[72blackbird]

NOT A T/A,
Nice 'Bird! I can't even remember when my 'Bird was as clean as yours (well, actually it was about 15 years ago-LOL). I like the rims, the retro look rims (Torque Thrusts?) always look good with the classic lines of our cars.

From your posts I can see that great minds think alike- in the '90s I was planning to run the Silver State Classic in Nevada as well. But as you found out firsthand, you need to get the safety gear ( cage, fuel cell, fire supression system) in there first before anyone will let you run any high-speed road course or time trial event. I used to be a really gutsy kid, street and canyon racing in my 'Bird, no cage, only safety gear was a fire extinguisher. It took two blown motors for me to figure out that stock Pontiac rods and cranks are not so good for any kind of top-end racing. But those stock Pontiac motors could still rev to 6000 rpms and run at 140-145 mph for a couple of top end runs before they faded out- not bad for stock internals.

I'm in the process of stripping my interior out, sorting out my subframe and chassis, as well as setting up my garage for the serious chassis work ahead- hard to work on the car with a garage full of clutter. I'm going to get some tube steel and build a jig, so at least I'll know the chassis and cage is square. Hopefully I can still use the subframe, if it's not too out of square.

I've got two 406's- one in the car and the other torn apart already. I need to put some better pistons and rods, better valves in the heads in the running motor, so it will come out soon, get the new parts and get a quick refreshing- much quicker to do that instead of building a 462, which needs e-heads and alot more money.

Geno