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Fast N Fort host Richard Rawlings has found what he calls the automotive industry Holy Grail of the first two Pontiac Firebirds ever built.
Called simply 1 and 2 cars were manufactured by the Pontiac engineers and have been used as models for Firebird 1967, which revolutionized the world of sports muscle car when it left the assembly line.
We found the car in a garage in Connecticut, said Rawlings They were in a dilapidated barn and are the first Firebirds they were handmade and were used by GM to decide whether to build the Firebird.
Discovery will spend the fast episodes N April 21 and April 28 LOUD for Rawlings find, showing how he and his crew, including Aaron Kaufman, restored the two cars, which were purchased for a combined $ 65,000 and sold for 650,000 after each car received 200,000 worth of restoration.
Rawlings said he learned about Firebirds after selling a rare Corvette to a customer.
I always used to ask, do you have anything you want to sell, he said he heard a story of a guy a few towns over who was supposed to have the Firebirds, he said many times it proves to be a ghost story of a cool car proves to be a four-door Nova.
While these cars were the real deal their authenticity was verified by the scrupulous paperwork they were in extremely bad shape.
They were really beaten down and were rusty with their engines firing on the side, Rawlings said the owner was never going to recover, so we made it a pretty heavy supply and the game was.
I wanted to sell them as they were, but someone discovered it and word spread quickly before the cars even had back in Texas, where the show is based A guy wanted them fully restored to use as the centerpieces of a Pontiac museum in North Dakota, and he want to do within 60 days, he said a full restoration to a regular store would take a year or a year and a half, but we finished both cars in the 60 days.
For me it is one of the greatest muscle cars found over the past 20 years, Rawlings said these cars were considered long gone.
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