Replaced with a 1973 vette
Those of us fortunate enough to be around in the 70s when this fantastic car came out drool each time we consider it. Imagine getting an automobile from the factory with a 455 cubic inch engine in it!This car kicked butt! Then if you did some work, like we did to ours, as in having the engine blue outlined, balanced and a ton more, it probably did even better. Let’s just say it was doing far better then one hp per cubic inch!
This was the era of Smokey and the Bandit movies. Good ole boy Burt Reynolds drove a black Trans Am in the flick and everyone and his uncle all of a sudden wanted one. Of course, by that time the ones they were selling were watered down versions with no where close to the power of the original ones.
Since we aren’t sure of the statute of constraints, let’s just say that any stories are thought to start’Once on A Time’.
One of our favourite stories is when we were getting onto dawn highway late one evening and a Camaro rolled up next to us and started revving his engine, well you can imagine the rest.Here was a poor soul who had not a clue of what was in store. Since we do not believe in street racing, it absolutely was a good thing we were both going onto the entrance ramp. Once we were satisfied that no one was on the parkway at that time of night, we let the Beast Out To Play. We never did see any more then his fading headlights.
One of the funniest moments was when we lived in upstate NY and my hubby went to the store to choose something up and this fellow in a Mustang 2 pulled up next to him and my hubby had fun ( hey, we are all entitled sometimes ). As Chuck tells it : You see at that point a local car dealer was running a television spot featuring a Mustang two just destroying a Trans Am. So this gentleman pulls up next to me, gunning his engine for all he is’s worth. The light changes, he chirps his tires and flashes me a big smile as he’s taking off. Well, I idle away from the light,give it just enough gas in first to tug even with him, then drop the hammer, lighting up both tires, throw second, light them up again and then ease off. Drive down the line to the store.
When I come out of the store this guy has finally got there and is waiting for me and says,’but the commercial asserts Mustangs will beat the pants off the Trans Am.’ I extraordinarily blithely replied,’Not this Trans Am!’
They don’t make them like this anymore. It’s sad when you think about it! Those of us who lived and got raised in the time of the muscle autos, street rods, Sat. night cruise nights were very,very fortunate. I feel sorry for the youth of today that they missed out on all of this.
So what has happened to that great 455 Trans Am, sadly the cruel upstate NY winters are not kind to automobiles and rust took the Trans Am from us. However, we probably did replace it – with a customised 1973 Vette, which we drove cross country to California, but that’s a entire nother story!
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