Pontiac Firebird 1967-2002 - When did you fall in love with Trans Ams?

I remember that I used to watch the Knight Rider when I was in kinder garten, then I just fell in love it Kitt. I used to dream about the car everyday. I really fell in love with the Ws6s one day when I was hanging out with a friend, then I said "That's my car" then he said "no, it is mine", then me again "shut up bi-atch! it is mine" (at that time, i had like 8 bucks in my pocket but I was just talking sh...) What about everyone one here, how was it? I want to thank Dimitri for inspiring :jest: me to start a new thread by posting his picture inside a T/A like 8 years ago.

Some time around the early 70's.. when I first started seeing the early '70's Trans Ams. Although, I wouldn't say I fell in love with the Trans Am specifically, I like all Firebirds.

Since then, I've owned 5 Firebirds... two 2nd gens, and three 4th gens.

I have always wanted one since I was about 14 when I saw one...now finally I have one (only a week now), only took me 16 yrs to get. My husband bought her for me for my birthday!!!

i loved em since i was like 8 years old, i saw the new 1998 trans am ws6 style and thought it was sweet, i also loved night rider reruns, now im 16 and have had my firebird for a year, now i just need to move up the ladder to a trans am, this v6 is just too slow :)

I have to say that I fell in love with the TA when I first saw Smokey and the Bandit. Then even more when I saw Knight Rider, then even more when I saw a Black 1993 TA in the Showroom of the local Pontiac Dealer

Probably when a friend of mine bought a then-brand new White '96 WS6 Trans Am...

I have loved them my whole life...firebirds and trans am's....My dad's first car was a new cream colored 1975 firebird, then as a child id always stare out the window of our van and was just thinking damn one day...oneday..then on valentines one year i picked up my 2000 Firebird..and i know one day my sons first car will be one and the cycle continues

Here's mine
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I've always loved Muscle Cars in general but I really fell in love with Trans Ams when I saw an 98-01 Trans Am WS.6 at a Car Show in San Francisco sophmore year when I was in High School... Funny thing is after seeing that car, I kept telling myself that I'm gonna get one of those when I get in the Military (because then I'd be able to afford it) and what do you know a few years later after two cars went to sh*ts on me I finally got my WS6. But I am in love with these cars...

Here's my Baby... 00 A4 Trans Am WS.6

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I'd have to say I fell in love with Trans ams about 10 years ago when I was in 6th grade. My sisters boyfriend's brother bought a black '95 T/A with headers, ORY and borla exhaust. It was the baddest looking, toughest sounding car around. Since that day forward that was the car I was gonna get, 7 years later I finally got her on My own when I was a senior in highschool. Not bad for My first car. Funny thing is, My dads first car was a '68 Formula 400 and My moms first car was a '69 327 bird. I guess I was just meant to be.

I fell in love with Trans ams back in may of 99, when my dad took me with him to go buy a new grand am....i remember it was a pewter metallic WS6t-tops off, lights flipped up, on a little ramp.... i was only 12 but it was love man.

The first time i saw smokey and the bandit and or getting my black t/a hot wheels car when i was a kid.

I got sucked into a world called "Knight Rider". I remember sitting Indian style in front of the TV in 1982 and saying "I want one of those." Going a little retro also seeing Smokey and the Bandit some 8 years after it came out. I then learned everything I could about Firebirds. It got to where I love every generation Bird, from '67 to '02. I had a 89 Formula 350 I converted into a Knight Rider conversion. Here a few pics of my KARR that I owned for 8 years.

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I just sold it in May 2006. :cry: I've had my 2000 for 1 1/2 years now. It came down to getting out of debt and a down payment for a house. Had to pick one. Hardest decision I've ever made. But in a few years and a few more pay raises, I'll start another one. Kinda like any install, once you do it once, the next time will be faster and easier.

I was 17 worked at a Mall in Birch Run, MI. I was outside on my break and I saw a T/A vert. This was way before I was into cars then alone afford to pay for one. I never thought I'd ever have my WS6's that I have today but I do and I love them.

Smokey and the Bandit. I even had a Hot Wheels of the T/A. That hood bird hooked me. Someday it will be mine. Oh yes, it WILL be MINE! :)
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1986, I was in High School, and there was a 77 T/A for sale that I conned my father into letting me buy. What a junker. :jest:

I paid $700 for it. :jest:

Same here - Fell is love with KITT when I was a kid. Bought my 1st firebird in 1992.

But it wasnt until I saw a Black 1996 Ram Air Trans AM sitting on the dealerships showroom floor. OMG, I creamed my pants - and had to have one. I ordered my 1997 TA WS6 a few months later.

:-)

I was I love with the 1977 -78 since I passed my license but my father did not agree on buying one for me
And smoky and the bandit made me think that soothing is missing in my life.
And still is.

I fell in love the day i was born! lol not sure when i did but i know i fell hard lol

when i was about 15, my bro bought a metalic green Z28 m6, and i loved his car, but once he showed me want he wanted to get... which was a ws6, i was like omg.. i need that... so after 3 years of waiting, i got it

was in basic training, our CO had a 99 WS6, I remember having to get up early and having to run past it, do pushups and cleaning weapons, just sitting there shiny new and demanding that you give it your utmost attention.....had to get me one!!!!!!!! :eek2:

when i rode in a old 2nd gen with open headers, and going wot

1970, when I saw my first white with blue trim T/A with 455 SD and shaker hood scoop. It was bad to the bone.

When i saw pimp my ride and they had a blue t/a i wanted a 79 at first but then got a 93 lt1

I fell in love with trans ams when I saw the 2002 yellow collectors TA. before that I did not know anything about them. now I own a blk 2000 TA and absolutly love it

I too always loved muscle car...i remember watching Smokey and the Bandit reruns a few times when i was like 8 or so ...then when i was in I believe 7th grade (1998) i clearly remember seeing some (98-02) firbeirds on the road and fell in love with them then. Around that time in 7th grade, one day while my mom was driving me to school, we drove by a nice red 98 ws6 Trans Am and told myself one day...

My first car I bought was an '82 Trans Am I bought from a good friend. First car I ever drove, fell in love with it immediately.

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Got rearened, side swiped by a school bus, and blew the motor. Motor, not that big of a deal, frame damage on the other hand....So I got rid of the car. Went through about 10 cars before I got a bug up my ass for another t/a. LS1, formula, midnight blue, t-tops, M6, and a cloth interior would've been my perfect car. Searched for about 2 hours, find the exact car (what are the odds) in Seattle, a meer 34 hours away, and picked it up 8/17/06.

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I feel nostalgic driving it. :)

i started loving the firebird when i was 3......watching knight rider. i remember sitting there thinking KIT was the coolest f***ing car. ever since then i have been hooked.

My love for the T/A-firebird was watching knight rider, and smokey and the bandit as a kid. My mom owned a black w/red interior 78 when i was about 7 or 8. I finally bought my 1st T/A when i was 14, for $400. It was primered, but could still the original color underneath it. Now, 13yrs later, i have my 97 T/a which i love to death.

I always liked them, but when I saw the 98 WS6 commercial on tv, I knew I had to have one. I finally got a decent job and bought a red '98 T/A M6 that year as my first LS1, first V8 actually. I got my mom to put it in here name (I was just 20) so I could afford the insurance. Then I picked up my old '69 Firebird 350/4spd in late '99 from a buddy. I had never seen a '69 T/A until I did some research after buying the car from him, and fell in love with those as well.

WOW,, last TA commercial i remeber seeing is in 1982,,,with the new body style,,,(showing some age here),,,i guess i first liked them mid 70's..Gotta love the bird!

During my "newbie F&F ricer phase" I saw an interesting body kit called "The Evoluzione 2 GTS" the kit basically looked like a ferrari and it was only for 3rd gens. So I started getting into maros/ fbirds and forgot all about honda civics and etc. One day in 2001 i think, I was walking to Lenox Mall and I saw a red trans am blackbird edtion rolled pass. That thing was pure butt sex.

when I was born, I rode home from the hospital in a 72 Z28. We always had Camaros for family cars while growing up. I remember watching Smokey & The Bandit at the drive-in movies, damn that car was hot. I still would like to get a S&B 2nd gen car someday.

Loved them since I was about 14 years old... watchin smokey and the bandit and knight rider reruns. My neighbor had a Buick Grand National and a Chevelle (loud as hell) and I was always staring at that them thinking...WOW those are bad ass, but then I saw the TA driving around one day and it was over, plus to top it off- in 98 when they came out with the new body style.... :hump: I was still in High School and then my brothers friend picked up a new black 99 WS6 and it was over from there. I Couldnt afford a TA yet so I got my 99 Camaro RS 30th anniversary just outta high school in 2000. Then in 2004, I had all my pennies saved up and all the beer/pop cans turned in and I finally got my dream ride... 2002 BLACK WS6 :drive:

Smokey and the Bandit first got me into the Trans Am after that movie I always wanted to own one.

At a car show they had by me in a local college there was a NBM t/a. It was 99' and I was 16 and I sat in that car for about 2 hr making believe it was mine. I was lucky enough to get the same one less then 2 yrs later and have been hooked ever since.

I was a senior in high school in 1996. Everyone had finished their classes for the day and we were all heading for the parking lot. As we were approaching the lot a beautiful white exotic looking car with flaring nostrils was rolling straight towards us. I swear time stood still as it seemed everyone completely stopped what they were doing to admire this mysterious new car rolling through our parking lot. The driver turned left, right in front of us showing off the long sleek lines and those two words on the hood I remember so vividly; Ram Air. This guy knew he had a captivated audience and gave everyone exactly what they wanted right on cue, letting the V8 roar to life and laying a patch of rubber 20 feet long. From that very moment I knew that was my dream car.

Six years later I had my own. I can honestly say after owning my car for over three years, everytime I see it it still invokes the very same feelings I experienced that day.

The muscle car lives!

When did i fall in love? well one warm summer night i was at a nice salsa club and there across the room i saw her.. our eyes met and i was drawn across the room.. I looked graciously at her wide rear and beautful physique. I asked if she wanted a drink and she flashed me her hi beams. I emptied my wallet and bought her some 93 and we danced...

really tho.. i was at a car show in i think 98.. being about 11 years old at the time i ran around jumping in every car. I saw the WS6 and just ran full speed and knocked some guy over getting in it. I probably sat in the car pretending i was driving for a good 30 minutes before my dad found me

When did i fall in love? well one warm summer night i was at a nice salsa club and there across the room i saw her.. our eyes met and i was drawn across the room.. I looked graciously at her wide rear and beautful physique. I asked if she wanted a drink and she flashed me her hi beams. I emptied my wallet and bought her some 93 and we danced...

really tho.. i was at a car show in i think 98.. being about 11 years old at the time i ran around jumping in every car. I saw the WS6 and just ran full speed and knocked some guy over getting in it. I probably sat in the car pretending i was driving for a good 30 minutes before my dad found me:lol:
Oh come on, mine wasn't that bad was it? :)

when i was 15 and realized what they were. im 24 now.

i remember i saw one when i was eight sitting right next to a 1996 corvette grand sport at my local dealership. although now i find myself liking the cleaner look of the ss camaros

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Oh come on, mine wasn't that bad was it? :)

oh no i wasnt referring to your post i just liked the name of the thread hahaha.. im sure your first encounter was much more exciting then a 12 year old running through a car show like a toy store

It was fleet week at Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. Me and my dad drove up from miami so i could see the navy ships. On the way back there was a black T/a next to us on the highway not sure if it was a WS6 or regular T/A. But when i saw the dash lit up in red, with those honey comb style taillights, it just looked evil.
-Joel

for me it was Smokey and the Bandit, then seein the LT1 then LS1 cars really did me in and i had to get a WS6

Since the 70's, I have wanted one for myself. I have had 4 so far. 76 TA, 79 TA, 89 Formula, and now my 2001 WS6.

I think I got a remote controlled silver 1982 Trans Am when I was about 4 years old...I thought it was a Lamborghini at the time. Ever since then, I've been fascinated by the fact that you could buy a Lamborghini from Pontiac for a fraction of the price. I bought my first Trans Am brand new at the age of 19.

i was 16 had a 95 corolla ( yeah i thought it was sweet) and me and a buddy drove by a dealership. we saw a yellow car that looked bad ass. so i drove up to it got out ( it was on a platform, like a car for the gods) i was like wow. i look at the tag and it said 40000 or somethign. at 16 that was a heart breaker and i walked away form that collectors edition with my head hung low and saying i will never own on.........5 years later with a good job i can afford one and DAMN I AM SOO HAPPY. :headbang: :fluffy: <--------------- (yes i did dance like this when i bought it)

I probably wanted one since I saw my first burnout in smokey and the bandit.... dumping the clutch at the stoplight :drive: I thought that was the coolest thing ever

I also loved Knight Rider when I was a little kid. I had all the toys and even the KITT peddle car you rode around in (before the power wheel days)

I've owned a 91 t/a, my 96 formula conv, and a 2nd gen will definitely be next :cool:

i was 16 had a 95 corolla ( yeah i thought it was sweet) and me and a buddy drove by a dealership. we saw a yellow car that looked bad ass. so i drove up to it got out ( it was on a platform, like a car for the gods) i was like wow. i look at the tag and it said 40000 or somethign. at 16 that was a heart breaker and i walked away form that collectors edition with my head hung low and saying i will never own on.........5 years later with a good job i can afford one and DAMN I AM SOO HAPPY. :headbang: :fluffy: <--------------- (yes i did dance like this when i bought it)


Yeah, that car was $46,500 at my dealer, so I said f that and picked up a brand new WS6 for $27,000 instead. Stupid dealer markups.

I was 14. My neighbor had a 79 10th anniv. He would wash and wax that thing all the time. I would walk over to talk to him and help clean the car. He ended up wraping it around an oak tree.

Smokey and the badit for sure. Still remember teh day i saw the movie the first time. I remember some teacher at on of our schools had one, I drooled everytime oour bus went by.

i first fell in love with the trans when i was 4 years old bacl in 1989. i was walking with my granny from the shop in our town and my uncle (her son) was driving by in a 3gen trans am an told us to get in so he culd drive us home. then he mashed the pedal and i remember my granny screaming her head of while the car was tailfishing all over the place and me as a small child nearly shit my panths, but at the same time i was thinking to myself *"my god that is an ungodly machine! and i like it"

LOL the only reason why i remembered it was a trans am is becouse i still remember the huge pheonix on the hood of the car.

When i saw the 4th gen ws6's I was like :drool:

My friend had a 94 white TA in high school, I loved that car, pretty much the reason I bought mine.

I fell in love with em when i was about 7 i think. My cousin had black 95 firebird... I think i liked it more than he did.

Early 90's... I have had three Formula's (91,97,98)!!!

in 03 when I bought my trans am.. fell in love the moment we did a test drive.

Well growing up I was all into 4 wheelers and shit. Where I live its mostly 4 wheel drives and all that. I never really payed attention to them until 1999-2000. I started wanting one in 03, and thats when my disease with them began :)

Not so much T/As but I fell in love with the first formy I owned when I went down to palm beach FL to drive her back to CT about 2 years ago, then she got hit and totalled and I wasn't even in the car :(...From then I knew it was going to be a bird or bust!

I now own my prized 96 formy m6...Love it to death!!!

Back when I was 13 and my cousin brought his brand new car over, a 98 black T/A WS6 right off the showroom floor. I wanted one for 8 years, then I got my car.

smokey and the bandit and knight rider for sure :cool:

i remember a friend of my mom's son bought a "trans am" and they cancelled his insurance :lol:

(actually it was a Grand Am, but his mom got the message wrong, told the ins co it was a trans am, and they dropped him hahaha

i have always wanted oen ever since i seen smokey and the bandit but i fell in love with the bird when i bought my t/a last year

back when I was 6 my brother had a 96 Trans Am and always took me out for a ride in it.... and I've loved em ever since then...

there was a bad ass t/a on the street i grew up on, i think that's what started it. then my teacher high school has a 1997 Firehawk that everyone had a hard on for. i used to help Mr.P around his house and him and his wife helpped me out when my 'rents were spitting up. short story, nothing better then skipping class with a teacher to drive a Firehawk!!! and now i have mine

I always liked knight rider but didnt know much about cars when i was younger so i didnt know itw as a t/a. I fell in love with them at first sight of my car while i was shopping online for them.

Love is not too strong of a word.

I loved Knight Rider as a kid. Still do, actually. The thing was, back in England a Trans Am, Camaro or damn near anything American was so rare and so awesome it might as well have been an exotic. I'd never get a chance to have a car like that and if I did, I couldn't afford the petrol (gas) for it anyway. Those enormous engines had to go through it really quickly. By the standards we're used to over there, they did. And they do.

Anyway, long story short: came to the States, went through a couple of beaters, got glorious '92 Miata, unfortunately wrecked it two years later. With a mere couple of grand from the insurance, I wasn't getting another one, but I wasn't willing to settle for less than a sporty car of some kind... then suddenly I found a third-gen would be affordable. Got my LO3 Firebird, my very first V8 - and a Knight Rider car, almost. Close enough. I got asked a couple of times if it talked.

A little over a year later and I can't keep up with the little bits of maintenance it keeps needing. The idea for a new car pops into my head. At the traffic lights one day I found myself listening to the vaguely threatening burble of a fourth-gen T/A V8 at idle. Hmm... fourth-gen. Newer. V8. Convertible, maybe? Still has pop-up headlights.

Yes.

(And there aren't many cars that have all those traits; and I wanted them all. I was addicted to V8s by now. Always loved ragtops (this is my third). Always loved pop-ups; a wonderful part of the sports car 'look', and of course nothing new has them any more, which breaks my heart.)

I went hunting on the net and found it. 1995 Trans Am convertible, and what a stunning beauty! Looked, investigated, drove, fell in love, negotiated, traded in Firebird, bought - and scored my first car payment (all my previous ones had been cheap and bought outright). And later some major repairs. Oops. A blown clutch a couple of months into ownership does not result in a very impressed wife.

There's a part of me that misses the old 'Bird. It's still on the dealer's lot and if I had a sudden windfall I'd seriously think about buying it back. I miss the Knight Rider look, too, of course. Nothing else quite looks like that.

But I'm still utterly infatuated by my Trans Am. There's a definite spirit to the Firebirds, whatever era, and them almost being treated like red-headed stepchildren by GM just makes me love 'em all the more. And when I looked at the production numbers and found there's fewer fourth-gen T/A 'verts than there are even DeLoreans... well... :thumb:

(Sorry... didn't mean to make this post quite so long!)

1969, when I saw this:
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June 29, 1985. The date of purchase of 1985 Black T/A l69 carb'd H.O. 5 speed. Burns Pontiac, Cinaminson N.J. T-Tops. I think it stickered for about 16K back then. My favorite car of all time. Certainly not a quick car in comparison to what's around today, but it was one of the last carb'd cars and there was nothing like running all out and having the secondaries open up. It was totalled in 1989...by my dad taking it to get it washed while I was away at school. I've tried to find another one to restore. I haven't had much luck. The cars are either lg4s or LB9s. Sorry, I'm rambling. But anyway, I thought that was the most beautiful car I'd ever seen. Still do. It started my love affair with the T/A.

8th grade... I'm a senior in high school now and just got mine 1 month ago...

My results with falling in love with Trans Ams and Knight Rider. :jest: (Sorry. Just more whoring. :nod: ) God I miss my Knight Rider conversion. :( --> http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=653124

1976 when i saw Cannonball , sarring Dave Carradine as Coy 'Cannonball' Buckman.
He and his brother(in the movie) has two identical early 70 Trans Am and when i saw those cars i was stucked. I bought me my first T/A 1984 it was a 1971 455HO with
M-22.......sold it 1998. But could not live without the "bird" when i saw the comercial for the 1998 TA i was sold.

This one is easy for me, I clearly remember Pontiac running the commercial for the 1982 Trans Am, first year for the third gens.(Actully 83.) The second I saw the car on screen, the car literally blew my socks off. The curvy car pulled me right in... hook line and sinker. The Knight Rider series also had me hooked. At least the car.

If that wasn't enough, when the 4th gens came out that love was reborn even more.

I really wished they had continued the 5th generation design upon a the 4th gen basis. I still think for a fifth gen design, they should have laid they windshield back a few more degrees. Lower the roof line a hair, And maybe brought the front nose to a more angled but rounder designed.

In other words, a design that would be really slick. They were on the right track here, they should have stayed with a design along those lines.

I think the retro-thing has came and gone, GM missed the boat here. Bad news about a retro design, what do you do for the next generation design???

I think GM should be offering the F-body as a retro in the Camaro and a futuristic sports car for the Firebird. Just my thoughts... sorry for getting :offtopic:

Smokey and the Bandit did it for me! I use to watch that show when I was little- so worked thru high school with my dream car in mind to keep me motivated and bought my 00 WS6 around my 18th birthday!

I first fell in love in the summer of 1998 when me and my dad were heading home from the beach on the highway, and I always loved it when he would tram on the gas in the truck(1997 Chevy 5.0) and I thought that thing was the most powerful thing in the world ( I was dead wrong but was only 10 at the time) then I look in the mirror and see cat like eyes coming up fast behind us in dark and catching quick glimpses of it in the street lights, it got right up beside us and flew right on buy and I got a full view of it, I instantly fell in love, and Im still waiting for that hole in my life to be filled.

P.S. It was a white 1998 Trans-Am simply beautiful

I was born into it, my dad had a 1980 gold Trans Am and my uncle had a silver '79. Those were the cars I use to go everywhere in. Smokey and the bandit was a huge part of it for me too. Since I can remember I only wanted a Trans Am, I love any and all of them. Now that I have mine I'll never let it go, but I do want a 77 or 78 eventually.

I always like them growing up but when the ls1's came out i pretty much knew i had to get a WS6, i was about 11 at the time, and have pics of me sitting in them at auto shows, and now i have one and lovin it

Ever since back in 96 when my parents were looking for another car, they went with a buick regal... point being, the dealer was a Pontiac/Buick/GMC, and they had a gorgeous red WS6 in the showroom. Also saw dozens of pics of my uncle's cars he built before I was born before he died. Hooked since.

-J

Always liked them, thought they looked good, I liked the 5.0 Mustangs, then a bunch of buddies had third gens in high school, so I started paying atention to the F-bodies. In 98 the new LS1 TAs came out, the ram airs looked so awesome. Same time we were looking for a car for my sister, on the lot was a bright red 97 TA, thats when I started paying atention to 4th gen TAs, the LT1 TAs were only a couple years old, remeber seing a lot of those and thinking how bad ass they looked, would always stare at them, at the time LT1s were really popular so that didnt help much, Got one in 2000, still have it.

I was about 7 or 8 Yrs. old.
I used to ask my childhood friend Richard who was a Yr. older than me what that car was with the bird on it.
Every time me and him played matchbox cars in the dirt driveway I always ended up picking the TransAm.

When the 4th gens came out that was it I had to have one so I waited till the last year of production and got it!

I was 15 I was at a stop light with my pop, and this dude rolled up to the light with a red 78' T/A blarring Van Hallen's hot for teacher. Ayear later I bought a 78' Restored it, Then once I came back from Iraq I bought an 02' WS6,and here I am, lol

Smokey And The Bandit. 8 Yrs Old. I Have Now Owned A Red 94 Cam, A Mbm 99 Cam, A Mbm99 T/a, And Now A Blk 93 T/a.

at a gas station when i was like 14, some dude started his ls1 TA and i turned around and was like whoa, what the hell is that loud-ass car with the huge engine.

I would say it was a combination of car shows, Cannonball, S $ B, and American Beauty that put me on to the older TA's when I was a kid, but when the LT1's came out I really liked the new looks over the Camaro and then....The LS1 TA came out and I just had to HAVE ONE! The LS1 bodystyle TA is by far one of the sexiest modern muscle cars in existence! (WAYYYY more than the new Goat and Camaro IMO)

I fell in love with Trans Ams when Smokey and the Bandit came out. I was 14 at the time, and wasn't much interested in cars. But I will never forget the first sight of the Trans Am in that movie....when it emerges from the back of the truck. When I first saw the front end of the car, I loved it! When it starts down the ramp, and they showed the hood bird......I knew I *HAD* to have one of those!

I will also never forget, as long as I live, the first sight of the 3rd generation Trans Am at the new car show in 1982. I couldn't believe the design. The front end was SO low....there were no other cars like that back then.

My first car was a 74 Firebird, my first TA was an 80 Turbo Special Edition (like the car in Smokey and the Bandit II). I then bought an 89 20th Anniversay (God, I miss that car!), and no I own a 97 TA.

-Rich

Easy - Restaurant I worked at in High School had an owner that had bought a brand-new 1984 Pontiac Trans Am 15th Anniversary. This was the white with blue stripes, 16" rims, heavy-duty handling, etc. He always had me running errands in his car, because mine was either not reliable or illegal. I feel in love with the low driving position, awesome handling, and the looks from the girls. It was wayyy cool then at 16!!

I was about 11 or 12 years old when I saw some kickass commercial of a car eating a Ferrari or something. It said 'firebird' or 'Trans Am' in the ad. The ad went off the air and the Trans Am (and, well, cars in general) went out of my thought process. I hadnt grown up around cars, so i wasnt really a ''car guy'', didnt get into it this way of life until about 2 years ago now.
I got a 96 4.6 Mustang Vert, and after i totaled it, my friend mentioned that the guy who sold her her 98 Camaro Z-28 was now selling his 98 Trans Am. I told her that I really just wanted a Civic or an Integra, but who was gonna pass up a chance to test-drive a Trans Am? When I drove up to that guys house and saw her sitting in the garage, Mystic Teal glistening under the flourescent lights... THAT is when i really fell in love with the Trans Ams, when i saw mine and bought her in March, 2005.

Me and my Z28 owning friend still laugh our asses off at the thought of me driving a civic or an Integra... This car fits my personality perfectly, we both love getting looks.

shit smokey and the bandit one of the best movies ever i remember bein home when i was little and was like Burt Reynolds is def the man badass car badass girl and hes above the law haha

smokey & the bandit for me too.i saw the movie when i was 5 and feel in love with it.waited 19 years and i got a 78 t/a golden edition y88.by the way it was my first car and i still have it.

For me, it was "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" that first got me excited about the T/A, re-affirmed by "Smokey and The Bandit". Then I kinda lost interest when HP went away in the late '70s and '80s (the front-end styling of the '79 turned me off too). Bought and wrecked a '76 455-4sp T/A during the '80s (max cubes + round headlights = :rock: ). Then when the TTA came back in '89 I started getting interested again, then the 4th gen in '93 raised that excitment level even more. BUT, what really gave me full-wood was the "Hungry" commercial that introduced the '98 WS6 to the world. I HAD TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE!!!
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The first time I saw a Firebird when I was five, it is still clear in my mind...

It was that dusk time at night, where you don't really need lights on when driving around and you kind of do. I was at a Safeway with my dad walking up the parking lot and as I went to go cross the road in front of the doors my dad pulled me back (was holding my hand) and said "stop" and we stood still and watched the Firebird cross in front of us and we both just watched it, and as we are walking into the store he asked me, "what kind of car was that?" I replied "Pontiac" because we were raised on Pontiac so I figured if he was asking it had to be a Pontiac, than he asked me "what kind of Pontiac?" To which I just shrugged my shoulders and he said, "it was either a 91 or 92 Firebird Trans Am"

I remember thinking it was the devil's car and somebody stole it from him somehow. Since than I always payed close attention to them and when I was 12 wanted a Black or Red TA. I met my wife and we talked about our favorite cars and it turns out it was her favorite car also, she thought it was a Ford though until I broke the news to her and she said "that explains why I can never find pictures of them!"

We bought our TA almost a year ago now, not Red or Black, but Sunset Orange Metallic, I was set that whatever color I got the car I would repaint it Red or Black and was tempted to with the SOM, but after I cleaned it and I saw the shine I decided it was best to leave it alone! :)

Hopefully this doesn't blow up the page, I suck at the internet! :jest:

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t146/Rawr256/FacilitiesGroupPictures179.jpg

Grand Am in back is my dads, he has owned it since 89, has 260k miles on it and an untouched tranny, engine went at 245k. Red Grand Prix use to be mine, I passed it on to my brother when I got the Green Grand Prix GTP and got the Trans Am.

My God, I feel old! You were 5 when 91 or 92 Trans Ams were around? ;) 1991 seems like the other day to me.....not 16 years ago!

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-Old Rich :)

My God, I feel old! You were 5 when 91 or 92 Trans Ams were around? ;) 1991 seems like the other day to me.....not 16 years ago!

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-Old Rich :)
i know what you mean.it's feel like a slap on the face.my t/a get rusted and i get gray hair.

I fell in love with Trans Am's thanks to Hot Wheels. I loved playing with the cool car that had T-tops and opening doors.

Then I came across shows like CHiP's with Ponch and his Bronze Formula. B.J. and the Bear(He kept a Red 78 T/A in the back of his rig) and of course the Be all, End all of Trans Am legend....Smokey and the Bandit. Nothing cooler than seeing that Black T/A defy the laws of gravity and every other law of physics as it crossed half the country while being tracked by "Justice".
Then there was Knight Rider which reignited my love. Still have my Talking KITT with Michael Knight action figure! ahha
My love faded a bit in the late 80's and went away in the 90's as I didn't care for cars much at all. Then in 98 when I was watching Speedvision...I saw it.....HUNGRY!
I knew I had to get one....and well, that's a story for another time.

Not sure when, but I was in middle school.. I used to see them around and think they were pretty bad! My mom got a 95 Firebird... and I eventually decided to trade in my car and some cash for her's! It's what I drive now.. to be replaced with a 98+ LS1 someday :drive:

All this talk of Smokey and the Bandit... I'm going to have to watch them tonight! :jest:

Burt Reynolds is my hero!

1973. I was 13 years old. A very impressionable age. It was cammed.... and loud.... with American Racing 10" aluminum "slots" and N50-15's. From that point on.... I had the "illness".

Many, many doctors/therapists later, I'm no better off.

I was 15 and a friend of a friend let me start riding out to lunch with him and others in his '76 Black T/A. I was the youngest, so I got to ride the dang hump...at 6'1" at the time, that sucked, but I loved it anyway. The driver was about 5'2" and barely saw over the dash, but that sucker could make that car handle and go! In retrospect, he was obnoxious on the road, zooming up to 6" from someone's bumper boxing the guy in and coming in about a foot off his front bumper, doing donuts, burning positraction stripes down the high school parking lot, those were the days. I was 35 when I got my first, a 95' Formy, and about 3 years later, after totalling that one, I got my '98 T/A.

Hey raleigh T/A can we see some pics of the shaker , that's badass

Found my trans am when I got out of HS. Have had 3 of them since then....

Hey raleigh T/A can we see some pics of the shaker , that's badass

I just added some shots to cardomain. I am fenx98 there.

It would have to be Smokey and the Bandit.

It was when I was about 6-7 and my dad brought this home. He was part owner of a used car lot and had the car for about a month. This is not the actual car but it looked just like it. 81 T/A with a 301 auto and t-tops. Also had the 15X8 wheels with the lip.

http://www.arizonarustfreetransamparts.com/images/474_1979_Trans_Am.jpg

Also the fact that my older brother bought an 02 WS.6 my senior year in highschool and he would let me and my friends cruise around in it on weekends.

Knight Rider of course, but it wasn't until I saw a 1998 Trans Am WS6 that I knew I had to have one. Became obsessed with LS1s, but couldn't find an 01/02 TA under $20,000 when I was looking, found this SS and bought it. Now, 4 years later, I bought a mild H/C 2001 Trans Am for a steal as a daily driver. I love these damn LS1 F-bodies!

My uncle and dad both had trans Ams when they were younger back in the 70's. My uncle had a bucinneer red super duty 455 4-speed car. And my dad bought a brand new 1978 trans am almost identicle to the one in smokey and the bandit, but the one in the movie was a 77. I remember hed always tell me about times he raced people in it. I now own a 2001 SOM WS6 6-speed car that I picked up in october.