#68 FIREBIRD MANUAL#

“To this day, I really don’t think the seller knew what he had,” Trevor Heryet says. The man he bought it from had decided to sell the car when his twin teenage boys reached driving age and started pushing to take over the car. He is the fourth person to drive the rare Pontiac Firebird Sprint.

In the more than 20 years he has owned the car, Heryet has added 16,000 miles to the 50,000 miles his car had traveled when he purchased it.

To do the colour change, he completely gutted the car of all interior pieces and had the car resprayed to factory specifications. The body and paint needed some attention so he took the opportunity to change the colour to another 1968 Pontiac offering – Aleutian Blue. When he discovered the engine had a slight knock, he pulled it out and had it rebuilt. Article contentīeing mechanically inclined and to a pilot’s exacting standards, he installed new rear springs, shock absorbers and added front disc brakes along with other mechanical and safety improvements. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The interior seems to be rendered fully custom with race seats. The ‘68 Firebird, owned by Brad Weinman, has custom body lines, flared fenders, a lowered stance and a custom deep red and white paint scheme in the rendered drawing from Kaucher Kustoms. gasoline (petrol) engine with displacement: 5798 cm3 / 353.8 cui, advertised power: 238.6 kW / 320 hp / 324 PS ( SAE gross ), torque: 515 Nm / 380 lb-ft, more data: 1968. Thanks to AMCarGuide, we can see a special custom Firebird designed by Kaucher Kustoms.

#68 FIREBIRD MANUAL#

RWD (rear-wheel drive), manual 4-speed gearbox. The engine option cost more than the 350 cubic inch V8.įirebird Sprint models also had heavy-duty suspension. manufactured by Pontiac in United States. That engine came equipped with a four-barrel carburetor, a chrome air cleaner cover and low restriction dual exhausts and produced 215 horsepower at 5500 rpm. But some quick research showed it was a separate model with very special options – particularly when equipped with the ZE ‘cammer’ engine. Heryet thought the Sprint designation for a Firebird was simply just about unique badging. They were called Banshee and were equipped with a six-cylinder engine similar to the double overhead cam engines powering Jaguar XKE sports cars.Īlthough the Banshee project was killed so as not to compete with Corvettes, the engine lived on as optional power for Pontiac models introduced in 1967, including the new Firebird. In the mid-Sixties, Pontiac head John DeLorean had a pair of very special two-seat sports cars built. Restored Pontiac Trans Am fit for Smokey and the Bandit.But a Firebird Sprint with a high-performance overhead cam six-cylinder engine was almost unheard of. He knew these cars were very special and very rare. Trevor Heryet had been a car-crazy teenager in Victoria when a few first edition Firebird Sprints started cruising the streets.

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