My uncle called me tonight, he had the VIN code ran and the car looked at. Its a Firebird Espirt with the stock 301 under the hood, 2.73 rear end gearing, the car gets amazing mileage on the highway. Very impressive stuff, however the one piston needs rings, it has a bit of blow by. Production numbers for Espirit that year was 17,277. only 14,000 came with that 301, most of them were Turbocharged, this one however is not.

firebird? espirit? so its some kind of joint lotus gm thing? i thought ford owned lotus?