The stop-and-stare.

**eddielb** · 01-16-2008, 08:03 AM

I know exactly what you mean...

my first Trans Am.....

I was at light, in my 2.4 turbo stratus, ss hood, body kit, candy apple red, ran 13.5 1/4 mile. At a intersection i see a Black 1998-02 Trans Am WS6. He starts to make the u-turn, slams on the gas, and burnsout while making the most beautiful exhaust note i've ever heard... since then my blow off valve never sounded the same.... needless to say about a year later, I left my ricerness and jumped on the trans am.... it's sad that not a lot of people know what a trans am/camaro is... I mean i knew what they where but never saw them much really - and when i did I thought they where ungodly expensive....

good times !

When driving around college (10-15 mph) speed limit it's in first cutout open as long as I don't see the cops... ricers walking staring eyes wide open, and girls asking for rides but unable to let the words come out of their mouth....

good feeling, then my girlfriend gets in the car and i turn off the cutout... put on the t-tops, raise the windows, and turn-off the cutout.... good while it lasts !

**KyleLs1** · 01-16-2008, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by eddielb

good feeling, then my girlfriend gets in the car and i turn off the cutout... put on the t-tops, raise the windows, and turn-off the cutout.... good while it lasts !

spoken like a true man with a girlfriend haha i know all about that!
god forbid she mess up her hair, and the loud exhaust might give her a headache right?

**eddielb** · 01-16-2008, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by KyleLs1

spoken like a true man with a girlfriend haha i know all about that!
god forbid she mess up her hair, and the loud exhaust might give her a headache right?

hahaha exactly ! oh well if we dont listen we dont get

**Firebirdjones** · 01-16-2008, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by eddielb

I know exactly what you mean...

my first Trans Am.....

I was at light, in my 2.4 turbo stratus, ss hood, body kit, candy apple red, ran 13.5 1/4 mile. At a intersection i see a Black 1998-02 Trans Am WS6. He starts to make the u-turn, slams on the gas, and burnsout while making the most beautiful exhaust note i've ever heard... since then my blow off valve never sounded the same.... needless to say about a year later, I left my ricerness and jumped on the trans am.... it's sad that not a lot of people know what a trans am/camaro is... I mean i knew what they where but never saw them much really - and when i did I thought they where ungodly expensive....

good times !

When driving around college (10-15 mph) speed limit it's in first cutout open as long as I don't see the cops... ricers walking staring eyes wide open, and girls asking for rides but unable to let the words come out of their mouth....

good feeling, then my girlfriend gets in the car and i turn off the cutout... put on the t-tops, raise the windows, and turn-off the cutout.... good while it lasts !

Don't know what an F-body is???? LOL I don't know what a 2.4 turbo stratus thingy you posted is

If it's not V8 and rear wheel drive then I don't follow

**eddielb** · 01-16-2008, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Firebirdjones

Don't know what an F-body is???? LOL I don't know what a 2.4 turbo stratus thingy you posted is

If it's not V8 and rear wheel drive then I don't follow

honestly most people on the street have no clue what a trans am is, they've heard of camaro, but they odnt know what they look like, they are always asking me random questions like "who makes that?" "must have cost a lot of money" "that's not a mustang that's a ferrari"

shit like that, i cant beleive it... even my girlfriend didn;t know what a transam was... now she has a camaro

**third_shift|studios** · 01-16-2008, 10:52 AM

my biggest pet peave is when people driving fellow f-bods act like they are driving a normal everyday car. It's like DAMN DUDE! we are kin...atleast wave back

**UKXK189** · 01-16-2008, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by eddielb

honestly most people on the street have no clue what a trans am is, they've heard of camaro, but they odnt know what they look like, they are always asking me random questions like "who makes that?" "must have cost a lot of money" "that's not a mustang that's a ferrari"

shit like that, i cant beleive it... even my girlfriend didn;t know what a transam was... now she has a camaro

My wife STILL calls my T/A a camaro from time to time. When I called her from the dealership, I told her I had found a gorgeous mint condition Trans Am with only 11k miles on it and that I was going to buy it. Her response was "You want a mini van?" I had to explain to her the difference between a Firebird Trans Am and the Trans Sport mini van.

**UKXK189** · 01-16-2008, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by third_shift|studios

my biggest pet peave is when people driving fellow f-bods act like they are driving a normal everyday car. It's like DAMN DUDE! we are kin...atleast wave back

I hear you. I get more waves from Camaro drivers than other 'bird drivers. Hell, I once pulled up to the exact same style T/A as mine and I gave the guy a thumbs up, he just stared back at me like "Do I know you?"

**third_shift|studios** · 01-16-2008, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by UKXK189

I hear you. I get more waves from Camaro drivers than other 'bird drivers. Hell, I once pulled up to the exact same style T/A as mine and I gave the guy a thumbs up, he just stared back at me like "Do I know you?"

see, people like that should be shot.

**JoshieDoom** · 01-16-2008, 11:05 AM

That happened with me and a gto the other night..but .i passed this guys house who was washing a red and white stripped SS 'vert 'maro and he dropped the hose and waved. z28 drivers always wave or rev back in town. there is two ws6s around my place and ever since i smoked their a$$ at the light they wont be fun anymore... makes me sad

**ls1camino** · 01-16-2008, 01:05 PM

I once had camaro guy admit taht he didn't know taht my T/A was the sister car to his Z28. He was like, "You car looks to exotic to be the same car as mine."

*face palm*

**Smkn_TA** · 01-17-2008, 05:14 AM

I hate people in subaru's and front wheel drives that keep drag racing me in the snow. Some jackass in an old junker started revving his enging lurking foward a little, I was going to be lucky to move at all with the snow I was in, so I rolled down the window and flipped him off. As soon as this snow melts...going to be a lot of paybacks delt.

**TempleU_WS6** · 01-17-2008, 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by KyleLs1

spoken like a true man with a girlfriend haha i know all about that!
god forbid she mess up her hair, and the loud exhaust might give her a headache right?

Damn im in the same boat. Last night my girl was like can we take your dads car, your car is just too loud sometimes.

**SSwt00SS** · 01-17-2008, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by third_shift|studios

Respect is so greatly appreciated by "the stop-and-stare." I got to drive the Phoenix yesterday, it was nice, sunny, 50's and all road salt had been washed away the weekend before. I've been storing it in our new home's garage while we're renovating it and I live about 13 miles from the house in an apt. So yesterday before continuing paint work, I decided to open her up

It was 3:30 PM. Kids were all over the street coming home from school or playing in driveways. So I cruised out and kept it in 1st all the way up the street, maintaining a steady 3000 RPMs of pure Corsa.

EVERY kid stopped, dropped their jaw and just stared, to the point that a Basket ball fell and dribbled to the side. Greatest feeling ever-hope that moment has them effected forever.

it did because they wanted to know why a car as sweet looking as yours was tainted by the horrible Corsa sound of

...

infact, they are in therapy as i type this, shaking on the couch, sucking their thumb and murmurring, "Why?"...

**Firebirdjones** · 01-17-2008, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by Smkn_TA

I hate people in subaru's and front wheel drives that keep drag racing me in the snow. Some jackass in an old junker started revving his enging lurking foward a little, I was going to be lucky to move at all with the snow I was in, so I rolled down the window and flipped him off. As soon as this snow melts...going to be a lot of paybacks delt.

LOL,,,I do that all the time when I'm in our Jeep. It's a ball in the snow when the light turns green. You don't see the humor in that?

**third_shift|studios** · 01-17-2008, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by SSwt00SS

it did because they wanted to know why a car as sweet looking as yours was tainted by the horrible Corsa sound of

...

infact, they are in therapy as i type this, shaking on the couch, sucking their thumb and murmurring, "Why?"...

Corsa= teh sects

**MSTZ TA** · 01-23-2008, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by third_shift|studios

EVERY kid stopped, dropped their jaw and just stared, to the point that a Basket ball fell and dribbled to the side. Greatest feeling ever-hope that moment has them effected forever.

Kids are the best when they see these cars... especially the WS6s. I actually read a kids lips one time as he was in the car in front of me... "the Batmobile" HAHA! I just chuckled and waved.

I also get the old men who ask me if I can "handle that car"... WTF?!?!

I took my neighbor (another chick) for a tattoo a while ago and she was like "I bet you get a lot of looks in this car" - yeah, it definitely fun!!! Oh and by the way... I need to have the tops out, stereo cranked and the Borla as loud as f*ck!!! Sometimes my husband is the one who complains... wuss!

Is it Springtime yet!??!

**timberman00** · 01-27-2008, 05:38 AM

I live in suburbia. Trans Ams are scarce around here. The wife and I like to cruise around town on warm evenings with the T-tops off. Almost every time we're out, a kid yells "Nice Car!". I usually throw a rev or two. One time it happened in a parking garage when a kid with his family yelled. Not thinking, I gave my usual rev and thunder echoed through the garage. The looks on their faces was priceless. My wife couldn't stop laughing till we got out of the car.

**JwMonE99** · 01-27-2008, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by JoshieDoom

one in sparta( ky speedway: Open)

THIS IS SPARRRRTAAAA!!!!!!!

Sorry I had to

**JoshieDoom** · 01-27-2008, 03:39 PM

haha. i had this old woman(with a lot of surgery so she looked like she was in her 20s) and she asked what type of car I was driving.. and how that she was going to go look at them when she got her truck paid off.. i told her that they stopped making them in 2002.. hahah. it upset her.. she thought it was new

btw everyone round hur' cranks up East bound and down and loves smokey and the bandit.. trans am's are king round hur'

gotta love rural KY!