Cheers or Jeers: 11 Mile 1979 Pontiac Trans Am

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http://cgi.ebay.com/...=item27c2a2f410

This car has been stored in a climate controlled enviroment for 33years. This car still has factory original tires. Original window sticker has never been remove. Not sure what else to say the car is the way GM made it. WITH ONLY 11 MILES

I like the car, but for the money it's going for. It's not a signifigant enough model to sit in a garage with only 11 miles on it. It should be well taken care of but still driven and had fun with (and look totally awesome in).

Step 1: Buy Trans Am

Step 2: Grow Epic Porn Stache

Step 3: Roll Up in Trans Am

Step 4: Beat Off Bitches With A Stick

Any questions?

I like the car, but for the money it's going for. It's not a signifigant enough model to sit in a garage with only 11 miles on it. It should be well taken care of but still driven and had fun with (and look totally awesome in).

Actually, the tenth anniversary T/A is pretty rare (much moreso with the 6.6 and a 4spd.), and entirely worthy of being kept as a museum piece.

I had the worst case of car lust for these when they were new. A local Pontiac dealer (long gone) had a 4spd. example in the showroom in '79 when I first got my license. I'd take my '66 Dodge and pull in just to look at the T/A for extended periods of time.

I'd still like to have one of these.

Edited January 28, 201214 yr by Camino LS6

^ 10th anniversary is notable, but 7500 units is not quite 'rare' IMO. Granted- how many are left...

Camino, your post is like Old Home Week for me. I've rolled up on lots and gazed at cool vehicles countless times. It's a bittersweet dream, mostly. But I wouldn't trade it.

^ 10th anniversary is notable, but 7500 units is not quite 'rare' IMO. Granted- how many are left...

Only about 1,500 were 4spds. if memory serves.

Camino, your post is like Old Home Week for me. I've rolled up on lots and gazed at cool vehicles countless times. It's a bittersweet dream, mostly. But I wouldn't trade it.

I'm with you on that - I was so sure that I could earn enough money...

At 16, this car had me by the short hairs.

Total Firebird production in '79 was over 211,000.

Of the 10th ann. cars, only 1800 or so had the 6.6 Pontiac engine, the rest had the 403 Olds engine.

Unknown how many were 4spd. cars.

The '79 Trans Am in dark blue caught my attention in an ad in Car & Driver and Motor Trend when I was 8 yrs old. Still like that year..

This was also the Daytona 500 pace car in '79, and a few of them wear the official decals (the showroom special I gawked at had them).

Edited January 28, 201214 yr by Camino LS6

Now that would be a keeper but I'd still want to drive it!

I always did like those turbine wheels.

^ yeah and those slotted ones on C4 'Vettes too

As far as Pontiac wheels go, I'm a precious little snowflake fan. I also love the Rallye II wheel.

I generally prefer the snowflake and Rallye wheels, but these wheels, on this car, are just right. They were never again used on another car in this form, but appeared in painted form on the T/A turbo pace car the next year.

Bandit II in 1980 had that type of wheels in gold.

Bandit II in 1980 had that type of wheels in gold.

Yep, forgot about that.

Still like the polished version on the 10th better than the painted versions.

It's cool. But 5K cool. Not 31K cool.

It's cool. But 5K cool. Not 31K cool.

5k?

This car has 11 miles on it!

At the bid amount of 31k I'd say that yes, it has topped out. However, the car is worth 25k or more all day long.

The market for 70s T/As is very hot right now and any pristine or restored example will bring decent money - let alone a museum-quality car like this.

Yep it's a new car less a warranty that just came through a worm hole

Camino, your post is like Old Home Week for me. I've rolled up on lots and gazed at cool vehicles countless times. It's a bittersweet dream, mostly. But I wouldn't trade it.

Agreed!

As far as Pontiac wheels go, I'm a precious little snowflake fan. I also love the Rallye II wheel.

I'm a snowflake, Rallye II, AND a honeycomb fan

(My mom's '83 GP LJ had the Rallye II's)

The market for 70s T/As is very hot right now and any pristine or restored example will bring decent money - let alone a museum-quality car like this.

Queue Smoky and the Bandit remake in 5...4....3...

The Rally IIs had a pretty long run at Pontiac...'67-8x ?

Edited January 30, 201214 yr by Cubical-aka-Moltar

The market for 70s T/As is very hot right now and any pristine or restored example will bring decent money - let alone a museum-quality car like this.

Queue Smoky and the Bandit remake in 5...4....3...

It would probably be a box office hit...

The market for 70s T/As is very hot right now and any pristine or restored example will bring decent money - let alone a museum-quality car like this.

Que Smoky and the Bandit remake in 5...4....3...

It would probably be a box office hit...

Surprised there hasn't been a remake...but who could play the Bandit?

The market for 70s T/As is very hot right now and any pristine or restored example will bring decent money - let alone a museum-quality car like this.

Queue Smoky and the Bandit remake in 5...4....3...

It would probably be a box office hit...

Surprised there hasn't been a remake...but who could play the Bandit?

It will probably end up being Jake Gyllenhaal

America: one big re-run.

The market for 70s T/As is very hot right now and any pristine or restored example will bring decent money - let alone a museum-quality car like this.

Queue Smoky and the Bandit remake in 5...4....3...

It would probably be a box office hit...

Surprised there hasn't been a remake...but who could play the Bandit?

It will probably end up being Jake Gyllenhaal

Danny McBride could do the southern character w/ a moustache well, I think..

America: one big re-run.

Ain't that the pathetic truth.

Ain't that the pathetic truth.