{"id":3009,"date":"2013-12-25T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:46:19","slug":"1973-pontiac-trans-am-with-twin-turbo-ls7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=3009","title":{"rendered":"1973 Pontiac Trans Am with a Twin-Turbo LS7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9o2vnfEXmNM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ScottieDTV\">ScottieDTV<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/blog\/video-a-look-at-year-ones-awesome-brewster-green-mcq-1973-trans-am-twin-turbos-baer-brakes-and-a-bunch-more.html\">Bangshift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: ScottieDTV and Bangshift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pontiac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108002,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=108002","url_meta":{"origin":3009,"position":0},"title":"Pontiac Trans Am Race Car with a Mid-Engine Twin-Turbo LSR V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The father and son team at Horizon Motorsports spent 15,000 hours creating \"Hammerhead\" 1973 Pontiac Trans Am for time attack racing. 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