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'89
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How RAIF and I met...

I was 14 and like any other soon to be driver, I wanted a car when I turned 15.
My choice: a new black GTA Firebird with T-tops.
Yeah, right!
Dad wanted to give me the old 70s Skylark.
Please god, No!
Mom said no way.
Whew!
Being that I am a girl, Mom demanded that I needed a reliable car. She wanted me to get a new car.

There was much deliberation. Many cars were looked at. What I liked, I was not going to get. What he liked I would not want to be caught dead in.

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May 11, 1989...
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I heard the announcement at school on my birthday. �Shannon, do not ride the bus. Your parents will pick you up at school.� This was not a cool thing in junior high. Embarrassed, I went to wait for them after school, but I could not find their car. Then I saw it. A RED FIREBIRD with a huge bow tied around the T-TOP bar.

It was a red 1987 base model, automatic, w/ a 2.8L V-6 FI engine. Darn it Dad! He just couldn't make it a 350 V-8 or the Turbo Trans Am But hey, it had T-tops and was my second choice color.

These are the only stock shots I have of my car.

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NOTE THE FOLLOWING PICS ARE NOT OF MY CAR...SOME ARE BORROWED FROM OTHERS!
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Just using them for an better idea of what the car looking like, seeing as how my pics did not scan well!

This car is so close to how my car was stock�just mine had t-tops and NO louvers. Thanks rhaltunen for posting the link in my guestbook. This car is the superior condition mine was in when I started...

Here is creative2's 86 t-top Firebird. Same paint scheme, but different wheels & emblems!

Here is another bird, just like creative2's might be his not sure!

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INTERIOR
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I had no shots of my interior in stock form. These pics are IDENTICAL to my stock set up down to the door panels with non power cranks! Thanks again rhaltunen!

I asked him to post up some more shots, like of the door panels with them open, the trunk alone from the rear and sides and from the front with the split seats down, but nothing yet! I sure hope he comes thru!

These are pics of a junkyard car with the same basic interior. My car was never in this kind of poor condition...

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ENGINE
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Here is my stock engine before I started to modify it. This is the only pic I have of my engine in stock form.

Here are some pics of other 2.8L engines optioned out just like mine, so you can see what the car looked like in stock form. Now my engine was never as rusty or dirty as these. Remember these are pics of cars that have had a good 15 years of age compared to mine before it was modified. And these are not show cars.

Here is a pic of a white car I saw at the Tipp City Cruise in OH in 2004.
This car had a clean engine bay and was optioned identical to mine.

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HANDLING
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Here is a pic from creative2 of his stock front brakes & calipers!

His drums!

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HOME PAGE

Follow this link to additional information on the car not found on this site!
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DIRECTORY FOR RAIF'S HISTORY SITE
01 Site Overview
02 (1987) Options and window sticker...
03 (1989) Stock pics... <<<
04 (1990) Bottom Accent color changed to Black, Enkei rims, & Tint
05 (1992) Wreck & Added 2 amps
06 (1994) Changer, Alarm, Taillights painted red, Emblems Modified
07 (1998) Engine�s top end rebuilt
08 (1999) Major mods began...Misc. trim, exterior lights, & Alpine head unit
09 (2000) Journal of events
10 (pre July 2001) Journal of events
11 (post July 2001) Journal of events
12 (pre March 2002) Journal of events
13 (March 2002) Pensacola Fiasco
14 (post March 2002) Journal of events
15 Grey and Black Interior
16 Old Sub box
17 Cop Stories
18 Old 2.25 Inch Exhaust
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