Saw this over on the 'Wagons' Facebook page. The owner is Jeff Yost, and he gave me permission to post it here. text from the FB entry: Here's my summer daily driver, street machine. It's an 83 Bonneville. When I bought it in the late 90's, It had 29K actual miles. I redid it a few years back. I took the woodgrain off because it was peeling off. I would have put it back on but at the time, I couldn't buy any that looked similar. I painted it the original Medium Maple metallic, and shoehorned in a 500h.p 455. I used a 1972 block and put on a set of self-ported 1971 #96 heads, edelbrock RPM intake, and my own reworked 800 q-jet. Cam is a Comp. XE-268H-10. Headers are only 1 5/8, 4-tubes. Exhaust is 3in. duals with Flowmasters. I drive it to the dragstrip from time to time and it runs consistent 13.20's in the 1/4, weighing in at 4200lbs, with me in it, with stock interior. I'm running the stock 7.5 metric rear,( which I figured I would break within a week), but surprisingly I haven't touched it, with Moser axles, stock posi and a 3.08 gear, with an LPW braced cover. Trans is just a 350 turbo with shift kit and a B&M Holeshot 3000 converter. It has been a mean little grocery getter, over the years and I have a lot of fun in this car. Along with my 68 Tempest Safari, it makes a good bookend.
