Frosty

We had a car show up here in the north called Chrome and Ice at our local hockey arena. The arena sports an Ontario Hockey League (OHL) team called the Flint Firebirds. The show was put on by the same organizers that do the Back to the Bricks events in Flint that are a complementary/alternative events to the Woodward Dream Cruise every year. The arena has two hocley rinks and it filled them both with 104 cars. In two weeks it will be time for the Detroit Autorama. First off - a Knight Industries Two Thousand (a.k.a. KITT) was there. This one was LS powered. What I liked about it was the fact that they painted the Knight Industries logo on the engine cover on both sides plus the Knight symbol on the armrest. This is one the best KITT replicas I've seen. This one is just pure drool factor for me. Here is a '72 Lemans that the guy has had since high school. It sports a blown big block Chevy (dang it!) with air conditioning and nitrous. The windows are heavily tinted so you can't see the interior from the outside. I was luck enough to talk to owner and he popped the door open for me to see inside (since the door handles are shaved) and showed me his custom dash. He works for Continental Tire and they purchased VDO gages from Siemens a few years ago. He was given this dash/gages free from his company! They look great. The paint is a custom mix of Lucerne Blue with some metal flake and pearl added in. I asked him what was inspiration for the black "bumblebee" stripe. He said "let's try this and see what it looks like". He said he when he first purchased the spoiler, they placed on the deck lid of a buddy's lime green Dodge Dart, therefore he had to go buy a second one for this car. Now there is a Dodge Dart out there somewhere with a Pontiac spoiler on it! Here is a unique T-bucket. Ever see one with a Lincoln Zephyr flathead V-12 in it? The owner says he has four spares! Also note - this car has no speedometer, just oil, gas, and water gages.

Happy birthday 360! BTW - Don autographed my two books and he's already sent them back.

Mishican? Nice.

You need to post pictures of them more often then sunshine. That way Ghost knows you are alive and contracting melanoma or wearing SPF 1000.

Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

Come to think of it, does Ringo ever go to a Pontiac show these day? Especially since he has the (dare I say it?) Camaro?

I would love to see restoration progress pictures.

Thanks, mind you a lot of that change was not 100% my choice. You will have to share your story with me sometime. I am always interested to know what my fellow car friends have done or do for a living.

Bozhe moi! Welcome to FP Omnidrift. Can't wait to see what you have to post on your car.

Not that time, just a loose nut behind the steering wheel. Let's just say they took the long way, not the wrong way.

I keep thinking of how no one ever seems to brag how great Floridian summers are with: 1. Hurricanes and/or tropical storms 2. Torrential rains, tornadoes, and high wind storms 3. Heat and humidity indexes at or over 100 nearly every day 4. Skeeters, fire ants, and other biting critters. 5. Old retirees that didn't go back to Michigan and Ontario for the summer and drive as slow as hell. 6. Flooding 7. Devil Rays baseball

....and lost to a Nissan Altima getting to Cooter's for dinner.

Or pehaps a dude that will soon learn the meaning of "his" and "hers" towels in prison.

So what you are saying GE is that you have a roadkill life, now you have a (near) roadkill wife.

Nothing like the smell of unburned hydrocarbons and burned vulcanzed rubber, eh Joe?

Yes Joe, we are proud of you. Of course, your neighbors, not so much.

I consider this a non-Pontiac wanna be.... Lot 970 - 2010 Banshee TA (a Camaro SS by any other name) sold for $55,000. Photos from B-J's website. Lot #970 - This Banshee TA is a collaboration of Hermance Design and Restore a Muscle Car. Based on the new Camaro, this Firebird conversion package is intended to fill the void left by the demise of Pontiac. This fresh design is the embodiment of what could have been. It features boldly modern styling carefully blended with a legendary heritage and a list of performance and comfort options. With 8,500 actual miles, it's been driven on two Bandit Runs, features in multiple magazines, SEMA, websites and car shows. The Banshee will be the feature article in an upcoming edition of High Performance Pontiac. The Banshee wails again, it was Car Crazy Booth at SEMA. Options Include: In-dash NAV screen, Kenwood/Kicker sound system, supercharger kits, Pedders super car suspension kit, Baer Extreme+ Kit with 6-piston calipers, year-one custom 22" snowflake wheels, Nitto Invo tires, Kook 1-7/8" headers, MagnaFlow 3" exhaust, custom paint colors and graphics as well as custom interior colors.

You must learn patience!

That's same thing happens in both NASCAR and at the pharmacy counter when only one of the siamese twins is going to get lucky! Stopping for left side rubber only!

This is your lucky month 360! Congrats!

But they have hundreds for the wife's Mailibu?

A new cold deer intake?

Is this terribly shocking news? Automakers look for any excuse to raise prices. Consumers are always expected to pay in the end. I have not yet seen any manufacturer price war themselves to lower prices, it's always up! Just a matter of time before they price themselves out of business.

Prior to working in Warren, I spent my early years at AC Spark Plug and later Delco Electronics in Flint before moving over to GM Powertrain in Flint and later Pontiac when Buick City closed.

Hi Bud, welcome to FP. The original Kelsey-Hayes 8-lug wheels did have LH and RH threads through out the entire production run. The thread size is 1/2 - 20. So if you are staying truly original you would have to buy the dual threaded lug nuts. That said, you could replace the reverse thread side of the car with new standard wheel studs and buy all the same lugs. However, this option will require some work getting the old studs off the wheel hubs, front and rear. I Doubt a concurs judge would ever know the difference.