1974 Pontiac Trans Am SD 455

Numbers matching with comprehensive drivetrain upgrades

[@frankartale1026]

This car is on the money ! Whoever tuned it, did a great job

[@PhenomProductions23]

There aren't enough videos of Trans Ams like these in driving pov on KZbin

[@joemasters2270]

Happy 50th birthday to this beautiful ride!

[@clevlandblock]

Nice car. I had a 74 Formula SD and still own a 74 SD 4 spd. Great full throttle run on your video. I get nervous when I hear that SD roar

[@74SD455TA]

HAD a 74 Formula SD....what was the spec. I owned a 74 Formula 400 and LUSTED after the Formula SD once I figured out what they were. TODAY, I own a 1974 SD 455 Trans/Am and it is better than new and totally bad ass.

[@clevlandblock]

@@74SD455TA My Formula SD was a 74 Regatta Blue with auto, ac, honeycombs. It was in Aug 1991 High Performance Pontiac magazine (cover and inside article), under a new owner. I bought it for abouut $5000. I sold it in 1981.

[@74SD455TA]

@@clevlandblock You have to be hating yourself everyday for ever getting rid of it. I would never have sold that car ( I have owned my 1969 Camaro now for the past 43 years for example). The only thing I may not have liked about any Formula SD is if it had air conditioning as most were automatics. I do no like A/C on these cars at all. Glad that you made up for it by getting your current 74 SD 4 spd car.

[@jimdordan1794]

I had a 1974 sd455 Trans am dark blue with baby3blue interior 💙 loved that car it was so many years ago.

[@74SD455TA]

that word HAD.....is a 4 letter word, now my 4 letter word is HAVE.....I HAVE a 74 SD 455 T/A white/white standard interior and its killer.

[@darrenbrailsford6809]

What a gorgeous trans am. Just stunning. 😉👍

[@jonathangrzech5017]

This is my favorite car.

[@joemasters2270]

Where's a time machine when you need one? I'd visit 1974 for a week & buy one of these. The 70s gave us the 455 SD Trans Am, Led Zeppelin & Blazing Saddles 😆

I rem walking by parking lot guy had 1. Always wanted 1. When I graduated in '78 bought 1. Coolest car ever! 134 mpg stock!

[@nickwillobey2205]

Whole lotta car!😊

[@indetrucks]

No Posi?

[@74SD455TA]

Oh c'mon don't be so sillly. Each and EVERY SD had a posi in it whether it be the non A/C car with a 3.42 rear end or the A/C car with the 3.08. NOW, with the Formula 455 SD, the posi was an option and if not ordered you would get the open rear end.

[@justme307]

It's a Pontiac not a Chevrolet. It had Safe-T-Track.

[@kravin74]

Sweet car !

[@davidrobert2007]

God bless America!

[@Ferda1964]

Great video and even better wheels. 👍

[@camirocz]

Beauty .

[@carlosgarza1962]

Awesome TA

[@74SD455TA]

Great video but what you should do...is, start from a dead stop, shift at around 5700 ( I was watching your tach/etc.) , and KEEP YOUR FOOT IN IT! I have let a couple friends drive my 74 SD 455 TransAm and I tell em, OK, you think you're neat, should you want to exercise this SD, you have to keep your foot in it, for a quarter mile....its exhilarating. Non Aspirated, no turbo BS, just rock and roll tree stump pulling power

[@bendoran2927]

Thanks! Not my car so I try to be somewhat gentle while still reflecting her road manners. She's a fun one!

[@sarahdiaz1147]

Open rear or tired posi?

[@mikee2923]

Bad ass ride. I prefer the looks of the 73 over the 74 but still bad ass nonetheless.

[@RichardDee144]

👍🏻Sweet !!

[@vsavage_old_rockerz]

loved it!!!!!! nice car

[@bryancrosby9907]

limited slip rear, i thought all had posi 342 rear end

[@74SD455TA]

Limited Slip is what they called posi back in 1974 for the Pontiacs. Its posi. Now, when a Super Duty was ordered with air conditioning, (bad idea) you could only get a 3.08 rear end and a 4 speed was not available. The 4 speed cars got the 3.42 as did the non A/C automatics with that 3.42.

[@zero_udk]

Those are sick esp in gloss black they look mean

[@gerhardboncina9460]

Ein Traum. Bitte acht geben. Gruß aus Wien.

[@ПетроКрохмальний-у5м]

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[@arthurmckenna8154]

Too bad it's not a 4-speed like mine I can get chirp in 4th gear, cameo white with the blue interior

[@74SD455TA]

I prefer the drag racers spec'd THM 400 to which I can get chirp in 3rd gear, it only has 3. Put a shift kit in it, a stall speed, and I will consistently beat the clutch car all day long as did the drag racers. Plus when you get a used 4 speed car, you get all the rattles in it from the turkey's before that missed gears and blew up engines....no thanks.

[@ludedude5228]

My favorite year Firebird . Prefer the tight grill on these cars compared to the sloppy look of the 73's and under . But can't do that turned metal dash . Just too shiny and too reflective . Liked the Formulas wood grain dash much better which also offered the SD 455 , A true sleeper """

[@corgiowner436]

Sadly most family cars will blow that off the road now.

[@oldgoatgxp]

yea, but we're not supposed to say it.

[@johnchurch4705]

But they aren’t as cool as this lol 😂.

[@Tiffany.1970]

That's so true but how many family cars can look as cool as this beautiful trans am.....​.@@johnchurch4705.

[@mikee2923]

Maybe true but a weekend in the driveway with basic hand tools can easily change that. Can’t say that about newer cars.

[@KetchLambier]

Hate the bumpers. Sorry.

[@74SD455TA]

Nothing to be sorry about. I personally like them and think Pontiac did a good job incorporating them within the EPA govt. mandated 5 MPH law that took affect in 1974.

[@KetchLambier]

@@74SD455TA at least it's not like the 74 Mopars

[@74SD455TA]

Mopars were always the UGLIEST@@KetchLambier