New Bf Goodrich Was Thus Certain The Radial T/A Was The Nearly Capable Tire Made, They Pose The Street Tire To The Examination Inwards The 1970 Too 71 Scca Trans Am Races, Too Won Spell Competing Against Stickier Racing Chemical Compound Tires, Too Larry Dent Won His Course Of Teaching At Watkins Glen Inwards 71. They Thus Called His Machine The Tirebird
Dan at Hemmings Blog did an article inwards 2010:
I’m non certain anybody has a straightaway even on how many Tirebirds were built yesteryear Jerry Titus as well as Terry Godsall to promote as well as race on the novel B.F.Goodrich radials inwards 1970. Add inwards the fact that Goodrich wanted Titus to own several replicas for farther promotional purposes
This was the tertiary of 3 cars built yesteryear TG Racing for the 1970 Trans Am season. Titus’ partner Terry Godsall secured BF Goodrich sponsorship for the squad at the halt of the 1970 season. The squad convinced the SCCA to allow this auto to run amongst a Chevy engine instead of the problematic Pontiac engine base of operations on the fact that Canadian Firebirds were delivered amongst Chevy engines.
This auto was entered inwards the 1971 Daytona 24 hours every bit a Firebird as well as therefore was converted to Camaro body run inwards fourth dimension for Sebring.
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And therefore I learned inwards Sept 2018, that they made 6 promotional cars!
a BFG contract as well as a magazine advertizing campaign. Part of the contract was for T/G Racing to own vi BFG “Tire Bird” exhibit cars, a play on the Firebird’s name. They would endure purchased novel from Royal Pontiac inwards Los Angeles as well as modified inwards the T/G store inwards Tarzana, California.
With virtually of 1970 production finished, BFG started amongst 1971 models. The vi Trans Ams were built to expect similar T/G’s Trans-Am race car, featuring the particular bluish as well as white pigment system as well as “92” on the doors as well as hood. But they were strictly for show. Though T/G stripped the Pontiacs of their stock interiors as well as insulation as well as installed i race spot as well as a dismiss extinguisher, their “rollcages” were made from exhaust pipes. The “fuel cell” inwards the torso was a mock cover.
Each promo Trans Am was equipped amongst an H.O. 455 big-block backed yesteryear an M21 four-speed transmission. BFG Radial T/A tires mounted on magnesium Minilite wheels were mutual to both the race auto as well as the exhibit car, every bit were hoodpins as well as rear-window bracing.
BFG distributed the vi promo models to tire stores approximately the solid soil to set on display as well as line attending to the novel Radial T/A. When the racing programme ended afterward the 1971 season, BFG sold off the promo cars.
Tom Senter bought this detail California promo Tire Bird from BFGoodrich when he was editor of Popular Hot Rodding magazine inwards Los Angeles inwards 1972. Johnson says, “They gave him a crate that had the master interior parts. He took all the interior out—the racing stuff—and set the regular interior dorsum in, as well as made a street auto out of it.”
The H.O. 455, however inwards the engine bay, had already been burned upward when soul inwards the store drove the auto amongst no engine oil. Senter sold the H.O. 455 for $300 as well as used his contacts at Pontiac to effort to laid out i of the novel Super Duty 455s. This was belatedly 1972, as well as the 455 SD was non available.
Senter contacted friends at Berger Chevrolet inwards Michigan to purchase (for $750!) a Chevrolet LS6 454 amongst 11.25:1 compression. He documented the own inwards PHR every bit he transformed the auto into a high-speed route racer. True to his hot rod background, Senter removed the graphics as well as painted the nighttime bluish body Ferrari Fly Yellow.