Pontiac Firebird Trans Am: classic with golden edges (10 photos)

In 1977, Burt Reynolds starred in Smokey and the Bandit, about a couple of guys smuggling beer. This film will immortalize two careers: the career of Burt Reynolds himself and the career of Firebird Trans Am during in all its glory, forever linking it to a film that can be enjoyed and to this day.





If you ask a European when the best cars, it is likely that he will mention the period of the late seventies or the eighties. But if you ask the Americans, they they will probably give a completely different answer, so the Yankees consider this very period is the darkest for the auto industry. And there's a reason for that, because Americans enjoyed powerful models before strict safety and emissions laws.



The engines were still with a large volume, but that power was no longer there. Take this beautiful 1977 Pontiac Firebird for example. In the base version, he developed only 105 hp. with a working volume of 3.8 liters. Even if you choose the most powerful model from the offer, namely Trans Am W72 with 6.6-liter petrol engine, power would jump to just 200 hp Not much.





Just five or six years earlier, the same engine was in twice as powerful, but by the end of the 70s the only way to comply strict emission laws had a reduction in power.



Acceleration from standstill to 100 km / h took 7.7 seconds at maximum speed 190 km/h. For comparison, even the much weaker The Volkswagen Golf GTI of that time was only a second slower.



What can not be taken away from this model is the style. Many will say that Firebird, rolled off the assembly line from 1977 to 1981 - the most beautiful for throughout the long history of this car, popularized by actor Bert Reynolds in the Smokey and the Bandit series.



With regards to this model, I want to say this. Recently she was exhibited at one of the auctions. After ten days of the auction and as much as 35 submitted proposals, the maximum was 110 thousand dollars, but the current the owner did not sell it, considering the amount underestimated. This suggests that, despite the low power, it is the style that attracts buyers and many are willing to spend large sums to have such a Firebird Trans Am was in their possession.