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Tuesday
June 24, 2008

10:10 AM

Grant Hutchinson
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Birds on the hood

For the past ten years, San Antonian car nut Jimmy Means has been meticulously maintaining The Premier Firebird Trans Am Gallery … which pretty much explains what the site is about right there. What really caught our visually vehicular attention was the Firebird Hood Graphic Table, cataloging heraldically-emblazoned hood birds produced between 1970 through 1981. Since our very own Veer Hood was inspired by classic Pontiac supergraphics (even though the “canvas” actually came from a ’79 Camaro … oops), this gallery has a special place in our hearts.

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Nice find. I think the classic era of Firebirds ended in 1982... coincidentally the year they stopped putting screaming chickens on the hoods.

And then I said …
Jon Parker

You speak like an expert on the subject, Jon. You have a barn full of vintage muscle cars stashed away somewhere in southern Alberta, don’t you?

Although I certainly appreciate this particular era of fast-backed North American testosterone, I’m more of a Studebaker Avanti guy, myself.

And then I said …
Grant Hutchinson

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