where, when, and why did you buy you a trans am?
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where, when, and why did you buy you a trans am?
The 4th gen's came out when I was in High School, and I thought it was best looking TA to date. There was no way I could afford them, so I had to wait a good number of years. I finally got a great job, my own house, and paid off every bill I had. I finally had the ability to buy a "toy". My wife actually spotted the car when she was driving to work. I stopped by, droveit, and bought it on the spot.
Because I couldn't afford a C5 vette, lol
A few months ago the wife and i were driving my jetta (which she hated) to a coworkers party and saw it sitting there beside the highway in a parking lot and on the way back she made me stop. There it sat a 2000 TA black on black, t-tops and in above average condition for 105k mi asking 8500. I had one year left to pay on the jetta and then was gonna get my dream car a 05-06 GTO black on black with a 6 speed manual. Not to be. She bantered back and forth on the price and offered 6800 and he said SHOW ME THE MONEY so she did and she even got to drive it home(jetta was a manual and she refused to drive it,:nana:) So i had to give up the jetta at 30 mpg and drive her ta 22 mpg 100 mi a day to work. Granted i have 4 more cyls now that sound awesome at 6000rpms and get lots more looks from hot chicks but it's not a GOAT! Just one more way wives control us.:ar:
^ +1 the 4th Gens came out when i was highschool to and i thought they just looked amazing still do and back then nothing could really touch em speed wise. No way i could afford one back then but 9yrs later, look at me now. searched for bout 2-3 months until i found one worthy n then drove 600 miles to Kentucky to buy her.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrKid
when i was 7 or 8 i saw the 'hungry' commercial at my nieghbors house on my birthday, i was PSYC'D. i had to have the evil car...
ever since i have been obsessed with them, i had dreams during my mid teens centered around them.. but i could never afford one.
last april i had saved up enough to buy one as a 'graduation' gift for myself since my dad wasnt going to get me anything,
that drive home was the most peacefull i have ever felt, no movie, themepark ride, life accomplishment, or even any girl made me feel the way i did driving home that night, my T/A is my pride and joy, any bad day i have can be relieved with her, just makes me feel whole,
i have made so many good friends with that car, and also met a few girls for no other reason but.:devil:
i love my Pontiac
like many people here said..... i was in high school when the 1998 ws6 commercial came on. from there i fell in love i was thinkin dam this has got to be the best looking car of the decade. i wanted to buy one brand new but they were around 30 grand which was way too much for me and the insurance was even higher. so i went a different route...... found what i think is the best looking truck ever made in the '02 dakota r/t reg cab. ended up getting one of those for around 22 grand and spent the past 7 years building it into a pretty mean machine. best of all the insurance was cheap because i got a utility discount for it being a truck and it wasnt noted as a performance car since the 5.9 r/t package was more of an option and not an actual trim level so it came up as dakota sport to the insurance people.
then 2 years ago i got a job at Infiniti selling cars and got a free demo to drive so i got used to the better gas mileage so i would only drive the r/t once in a while but then the economy downturned and the dealer almost went under so lots of costs were cut and no more demos for anyone except managers so i was like hell of im gonna drive the 10mpg big cammed r/t every day.
so last october instead of going out and getting some beater that id be miserable in i looked around for a while and found what would soon be my '98 ws6 trans am with only 50k on the clock and in great condition located in Long Island. it was an auto and i wanted a stick but i was like watever its fast and looks unbelieveable so i picked it up. now i drive it about 4 days a week and the truck about 2-3 days a week. the trans am has turned into a new hobby for me and even though im probably not gonna go crazy on the heads and cam with this one i still did all the bolt-ons and suspension stuff so its a real fun car to drive and is very liveable while being almost as fast as the r/t so its a great compromise.
A bit different for me but I never remembered seeing the commercials for them nor do I remember ever seeing one till I was looking to buy one.
For me it started with my love of cars and my involvement with them through my Uncle and cousin. My uncle has a mid to high 10 second Pinto and my cousin has a 93 fox body that runs 10.29 N/A.
My first car was a practical 99 Jeep Grand Cherokee and it was great but I just had a longing for a sports car and it had to be manual. I just wanted to DRIVE!!!
So in thinking what could be a possible option I saw the first season of Bull Run and Mike Alsop and his daughter in their red WS6 had me drooling (for two reasons :lol:) But that car looked like no other car I have ever seen. I was in love. I started doing all kinds of research and looking day and night for the right one.
I got into third gens for the price but the WS6 still had me. During this time my friend got a new LS2 GTO and that pushed me even further.
After endless searching I found one that was close by at dealer. I convinced my parents to come out there with me to check it out. It was the first one I had seen in person and my parents test drove it. (I couldnt drive standard at the time). They were both impressed by it and I was just drooling the whole time.
With some support from my parents and a trade in of one of our other cars it was mine!!! Just a few payments left and it will be official too.
This was about a month before I graduated high school so it was a semi graduation present and I got to show it off in the school parking lot. Thank god I'm not too dumb and didnt wreck it! So now 3 years later and I still love it as much as the day I got it if not more. With the D1SC procharger going on in the spring I'll fall in love all over again and it'll be a whole new monster!
I liked knightrider as a kid, and picke dup my first TA when I was 19ish and it was an 89 GTA, hated working on it, but fell in love with the power they offered. The transmision went out on it, so I ended up trading it in for a new 2001 Cougar, paid that off in 6 months, then traded it in for a 97 TA, then Autozone sold me a defective motor for it, so when that was fixed, the mechanic hooked up the fuel rail wrong and it caught on fire while I was driving it home. I used the insurance money off that as a down payment on the Firehawk and now I pray that nothing happens to this one, since I seem to have bad luck with Pontiacs and learned a valuable lesson. Don't let other people work on your cars, and don't trust Autozone for $hit.
I don't own a T/A but I'm sure those that do own only bought because they were unable to get an SS...lol.
I just turned 17 and wanted something a bit quicker then my 96 S-10 Blazer so I thought to myself what can I buy with quite a bit of hp for a low amount of money.....Then I found the TA I payed 11k for a car that was way quicker then anything at my high school so I was happy haha. Had for five years and sold it for 9.7k and only had one speeding ticket in that car! I miss it.
LOL, sure. Admit it, you REALLY would rather be driving a T/A. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGGIN
For me, quite the contrary. During my search for WS6 (I've posted my 2000 word epic before, not going to do it again), I nearly had to "settle" for an SS since back in '98 you couldn't hardly find ANY LS1 f-bods on dealer lots, let alone a WS6 'vert w/ a M6. Fortunately for me, I avoided the temptation of the SS and eventually found my WS6.
Ah......No. :news:Quote:
Originally Posted by SAGGIN
Actually, my first car was a white 1973 Trans Am, which I bought after I got of high school in '81. It was rusty but would bark 2nd gear like a champ with four people in the car and not even work up a sweat doing it! I was hooked on Trans Am's and Firebirds at that point. After it was stolen in 1983, I bought another '73 (Green with a 4 speed) and kept it for a year then got rid of it to get something that got better mileage and wasn't nickle and diming me to death. Big mistake! I had the worst feeling as it was driving away and told myself I would buy a new one someday. Fast forward to 2000, I bought a new Trans Am that summer and drove it until 2006 when I traded it in on my Goat. My goal at the time was to buy another TA and this summer I picked up a black WS-6(possibly the meanest looking car of all time!) with 26,000 miles on it. I am pretty happy to have another F-Body sharing my driveway with the last year GTO. :D
Scott
^^^^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by MrKid
The same for me word for word
question is why not?
they're absolutely gorgeous, raw cars with lines very, very few cars today have. i fell in love with them once i saw the commercials in 6th grade (:lol:) and i've wanted a white one since i was 13. i looked at many black ones along the way but nothing really ever got to me the way mine does. to me, they're an icon of hard work, american muscle and speed ... which is everything i hold dear to me :love:
Roger that!Quote:
Originally Posted by tep98ws6
Scott
Well the real question for me is, which T/A?
My first was a 1987 GTA hardtop with the 5.7. I bought that just before graduating high school in '98. I bought it for one reason only, I was 18 and wanted to pick up chicks. When that car was totalled (*grumble grumble*) I waited until I could find another T/A and landed on a 1988 GTA Notchback Edition, black with t-tops, black interior and the 5.0L. Unfortunately, a little old lady in a Crown Vic decided I didn't need that car and ran it over (well, pushed it into a tree actually). Not good luck on the f-body front when I was under 21 lol.
After that, I went to the dark side and drove a 1989 Mustang LX 5.0 for a solid 2 years, using it to reposess other vehicles and generally being stupid. I met my wife, got married, had kids and never had the $ to get my dream car back. Then, this past Feb. my wife saw me eyeing this beautiful '98 T/A convertible and told me to make an offer... Thanks to her, I have my baby back and am loving every minute of it.
As a side note, I too was in HS when the last gen birds came out and my introduction to the Firebird world didn't start with the '87 GTA. It began with the first car I ever bought with my own money, a 1969 Firebird. It was primer grey, had no A/C but it had one hell of an engine and I loved it.
man i love you guys, tep98, and this thread,
My first new car was a 1989 Mustang LX 5.0. It was the nearest thing to my '73 TA that I could find new in 1989. Great car but when I looked at my '95 Firebird Formula, I knew I was back in the Pontiac camp again so I traded in the 5.0 that night, November 13, 1994. Biggest impulse buy of my life.
Scott
I have always loved T/A's and I was looking back in high school at a 1994 LT1 Trans Am GT. It was a pretty cool car then I saw the commercial for the new 4th gen. Well in 98 when they came out I went to a local Pontiac Dealership with my family and started drooling. Went home and apparently my grandparents had snuck off to another dealership and low and behold there was a cherry red 1998 Pontiac Trans Am WS6 M6 sitting in my driveway and my grandpa waiting to toss me the keys as a graduation gift for high school. One of the best days of my life
i wish my family bought me a new camaro or something of the like when i graduated:headdown kickdirt: i bought my t/a as a grad gift to myself since my dad, who is loaded, wouldnt get me anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by Redphoenix1998
I bought my car for its rarity. How many trans ams do you actually see on the roads now a days? Not many in my area. Even in near stock form, the ls1 has plenty of power and torque to beat most other challenging cars on the road.
and I love when people say how much they like my car, but have no idea what it is.
Because somebody already bought the last Sky Blue P.O.S. 66 Cadillac!
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Not really, I 've just always wante to say that to someone, since the first time I saw 48 Hours
Thats funny shit don't care who you are!Quote:
Originally Posted by robert 98
Believe it or not I have my car thanks to a 1992 Lincoln Mark VII.
One month after I got my License my fathers car, a 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, died. I mean needs a new engine DEAD. My father needed a new car quick and the first nice thing he found was a 1992 Lincoln Mark VII LSC. When I started driving that car it was still one of the quicker things on the road with its 5.0 HO. I simply HAD to have my own.
Fast forward to 2003 and I bought my very own 1997 Lincoln Mark VIII LSC a MUCH faster beast with about 75hp over the VII.
Fast forward to 2007. I realize my car, with over 150,000 hard miles, is not going to live forever.... but how can I replace it with something newer?
It has to be an American car, newer than 1997, with a MINIMUM of 300hp, a V8 and rear wheel drive. It also must be a coupe.
hmmm let's see what fills those requirements.... Mustang? well if I got a 2003 Cobra maybe... too expensive and the new ones are too heavy as well as expensive.....
Camaro??? nah... not really my style on the inside or out, no offense Camaro guys I do love your cars... just not for me.
Hmmm.... nothing else made in the USA meets those specs anymore.... let's look on youtube for inspiration.
what about trans ams? lets youtube those.... what's this Luos video?
:eek2: I must have one. I have seen these cars before. Admired them even... but that noise.... that NOISE!!!! the lines!!!
Decided I HAD to have a 2002 fully loaded M6 Pewter Silver WS6.
The Hawk literally was random luck. That I am endlessly thankful for!
I was in Arkansas with my dad visiting some family when i was 13 and once we pulled up to my aunt and uncle's house, my cousin had his black '98 WS6 sitting outside. I was like, "wooooooow" :eek2: I was only there for about 5 minutes before he grabbed his keys and took me with him. He lived next to a long stretch of road and I remember watching the speedo in the car just blasting up to 120 and then i remember how cool it was when he was doing a burnout and how the ass end was moving side to side. So ever since then I wanted one and then one day in february of '07 i found one for sale on craigslist. I went to go look at it and i fell in love with it. I bought it the very next day. The first time I drove it was when i picked it up. It's still my dream car that i hope to pass on to my kids, whenever i have one
Found the car on a local lot -- it had been purchased by one of the salesmen from southern New York and was his driver for a little over a year. His girlfriend dumped him and he could not afford the mortgage and a car payment. The first time I saw it, I just drove by. The second time, I stopped with my family and looked it over, but did not drive it. The third time I went with a friend and we drove it...
Now, for the rest of the story: http://www.ls1.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119339
Cause it's everything a perfect woman should be.
Nice curves, sexy from the front and back.
People stop, stare and say god damn.
They look at you and wonder how you got her.
Rice boys get jealous. They know not to fuck with her.
When you get on her, she knows how to go.
So much more to list. Feel free to add
please dont tell me that you think they are fasterQuote:
Originally Posted by SAGGIN
..or better lookingQuote:
Originally Posted by TransAm11973
:D
she don't complain about taking the long way homeQuote:
Originally Posted by Lqdsilver
doesnt care how fast you go
when you get a speeding ticket she still loves you
after a hard night of beating on her she'll still take you to work in the morning
yeah Saggin is a Hater SS are Easy to come by and people wonder why they have infractions hahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyBs98WS6Rag
I saw my first trans am when I was 16. It was silver, and driving up the road towards a neighbor's house. I remember the nostrils, and the sound, and I instantly fell in love. I got my first ws6 when I was 17, and loved the car from the first second. When I first took it for a test drive, I knew it was a monster. I got it with less than 20k on the motor. When i sold it with over 145,000, I regretted selling it. It had its problems, but it was still strong, and looked better than the first day I got it. After 3 years I wanted another one bad. The one I got had been run into the ground, and had its problems, but they're fixed now, and the car is good as new. On another note, these cars aren't for just anyone. These cars are for a real sports car entheusiast. You cant call urself a true motor head until youve owned one of these. Until you've shed all the blood and skin that goes into modding the cars. Sure they have their annoying problems. The studdering, the leaking, the electrical gremlins, the sticky clutches, but when they're running at 100%, its not driving a car, its driving a work of art. The way everything works together, shifts smooth, the roar behind you from the exhaust, I truely believe that these are the best cars to drive on the road, and the most fun. They're a drivers car. Period.
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Originally Posted by Smokaholik
The time was 1998. I was living in Pflugerville, TX, just north of Austin. I saw the commercial, "hungry", and went online and looked them up and thought, "man, I have got to have one of those". Went to the dealership, test drove one, and when the saiesman sitting in the passenger seat got eyes as big as golfballs after I speed shifted second, the way it threw me back in the seat were enough to make me pursue getting one. So, I sat down at the desk, ordered an Arctic White, Ram Air, WS6, M6 with gray leather. Six months later, it rolled off the truck. It was worth the 31K I paid for it, and I haven't owned anything else since that time. After I totalled it in '07, I was sick, and as soon as possible, I was waiting on a settlement, and paid cash for this one I have now, the 2000. I plan on keeping this one til Jesus comes back!!! There's not another car on the road that is this affordable, that looks this good, and gets this many looks, or is this fast, in my opinion.....well, maybe a Lamborghini might get more looks and is faster, but I would have to spend 200K to have one of those!!! I choose the T/A!!!!
I got mine last year. I saw it on some website for like 14k, but I got it for 13.5k.(Got a somewhat lulzy story about that) At the time, I was still looking for other cars because my brother told me that I could get a better deal on a better Firebird. Before I knew it, though, I came home from work and my dad had gotten the owners to bring the car down from out of state, so I just went ahead and bought it. It's a nice car, but I think I might have paid too much for it.
Bought mine in 05 because the wife hated the brand new Mazda 3 we had bought. She cought me checking it out while we were driving by a dealership. without saying anything she pulled in and said "okay you can sit in it." three hours later i was signing papers on it and taking all my stuff out of the old Mazda and putting it in my new TA! Damn i love that woman.:yum:
the first ta i got was in high school. i ended up wrecking that one. i then went through 2 other cars, trying to find one i liked. my dd was a olds cutlass sierra. <-badass. i still have it and drive it whenever its shitty outside. 273kmiles and still runs like the day i got it. got it for $800 at an auction. got a prelude, hated it, sold it.
then i decided to get a buick grand national. found one and drove 6 hours with a friend to pick it up, cash in hand. i get there and the guy wouldnt sell it to me since i was a kid. i was 20 at the time. heading home empty handed we stop at chick filet for food and as were walking out a 2000 ta pulls into the spot next to us with a for sale sign in the window.
we talked for a while, he said he was selling it because he couldnt appreciate it any more. it had 100k miles on it and all the service records from the local stealership. he wanted 12k for it but when i told him i had 10k cash he said he would settle if i bought and ate with him. we talked for about an hour. at first it was damnit i have to eat with some old guy, then he just reeled you in. Turns out he was a WW2 veteran that served in Germany with the 101st airborne. the stories some old people have are truly amazing.
my test drive was driving him home. before he signed it over he wanted to get 1 last burnout in it. when he got out he was grinning ear to ear, he was a kid again. it was kinda cool, no matter how old you are, if you get behind the wheel of one of these cars you become 18 again.
at first i kinda felt bad for taking his baby from him, but he had a 72 chevelle parked in his garage. 1 toy is enough.
http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/t...id/77ta101.jpg
saw Smokey and the bandit in 77 was 11 years old and loved them from then on ...
see above
+1,000,000 a driver car indeedQuote:
Originally Posted by Ramairgod84
and with the Trans am's from the Smokey and the bandit era with the 455 in them are one one of the most well put together cars from the factory in the use idf only corvettes were built with all sheet metal and a back seat then they wouldent need a trans am has any one noticed with you look at a trans am from about 500-1000 feet away how it looks like a prototype corvette ? ( i was mountan climbing one day and i was 1000 feet about a mountan and i was like wow is that my Muscle car its spoiler looked integrated and i couldent help but to drool and Thank God for Letting me accomplish my Goal and building a Trans am from scratch and being able to drive it on the street at that ,
Trans' ams are not for the faint of heart and Truly the Hardcore Driver Car
Truly,
Warren Jones
X2 except I was 10 in '77 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by snaggeltooth
saw Smokey and the bandit in 77 was 11 years old and loved them from then on ...
My first Pontiac was an '89 Formula which got wrecked and was replaced with an '89 Formula 350. Sold the 350 in '92 and hadn't a performance car until this spring when I got great deal on an '01 WS6 M6. I love driving it and looks awesome just sitting in the garage!
Snaggletooth, I had the same year but it was chocolate brown with pinstripes with little bitty feet as the pinstripers trademark. I can't remember his name but he was very good.
http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/t...ont32757-1.jpg
my first trans am was a 75 .. it looked like this
http://webpages.charter.net/jcfrance...Formula-01.jpg
First 1989 Firebird Formula WS6 (got wrecked)
http://webpages.charter.net/jcfrance...mula350-03.jpg
Second 1989 Firebird Formula 350 WS6(Replaced wrecked above)
http://webpages.charter.net/jcfrance...TransAmWS6.jpg
Current 2001 Firebird Trans Am WS6 M6
Started looking for an ss but when I saw the TA with a kick ass interior I fell in love with it.The interior of the Camaro is lacking compared to the TA the Camaro's down here are also a dime a dozen as for the trans am there's a bout 4 of them 2 black ones a white and a redQuote:
Originally Posted by SAGGIN
Don't get me wrong I would buy an SS in a hearth beat but the TA just has an edge that I just can't explain. I drive the car sitting in it I guess so the nicer seats more confortable for me anyway and the round vents etc... Plus it pulls the 1/4 at 105mph at 13.5 bone stock what a feeling....And as you will see I in a place in my life where I could afford a toy for Sunday driving. Little problem my Durango ussually doesn't move much when the car is not in storage even with the hemi
SAME FOR ME 2:devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by SMWS6TA
Good for you man I was in the same boat you will thank him later. Lert me guess nobody gave him anything for free so why should he lolQuote:
Originally Posted by justinmc978
I have loved Trans Am's since I was a kid. My first car was a 78 black TA. I got my current 99 by claiming it would be a work car. Well it is kind of. I work on it, thats like driving it to and from work.
I wanted a T/A after my brother-in-law took me for a ride in his 99 black on black T/A for some white-knuckle driving. Then he sold it to some guy for his wife to drive:screwy: A year later I'm looking through the Thrifty Nickel and wat do I see for sale at the Ford stealership OMG its a 99 black on black T/A. So me and the brother-in-law go take a look and come to find out its the one my brother-in-law sold with only 2500 more miles on it, a new ws6 hood, SLP intake and exhaust, full lowering kit and 18" Foose Nitrous wheels. I bought it 2 weeks later after they installed a new window motor.
I tried to buy a new Z28 cause they were cheaper and the dealer wouldn't sell it to me. Driving home I literally swerved into the Pontiac dealer as I almost past buy thinking Oh yeah, a TA. Drove home with my new Formi. I truly love this car.
well ever since my uncle bought his 96 LT1, i was about 5 when he bought it, and i rode in it i actually fell in love with the birds, as i grew older i saw all my friends drool over mustangs, and the typical civics and ricers, but not me i was an oddball i likes the trans am, the f-body, the bird, i love all generations of the trans am,i allwasy whent to the track and saw birds doing wheelies, and birds burning out, birds soaring out of the starting line and fly over the finish, damn, ever since i got my first job working at a body shop i started to raise money for my bird, i still didnt find one but i know i would so i just saved, i whent through 4 jobs the body shop,hobby lobby,at a near mall, and finally at the petstore i work at now, and then one day cruisin around on my pops tahoe i was driving by a near by dearlship, a ford dealership it was, i allwasy took that path since then, there she was, delilah, 2002 artic white trans am, damn i fell in love..
then one day i decided to get of and take her for a spin, i finally drove my first ls1 wow what power at WOT, i told my dad i wanted it he said you sure im not paying for Sh** its your money, i said yes really, so he whent with me to co sign, and i came out with the brightest smile drove of in my TA, and well now she has me ind debt but hey its worth it my dream became true.
See the "Official Show Your Birds thread" that is stickied up top of this forum.
always thought F bodies were girl cars as a kid. tried to get a GTO for the longest time but couldnt afford one. driving down the highway saw a silver blur with 4 nostril looking things. stopped buy looked at it did a walk around said how this was EXACTLY the car i wanted now. about the time i was speaking out loud how i loved the car...the salesmen came up and thought it was going to be an easy sale.....then i saw it was an auto and flipped out callin it a piece of shit didnt want it tried to walk away and he kept saying "we can make this work!" i said nothing you say can make me want this car.
then he said the how about we take some of the price off. 17.9K went to 12.9K and then too 10.2K ..2 years later its a beast runnin 12.1's on nitto 555's lol
i love my car:) it makes me happy
i like that one:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by TmaxicanA
These are incredible cars. Even though I have had multiple problems with my headlight actuator motors, rear end issues, electrical no start issues, leaky t-tops, ..... I still love my car. The style and shape of the car is still, in my book, incredible and state of the art from the aesthetic perspective, and I think very powerful from a horsepower perspective....I've heard them called "factory race cars", and I must agree wholeheartedly. I've never driven anything like the 4th gen T/A....I'm 52 years young, and plan on driving this car til Jesus comes back....Long live T/A's!!!
First car I ever got laid in was a black '97 T/A that my first girlfriend's daddy bought her for her 15th birthday when she got her permit.
Fell in love with the car more than the girl.
I think some people are just born to like certain cars. My dad grew up loving mustangs and spent his life rebuilding them. For as long as I could remember I always loved the old 70's firebird body styles and dreamed of having my own. When I finally got a job and could afford it, I wanted to buy one, but went with an '01 because I needed a more reliable daily driver, and not a project car. Didnt really know much about the last generation f-bodies until I bought it, now I love it. Im saving up now to eventually have both generations in my garage:devil:
I had a buddy in highschool who's dad was rich, and bought him a brand new red '73 TransAm with the machined dash and radial tuned suspension. Man, that thing would corner on a dime. I was not nearly as rich, and thought, I sure would like to own one of those someday, so, when I got a good job, I purchased a '77 T/A 6.6 and was in heaven. Handled like it was on rails, smooth ride, and get up and go. I put 242 gears in the rear and the topend was incredible. The 6.6 had bunches of torque and it showed up in the higher speeds...sweet rides, that generation. Tell ya this, it would be hard to choose between 2nd gen and 4th gen sitting side by side, paid off......
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Originally Posted by snaggeltooth
saw Smokey and the bandit in 77 was 11 years old and loved them from then on ...
+ 1 same here, funny it's the same yr I began hating Mustangs :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by snaggeltooth
for pussy
im joking..i bought my T/A because i have always loved them and still think they are one of the best.
When i was 8 or 9 i was in my grandmothers car and i saw an LS1 WS6 pass us and i just remember thinking how aggresive and frightning that car was with the lights up. I had no clue what it was but that image always stuck in my head until a few years ago when i found out what kinda car it was and decided i needed to have one. When i turned 19 i found one for $3500 and decided it was mine. Its not a WS6 but... its still a T/A.
thisQuote:
Originally Posted by shady milkman
The LS1 line came out when i was in grade school and early high school, but i never had any interest in them. Finally after i got sick of always tooling on the old crap when i was 19, I found one that was really cheap.. so i bought it to flip. It was unlike any car i had ever owned for some reason.. so now i buy a different 98-02 T/A every year or so because i just cannot get enough of them !! NOTHING COMPARES TO An LS1's reliablility, performance, gas mileage, and looks... All in one CAR you can drive every day !!
I bought mine in May of 2007 after hoping someday I could find what I was looking for. When they decided to continue them in 2002 I was hoping someday to be able to but one. Couldn't afford one then and still wonder sometimes if I can afford mine now.
I wanted something that would shut my mustang friends up and something you didnt see everyday (mustangs).
where, about a nieghbor hood or 2 away. when, today and why did you buy you a trans am? cause its simple badass and v6 is gone, and simply wasnt cuttin it anyways
I ordered/bought mine because it looks so aggressive, just sitting there. Looks like Lightning McQueen with a cocky show off stance...kachooga, kachooga...!!! Like it's saying by just sitting there...."Yeah, I know I'm bad, I'm just waiting to roar to life and consume everything in my path, Don't mess with me, because you WILL go down in defeat"...!!!!!!
Always loved the looks of these cars since I was in high school, I remembered seeing them cruis'in around back in 98 and loved them. First I started out with a v6 bird cause it was all i could afford, that just made me itch for a V8 bird even more. Finally in '03 I was able to afford my 99 LS1 and have enjoyed it to the fullest ever since. They look good, they are fast, easy to mod and make faster and about as American as you can get, all around they are great cars.
Orignal post: where, when, and why did you buy you a trans am?
Well I bought my '98 Formula back in Nov '99 because I didn't like the Mad Wing of the T/A in '98. Back then it looked ricer to me. I bought my bird without sun roofs because many of my friends with Gen 3 versions had leaks and I expected to keep mine 20 years or longer. Even then, I knew this was that good a car for the money and a long term keeper. I still like the Formula.
To this day I get in the car for a attitude adjustment and just say, "WOW !!!"
However, I'd love to own a Triple Black Firehawk or one with Tan Leather and Black Exterior. I expect I will someday. I'd have to supercharge it too though. You think the stock car is awesome. Add a couple hundered horsepower to one of these monsters. Then you get to test your limits all over again.
Truely, the best built sports car ever built for the money !!!
Where can you get 500HP and 30mpg for under $30K... or less.
Can't say enough about these cars....
Point - I've thought about a Vette but, for the money, looks, performance, easy of working on the car myself and cost; the Bird outshines the rest of the cars out there....
Any car, period !!!
Even the '67 Maro with a 454 doesn't hold a light to this one after you take it into a corner or two.
For ref:
Maro
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25.../DSC00018s.jpg
Bird
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...d/DSC01044.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...d/DSC00564.jpg
This is all you can see of the actual supercharger. Kind of stealthy huh?
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...d/DSC00569.jpg
wow man that looks like a really clean formula
It's very dirty right now. Just took pict a few minutes ago of the engine compartment as you see in the previous post above.
Need to blow it out. use the paint brush to get in those tight spots and wipe her down some more.
Only one rock chip in the left eye lid. Touched up and 99.9% of the people would miss it.
My buddies really want to get their hands on it .... I willed it to them... They get to fight it out. They don't know this though. LOL !!!
Oh and I do drive her hard! She the hardest car to break that I've ever had though.
Blew the tranny once drag racing from torque... Twisted the S#!t out of the input shaft. They say that almost impossible on our cars.
Now I have a hardened one with a few other goodies inside the tranny. ;-)
haha i've been meaning to will mine out to my friends, but not my brother since hes a 'gangster' little druggy,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mecinoid
did you procharge it yourself?
Yes, but had it tuned and a couple of custom parts by others.Quote:
Originally Posted by justinmc978
Then, I had to work some magic to get it exactly right.
You know you think you can pay someone to do it right... Then you end up
doing it yourself anyways... doh!!! And it takes longer too !!! double doh !!
If you build cars you know what I'm talking about. It's all of the hours tinkering to get that little something extra out of there or to add a little clearance so it works/looks just right etc...
yeah my v6 was always breaking down, i learned more about cars from that pos, i couldnt afford to get it fixed so i HAD to do it myself so i wouldnt have to walk to work, i cant wait until i'm out of college and have some cashflow, my dream is to bust my knuckes on the weekends restoring a 67/68 droptop, i just love firebirds, i always haveQuote:
Originally Posted by Mecinoid
There is plenty of time... and there are lots of companies that specialize in these cars still out there. It's an american dream... one of the very best.
Good luck !!!
My next dream - but, I will still drive the bird more I'm sure. I'd hate myself if someone else rearended her or something:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...1/DSC09638.jpg
Might take a few years though ... The lauch control is out of this world !!!
ZR1:drool::devil:
If only money was no object!!!!!
I actually bought mine for my wife to drive. (Sneaky huh?) When Huricane Isabelle (east coast) took out her DD, we took the insurance money and went car shopping. She said she wanted something more sporty than her Sebring, and I told her we'll never buy a new car again. She drove 3000gt's Cobra Mustangs, Camaros, ect... every sport car you can think of. The moment she sat in the T/A she knew that's what she wanted. Just not that particular car. So I told her that we would find one just like she wanted and that we would get one that someone else would want to buy later when she was tired of it. So I found on Auto Trader a Mint NBM 2000 WS6 6 speed and that's the end of the story... Almost, She graduated up to a Vette, and I got the hand me down TA!
Quote:
Originally Posted by MecinoidThere is plenty of time... and there are lots of companies that specialize in these cars still out there. It's an american dream... one of the very best.
Good luck !!!
My next dream - but, I will still drive the bird more I'm sure. I'd hate myself if someone else rearended her or something:
Might take a few years though ... The lauch control is out of this world !!!
:drool: :drool: :drool: :sex:
June 2002Quote:
Originally Posted by brendan.9
San Antonio TX
Bought it for aggressive, curvy looks, not to mention power
im curious what you were driving while your wife was cruising a WS6? Cuz i wouldnt be able to handle thatQuote:
Originally Posted by beach cruiser
I bought my 98 WS6 last summer. I sold my blowthrough mercury capri so I could by some modern muscle. I went shopping for mustangs (Cobra, 05 3 valve) when I came across my 98 at a little dealership when I stopped to check out an 05 Mustang. I could see it had SLP exhaust so I went over to take a look. The dealer said it was sold but showed me the car anyway. He showed me the carfax and the upgrades list and I was really interested. The price was right but as I said it was sold. A couple weeks later I drove by the lot to find the car was still there. The deal had fell through so I took it for a test drive and bought it. The car has a full BMR suspension, AFR heads, 42# injectors, LS6 intake, SLP headers, Comp Com, and HP tuner. The car is fun to drive and grabs alot of attention, more than nay mustang I have had. Not the easiest car to work on but a lot of fun.
I bought my 99 TA from a friend who had it sitting in his body shop for about two years, they were using the car as break room(they start it up turn on the ac and take naps in it).So one day i asked what's up with the TA,he says man i dont have the time to invest it i asked if wanted to sell he yea(remember he's my friend)he sold it to me for $2500 it only had 60k and ran great(it needed interior,paint and alot of TLC)
Still trying to get my hands on one. But been inside one and it was fast, scared me for sure. :devil:
i bought mine because
a-they are badass
b-great gas mileage for something so powerfull
c-they are so badass !!!
^ Agree with the gas mileage. It gets 8 more mpgs than my old dodge.
im actually huntin another one.
Looked at vette's... too many people own them. Then looked at mustangs, too slow. Then Looked at Camaro, interior was bery poorly assemled.. In winter of 02 picked up the 01 ws6 for 17,000 with only 3,000 miles on it... couldnt turn it down..
both of mine had high miles but i bought em a lot less then 17g,s.really its probably like you got a new car.my 99 just got totalled so im tryin to find another ws6 with lower miles or not !Quote:
Originally Posted by tiny47
i was about 10 or 11 when i was sitting on the computer after school and i heard this sound like rumbling thunder appear outside. i looked out and there was my brother in this car he just bought. i never heard anything like it before. he took me for a ride and i was hooked! this 1985 trans am changed my life. from there on i was into cars and wanted my own trans am. i got out of high school and had 2 v6 firebirds. finally i got my 1st trans am with nitrous, heads and cam, hooker headers, and some laughing gas that powered it to 11.7's. then i had a 97 t-top with 6 speeds of freedom. red on tan leather, that was a sweet car! now they are gone and i have a crappy ass truck im stuck with. i saw the ls1 commercials when they came out and always wanted one of them, but with a child and more to come, that day will have to wait. now i turn my attention to a GTP to fill my speed needs and room for a growing family
I don't know remember how old I was when the commercial for the new trans am came out. The one where the car eats the red car at the stop light. I couldnt get that out of my head. I bought a 89 Camaro when I was 16. Then I bought an 88 Mustang GT, then I got rid of them and got a lifted Z71. I looked for three years before I found the perfect car. My dad said that that car will never leave the family and it wont.
I guess I never answered. My main reasons, which made it the best known option:
Affordable
Looks good
Physical comfort
Should retain value well
Couldn't afford a Corvette.
Probably, if being totally honest, most of us would say that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldcuffs
to be totally honest I think that the trans am looks a lot better than the vette. It almost looks like its moving even when it isnt, thats why i love it so much
Simple it's the last breed of muscle cars
I bought my first one (on #4 now) in 2004 in Killeen Texas. I had a Ford Probe GT at the time and always loved the Trans Ams. I saw a 2000 M6 on the front of the lot and test drove it and loved it. I actually had been looking at the GTO's at the time and the Trans Am just felt faster and looked better. I left the delership after they tried selling it to me at an outrageous price, they called me back a week later and knocked 5K off the price and I went and picked it up.
