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I came across this freebie. If you check out the "Look Inside" feature Amazon.com offers, you will see girl band Chicanery and model Elizabeth posing with a '68 Firebird 400. Burt Reynolds is on p112.

Firebird Book 3rd edition - eBook

Would you say the 7th gen T-Bird, was perhaps the biggest muscle car of all time?

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Just always had this thought seeing Jack Cassidy chasing Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction (1975) movie, lol.

Looking at this comparison report with the BMW 325e and the Mercedes 190E, the little Caddy comes out not too bad. Even 30 years ago the German car buyer would never have considered a Caddy, regardless of how good it was. Originally conceived as a BMW 320i & Audi 4000 import fighter, on basic sp...

I like the idea of a '50s Fairlane with the optional Blown 312 Y block. What other rides would you add?

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The Wraith on You Tube Chrysler were so heavily behind the movie. 8-) https://res.cloudinary.com/roadtrippers/image/upload/v1414165890/brr15t7wvaya3nbgeb7j.jpg The eventual wrecking of the Porsche 928 was priceless! Seeing the movie again made me realise how much that car looked like a squashed Pac...

OK ... I'll throw my 70's muscle cars in here with all you others. Both of these needed restored after only 10 years of life on this planet :( Totally rusted out & running like S H I T. These are two of five GM F-bodies that I restored. Nothing special, just clean looking muscle cars. This 1974...

I guess having rear drive made it easy to drop a big motor in a little car. In the era before turbos and 16 valve engines, that was the only way to make a car really go.

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Maybe that should be Afternoon Delight, if anyone can remember that popular Starline Vocal band song? Lol. Cars from that time can get a bad wrap, but there were some worthwhile things from those days like GM's radial tuned suspension (RTS) and ESC ignition, and some interesting rides. What notable ...

Classic movies need classic hardware, like this Betamax!

Which treasured titles have you hoarded over the years? I don't think The Wraith has even been released on DVD. The Gumball RallySeven Nights In JapanHidemi Aoki

One can go off topic...for The Hoff! Watchoo talkin' about Willis?

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The Bandit Trans Am in Smokey & The Bandit Part 3 (1983) was clean looking, and deserves more respect, even though technically Burt wasn't at the wheel. Snowman as Bandit with a slim Colleen Camp riding shotgun.

The poster for Smokey & The Bandit II makes Burt look like one of the Village People, but that's cool. Super stuntman Hal Needham said they used a 750 bhp NASCAR motor for the car that did the bridge jump in the original film. Burt did so much for the positive image of the Firebird and GM in th...

The original may only have been a 180 hp automatic 6.6 liter, but ol' Burt made it look cool on the silver screen. Sounded powerful too. Bandit Bird V8

I would always take a DeVille over a SeVille, never liked any of the SeVilles much, but Elvis had two, so I suppose they can't be all bad. The King's Caddies

Ha, ha, it's funny to think that 10-12k in 1975 was the equivalent of $45,000 in todays money, and people thought what they were paying for gas back then was expensive too, even more so than today.

Two new models of 1975 MY. Going back in your time machine with the equiv of 40-50K in today's money which car wins out? Caddy Seville (206 inches long, 4,300 lbs) $12,479 180 hp, 0-60 mph 11.5 Vs BMW 530i (190 inches long, 3,300 lbs) $9,187 176 hp, 0-60 mph 8.7 seconds. Seville Vs e12 530i

That looks like a Hemi Cuda shaker on that Matador coupe? That's sad, I like the Matador coupe. GNs are the ones that get saved, whereas the Turbo Regals are used as everyday cars so they are getting rare. You can always count on Pontiac for a cool intermediate. 73' Grand Am 75' 455 HO Grand Prix S...

That dude must be a master with the chicks. He has a Mustang II and he still has two girls all over him. Love the Chevy big block. 69' ZL1 Camaro72' SS Camaro

The Bricklin SV-1, a front engined Pantera competitor. Powered by an American Motors 360, subsequently a Ford 351. Available in a most excellent range of day glo safety colors. Mustang II Mach 1 302. Popular with the ladies.

The SS 454 Monte of 1970 & 71 is relatively little known, usually overshadowed by the Chevelles. I will add the 74' AMX 401, only 235 horses net, but lots of torque. Also, it looks pretty mean.

Which muscle cars do you think look cool? I like the 1972 shape GTO, and also some of the American Motors cars. Rebel "Machine"Plymouth Roadrunnerhttp://www.geocities.com/red_l...r.jpgSD 455 Trans Amhttp://www.sd455.com/transam.htm

Yeah, the 403 was an Olds family car engine so it doesn't have the aftermarket support of a Chevy 350 or Pontiac 400. That said, back in 1979 the 403 T/A was valued highly because it was one of the few cars left that had some fire. It was quicker than the base L78 350 powered Corvette of the time, ...

I am no GTO expert, but wasn't the color "Reef" turquoise? It's funny you should bring up the 1979 T/A, I assume it was Olds 403 powered, most were. In 1977/78 the Olds 403/THM 350 power team was for Californian T/As, but in 1979 it became a 50 state power team. The thing is that when tes...

The Hurst his & hers dual gate was way ahead of its time for automatic shifting, and everyone in 70s Firebird cicrcles wishes they could get the optional rear seat console. WS6 is certainly available on other lines, even on the Fiero in the 80s.

My Fiero SE has WS6, but I don't think that's the WS6 you want. I can imagine that blue 1975 Trans Am without the hoodbird decal, that would have been sweet indeed. From memory it would probably have had the L78 400. 455 motor was a mid year option. There was a white T/A with blue hoodbird decal in...

Great to hear. Apart from the Vibe I have also hung onto my 1985 Fiero V6. Something tells me Pontiac is going to be around for many years to come with cars like the Vibe and new GTO behind it.

Pontiacs have been in the family for many years. Some good, like a 1973 Grand Am, and some not so good, like the T-1000. My favorite was dad's old 1977 Trans Am, like in the Smokey & The Bandit movies. Anyone else with a Pontiac past? http://www.78ta.com/international.htm http://my.execpc.com/~...

Not that there's anything wrong with the Vibe's normal engines, but has anyone heard of any company or individual that has done an engine swap on a Vibe, like say changing to a V6? Just curious. I can recall that when the New Beetle came out and it was 4 cyl only some outfits did conversions using ...