Rick & Michelle Bohler's 67 Firebird
On June 2nd 2006 I purchased this car from e-bay for 10K. I could drive it and it looked good, The car had almost 70% new metal, but most of it was installed incorrectly. It had mostly stock parts and a 455 Oldsmobile motor.
I wanted a truly custom bird, I started updating performance parts like the suspension breaks and such but the gaps in the body lines were driving me nuts so I took the Bird to some trusted body workers and got the news the car was butchered. I found out that the car was once a HOMEMADE convertible and needed to be cut apart and re-welded correctly back together. We had agreed upon a price that turned out to be 1/3 of what I would eventually pay to the shop.
As a professional I designer drew up a design and stuck with it. The Bird spent a little over one year in that shop 2 months by me installing the interior, then three months getting a new Pontiac motor by my good friend Gary Harrison (Harrison Racing Enterprises Jax FL .) See the parts list below.
Shortly after completing the car it was featured in High Performance Pontiac Magazine, It was on the cover and had a six page spread including the centerfold. Check it out: http://www.highperformancepontiac.com/features/hppp_1009_1967_pontiac_firebird/viewall.html
Now I just enjoy driving the car on the weekends to car shows and Dixie Chapter Pontiac events.
PARTS LIST:
1967 400 Pontiac Block
Ross custom pistons +.060 400 4.180 bore
Total Seal Piston Rings
BOP Neoprene rear main seal
Comp Cams Hydraulic Roller Camshaft
Duration @ .050 236 intake 224 exhaust
Lift .520 intake .540 exhaust
Comp Cams hydraulic roller lifters
Edelbrock 877 cc cylinder heads
Custom chrome moly pushrods
PRW 1.5 ratio roller rockers
Eagle H-Beam 6.700 ESP connecting rods
Milling double roller timing chain
Melling 60 psi oil pump
AED performance 850 HO Carburetor
Kauffman North Wind intake and water crossover
Doug's D568 ceramic coated headers
Accel HEI distributor
BOP composite distributor gear
MSD distributor cap
Taylor plug wires
MSD ignition
Power Master hi-torque starter
March Performance serpentine system
Engine built by: Harrison Racing Enterprises (Gary Harrison) Jax FL
Race built Turbo 400 Transmission
Gear Venders overdrive unit
Ridetech complete Air Ride suspension set up
Mark Williams 12 bolt rear end 373 gears
Wilwood Disk brakes, 6 piston calipers with slotted rotors
Flaming River Rack and pinion / Searing column
Ron Davis Aluminum Radiator
SPW power windows
Vintage Air A/C
Spin Tech Exhaust
Rick's stainless steel fuel tank
Complete Alpine sound system
Paint by Old Iron Customs Jax. FL
1969 TA (replica) fiberglass hood
American Racing rogue black wheels 18" X 8.5 rear 17 X 8.5" front
Goodyear Eagle F-1 Tires
