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The Pontiac Spotlight:
FIRE INJUN'

The Pontiac Spotlight will feature a different Pontiac each month. If you have a Pontiac that you would like featured here please email me your details and a few pictures to share.

For December 1980 Trans Am

This 1980 ex-Pro Stock drag car is owned by Brad Thompson. The car is a all tube chassis, 4 link, 9" 4:10, it weights out at 2450 w/ driver. Fire Injun is an appropriate name for a Fireman's drag car. Brad runs with Beat the Heat inc. Which is a group of Police and Fireman that drag race. They travel around educating kids on the proper place to race. They set up high school drags and displays.

There is a Jet Sonic light bar and strobe kit with a lights in all four corners. While the lights are for show, there was a 950hp 474 Pontiac with a 871 blower and 12 to 1 compression for the go. This would push the T/A easily in to the high 7's. However, the 474 is now history as Brad puts it: " At the Night of Fire event I ran exhibition run against a Pro Mod Nova Police Car out of Waco Tx. The motor let a rod go at the top end and we looked like a roman candle at 168 mph." I'm sure that there were more that a few Firemen around to help put that blaze out. Today, there is a "freshened up" 462 Injected Pontiac that still runs 8's.

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1979 Hurst Grand Am
1998 Trans Am WS6
2000 Grand Prix Pace Car
1969 Firebird HO Ram Air
1978 Firebird Sky Bird
1977 Trans Am
1980 Trans Am
1968 Firebird Ram Air I

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