I have never seen these red stripes on an early 60's Grand Sport and the ones I have seen all had numbers on the side. Can you please post a pic showing these stripes?
I have a scale model of the #2 Blue Grand Sport and it has no red stripe, niether do any in the photo below.
Carl. that car is an absolute beautiful piece of work but it's not real. Zorus Duntov was only able to build 5 Grand Sports before Chevrolet brass found out and killed the concept. There were plans for a production run but it never happened. The 5 in the photo I posted are it, 377 CID sbc with at least 550 HP each. They were used for competition only 1963-67, primarily to beat up on the Cobra and Ferrari, which they did.
What 67 Pontiac 400 HO engine component(s) were shared with a 455SD Firebird?
There is a specific one I am looking for and would like to have an accurate description of the similarity.
Tough one. Correct answer is camshaft. The one difference being the phyiscal size of the distributor gear on each one, but the specs are the same.
Are you sure about this Carl? To my knowledge 67 used the 068 camshaft while the SD used the 744 camshaft. What is your source?
You are right. I said HO but should have said Ram Air. The profile on the cam was the same on 67 Ram Air 400 and SD 455, correct?
Well I looked up the cams tonight in Pete McCarthy's book: Pontiac Racer's and High Performance Handbook, which is pretty well considered the bible of Pontiac engine info and it lists the 744 cam for 67 ram air cars with the 670 heads but lists the 493323 cam for 73/74 SD cars. The duration is the same, but the lift is different so the profile is similar, but not quite the same. Close, but no cigar!
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I have never seen these red stripes on an early 60's Grand Sport and the ones I have seen all had numbers on the side. Can you please post a pic showing these stripes?
I have a scale model of the #2 Blue Grand Sport and it has no red stripe, niether do any in the photo below.
1960 Pontiac Strato Chief Safari 1960 Laurentian Safari 1960 Laurentian 4door(scrapped) 2001 Grand Am Traded on a '96 Suburban 2WD 2002 Hyundai Accent(SOLD) 1968 Grand Parisienne Scrapped and SOLD
The blue car is a Dodge Polara R/T with a slant six and a four speed while the orange car is Dodge GTX with a 318 4 speed combo, built and sold in Argentina. Here is a rear view of the GTX, notice the Road Runner bird on the bottom right corner of the trunk lid.
Here is an article written by a friend of mine on these interesting autos:
Saw a blue one at POCI one year with red interior. Sure looks different.
Ivory is basically equivalent to a dirty white. Remember, there were two types of interior available, the standard and the custom. Red was available on the 73-74 cars.
Not that it pertains to the year I asked the question for but I found this tonight. A 70 Trans Am with red interior. Most unusual....
