How about "Plain White Wrapper"

It's plain, it's white, a little rough, but it's got some good stuff underneath.

"it's got some good stuff underneath."

Such as the Auto Club flatbed wrecker taking it back to the CC shop.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.  

Looks more like a "TiredBird" to me.  

Since these cars have become the cheap rides today,

I've got no problem with "Cheap Street Firebird".

The Cheap Street Chevelle, was probably my favorite project car of all time. Its at least part of what inspired me to buy my 68 Chevelle in 1997.

I repect you guys breaking stuff, and admitting screw ups, and including cost more than the fluffy magazines showing big dollar cars that will never see the track.

I hope you stick with it until it runs 10s.

What a coincidence, I bought my 69 in 97 from the influence of cheapstreet.  To bad it hasn't been to cheep  

Heap Street  . . . Blocking Street . . . Waiting-in-street . . . Pushed-down-Street . . . Stalled Street . . .  any of these would seem more accurate than the overused "cheap street" moniker. . . .

Wow have you driven past I coulda used a push.  

Thats funny!

Thanks!  Maybe it will amuse the CC staffers the next time they're waitin' for the bus/auto club.  

why dont we just call it the bird with no name, you know like that song horse with no name?

I went to the track in a bird with no name,

it felt good to be off of the chain... (tow chain)

Broke in the desert, you wanta give it a "name"
'Cause there ain't no wrecker to relieve your pain

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

After two days ... wrenchin' in the sun, my skin began to turn red
After three days of troubleshooting fun, I was looking for L.A. river's bed
And a story told that 'Bird's been stole'd
Made me sad to think it was dead

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

I suspect the CC staff has called the "poopie hooptie 'bird" plenty of names . . . just not ones they can print in a family magazine.

A name for the bird,  how about Fireduck.

Thunderbirds have always been referred to as ThunderChickens, and my friends and I have always referred to Firebirds as Fireducks, hince the screen name. 

If you need help with getting that thing on the road, keeping it on the road, and making it fast without nitrous, send it to me over here on the east coast and I'll take care of that L98 for ya.  These engines have a lot of potential, and so does that car.  The main thing I think you have to figure out is to stop playing with a stock style TPI, and replace the thing with an aftermarket setup like the Stealth-Ram, Mini-Ram, T-Ram or something along those lines.  It will wake that engine up.

SEND IT TO THE EAST COAST?  They probably can't even get Project Birdturd out of Los Angeles County without a tow!

I was thinking about "Fireduck" . . . But all I kept coming up with were "daffy" punch lines.

How about Disco Duck?  It does hang out a lot with that Disco Nova in the CC shop.

Or the Wilshire Breaker (paying backhanded homage to Magneto's still RUNNING (at last report) HRM project car http://www.hotrod.com/projectbuild/113_0401_nova/  (after all, Hot Rod will probably steal the Firebird someday to give away on a Power Tour))

Or Coyote Ugly -- not after the movie, but because (1) it's sort of like the hapless Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons (never catches anything. See http://looneytunes.warnerbros.com/stars_of_the_show/wile_roadrunner/wile_story.html ) and (2) that molting factory paint job sure is ugly!

Beep! Beep! Zzzoooooomm.