Good to see another active Fiero club out and about!

There will be a Jet City Fieros club meeting at Beaver Lake Park, 25201 SE 24th St, Sammamish, WA 98075 at 11am this Saturday, August 15th. Bring lunch and a lawn chair. We'll be socially distanced, but together sitting in an open space between the lodge and pavilion. If you're into Fieros, come on by! Hope to see you there.

Is anyone going to the gig in Seattle next year? It's actually in Belleveue..

Expensive stupid money in my opinion. For my needs, no one would get that much coin out of me for a single carb. I purchased a 400 4-bbl carb plus intake later at Norwalk for '$50.00. It was '72 correct, not numbers matching. At the time, I wanted '72 correct. I'm over that now too. It just needs to look stock from 2-10 feet away. I don't have a numbers matching ride, so it doesn't matter. Now my Trans Am could be another matter since I am the only owner. It is all original survivor and all the hard to find pieces are already there anyway.

expensive

Even so, the guy asking $1800 for a 1972 4-bbl carb that was for a GTO with a 455 H.O. and a 4-speed manual. I told that guy that he was going home with that carb. No one was going to pay that much for it. He said someone doing a concurs correct restoration would. I saw him again at the Pontiac Nationals in Norwalk Ohio a month later. He was down to $1500 but he still had not sold it. That is what I call 'stupid money'.

I was a great time. I just was not prepared to get a new motor.

Sounds like you had fun!

It was a mixed bag.... It was a great show, and it was only 45 miles from my house (in Pontiac Michigan). It was the 40th Anniversary of the GTO that year. I got to meet Rhys Millen and he did a phenomenal drifting demo in the (then) new '04 GTO. My dad was invited to get into a drifting GTO driven by another stunt driver. I also got to test drive the GTO, and Northstar V8 powered Bonneville. I was impressed with both cars. I talked with Arnie Beswick, Paul Zarrazine (noted musclecar expert and author of the GTO Restoration Guide) and Jim Wangers. I had attended Wanger's talk in 2004 at the All-GM Nationals at Carlisle (PA) just before the GTO convetion. He had given a lecture on how understated the old GTO TV commercials were and why. He remembered me. In Carlisle, I had challenged him that Pontiac was still understating the new GTO in it's TV Ads. He was taken aback by my comments and he asked some follow-up questions at the convention. In the end, I convinced him of my point. BTW - I spoke to Jim briefly at the POCI convention in Charleston WV this summer too. I picked up an uber-cheap 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust system for my '72 convertible. Pypes was justing getting into the exhaust market that year and they were selling a complete exhaust system at the convention for just $250!!!! The really bad thing that happened was coming home from the convention, my car started running hot. About 5 miles from home, I was on the expressway when the engine starting knocking. I turned it off as quickly as I could but the engine seized up before I got the ignition off. I had blown my 455. So for the rest of the convention I spent buying engine parts. I got another 455 block in the swap meet area. Turns out my 455 was not a numbers matching engine anyway. So I ended up getting another '72 date coded 455 block. When the old engine was torn down, it turned out that the number 8 rod broke into 3 pieces and ripped holes in both sides of the oil pan. My engine builder had never seen that happen before (broken into 3 pieces insteand of just two). I still have the old 455 block. It needs to be sleeved but it can otherwise be re-used. The new motor was bored .030 over, now making it a 462. There's no replacement for displacement!!!

damn thats a long drive haha

Oh How was it then?

Sadly, it's too far for me to swing this year. If it was closer to the midwest, I'd go. I went in to it in 2004.

Anyone going?

The GTOAA will be holding their annual convention in Portland Oregon from July 4-8, 2011. This is the first time their convention has been held on the west coast. http://www.gtoaa.org/national.cfm http://goatherd.com/events/2011-gtoaa-intl-convention/