{"id":13197,"date":"2015-04-02T08:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=13197"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T19:14:32","slug":"1967-firebird-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/1967-firebird-x\/","title":{"rendered":"1967 Firebird X"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1967<\/a><\/p>\n

1967 Firebird X<\/p>\n

It was 1967 when GM forced Pontiac to drop DeLorean\u2019s sports car\u2014the Banshee. His bosses at GM felt that the Banshee would be a threat to Chevrolet\u2019s Corvette. Pontiac leadership felt that \u00a0they had a winner with their new Firebird, which was designed using cues\u2014and parts, from the Camaro\u2019s body, and the GTO\u2019s drivetrain.<\/p>\n

According to a note by engineer Ben Harrison, by the end of March, 1967, over 33,000 Firebirds were sold, 77.8 percent had V-8 engines, 70.4 percent had automatic transmissions, 15.3 percent had four-speed manual transmissions, and 13.8 percent came with a limited-slip differential. The production year ended in September \u201967.<\/p>\n

As the saying goes, when the top goes down, the price goes up. That means that this beauty is definably an up-sell. What intrigues us about this car is the badging on the front fenders. For all intents and purposes, it\u2019s a normal looking Firebird. So, what is the GM-X all about? Have any ideas? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 1967 Pontiac Firebird was meant to compete with the Camaro. So what’s this GM-X stuff all about? No really, we’re asking you!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":13200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,2169],"tags":[1337,2171,2173,2175,39,2176,109,385,2172,67,1629,1468,2174,2170,663],"class_list":["post-13197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-throwback-thursday","tag-tbt","tag-1967-firebird","tag-1967-firebird-x","tag-ben-harrison","tag-chevrolet","tag-convertible","tag-corvette","tag-firebird","tag-firebird-x","tag-gm","tag-muscle-car","tag-pontiac","tag-the-banshee","tag-throwback","tag-throwback-thursday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1967-Firebird-SM-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-3qR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13741,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions\/13741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}