The
1971
Pontiac Firebird, Formula &
Trans Am
Lot#2
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Susan Castelvecchi owns this awesome Formula. Susan writes: "It was great finding your site. I have always liked the body style of the early 70's Firebird and Trans Am. I finally found one in great shape and I bought it quick!! It is a 1971 Formula 350 Firebird. I have only done very minor things to the car. I purchased it for $3000 with two sets of tires and wheels. It had the wheels in the attached photos on it and he gave me the original wheels. They need a little cleaning but they are in great shape. He also gave me the spoiler that goes on the front end. I purchased the car in early August and it had just under 90,000 miles on it. The interior is in excellent shape. It sounds great and runs great!!! I am trying to find the parts needed to fix the Ram Air back the way it came new. And I need to make a few minor adjustments to the front end and then I am going to get it a fresh new paint job, leaving it it's original color. I hope you like the attached photos. I Love my car and I am enjoying driving it. Why is it that everyone thinks that it belongs to my husband?? Can't a female have and drive a great looking car too??" I certainly think so!!! Susan recently sent me some new pics and info about her '71 Formula. "Hello, Since I sent in Pics of my 1971 Firebird and they were posted on your web site, I've had a lot of changes with my Firebirds. I was driving the 1971 for about 2 years, and nothing else. We did move to a new house and My Bird got a garage to live in, but I was putting on lots of miles. So naturally I needed a newer car to drive daily. So what else could I purchase but a new Firebird? So, I purchased a 1999 Firebird. It isn't exactly what I wanted, I couldn't find what I wanted. I wanted a 5 speed, Formula, I got an automatic and no Formula, I did get the T-tops. I purchased it used last June and it is a great car to drive every day. I pull out the 71 on nice days and drive it, because I miss driving it. Both birds share the garage, so that is my Bird Garage. When we moved we had the house built with 2 garages, one 2 car and one 4 car garage. In our car collection we now have 10 cars, 4 are Birds." Susan also owns a silver 1999 Firebird that can be seen in 1999 Firebirds Lot#1 and a tan '71 Firebird that can be seen in Project Firebirds Lot#3. |
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Todd Becker owns this amazing Trans Am. Check out the very cool, blue fender
vents and the Foilers (hint: spoilers behind the wheels)!! Todd writes: "The story on this '71 T/A is it was bought new in the Los Angeles area and was purchased new by Gary Thompson. Car was ordered with the 4 speed, console, 8 track, Rally II's, trim rings, white T/A floor mats and my favorite option the deluxe interior. No air so he had it put in by the dealer. Gary did a little custom work to the exhaust, wheel flairs and added some decals and he then pampered the car for 40,000 miles. Gary then decided to sell it, this was in 1993. He sold it to a couple that lived in Upland California and the wife used it for a daily driver! Wow they put almost 20,000 miles on the car and did some restoration along the way. The earthquake that came later in the 90's forced them to sell to Todd Becker (me). Todd lives in Bismarck, ND and was looking for an original 70-72 T/A. In fact Todd was searching the classifieds for a few years before he found this 90% original, unrestored Trans Am for sale in the fall of 1997 Hemming. He bought the car just from a few photos that were mailed to him. With this car came extremely well documented history....even oil changes! Gary Thompson's protect-o-plate is there as is the original owners manual. This great T/A has the original carpet, interior, decals, and 80% original paint. Todd likes the way the car looks with the blue fender air extractors. The rear wheel well flairs that were added by the dealer protect the paint from rock chips. The best sports car of all time, period. Recently Gary Thompson has been calling Todd and wanting his "baby" back. Well this is such a great car and I can understand Gary wanting his car back. Todd will let Gary have the car back as long as Todd gets first chance at buying it back again. In the meantime Todd will search for a blue T/A like he sees pictured on this great web site. My email address is tlbecker@lycos.com, please feel free to contact me about these great cars." |