1973 Trans am review and test drive

In this video we will do an extensive review and look at a restored 1973 factory loaded Trans am finished in Buccaneer Red with black interior. We will test drive and put to the test the 455 L78 250HP engine.

[@alanwright7819]

Beautiful car! The ‘70-‘73 Trans Am is my favorite muscle car.

[@paceta80]

Gorgeous Trans Am. The red car was also the prototype car for the hood bird decal too!

[@user-tv2bz2ci6b]

My favourite car ever. Nice to see one stock, unmolested.

[@americandreamgarage3054]

If you look at my other cars you will notice the same thing all 50 are stock and unmolested

[@user-tv2bz2ci6b]

@americandreamgarage3054 Wow, yeah! Stunning collection. Cars companies spend billions on design so, in my opinion at least, that's how they should be

[@user-tv2bz2ci6b]

@americandreamgarage3054 Wow, yeah! Stunning collection. Cars companies spend billions on design so, in my opinion at least, that's how they should be

[@darrellsaunders4267]

70-73 Firebird...best looking car ever!

[@sergiojacquez2277]

Yes'sir That's why i own one exactly like this one, except mine has the SD-455 Muncie M22 4sp...

[@davegreg]

I'm from the UK, and there is a car dealership about 20 miles down the road from where i live that has an identical '73 455 Trans Am currently in stock, it's priced at £55k.....which is around $75k. Beautiful cars, probably my favourite of all the U.S. Muscle Cars of that era.

[@americandreamgarage3054]

Thanks, that is a great price for a non Super Duty car it is one of my favorites also along with the Z 28 which I have 5

[@w41duvernay]

I say grab it, you will be a star in the UK. Not many Brits will have one, you will make a LOT of friends over there.

[@richardtaylor1419]

Only one thing lacking, 4 speed manual transmission. I test drove a 1973 4 speed in 1975, I have been in love with them ever since. Wish I would have bought it. 22 years ago I got a 1979 with automatic transmission, just wasn't the same, so I sold it. Now at todays prices I wish I still had it. Automatic better than nothing.

[@darrellsaunders4267]

And, he ran that 70 T/A up one night to 157 mph west of ICT on Kelogg.

[@lennon992]

Really!??

[@mikeblankenship7930]

I miss my 75 Trans Am.

[@MultiPeanut123]

I like the look of the red 455 trans am so much I turned my 1979 trans am into one . It has few more modifications though, I love the black ones but wanted to be different.

[@robertsereno791]

Great video my dream car wow. One day

[@americandreamgarage3054]

Mine is a Super Duty

[@clevlandblock]

I ordered a new 73 TA in October 72 at Sailor Pontiac in Cicero, Illinois. The deal cut was $100 over invoice. I tried to order the SD but was told that option was on indefinite hold. So I ordered a red 455 auto, 3:42 gear and no other options except tint, console and am radio. My dad took delivery of the car for me in December. On the way home back to Glen Ellyn, one of the rear drum brakes fell apart and dad had to return to the dealer for that. There were rattles, as delivered, under the dash and from the rear sway bar, that took a while to solve. It came with Firestone 500 whitewall radials which had a nasty recall issue (tread separation), nationwide, as I recall. The suspension was so hard that the windshield cracked just going over some RR tracks at slow speed one time. And the front spoiler scraped over just about everything and eventually cracked. It was a Norwood car and, if anything, the Norwood Z-28s I test drove back then, seemed tighter to me. The big mill had a snarl to it but was hurt by the 8.0 to 1 compression compared to earlier 400 and 428 Pontiacs I had driven. I later clapped on headers and a spread bore Holley plus a Transgo shift kit. The car did fairly well in the street wars. By 1977 she was starting to rust so I sold it to get a 98k turret mount sniper rifle and a used 70 W-30 Olds.

[@peterhogan9537]

it sounds like a real lemon.

[@darrellsaunders4267]

My good friend in HS bought one of these new in ICT at Byron Stout Pontiac in ICT. 1970. White with blue stripe. 5700 PLUS CHANGE. True about the Camaro....this other guy I ran around with had a 70 Camaro Rally Sport....the dash rattled so bad it was pitiful!

[@Swanlord05]

Bring Pontiac back

[@dennisjoseph629]

Had to add extra metal to the front for federal front crash specs. Pontiac a step up from Chevy base entry level GM, love Chevy's too but Poncho is the goody.. IMO

[@peterhogan9537]

not all the boxes were ckecked, the most important one was the S.D. 455 and it doen;t have it.

[@americandreamgarage3054]

I heard that one of my dream cars, hard to understand why more people did not order that

[@sebdupree1]

5:53-7:21

[@martinfarrell5778]

Wrong box for the transmission..

[@chutoparadinni5474]

L75 not L78

[@enerrivers4392]

Beautiful, but, where's the 455SD, 4spd??

[@americandreamgarage3054]

cant afford one

[@Tiffany.1970]

4 speed hurst manual transmission on a Pontiac firebird trans are very rare not many Pontiacs had that option of 4 speed transmission