1968 Pontiac Firebird

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Steve Travers’ first car was a ’67 Camaro, so he’d been on the hunt for a first-gen F-body when he came across this ’68 Firebird. Though it had been hit in back, it was relatively rust free, and he had a vision of exactly what to do with it. Steve decided to create a “what if” car, as in “what if” GM had built a 455-powered Trans Am in 1968 with the paint graphics of the ’69 455 Firebird test mule that Pontiac mocked up but never built using the ’69 rear wing and turned aluminum dash? The result is a pretty striking Firebird with a unique personality and a bit of history.


Underhood, Steve brought the power with a 10.5:1 455ci Poncho with KRE D-port heads ported to flow 310 cfm, a .488-lift, 247-degree COMP cam, Harland Sharpe roller rockers, ported Edelbrock Performer intake, Edelbrock Performer 800-cfm carb, PerTronix HEI distributor, and Hooker ceramic-coated headers mated to dual Flowmaster mufflers. Behind that is a Tremec five-speed trans with a McCleod dual disc hydraulic clutch inside a Lakewood bellhousing. For now a GM corporate 10-bolt with 3.23 gears tries to get it all to the tires, but a Moser 12-bolt rear is in the works. The stance on the stock suspension is already pretty good, but Steve plans to up the handling capabilities with a four-link rear and aftermarket front control arms with coilovers.