Cascade Crew

chevymad · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:28 pm Post subject: The real firebird

Or the one that almost was. This just went up for sale. Didnt reach reserve though.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1964-Pontiac-Banshee-Firebird-Corvette-Concept-Show-Car-/150490497996?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item2309eec3cc#ht_1747wt_1165

iansane · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject:

Pontiac Corvette! Sweeeeet. This is what I've modeled my car after! Very Happy

chevymad · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject:

Did you notice the model year... 1964.. a bit before the vette came out with that style in 68.

iansane · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:47 pm Post subject:

Ha! Wow. Pontiac ahead of the curve there. Or I guess just serving as inspiration. Did some of the guys from the xp833 design team just sidestep into the stingray design team?

chevymad · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject:

I think it was just "inspiration"

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject:

Speaking of firebirds, did anyone see that deal on cardomain that they built a camaro and cloned it to look like the prototype for the firebird that was also...never made..

Personally I'm a camaro guy by a long shot, but i gotta say, the would be 5th Gen firebird had alot more going for it.

Dewey316 · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject:

corey davidson · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:14 am Post subject:

Myself being partial to Pontiac and Corvettes this would be b/a.

flea · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:16 am Post subject:

Looks like a corvette with an opel hood

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:20 am Post subject:

From the front it kinda looks like a Lambo Miura.

91RSVert · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:24 am Post subject:

I am wondering what the bludge in the hood is for.

Maybe I need to look at the link.

:Edit:
Inline six, to keep up with the mustang? Laughing

I like the roof!!

RSFreak · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:54 am Post subject:

My dad had an Opel GT in the mid '70s that looked very similar to that. Pretty badass! Cool

Whiskeychick · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject:

RSFreak · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject:

Lingenfelter and Kevin Morgan also built 5thgen T/As, both of which look better than the Firebreather IMO. Wink

chevymad · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject:

Pontiac's overhead cam inline 6 was designed for this car. Delorean wanted a 2 seat personal sports car, and in those days almost all sports cars used inline 6's.

The opel was either modeled off the vette or this as well. I think design time was a bit shorter back then, then today. Every model year used slightly different sheetmetal and seems like they changed the whole car up about every 2 years. 63-4, 65-6, 67-8 impalas or 64-5, 66-7, 68-9, 70, 71-2 chevelles.

Story is that this car and the 68 vette were both designed at the same time ... without either side knowing what the other was building. Seems hard for me to believe that they'd come up with basically the same car!

This car is a bit smaller then a vette too.. probably more like the opel actually. Delorean didnt expect to go head to head with the vette(at least thats what he told gm) hence the 6 cylinder. But the ragtop version did have the pontiac v/8 in it. I see some first gen f-body in the roofline a bit myself.

Frankly.. find it damn sexy.. I'd take one right now.. even with the 6!

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:04 pm Post subject:

firebreather, thank you lol.

thing looks sweet, so does that white one posted up. why couldn't they make one of those instead, i've only seen 1 new camaro around here that looked half way decent, it had a bodykit of some sort on it, and different paintjob.

those 2 have a bit more character. more to look at.

chevymad · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject:

Pic of the v/8 ragtop and one of the Opel GT, Notice the umm.. figure of the model.. Man the torpedos!

flea · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:26 am Post subject:

67 horsepower. That's almost twice the power of a 1500 CC 1970 VW beetle.

Wow, makes you wonder if that much raw power was even street legal.

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:53 am Post subject:

Horsepower to weight ratio, flea. 102hp in a car that weighs 1900lbs. Wink

Twilightoptics · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:42 am Post subject:

Someone say power to weight?