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It should have definite appeal to the baby boomer / mid-life crisis demographic.

The exterior looks nice (above), but the interior (below) is extra boring. Grey and Beige? Nothing says awesome sports car like two neutral colors splashed together, eh?

I do like the red seats matching the red paint in the above photos. Cool.

Maybe I need to adjust the tint here on my end, but those seats look tan not red. Looks more like the Corvette King Ranch Edition.

Yeah I saw the dash, but couldn't make out the seat color well enough to determine if it was red or the same tan.

If I had the cash to play with, this old MoPar guy would get a hemi powered '66-'67 Dodge or Plymouth and tool around SW FL burning up $3.50 a gallon gas. .

Here's a look at the proposed 2013 edition of the Trans-Am.



Looks like an updated 'Smokey and the Bandit' tribute. Works for me, as I had a '77 version. I had the pin-stripes and firebird logo hand painted by an artist named Butch Tucker who lived in Mesa at the time. Sweet sweet ride and I wish I still had it.

What, is GM going to resurrect the Pontiac brand just so they can come out with another Firechicken?

Sudden Sam wrote:

Van wrote:What, is GM going to resurrect the Pontiac brand just so they can come out with another Firechicken?

It's a rebadged Camaro.

It always was.

Mikey wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote:

Van wrote:What, is GM going to resurrect the Pontiac brand just so they can come out with another Firechicken?

It's a rebadged Camaro.

It always was.

Uhhhhh...

No.

Same front and rear clips, many different body parts... many. Completely different engines (no small bock 1st Gen Birds). Quarters aren't the same. I believe front fenders are different (different grooves for the bumpers, IIRC).

Same subframe/pan (F-body), different cars.

Early on, there were different engines but by the time GM settled on standardized engines across their brands which I believe was the case by the early 80s, that was no longer the case.

So what mikey says was pretty much the case, by then, although the differences were a bit more extensive than badges.

There are a few vehicles from Pontiac that the general should have found a way to keep and the chicken ain't one. They should have kept the G8 for sure and maybe the TiVO sized vette.

smackaholic wrote:So what mikey says was pretty much the case

I guess it depends on what your definition of "always" is.

Which portions of the difference in parts should I retype?

Unless we have radically different definitions of "rebadged," which apparently doesn't mean what some of you think it means... hint: think "badge." It would refer to emblems and basic cosmetics. When you can't cut a quarter off one and weld it to the other, it involves more than emblems. When you can't take the motor out of one and put it in the other without rewelding the mounts, it involves more tham emblems. When you can't take the bumper off one and put it on the other, it involves more than emblems.

Catching on yet?

A little more interchangebility on 2nd Gens. Much more interchangebility on 3rd Gens.

Dinsdale wrote:

smackaholic wrote:So what mikey says was pretty much the case

I guess it depends on what your definition of "always" is.

Which portions of the difference in parts should I retype?

Unless we have radically different definitions of "rebadged," which apparently doesn't mean what some of you think it means... hint: think "badge." It would refer to emblems and basic cosmetics. When you can't cut a quarter off one and weld it to the other, it involves more than emblems. When you can't take the motor out of one and put it in the other without rewelding the mounts, it involves more tham emblems. When you can't take the bumper off one and put it on the other, it involves more than emblems.

Catching on yet?

A little more interchangebility on 2nd Gens. Much more interchangebility on 3rd Gens.

You were right about "always" being the wrong word. Much more than the badge was different early on. I do suspect though that you could have exchanged quarters though. Might not have looked right, but, they were likely similar enough to do it.

My point was that by the third gen, re-badging was pretty much the case.

smackaholic wrote:I do suspect though that you could have exchanged quarters though. Might not have looked right, but, they were likely similar enough to do it.

If by "not have looked quite right," you meant "the bumper wouldn't fit," then I suppose.

A whole bunch is different on 1st Gens.

What they did to this 70 Chevelle in this movie is horrible. One of the best looking cars Chevy ever made and they destroy it in this movie. Of course even wrecked, since Tom Crazy Man Cruise drove it, it will probably bring more wrecked than in new condition.

Buddy of mine had one like this back in the day. 396 SS, 4 speed. Used to have this habitat of launching it out of the local gas station every time. Throw that bitch sideways in a cloud of tire smoke and burn it through 2 gears at least. Never got caught. Fun car.

Derron wrote: Used to have this habitat of launching it out of the local gas station every time.

Paging T1B editor Van on the white courtest phone.

smackaholic wrote:

Derron wrote: Used to have this habitat of launching it out of the local gas station every time.

Paging T1B editor Van on the white courtest phone.

Once the English police twins release their grips on each others cocks long enough to make fun of my verbiage, maybe cockaholic might want to check out this link.


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courtesy

Derron wrote:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courtesy

Is that some sort of sad attempt at typo-smack?

smackaholic wrote:

Derron wrote:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courtesy

Is that some sort of sad attempt at typo-smack?

Not any more than your pontification on my sentence structure.

Sentence structure? That wasn't about sentence structure. It was a malaprop, plain and simple.

Derron wrote:
your pontification

Basically just rebadged chevrotude

Mikey wrote:Basically just rebadged chevrotude

Whatever you want to call it, I still loved that ride.


Bandit': "Hi, Buford!"
Buford T. Justice: "Hello, you handsome sombitch!"

Jay in Phoenix wrote:Here's a look at the proposed 2013 edition of the Trans-Am.



Looks like an updated 'Smokey and the Bandit' tribute. Works for me, as I had a '77 version. I had the pin-stripes and firebird logo hand painted by an artist named Butch Tucker who lived in Mesa at the time. Sweet sweet ride and I wish I still had it.

that looks like a rolling barrel of gay. no wonder you like it.

The return to the LT1 small block reinforces the love I have for the LT1 in my business sedan (Fleetwood 96')...

nostra wrote:that looks like a rolling barrel of gay. no wonder you like it.

Nostra? Really? And what woodwork have you decided to crawl out of At any rate, if that ride was good enough to spawn a brief national obsession and a series of movies (as silly as they were), it sure as hell was good enough for me. Well, at least it was in the '70's. Time and tide nostra, and all that.


See you down the desert line. Now try to stick around and actually say something, ya noob.

I'm hoping the concept Ford Atlas goes to the assembly line in 2015, 'cus I'll be the first in line to get one.

Go Coogs' wrote:...'cus I'll be the first in line to get one.

You know what I was supposed to be first in line to get?

Some 12 mega-pixel, hi-contrast, bi-cubic-filtered clam shots of the all new Lady Rumple ver. 2.0
You promised us (and me in particular) that we'd develop severe rheumatoid arthritis of the wrists, or our money back.

But that never happened...BECAUSE YOU ARE A FRAUD!!!

Rumps, since when do you need snow tires in Houston?

Go Coogs' wrote:I'm hoping the concept Ford Atlas goes to the assembly line in 2015, 'cus I'll be the first in line to get one.

Meh. Too much bling and money for a 1/2 ton truck. Sure you could hitch up a 10ft jon boat or maybe haul a retard's 3 wheeled bicycle, but for what Ford wants for a decked out 1/2 ton truck like that you may as well step up and go big. I'm not like most peeps in that I have no desire for a sports car or a luxury car or a fancified 1/2 ton truck. My dream vehicle is an F450. Kind of a status symbol in my world. But each it's own.

I've thought about purchasing an F-250 a few times, but just don't really have a need for one. Besides, my stepdad has the best F-250 Ford ever made. The 1999 F250 with the 7.3 powerstroke International diesel engine sitting in it. He never drives it, so if I ever need that kind of power, I can just borrow his truck. Several reports out there about people turning half a million miles on that particular engine. A guy I work with has 350,000 miles on his '99 and has replaced the transmission one time. No other major repairs done.

My '06 F150 just sits in the garage. The only time I drive is to pick up large items at the hardware store or take the dogs to the dog park. Other than that, it doesn't get much use. I've put exactly 2,000 miles on it since last March if that tells you anything.

Mrs. Rumps won't let me buy a fourth vehicle or trade in the truck for something sporty, because I'd really like to have some muscle and luxury in the driveway if it were up to me. Guess I'll have to upgrade the truck in a few years.

Go Coogs' wrote:Mrs. Rumps won't let me buy a fourth vehicle or trade in the truck for something sporty, because I'd really like to have some muscle and luxury in the driveway if it were up to me. Guess I'll have to upgrade the truck in a few years.

I'd upgrade the missus. But I guess that's just me.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Go Coogs' wrote:Mrs. Rumps won't let me buy a fourth vehicle or trade in the truck for something sporty, because I'd really like to have some muscle and luxury in the driveway if it were up to me. Guess I'll have to upgrade the truck in a few years.

I'd upgrade the missus. But I guess that's just me.

You're the missus?