My girlfriend sent me this and it immediately started tormenting me. What is it? It reminds me of an old Nissan 300zx, but the badge throws me off, and it looks different.
Halp!
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My girlfriend sent me this and it immediately started tormenting me. What is it? It reminds me of an old Nissan 300zx, but the badge throws me off, and it looks different.
Halp!
All about the t-tops
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That's an 80s (third gen) Pontiac Trans Am or Firebird.
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
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I thought it might have been American as well, but it's hard without seeing the arse of the car. Then I might've picked it.
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What's with the badge? It's so badly NOT the red triangle thing on current Pontiacs.
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'85 Trans Am: Gentlemen, start your mullets.
Horsepower wins races. Torque pulls trailers.
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'Badge' is a little one of these babies.
Horsepower wins races. Torque pulls trailers.
http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam.jpg <Live cast from the 'Ring.
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The badge is a firebird, slightly shrunk from the 2nd generation.
EDIT: Damn!
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
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My pic was better tooOriginally Posted by f6
Horsepower wins races. Torque pulls trailers.
http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam.jpg <Live cast from the 'Ring.
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To paraphrase Mad Max .. "I am the Knight Ride-aaah"
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Ohh that makes sense. But now I'm even more confused. A trans am with a firebird badge? What's the difference anyway? Both are old Pontiac sports coupe things? Or is it like the Holden Astra and the Holden Astra, where Holden decided their line-up had room for both at once.
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Mad Max...?
To paraphrase Mad Max .. "I am the Knight Ride-aaah"
Horsepower wins races. Torque pulls trailers.
http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam.jpg <Live cast from the 'Ring.
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Quoted For Truth .. as they say
YouTube - Mad Max Thrashes The Night Rider.
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flaming chicken!
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
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spotted this in February.
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the trans am is a pontiac firebird type
it was actually me who killed vasilli zaitsev, heinz thorwald, carlos hatchcock, and simo hayha
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The car was always the Firebird. As blingx2 said, Trans Am was a subtype. Think Subaru Impreza WRX. We just call the thing WRX.
I have to say I think those were very good looking cars for the time. They looked great with 20/20 vision. That is 20 yards away at 20 MPH. Sadly they were not made by Toyota, instead they were 1980s GM which was about as bad as you could get. They styling was good (if 80s trendy), the engineers were told they had no money and had to use existing parts. The cars could move fast (for the time) but rattled and had exceedingly stiff ride. Great to look at but never try to talk with one.
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