70Firbird,
You have a good starting point with your car- it's not necessary to spend a lot of coin for a gen-2 'Bird, since the car doesn't know what it is until you bolt all of the parts together. I personally would rather spend $30k in the best Pontiac parts and put together an insanely fast Firebird, instead of the same money on a relatively stock car w/ old technology that will get smoked by just about any new performance car on the market today. Alot of these new Firebird owners are too focused on owning a Firebird to speculate on the musclecar market and make money- I own a Firebird because it's a cool, bad ass car and it kicks ass.
My '72 also started out as a cushy soft Esprit, but is now more of a Frankenchicken- has the T/A fenders, spoilers, Formula hood. It also alot of nice Pontiac parts- 3.08 disc-brake 10 bolt posi from a '79 T/A, 406 w/ RAIII heads, as well as alot of aftermarket gear (H-O racing sway bars and springs, Kirkey aluminum race seats, Ultra-lite gauges, etc.). I've had the car for about 20 years now, but just got back into it after playing with other toys.
Interesting treatment to the factory formula hood- reminds me of the 76 Formula hood. I have the same hood as well, planning to move the scoops back and toward the center over the engine to form a sort of power bulge (I need the extra clearance over the engine so I can run a bigger air cleaner).
I noticed you're in LA- I'm just over the hill in Santa Clarita. PM me and we'll get together, talk Firebird, and see if we can lighten that fat wallet of yours to get some speed parts for your 'Bird.
Geno
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