Pace Car sells then I have enough money to do this car and get my wife her new kitchen, floor, husband, etc.
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Steve:

If you want the original factory order sheet and dealer info. on your car there is only one legitimate source, Pontiac Historic Services.

http://www.phs-online.com/

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Old 07-05-2005, 03:40 AM
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I have all of the PHS data on the car. I was even able to locate the original dealer (they're still in business out in California) and they sent me some license plates and frames.

There's nothing like the feeling of calling Pontiac and getting your car's build sheet from their files!

But when it comes to the miscellanious decals it is very hard to find Pontiac specific items.
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Default Re: 72 TA : control arm details

I have the subframe all painted up and on the stand now. I started cleaning the control arms and noticed that the factory must have dipped the arms in black paint with the idea that they stopped dipping before the paint got onto the area of the ball joints. (or the ball joints were installed when the arm was dipped) Here is the lower control arm. You can see by the rusty area that there was never any paint on the end:
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Here's the underside of the lower arm. (The wierd tiger striping is from the pressure sprayer set on too fine of a stream)
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Here's the upper arm. It seems that the upper ball joints must have been installed when the arms were dipped in paint as there is no paint on the mounting surface of the arm where the ball joint was installed. This car still had its original riveted ball joints in place at 115,000 miles. (I took them out as I intend to drive the car and I'm not too crazy about having my wheels fall off at speed)
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Default Re: 72 TA : New Project

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After hunting for a while I finally found a nice project car for the next year or so

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Wow! 5 plus years in the making and 44 pages later!!! Seems like this thread started only last year and has been an absolute joy to follow along all these years. She looks great Steve and thanks for letting us ride along. It is threads like this that keep me coming here. Your work is outstanding especially considering where you have been working on it. When do you start your next project...........
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After hunting for a while I finally found a nice project car for the next year or so

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Yeah, I guess I jinxed myself bigtime with that statement!



...and she aint finished yet.
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This is probably the best thread on any car forum out there.like i mentioned before this is resto book material.do you have this on any pontiac web forums?
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Thanks for the compliment/moral support!

I do have a twin posting at the PerformanceYears.com website under the 70-73 Firebird section. (Though I seem to get more entertaining comments over here)
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