TMCP # 465 – Ask Rick; The Real Story of Herb Adams 1970’s Cheverra and Fire AM’s – The First Pro-Touring Muscle Cars!

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Robert Kibbe

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Rick Schmidt is back for our ever-popular "Ask Rick" segment this week and we discussed two different "Pro-Touring" cars in the NPD warehouse that were developed and created by Pontiac engineer Herb Adams. Specifically, the "Fire Am" Firebird and the "Cheverra" Camaro. Interestingly enough though, when these cars were created....there was no such thing as the phrase "Pro-Touring" at all. That phase would not enter the lexicon for at least another 20 years or more. These cars are rare, fast, and fun....and were developed in the late 1970's! Here's the fully story.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 465. This week, Rick Schmidt is here for the
0:07.3	Ask Rick segment and a little history on the first pro touring car. And no, I'm not talking about a car
0:13.5	built by Mark Stilo. It was built by a different GM engineer, suspension engineer,
0:18.4	Herb Adams, in the early 1980s in a, wait for it, disco-era
0:23.5	Camaro. That's what I like to call the late-70s Camaros. And this thing worked big time.
0:28.8	And it wasn't just a suspension upgrade either. It was tires, brakes, body, and arrow, with some
0:33.9	ideas borrowed from the Germans.
0:35.6	They call there's a Carrera, what the whole are the Chevre.
0:38.3	The whale tail, which is also very functional, was also styled, ripped right off the back of a Porsche.
0:47.3	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
0:51.3	Brought to you by National Parks Depotot this is the weekly show dedicated to people
0:57.0	worldwide who love american muscle cars whether you're buying them selling restoring or even racing them
1:04.4	this is the place for you now here's your host rob kibby yes indeed i am indeed, I am, Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.
1:14.6	Fun show today.
1:15.4	Rick is here for Ask Rick.
1:17.2	And yes, I am releasing this show a week early.
1:20.0	I know what I told you in the last episode.
1:22.2	Change my mind.
1:23.1	So, typically, we release the first three Fridays of each month and I take the fourth week off.
1:29.3	Well, if you do your math, you also realize that if I'm doing three weeks a month, that's 36 a year.
1:35.8	That means that there's two months that I have an extra week off on to make all the math workout.
1:42.8	Well, April 2021 has these five beautiful Fridays in it.
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