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08-10-2008, 12:53 AM

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ever seen one of these?

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08-10-2008, 12:54 AM

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08-10-2008, 01:04 AM

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08-12-2008, 08:58 AM

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Ever seen a Black with white top and interior???
I've seen a firebird with the same coloring +- but no TAs...
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I've got a pic of a black T/A WS6 vert w/ white interior (I believe it's a '98) that has two fat white stripes down the middle of it (d/l'd it years ago). Not sure of the top color because it's down. Never seen a white interior in person though.

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08-12-2008, 08:59 AM

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If that's the one that used to be from Indiana, I've seen THAT car within a 7-iron shot of my old house.

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08-12-2008, 10:57 AM

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Any gold ones are rare, let alone with a white top and WS6.

My somewhat exclusive Firehawk is 1 of 13 Hawk Pewter convertibles made in 2000. But there are enough other pewter birds in various sorts that it doesn't really stand out. I still love it, though.

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08-12-2008, 10:03 PM

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The 2002 yellow 'collector editions' seem to have all been put away it seems. This sure beats owning the typical convertible you see almost every day of the week.

The hell they have! Come down to good ol' Virginia....my CETA vert is my daily driver! To hell with being a garage queen....it just means that I get to spend more time outside washing, cleaning, and detailing my car than other dudes -- itsa labor of love!

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08-13-2008, 06:32 PM

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08-14-2008, 04:24 PM

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That makes 2 of us- mine is my dd too. I have the only CETA vert, as far as I've seen, in Socal. There are only 2 other CETAs that I know of and they are t-tops.

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08-14-2008, 07:02 PM

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That makes 2 of us- mine is my dd too. I have the only CETA vert, as far as I've seen, in Socal. There are only 2 other CETAs that I know of and they are t-tops.

I see one running around here in NoCal quite often, it's driven by a blonde gal in her mid 30s to 40s I would guess. I have yet to see it with the top down though

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08-14-2008, 08:54 PM

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Im new here. i just got a 98 navy blue TA with a taupe top. from the numbers i found they only made 126 navy blue convertibles in 1998. thats just the color i havent been able to find any specific numbers that reflect the top colors. But 1 out of 126 isnt too bad to hold on too.

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08-16-2008, 03:20 PM

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2002 Trans Am Pewter - White top

I bought a 2002 Pewter trans am ws6 with the white top
in 2004.

I was browsing the site and read that there
were only 11 made?

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08-18-2008, 01:00 PM

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I bought a 2002 Pewter trans am ws6 with the white top
in 2004.

I was browsing the site and read that there
were only 11 made?

Did you get your info from this posting?

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This is the actual 2002 Firebird numbers
Total Firebirds made in 2002

Firebird Coupe 8,432
Firebird Convertible 1,498
Formula Coupe 901
Trans Am Coupe 3,962
Trans Am Convertible 998
Trans Am coupe w/Ram Air 12,212*
Trans Am Convertible w/Ram Air 2,696*
Total 30,690
*Includes Collector Edition

2002 Collector Edition

Collector Edition coupe w/6 spd 842
Collector Edition coupe w/4spd auto 509
Collector Edition Convertible w/6spd 554
Collector Edition Convertible w/4 spd auto 488
Total 2,390

2002 Trans Am

Trans Am coupe w/6spd 1,591
Trans Am Coupe w/4 spd auto 2,371
Trans Am Convertible w/6spd 235
Trans Am Convertible w/4spd auto 763
Trans Am coupe w/Ram Air 6spd 6,828
Trans Am coupe w/Ram Air 4spd auto 5,384
Trans Am Convertible w/Ram Air 6spd 1,176
Trans Am Convertible w/Ram Air 4spd auto 1,520
Total 19,868

2002 NHRA Package

Formula w/6spd 62
Formula w/4spd auto 85
Trans Am Coupe w/6spd 136
Trans Am Coupe w/4spd auto 189
Trans Am Convertible w/6spd 16
Trans Am Convertible w/4spd auto 46
Total 534

2002 Exterior Colors

Arctic White 2,918
Pewter Metallic 4,302
Bright Silver Metallic 3,089
Navy Blue Metallic 3,290
Black 7,572
Maple Red Metallic 867
Collector Yellow 2,390
Sunset Orange Metallic 1,208
Bright Red 5,053

2002 Convertible top colors

White 137
Black 4,455
Taupe 600

2002 Options

T-Top roof 23,648
Hurst shifter 9,194
CD Changer 5,934
Traction Control 16,837
Monsoon 23,964

2002 Rare Combo’s

Trans Am Convertible Maple Red Metallic 9
Firebird convertible with White top 34
Trans Am convertible with White top 11
Formula w/6 spd and 16” chrome wheels 170
Ram Air convertible w/6 spd and Camel leather interior 14

2002 WS6 Color break down
Production numbers for the 2002 WS6

Black
2071 manual t-top
1580 auto t-top
217 manual convertibles
330 auto convertibles
Total 4198

Collectors’ Edition
839 manual t-tops
510 automatic t-tops
549 manual convertibles
492 automatic convertibles
Total 2390

Bright Red
854 manual t-top
851 auto t-top
121 manual convertibles
219 auto convertibles
Total 2045

Pewter Metallic
959 manual t-top
632 auto t-top
71 manual convertibles
102 auto convertibles
Total 1764

Navy Blue Metallic
742 manual t-top
582 auto t-top
75 manual convertibles
127 auto convertibles
Total 1526

Bright Silver Metallic
607 manual t-top
497 auto t-top
55 manual convertibles
79 auto convertibles
Total 1238

Arctic White
455 manual t-top
535 auto t-top
59 manual convertibles
100 auto convertibles
Total 1149

Sunset Orange Metallic
303 manual t-tops
220 automatic t-tops
32 manual convertibles
41 automatic convertibles
Total 596

Total WS6’s 14,906
Auto Convertibles 1490
Manual Convertibles 1179
Auto T-tops 5407
Manual T-tops 6830

I don't think your Pewter WS6 T/A w/ white top is one of those 11 T/As, as it doesn't say these were WS6s. In 2002 there were more WS6s built than non-WS6 cars, and if there were a total of 137 '02 Firebird 'verts w/ white tops, and 34 of those were Firebird 'verts and 11 were (non-WS6) Trans Am 'verts, that leaves 92 WS6 'verts w/ white tops. I've yet to locate a color+option breakdown to the level of detail that would show the number of those 92 WS6 'verts w/ white tops were Pewter. It's possible that it could be only 11, possibly fewer yet. But don't let the numbers in that published breakdown mis-lead you to a wrong conclusion.

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08-20-2008, 02:46 PM

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08-21-2008, 01:47 AM

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So far I'm the only one I've ever seen in SC (red at least) and the only one in MN (to my knowledge)

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08-21-2008, 07:31 PM

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'00 A4 MRM Taupe/Taupe TA here

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08-22-2008, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ritschner

I'm in Safety harbor.

From the documentation It appears to have been a special order in Naples Fl...
I bought it because it had 100% options and I had never seen any like it. I did catch a Firebird with a white top that scared me but it wasn't a TA...
I do think I have one of the few if not the only one with this color combo from the factory . It's the same as the 30th without the embroidering and badges.

White top and interior on a black TA. Truly awesome. For a daily driver, white would be impossible, but for a toy car, it's the #1 pick. Nice find.

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08-22-2008, 11:21 PM

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Here's a pic of my baby.

I looked for a long time to find one with the taupe interior. (white would have been good, too, but I haven't seen one)

I can't understand how anyone can own a convertible with black leather seats. That's got to be a new adventure in pain every time you get in the car when the top's down, unless you only drive it at night.

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08-23-2008, 11:25 AM

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I can't understand how anyone can own a convertible with black leather seats. That's got to be a new adventure in pain every time you get in the car when the top's down, unless you only drive it at night.

Here in Texas, if you own a convertible with black leather, I figured out real early on that it's generally a good idea to put the top up when you get out of the car in the sun for any real period of time. Otherwise, yeah, "a new adventure in pain" sums it up pretty well.