Find or Sell Used Cars, Trucks, and SUVs in USA

1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Coupe 2-door 6.6l 400 Automatic on 2040-cars

Year:1978 Mileage:100000
Location:

Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States

Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States

1978 Pontiac Trans Am. This is a running driving project car. It has the numbers matching 400 still in the car (not the 403 so it's a 49 state car), and it appears the rest of the drivetrain is original to the car as well. This car has been resto-modded a bit as you can see by the "Classic" Cragar weld wheels and a few other cues. It has the 6X heads and an aluminum intake-don't know if it's an original Pontiac piece or not. There is a Holley dual feed carburetor as well. It has a posi rear end, my research shows it should be a 3.23 or 3.42 since it is not an A/C but a heater only car.There are also headers and glasspacks with short tailpipes. It has a painless type aftermarket wiring harness with blade type fuses.

It may have been a power window car, as there are switches in the door panels and a remote mirror.

  It is overall pretty solid, it will need patch panels in both rear quarters in front of and behind the rear wheels, and the outside corners of the floorpans as well as ther rear corners of the trunk pan and the drop panel behind the bumper. Most of the interior is present, but will need a headliner and to be reupholstered. The subframe and rear frame rails have some surface rust but nothing deep, should clean up ok.

The car spent the last few years with a military man on base in Oceanside, CA and it has a clear Florida title. It does not have the California emissions so it was never titled here.

I am representing this as a car in need of total restoration, but a good starting point for someone. I have no idea what the total mileage is. It will need at the very least tuning and a safety check. The transmission has a leak, probably from around the dipstick tube as there is no upper support. I have driven it around the block a couple times but that's the extent of it. Look closely at the pictures and bid away..Please  message me if you have any more questions.

Car is advertised locally as well, and listing will be removed if cash shows up at my door.

Thanks,

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto Services in California

ZD Autobody ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Body Repairing & Painting
Address: 8115 Canoga Ave, Encino
Phone: (818) 313-8635

Z Benz Company Inc ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service
Address: 1660 W 25th St, Wilmington
Phone: (310) 521-0199

Www.Bumperking.Net ★★★★★

Automobile Body Repairing & Painting, Window Tinting, Glass-Auto, Plate, Window, Etc
Address: 877-858-6190, San-Ysidro
Phone: (877) 858-6190

Working Class Auto ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Brake Repair, Auto Oil & Lube
Address: 10010 Casa De Oro Blvd Suite B, San-Diego
Phone: (619) 670-7900

Whittier Collision Center #2 ★★★★★

Automobile Body Repairing & Painting, Automobile Parts & Supplies, Auto Body Parts
Address: 12445 Lambert Road, San-Gabriel
Phone: (562) 696-9600

West Tow & Roadside Servce ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Towing
Address: Wildomar
Phone: (951) 445-7172

Auto blog

GM doing fine at retaining Pontiac owners

Fri, 28 Oct 2011

This isn't the first time we've reported positive news about General Motors retaining former Pontiac owners. Get a few more stories like this latest report from Edmund's Auto Observer, and it will mark an ongoing positive trend for GM. Edmunds.com crunched the numbers to see how well the General is hanging on to customers after shutting out the lights at Pontiac, and it found that nearly 40 percent of Pontiac owners stayed with a vehicle from a General Motors brand.
The numbers are a little lower than an earlier R.L. Polk & Company study, but Edmunds says General Motors is keeping more former Pontiac buyers than it has since 2007. Most are turning to vehicles from Chevrolet, especially during January and February of 2011, when GM incentivized Pontiac owners to stay under the umbrella. Those moves seem to have worked, and 28.1 percent of Pontiac owners trading up made the jump into a Bowtie.
Buyers that have gone elsewhere have largely stayed loyal to Domestic automakers, with Ford picking up the most conquests from Pontiac, with 9.4 percent switching. Toyota and Honda picked up 7.4 percent of the pool of former Pontiac drivers. The numbers are defying any predictions that Pontiac buyers would completely exit the General Motors fold, and have climbed up closer to parity with the retention figures of other GM brands from a 2009 low of only 16 percent retention.

Official USPS Muscle Cars stamps coming to a mailbox near you

Thu, 21 Feb 2013

As much as our digital lives have cut down on our trips to the post office, there are still times that sending "snail mail" is necessary. With us car lovers in mind and philately in their hearts, the good folks at the United States Postal Service will introduce a new stamp design called "Muscle Cars" starting on February 22.
Designed by artist Tom Fritz, the new collection of stamps consist of five classic muscle cars: 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, 1967 Shelby GT-500, 1966 Pontiac GTO and 1970 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda. In addition to just the stamps, the USPS is also commemorating the new series with plenty of collectable memorabilia. Previous car-related stamps include 50s Sporty Cars from 2005 and 50s Fins and Chrome from 2008.

Rumormill: DeLorean Motor Company considering rescuing Pontiac Solstice?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009

DeLorean Motor Company Pontiac Solstice renderings - Click above for high-res image gallery
General Motors has made a science out of sharing platforms. So when the company's Kappa platform was introduced for a new rear-drive roadster to be distributed across three different motor divisions, you'd have figured the program was pretty safe, right? Unfortunately for the workers at the Wilmington Assembly Plant which manufactured the Kappa roadsters, those three divisions were Pontiac, Saturn and Opel - three units which the General has either sold or shut down. Which is a shame, because a perfectly good rear-drive roadster platform is a heck of a thing to waste.
In one of the strangest rumors we've heard recently, however, our compatriots over at Jalopnik report that the DeLorean Motor Company (yes, that DeLorean Motor Company) is considering buying the plant and the platform from GM and putting it back into production as a new DMC.