Featured on AutoHunter, the web public sale platform pushed by ClassicCars.com, is that this 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.

Maybe you’ve gotten heard of an organization referred to as Restore a Muscle Automotive LLC. And in case you haven’t, right here’s a crash course: The corporate will have a good time its 20-year anniversary subsequent 12 months and has turn out to be famend world wide for its experience in doing precisely what its identify implies. At the moment, RAMC employs 15 full-time employees members and is positioned in Lincoln, Nebraska at a 15,000-square-foot facility. The place has turn out to be such an attraction that the enterprise’ web site even offers advisable resort lodging for people coming to go to from out of city. That’s my type of theme park!

When you have ever been on the hunt for a basic Firebird, alternative is knocking, as a result of at the moment’s featured automotive was constructed by Restore a Muscle Automotive in 2021. On high of getting a numbers-matching 400cid powerplant, it comes with upgrades together with a efficiency camshaft, headers, a 2.5-inch exhaust system, and an Superior Friction clutch. The automotive is being supplied by a promoting supplier in Apopka, Florida, and the public sale ends tomorrow.

Alongside its Camaro sibling, the Firebird had moved into its second era starting in 1970, and the design lasted till 1981. One among my favourite options of this 1978-model-year construct is its alternative in wheel designs: The snowflake-style alloy 17-inch wheels share the identical basic design language because the automotive’s unique 15-inch variations, however with a delicate pop of contemporary aptitude (along with providing advantages in relation to cornering and dealing with). The inside was redone in a two-tone purple and white theme, and air con is optioned.

Up entrance, momentum comes from a reportedly numbers-matching W72 400cid V8 mated to a Tremec five-speed handbook transmission. The odometer reads simply 38,347 miles, and the promoting supplier believes this quantity to be correct.

Make sure you try Restore a Muscle Automotive’s Fb web page which has over 127,000 followers. Additionally, the corporate’s YouTube channel has some entertaining current movies with automobiles like a Camaro IROC, a C3 Corvette, a classic Blazer, and lots of different collector automobiles.

One of many neighborhood initiatives that Restore a Muscle Automotive hosts is named the “Bandit Run.” It’s, in fact, a tribute to the 1977 Burt Reynolds movie “Smokey and the Bandit.” Make a transfer on this public sale and you may register in time for this 12 months’s occasion, which will happen the week of June 9-13, 2024.

The public sale for this 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am ends tomorrow, March 1, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. (MST)

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