~ TransAms + 08 ZO6 + 08 models : )
#1
04-21-2007, 10:12 AM
~ TransAms + 08 ZO6 + 08 models : )
[align=center]Stay tuned! [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Still Smok(ey)in’ – Year One Readying 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms
[/align][align=center]In our April issue, we commissioned our automotive computer rendering guru Poblete to work up some tasty “What If” Pontiac Firebird impressions based upon General Motors’ forthcoming Zeta-platform 2009 Camaro. The capable artist even went so far as to include a subtle homage to Burt Reynolds, he of Smokey and the Bandit fame.
Well, it would seem that ol’ Burt is more than a little interested in furthering the Trans Am’s legend, as an item in the June issue Hot Rod Magazine indicates that he’s linked arms with retro rod experts Year One to celebrate SatB’s 30th anniversary with a series of updated late-Seventies Pontiacs.
The tastefully updated Screaming Chickens will look period, but include such modern nods as flush-mounted glass, smoothed-in fender-flares, projector headlamps, and LED taillamps. Available in three different version ranging in specification from the “base” BAN1 car with a 450 horsepower Pontiac 455 and minor cosmetic modifications, to the BAN2, which includes a more aggressive suspension package and the option of an LS-based crate engine, to the BAN3, which turns the wick up even further with a range of options that are essentially as limited as the customer’s checkbook.
Just like Bandit’s car in the film, all of these updated cars will be made in black with gold trim, and Year One will even equip your car with a CB radio and giant aerial for the full-on effect.
Bitchin’.
+ Year One
+ Hot Rod Magazine
+ WINDING ROAD: 2011 Pontiac Trans Am
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Members, what do you Think ? [/align]
[/align][align=center]In our April issue, we commissioned our automotive computer rendering guru Poblete to work up some tasty “What If” Pontiac Firebird impressions based upon General Motors’ forthcoming Zeta-platform 2009 Camaro. The capable artist even went so far as to include a subtle homage to Burt Reynolds, he of Smokey and the Bandit fame.Well, it would seem that ol’ Burt is more than a little interested in furthering the Trans Am’s legend, as an item in the June issue Hot Rod Magazine indicates that he’s linked arms with retro rod experts Year One to celebrate SatB’s 30th anniversary with a series of updated late-Seventies Pontiacs.
The tastefully updated Screaming Chickens will look period, but include such modern nods as flush-mounted glass, smoothed-in fender-flares, projector headlamps, and LED taillamps. Available in three different version ranging in specification from the “base” BAN1 car with a 450 horsepower Pontiac 455 and minor cosmetic modifications, to the BAN2, which includes a more aggressive suspension package and the option of an LS-based crate engine, to the BAN3, which turns the wick up even further with a range of options that are essentially as limited as the customer’s checkbook.
Just like Bandit’s car in the film, all of these updated cars will be made in black with gold trim, and Year One will even equip your car with a CB radio and giant aerial for the full-on effect.
Bitchin’.
+ Year One
+ Hot Rod Magazine
+ WINDING ROAD: 2011 Pontiac Trans Am
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Members, what do you Think ? [/align]
#2
04-21-2007, 10:23 AM
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 5,264
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~
now see...that i dont mind...i like that...its kind of got the camaro look..but it doesn't look like its smiling @ you...i like the look of this car 
now if chevy would just start releasing these cars soon
now if chevy would just start releasing these cars soon
#3
04-21-2007, 10:25 AM
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~
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By Reilly Brennan and Matt Davis
Issue 19, April 2007 [/align][/align]While Chevrolet fans can now officially high-five and put down deposits for their imminent Camaro coupe and convertible, off to the side remains a patient but loud contingent of Pontiac lifers who want their own version of General Motors’ new rear-wheel-drive beast. It’s been a poorly kept secret that the Camaro’s “Global RWD” architecture will also underpin the next Pontiac coupe, but at this time the car’s name has yet to be formalized. The company’s revitalized GTO nameplate existed—slightly sacrilegiously—from 2003 to 2006 after a twenty-nine-year hiatus, and it would seem to be a likely candidate.
Or would it? A better choice would be “Trans Am,” the brand name retired in parallel with the Firebird/Camaro at the end of 2002. The name remains in the intellectual property war chest behind Bob Lutz’s desk and some within the company say it’s set for a return. The basic thinking behind the name is: if the Camaro is coming back in man pants, Pontiac must answer.
We recently had the pleasure of test-driving GM’s new prototype for these cars. Specifically, Chevrolet let us in its Camaro coupe concept around Homestead-Miami Speedway immediately after the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. During the drive, our experience was reined in to a maximum speed of 30 miles per hour at 2000 rpm and in fourth gear, but the 400-horsepower LS2 6.0-liter V-8 wanted so desperately to be let off the leash. Sadly, it would never get the chance.
The version of the LS2 dropped in the Camaro prototype was updated with Active Fuel Management cylinder deactivation, which Chevy claims gets you 30 miles per gallon while cruising the highway. (If any Camaro owner, however, is caught averaging 30 mpg, WINDING ROAD will send thieves to the culprit’s home to steal the car and set it free.)
GM desperately needs to get these coupes and convertibles on the road before the Mustang phenomenon grows out of control, if it hasn’t already. In its first twelve months, the Mustang sold 160,975 units, so the Chevrolet/Pontiac effort will be a crosstown also-ran if it doesn’t sell at least 150,000 in its first year out of the Oshawa, Ontario, plant.
It was such a shame to be so limited in our drive time, but we did get in it long enough to rekindle old and very happy memories of pulling donuts in various Detroit-area high school parking lots back in the late 1970s, preferably during snowstorms at night after basketball games and swim meets. A personal recollection, but you know what we mean. The Camaro is a good-memories car, but it will still sell to younger buyers looking to pull their own donuts.
There will be much in the way of modification by the final design squad at Holden in Melbourne, Australia, before Chevy and Pontiac coupes start rolling off that line in Canada, but we can still enjoy this 1969 flashback. Certainly this prototype’s chassis will change. While our tester used a heavily adapted version of the Sigma chassis that debuted in 2002 under the Cadillac CTS, the production version will employ the Global RWD (formerly “Zeta”) platform, set to carry the next Chevy Impala and Monte Carlo as well.
Whether the Chevy and Pontiac coupes are hits will be up to the public. GM’s new breed will likely start thousands more than a Mustang, but there’s no question it will be more refined. Whereas the Mustang rides on a solid rear axle, the Camaro is set to have a proven independent multilink rear suspension that should make it one hell of a driver’s car in this class.
[b]As we sat in the Camaro concept, we noticed a familiar roof height and overall length—about the same here as on our old friends
[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]By Reilly Brennan and Matt Davis
Issue 19, April 2007 [/align][/align]While Chevrolet fans can now officially high-five and put down deposits for their imminent Camaro coupe and convertible, off to the side remains a patient but loud contingent of Pontiac lifers who want their own version of General Motors’ new rear-wheel-drive beast. It’s been a poorly kept secret that the Camaro’s “Global RWD” architecture will also underpin the next Pontiac coupe, but at this time the car’s name has yet to be formalized. The company’s revitalized GTO nameplate existed—slightly sacrilegiously—from 2003 to 2006 after a twenty-nine-year hiatus, and it would seem to be a likely candidate.
Or would it? A better choice would be “Trans Am,” the brand name retired in parallel with the Firebird/Camaro at the end of 2002. The name remains in the intellectual property war chest behind Bob Lutz’s desk and some within the company say it’s set for a return. The basic thinking behind the name is: if the Camaro is coming back in man pants, Pontiac must answer.
We recently had the pleasure of test-driving GM’s new prototype for these cars. Specifically, Chevrolet let us in its Camaro coupe concept around Homestead-Miami Speedway immediately after the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. During the drive, our experience was reined in to a maximum speed of 30 miles per hour at 2000 rpm and in fourth gear, but the 400-horsepower LS2 6.0-liter V-8 wanted so desperately to be let off the leash. Sadly, it would never get the chance.
The version of the LS2 dropped in the Camaro prototype was updated with Active Fuel Management cylinder deactivation, which Chevy claims gets you 30 miles per gallon while cruising the highway. (If any Camaro owner, however, is caught averaging 30 mpg, WINDING ROAD will send thieves to the culprit’s home to steal the car and set it free.)
GM desperately needs to get these coupes and convertibles on the road before the Mustang phenomenon grows out of control, if it hasn’t already. In its first twelve months, the Mustang sold 160,975 units, so the Chevrolet/Pontiac effort will be a crosstown also-ran if it doesn’t sell at least 150,000 in its first year out of the Oshawa, Ontario, plant.
It was such a shame to be so limited in our drive time, but we did get in it long enough to rekindle old and very happy memories of pulling donuts in various Detroit-area high school parking lots back in the late 1970s, preferably during snowstorms at night after basketball games and swim meets. A personal recollection, but you know what we mean. The Camaro is a good-memories car, but it will still sell to younger buyers looking to pull their own donuts.
There will be much in the way of modification by the final design squad at Holden in Melbourne, Australia, before Chevy and Pontiac coupes start rolling off that line in Canada, but we can still enjoy this 1969 flashback. Certainly this prototype’s chassis will change. While our tester used a heavily adapted version of the Sigma chassis that debuted in 2002 under the Cadillac CTS, the production version will employ the Global RWD (formerly “Zeta”) platform, set to carry the next Chevy Impala and Monte Carlo as well.
Whether the Chevy and Pontiac coupes are hits will be up to the public. GM’s new breed will likely start thousands more than a Mustang, but there’s no question it will be more refined. Whereas the Mustang rides on a solid rear axle, the Camaro is set to have a proven independent multilink rear suspension that should make it one hell of a driver’s car in this class.
[b]As we sat in the Camaro concept, we noticed a familiar roof height and overall length—about the same here as on our old friends
#4
04-21-2007, 10:30 AM
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~
Section: General Motors
Shanghai Auto Show: Chevrolet Aveo “Iron Man Edition”
Filed Under: Aftermarket/Tuners, China, Concept Cars, Economy Cars, Hatchbacks, Chevrolet, General Motors, Design, Automotive News, Shanghai Auto Show April 20th, 2007 2:55 PM [/b]4 Comments[/b]
This radically restyled five-door Chevrolet Aveo was on display at General Motors’ stand, though there wasn’t much in the way of information about its Zorro-masked countenance, or any goings-on underhood.
Perhaps still wincing from several days in a certain jack-o-lantern orange Ford Explorer, WINDING ROAD Art Director Nate Luzod couldn’t help but label this Chevrolet the “Aveo Iron Man Edition.”
Either way, we couldn’t not share this with you… it just wouldn’t be right.
[/align][/align][/align]+ WINDING ROAD: Chevrolet Aveo LT Road Test [/align]
[/i]Shanghai Auto Show: Buick Riviera Concept Live Shots And Impressions
Filed Under: China, Concept Cars, Trends, Coupes, Hybrids, Buick, General Motors, Design, Automotive News, Shanghai Auto Show April 20th, 2007 9:05 AM [/b]9 Comments[/b]
Given that Buick of China handily outsells its Stateside counterpart, it was hardly a surprise that General Motors chose to debut their Riviera gullwing concept in Shanghai.
Designed primarily at the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) here in Shangh
Shanghai Auto Show: Chevrolet Aveo “Iron Man Edition”
Filed Under: Aftermarket/Tuners, China, Concept Cars, Economy Cars, Hatchbacks, Chevrolet, General Motors, Design, Automotive News, Shanghai Auto Show April 20th, 2007 2:55 PM [/b]4 Comments[/b]
This radically restyled five-door Chevrolet Aveo was on display at General Motors’ stand, though there wasn’t much in the way of information about its Zorro-masked countenance, or any goings-on underhood.
Perhaps still wincing from several days in a certain jack-o-lantern orange Ford Explorer, WINDING ROAD Art Director Nate Luzod couldn’t help but label this Chevrolet the “Aveo Iron Man Edition.”
Either way, we couldn’t not share this with you… it just wouldn’t be right.
[/align][/align][/align]+ WINDING ROAD: Chevrolet Aveo LT Road Test [/align]
[/i]Shanghai Auto Show: Buick Riviera Concept Live Shots And Impressions
Filed Under: China, Concept Cars, Trends, Coupes, Hybrids, Buick, General Motors, Design, Automotive News, Shanghai Auto Show April 20th, 2007 9:05 AM [/b]9 Comments[/b]
Given that Buick of China handily outsells its Stateside counterpart, it was hardly a surprise that General Motors chose to debut their Riviera gullwing concept in Shanghai.
Designed primarily at the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) here in Shangh
#5
04-21-2007, 11:06 AM
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~ + more : )
[align=center][:-]How would U like 2 Look in your rearview mirror & see this ? [:-][/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center][:-]Click link 2 check out some Badd Look'in Trans Am's [:-][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]http://search.ebay.com/pontiac-trans...opZ3QQsbrsrtZd[/align]
[/align][align=center][:-]Click link 2 check out some Badd Look'in Trans Am's [:-][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]http://search.ebay.com/pontiac-trans...opZ3QQsbrsrtZd[/align]
#6
04-21-2007, 11:20 AM
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 5,264
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~ + more : )
i always love this car....but there's one thing i'd like to fix on it
the hood line that goes through the middle of the ram air
the hood line that goes through the middle of the ram air
#7
04-21-2007, 02:10 PM
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~ + more : )
[align=center]I can't believe how well the Trans Am's hold their value WoW [:-][/align][align=center]These are just a few from E-Bay Motors[/align][align=center][:-]1970 $32K[/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]1980 $39.5K[/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]2002 w/280 miles $37K[/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]I've never seen a Trans Am with a Turbo V-6[:-][/align][align=center]
[/align][align=center]Has any member driven one ? [/align][align=center]
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ONLY 1219 MILES AND LOOKS IT. EVERYTHING WORKS. CAR IS BEAUTIFUL ANDEXTREMLY CLEAN. STUNNING AUTOMOBILE.
$31.5K WoW[/align]
WoW [:-][/align][align=center]These are just a few from E-Bay Motors[/align][align=center][:-]1970 $32K[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]1980 $39.5K[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]2002 w/280 miles $37K[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][:-]I've never seen a Trans Am with a Turbo V-6[:-][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Has any member driven one ? [/align][align=center][/align][align=center]ONLY 1219 MILES AND LOOKS IT. EVERYTHING WORKS. CAR IS BEAUTIFUL AND
EXTREMLY CLEAN. STUNNING AUTOMOBILE. $31.5K WoW[/align]
#9
04-21-2007, 03:07 PM
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~ + more : )
Found the below 1/4 mile times from above site...WoW
The Turbo Trans Am's were Fast : ) for a V-6
Similar Pontiac Trans Am 1/4 mile timeslips to browse:
[ul][*][align=center]1998 Pontiac Trans Am : 13.280 @ 104.420 in the 1/4 mile [/align][*][align=center]2002 Pontiac Trans Am WS6: 0.000 @ 0.000 in the 1/4 mile [/align][*][align=center]2002 Pontiac Trans Am : 13.556 @ 102.510 in the 1/4 mile [/align][*][align=center]1995 Pontiac Trans Am Nitrous: 9.830 @ 136.010 in the 1/4 mile [/align][*][align=center]1995 Pontiac Trans Am Convertible: 12.700 @ 107.960 in the 1/4 mile [/align][/ul]
#10
04-22-2007, 09:15 PM
RE: ~ 30th Anniversary Bandit TransAms ~ + more : )
WOW! 30 year anniversary of Smokey and the Bandit. Anyone else remeber seeing this with their dad for the first time? I remember seeing it on a Sunday afternoon after Church and Dr. Who in the morning.
