1967 FIREBIRD IS IT WORTH SAVING
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2020
- We hauled this 1967 Pontiac Firebird home but is it worth saving? We check it out on the lift and go over the PHS documents. As it turns out this is a fairly rare car!
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Just restored a 67 a few months back, it was the same year I was born, also my favourite firebird. Customer vehicle.
That's definitely worth restoring, especially if you have the knowledge and equipment. I bought a 67 last July that needed minor restoration. I love it! Mine is fairly base model with very few options, one being deluxe interior and another being special order Coronado gold (with gold interior)
All Firebirds are worth saving... so save it!!!
I imported my 1967 pontiac firebird gold convertible to Australia after driving it coast to coast in USA. Great car with 326 cu inch.
However it got stolen. Bugger
Get it back on the road! They are sweet cars!! I hope to be able to drive my 67 next summer
My 67 has its original bucket seats and has plastic backs. Not sure when they changed that. Also, something interesting, the 67 Vedoro green is actually a different color green than the 68-70 Color. Just looking at pics you're not gonna think they're different, but when you see a properly painted 67 in Vedoro next to a 68/69 properly painted in Vedoro, the difference is quite obvious.
I have a 67 , bought mine in 1970. Been kept inside ever since. Has the 400. It will probably go 150 mph
I saved my 70' Firebird sat for 12 year's 7 month's got her running and driving. In my opinion love first gen Firebird's and Camaro's.
Nice! Love the 70-73 also.
Too cool. Another great video 👍👍🇨🇱
I think it’s worth fixing, it’s a cool old car, just replacing the quarters and one door fixed the crash damage, It would be a fun ripper for someone if nothing else
For sure!
Great video! LOVE Pontiacs - especially Firebirds! I have a 1967 Firebird 326 Convertible. In family since 1971...fun car. Gets looks everywhere I drive it.
Thanks! Enjoy it!
@@slow_restoration Thanks!!! It's part of the family after all this time. Great car. Good condition and FUN!!!
It is really nice to see a car strapped down correctly!! Cheers Subscribed!
Thanks 👍
Liking the firebird! Be a nice platform for a sweet build!
Oh no! Mother Earth needs this car back!
6:17 The gauges are 1968 units. 1967 instruments are 120 mph and pointed glass. 1968 gauges are 160 mph and flatter glass. Engine displacement dopes not effect the panel.
9:56 'Verdoro Green' Nearly all Firebirds are this green.
11:18 400s has all brake combinations, man. drum or disc. power drum or disc. If is an original master cylinder it should be stamped 'CT' on its machined pad.
16:27 Gauges yes, but wrong year of gauges.
17:43 What is the car's build date? Very early cars had metal back seats. Later seats are plastic. '68 seats were plastic.
18:14 Spacesaver vs full size spare tire? Can be determined by securing bracket on floor. Spacesaver bracket located closer to rear seat framework, full size tire nearer to trunk floor.
19:15 06B second week of June, late car confirms possibly plastic back bucket seats.
19:43 There were a large number of Verdoro Green cars made. The Firebird was available in February 1967, the spring colours were introduced about April 1967, this car built in June, the colour was popular and many made in this colour. Not a rare colour.
Just my own input. I've owned 9 67-68 Firebirds in the past 40 years.
Hi,
I have a 68 firebird and the gauges on this car is the same as mine.
How do i do a vin search of my car.
Thanks
Hello Peter,
I'm not sure where you live so I hope this reply is helpful. First off I got my information in 1990 when the researchers could get to the information with permission and there was no charge.
Now you have to pay about $75per VIN for American-built Pontiacs. The company is called Pontiac Historical Services. This service also covers Pontiacs that are exported. Unique fact, all American-built GM exported cars have a special option code-- extra fuel for more shipping loading and unloading.
For Pontiacs built in Canada there is another similar source and these cars are not on The PHS and Pontiac files. For example Cdn-built 1970 GTOs are not on the PHS files but the Am-built and export ones are.
If you want discuss this, contact me again.
@@bfmcarparts thanks mate i will look into that.. im from Australia. Cheers
Make the 🔥bird great again!
very cool cars i have a 68 400 ho car that i bought back in highschool in the 80s same color with manual disc brakes. not much fun to bring to a stop after a 1/4 mile run at the track.
Very cool!
Cool ride. & 90% of cars were green in the 60s😁
i have a 1967 326 ho w/ 4speed that I purchased in 1987. I need to do the PHS vin search. Mine has many of the same options as this one. It is red bottom & white painted top and red inside. I've often wondered how much she's worth.
Nice, the PHS documents are very neat to have! Takes any guessing out of what it was originally equipped with.
67 base line 400 / 325hp. Turbo 400 trans with rally pack gauges car, should have a 8.2 posi with 3:23 or 3:55s as most 400s did. Very nice car , pretty rare to as it's a first year 400 car. Strato front seat was a fold down bench seat, going to be veeeery hard to find one of them to make it correct . They reproduce the steel 400 hoods , kind of a cheezzy repop but better then nothing, and I think you can still get the repop hood tachs ( but they work like crap . ) to bad you don't have the original numbers matching 400 block
She's going to need a lot of work, but the possibilities are endless. Just don't send it to the crusher.
Definitely not crushing it! Thanks
There is one of these across the street from me in Blackfoot Idaho
I say restore it. It's my dream car and I want to see these so badly in real life.
I would love to!
@@slow_restoration :)
Only the 400 had a factory traction bar. Verdoro green. I've had mine for 44 years. Great car. It's going to cost 30k to get that car right.
…and if an automatic car would only have one traction bar, on the passenger side.
Actually that's false. The 6 cylinder Sprint with a 4 speed had a bar, all V-8 automatic cars came with 1 bar, and V8 manual trans cars came with 2 bars.
@@WVXL64 Correct. I have a 1967 Firebird 326 with 3-speed manual floor shift and it's all original w/factory (2) traction bars.
PHS says 3 speed manual but you said it had an automatic transmission...?...but later you do show the engine code matches automatic configuration. I have a 67 but the 400 isn't original so I'm thinking about upgrading to Ram Air. When was your car built in 67?
THE HEAD RESTS ARE FAIRLY RARE, MOST DO NOT HAVE THEM...
Having all that paper work on what the car had is pretty cool but with it not having everything original that came with it when it was new that car deserve to be turned into wicked hot rod
Hi, want to ask you a question about firebirds. I watched the video and got confused. Did you say Pontiac firebirds would leave the factory with a clutch pedal and with and automatic transmission?
seats are correct. Plastic backs were introduced early in production.160 speedometer is NOT correct for 67.
Should be 120.
Where did you get the print out from? That tells you the antenna was an option
It's the PHS, Pontiac Historic Services, document. They can provide the history and options the car originally came with!
Like the firebird. Definitely needs to be saved. How much is it.
Come rescue it $2500 or we can discuss building it!
It can be restored but it's gonna take some time money and patients
It's very restorable but will take a lot of all three!
I liked the review of the car but am unsure why you bought it? Did you plan to restore it and changed your mind or ....??
We drug it out of the woods! If I build it or someone else does at least it's not rotting away anymore! I would love to build them all but you just can't. Thanks
I cant wait to see more videos to come on the Firebird. Don't they have a Firebird symbol on the rear seats too
Not in 67.
Sorry I’m confused...it was original automatic and also has clutch pedals?
Someone swapped a chevy motor in at one time, based on the motor mounts, and probably added a manual tranny which would explain cutting up the hole in the tunnel and the manual pedals.
Can we put a K5 Blazer frame under it?
I think you're looking for sendit steve!
@@slow_restoration hahaha
Since this car has many rare options, is in repairable shape and is a very iconic piece of Americana it would be a shame to trash it.
But I'm more of a '69 Chevelle kind of guy.
I have a 68 ac 350 car thats original verdoro deluxe interior
If I can suggest a thing or 2.
First, check the seats, although rare, Pontiac did have an option for headrests in 1967 68. They are different. From 69.
Do not use full quarters, 80 0/0 should be enough. Breaking that factory joint is not always a good idea.
The amount of welding isn't that much more with the panel I mentioned.
Good luck.
Little late but I would have saved it. There are only about 18,000 models left if that.
Not too late, we still have it! Thanks
@@slow_restoration
Or give me it. I'll fix it up. Lol
Hi. I think you meant it was an original 3 speed manual and was changed over later to auto? Would explain the cutout.
It was originally a automatic car and someone changed it to manual later in its life. Easy swap.
slow_restoration okay, that makes sense, thanks. I found a bird with an automatic and there’s a clutch pedal.
These are old cars, chances are someone has altered them quite a bit.
@@slow_restoration Looking at the motor mounts someone also swapped in a chevy motor at some point, and probably a 4 speed which could explain the tunnel chop and the manual pedals.
Worth fixing
Did you sell it?
I did.
Is this still for sale
It can be!
That has a 400 grill and a 350 bumper
It's called a budget rebuild
I like the fire bird- trans am better than the camaro of the same year
They're different but very similar! The Camaro is just more popular! It comes down to preference.
@@slow_restoration camaro is more popular because parts were abundant and cheap.
Of to Flip town
no its too far gone sell it to me lol !!!
Buheno
No engine or Transmission
Nope, long gone!
Junk it..
They are not 69.