I have had a few 2nd gen birds over the years like over 30
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and still at 44 have s few birds and daily drive a early 70s t/a clone in the summer....I am SO old school it embarrass my 20 yo son
100% TRUE STORY as to why I love firebirds....and I would LOVE to hear why you LOVE FIREBIRDS !
It all started FOR ME when my 23 year old long haired COOL uncle rolled up at dusk at my moms house.This guy was always driveing the best cars in the 70s from DZ302 to a pantera and all coolness in between.....in fact he still keeps the faith... I just seen him 3 weeks ago in his crazy factory supercharged cobra stang.
Well back to WHY I LOVE FIREBIRDS....
Uncle came over to show me his new rootbeer brown 77 t-top TA with red cloth interior ,it had a red painted dome light cover this was in the summer of 1977 .Just the parking lights were on,black sabbath was playing.
He had 2 drunk girls dressed in terry cloth tops in the car and a joint in his mouth...he gets out and walks over to me standing with my jaw dropped I am sure all the way to the side walk and says "hey man, when ya going to get a girl friend" ? I said nothing.... he then says "you know man, if I thought your mom would not kill me I would take you out tonight"..I never spoke a word just nodded .....He left with a great burnout....
I was 12 years old ,it seems like he was their for awhile but really it was only a few min but it really set a thought pattern up ,as to my 12 year old mind it was that bird on the hood it had to be ! The mighty TRANS AM KING OF ALL CARS ! FAST,GIRLS,FAST LIFE STYLE ..TRANS AM
All I thought was ....WOW JUST WOW !
I was able to get my first ta at 17 ..a 76 carousel red 400 4 speed car original owner car with 70,000 easy miles on it...my uncles great background with hot rods helped me choose it from the many,many trans ams for sale . It was a original mint but very expensive used car at 2200.00 and the 100.00 loan payment was really killing me but well it had to be done !!!!
We installed a new clutch,dueled it off ,opened the shaker ,tuned the carb,recurved dist and removed that evil emissions crap and away I went for my own summer of cruising fun and trust me I partied that car to death and when sold with 80,000 + on the clock the next summer it was ready to go the great trans am heaven in the sky
I was to young to drive in the 70s so I missed the true KING of the street days for the 2nd gen trans ams... but they still had lots of street respect left in the early 1980s and still worked great to pick up chicks and were great party cars...they were fast street type cars cars and with just a bit of tweaking were very fast street cars,they were also tough cars and could handle a lot of abuse,they were safe cars also for some reason and were good at avoiding accidents...I never crashed a trans am but did a 1980 z-28 weird but the z seemed unstable compared to the trans am in the same moves and well T/A only had room for a partner and 2 chicks well 3 - 4 chicks if you piled them in but only 2 dudes ever....