The car is said to be painted in factory carousel red which is the same paint code as Chevrolet’s Hugger Orange. I have a 1976 Trans Am painted in Carousel Red and it looks great on the 2nd generation Firebird body style. The body has some rust bubbling in the lower body panels. Dem...
Rockford’s car was gold but the clean lines of the 2nd Generation of the Pontiac Firebird carried through all the way to 1981. This 1979 Pontiac Firebird Esprit is said to be original but the comments also state that it was restored 20 years ago and then stored in a garage....
The development and history of the short-lived 1966-1969 Pontiac OHC six, the Tempest Le Mans Sprint, and Firebird Sprint.
Planned for 1972 as a GTO option was the ducktail rear spoiler from the Pontiac Firebird, but after a few cars were built with that option, the mold used to produce the spoiler broke, and it was cancelled. Rally II and honeycomb wheels were optional on all GTOs, with the honeycombs ...
“Colonnade” Le Mans. It very nearly got the new 455 (7,488 cc) Super Duty engine also used in the contemporary Firebird, with 310nethorsepower (231 kW), but general manager Martin Caserio canceled the SD455 GTO at the last minute. GTO sales for 1973 were grim: fewer than 5,000 ...
This 1981 Pontiac Turbo Formula is located in Alpine, California near San Diego but apparently spent some of its life in Virginia. This Formula represents that last year of the 2nd generation Firebird body style and very few Turbo Formulas were built and sold in 1981. There is less than 16...
gold chains and exposed chest hair, a last gasp of disco-era glory. It was Pontiac’s first turbocharged production car, but it also brought down the curtain on a storied era of unique Pontiac engines. This is the story of the little-loved, often-forgotten Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Turbo...
(the Chevrolet Lumina APV, Pontiac Trans Sport, and Oldsmobile Silhouette), the Saturn, and the fourth-generation Camaro and Firebird. As with the Fiero, the plastic body panels didn’t make the cars any lighter, but they did reduce tooling costs and customers appreciated their dent resistance...