Sad to say the recession bought it cheap at about 40K.The brutal truth, however, is that the Sprint could not perform on the usual muscle car metrics. My 67 400 Convertible had every factory option except for Tilt wheel, fold down rear seat and the front disc brake option = which was somewhat understandable in 67 as there were still some skeptics out there. Cool stuff! I wonder if this has the ultra rare visor vanity mirrors? Not sure if this had the remote driver door mirror? It has the Arrowhead on the front bumper which was for the “Sport Options Group” which I believe were a lot of little vanity items like the grab handle over the glove box, some trim items, the deluxe interior & the high back bucket seats with the head rests. This one missing the power window option and the fold down rear seat. always blows me away that with this many options they still don’t get all of the options. Pretty rare option – Pontiacs alternative to a POSI. I’ve had a couple 69s and a 67 400 convertible….I had the exhaust redone on the 67 with the Safe T Track differential and the shop took the traction bar off for clearance of my new exhaust and THREW IT AWAY !!!! I said you better get to dumpster diving and thank GOD they found it. Good luck finding that factory traction bar. I am pretty sure this car came with mono leaf rear springs which often sag and are replaced by multi-leaf springs. It is a shame that someone removed the single factory traction bar from the drive wheel which makes it a Safe-T-Track rear end. Where do you think bidding will end on this ’69 Big Daddy ‘bird? Other than that there’s not much to complain about on this well-equipped Firebird. Personally I wish the original buyer had saved the $227.04 for the automatic transmission and gone with the standard four-speed instead. Only the 345 HP Ram Air IV stood above this engine in a 1969 Firebird or Trans Am. The massive aftermarket-looking aluminum air-conditioning compressor bracket is factory correct for this car. The motor is said to run well but the condition is “as is” after a lengthy storage. The listing includes a picture of a build sheet indicating the 335 HP “400 HO” engine and option 611 (Ram Air inlet). Pontiac’s 1969 Sales Brochure called the 400-equipped Firebird the “Big Daddy” of Firebirds, going on to say “ You sure wouldn’t name a machine like that “mom.”” Authentic ’60s sexism aside, this Firebird has plenty to offer Mom or Dad: a nice compliment of wood grain and shiny bits (including the $5.27 optional pedal trim), automatic, Rally gauges and clock, tilt wheel, dual horns, power antennae, power disc brakes, air-conditioning, and more. Interestingly, while the all-new 1970 Firebird got a fresh design on the front end, this ’69 Firebird nose theme found a home on the 1970 Pontiac’s LeMans and GTO (some details from .) Listed here on eBay, this tidy specimen has enticed bidding beyond $13,000 with the reserve not met. This particular Pontiac Firebird 400 HO with Ram-Air in Livonia, Michigan gives up little to most Trans Am-packaged Firebirds from the same year. It still shared its underpinnings with the 67-’68 Firebird and Camaro, but Pontiac put its design stamp on the 1969 model, distancing it visually from the Chevrolet. Fans of the 1969 Pontiac Firebird often note that GM tooled up unique body panels for this final year of its first-generation pony car, making it (cosmetically) a one-year only model.
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