Test Drive 1979 Pontiac Trans Am $24,900 Maple Motors

[@ronaldhagadorn5512]

I am 60 years old and still love sports cars like this. I ask people who criticize me, do you still like sports? You are still young at heart!

[@lansing66]

I dont give a you know what, what people think, I am 61 and I still have a big passion for performance vehicles. Let them drive their lack luster cars and I will drive my fun car : )

[@wilsonlee5720]

Back when 90% of the cars on the road DIDNT look like a pregnant roller skate.

[@stephenpemberton85]

Amen Brother Tucker

[@lansing66]

@@wilsonlee5720 LOL!

[@markestes5948]

We had so much fun with these cars when they were new. Lots of folks get down on them because the power was so much lower than the muscle cars. But we tweaked on them and surprised people. Most got used and abused. I am sure my Z28 got crushed to make new Fords. But I have awesome memories!

[@rodneyrussell-to4ng]

I had a friend when I was younger, his Dad had the Gold Bird Edition, with the T- Tops. He use to take his sons, my friend and I out in his Trans Am every Saturday. We thought we were the coolest!!!! This old car looks pretty good, but definitely needs some TLC!!!!

[@mastergunnerysgt1258]

I think this old Trans Am is not bad to see, when Nick talks about vibration going down the road because the tires have air in them and as it gets freezing cold that moisture will freeze in one side of the tire and make it vibrate going down the road. That's why I always put nitrogen in all the tires of cars and trucks that I own, for it always remains consistent in everything that I own today. For that is why Nascar always uses it today. For no flotation of tire pressure today and that's what I like to see.

[@adamnarbeaux5898]

Dream car in high school 1985!

[@kevinhamblin951]

There’s an episode of Counting Cars ….Counts Kustoms freshened up Burt Reynolds’s personal ride . Later sold at auction….. Nick git your hat ready 😊 this car looks just like it …. don’t remember if the interior was black or brown 😊

[@DarrenPugh-r6u]

Have to re-watch the movies but interior MIGHT have been brown/tan.

[@haroldbirge6881]

🤠Black leather ✌️

[@mikeb3986]

Black

[@MapleMotorsNickSouthgate]

here we go , another test drive, it was a cold one today

[@michaelthebarbarian3380]

Not sure if you know this.. but most these have a factory slap shifter. You check it by putting it in drive and If the shifter is spring and moves left to right and feels "sprung" it has it. Basically you put in in L1, accelerate, then push it up at an angle towards the passenger rear view mirror and it will pop into L2, then you can do it one last time to get it into D (Basically third). It keeps you from going into N. Sweet ride, great price too. It should move.

[@gosstg09]

Smokey & The Bandit , Good memories watching those movies with my Pops 😢

[@billydee8051]

Those were simpler and arguably, better times.

[@dustydawson8977]

Crazy to think back, I bought the gold 6.6 T-top 79, in 1981 for $4,400 w/ 40,000 miles

[@anthonygiordano6341]

That’s some drag in that starter😮

[@VinceCraine]

Many 79’s had the Oldsmobile 403. Dam that was fast even after i added 750hp transmission to mine. So much fun back in my early twenties.

[@bradleysample3246]

or an left over Pontiac 400 from 78, That is a Pontiac in this car, if it's a 350 someone put that in there

[@haroldbirge6881]

😎Eastbound & down 🙏✌️

[@simonthebroken9691]

Beautiful car. Thanks for sharing. $25k seems like a very good price. I had to double-check the upload date. I'd love to buy it, just not yet.

[@michaelthebarbarian3380]

I had nearly this exact car. Black and gold, but with a black interior. I Mean... the 403 was fairly torquey off idle and just enough to have some fun with. I wish it have been a 4 speed with the 400 though.

[@eddiesopala4444]

I’m digging that winter hat . I need to find one like that , so I can keep my ears warm .. probably why you weren’t wearing your bandit cowboy hat.. just too cold . But also missing your Burt Reynolds’s mustache 🤣🤣

[@billydee8051]

Hey, Nick. I love your videos, especially of the C3 Corvettes. One thing I'd suggest is when you have stereos with the removeable face plates, go ahead and have it with the car during the demo so we can hear and see the system. I know a stereo is minor relative to the whole car but some of us would like to see and hear it if possible. Thanx and keep 'em coming. 🙂

[@richardw.smithjr.6683]

That classic Trans Am got to be in its 52 year mark, you can believe that.

[@grand73am]

Since 1979, it's been 45 years.

[@richardw.smithjr.6683]

@@grand73am You're right, sorry about the error.

[@VinceCraine]

I loved my 78 Trans am.

[@AUmarcus]

20⁰? We got close to twice that in Sydney.....in Celcius 😂👍

[@danasmith858]

Unfortunately dad wouldn't buy the trans Am when we were kids, but he did buy Pontiac Grand Safari station wagon with a 400 and posi. I remember one girl who wouldn't ride with me again after I slid it sideways through the s turns both directions. What you guys call drifting in these little cars nowadays?

[@edgardaniels1402]

Love it!! That’s a clean one!!

[@nigelmckenzie7488]

Try defrost to check air conditioner compressor when it is cold.

[@THROTTLEPOWER]

Love the T/A 🤜🤛

[@stephenpemberton85]

Great shots Nick!

[@DaleBlice]

Not bad for a daily driver you could repaint from the side mouldings down to get rid of all those chips would look much better but cruise it right now as is

[@robsfitness1778]

No t tops means no rust or leaking..

[@enriquerodriguezmoreno4017]

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[@madmike2624]

That 350 would kick that original 403 in the tail!!!~

[@dustydawson8977]

That's what the Z28 350 said, and failed, this 6.6 T/A 403 was faster, and faster than the 81 Vette. I owned this car, and raced them all!

[@dannydonovan9348]

I'd buy it in a minute if I had the money

[@LBZ562]

No T-Tops? Nice ride thoe!

[@klusk99]

My gas gauge not working either I got the 400 in mine though

[@aarongarcia1101]

I love these cars but here in California we have emissions test, so any modification after May of 1982 is not street-able. Anything 1974 and older you can do whatever you like no emissions at all

[@mikerifenbark4544]

Do they do payment plains

[@MapleMotorsNickSouthgate]

Yes at maplemotors.com

[@mikerifenbark4544]

My first car was a dodge dart.

[@justsumguy2u]

I've said it before, but I'll never understand the Chevy small block swap into a T/A. What's wrong with Pontiac power? Even if it came with the Olds 403, I'd still swap it for a Pontiac 400/Turbo 400 combo

[@Koi794]

If that has a 350, it is not a 6.6 liter.

[@grand73am]

At least it's a Pontiac 350 🙂

[@ripvanrevs]

5.7

[@vincegedeon6583]

That is not the stock motor i believe that year came with a 403 Oldsmobile motor

[@grand73am]

Correct. He said this car has a 350. He should have mentioned it's a Pontiac 350, in case some people can't recognize a Pontiac engine and think it's a Chevy 350. The Pontiac 350 wasn't available in 79, so it's not original to the car. In 79, the automatics got the 403 Olds engine (6.6 Litre). You could still get a Pontiac 400 (TA 6.6), but only with a 4 speed, and there were only about 8600 400's left to sell in 79. Only other engine available in the TA in 79 was the Pontiac 301, that could be had with either automatic or 4 speed. 79 was the last year for the Pontiac 400 and Olds 403.

[@RobertEast-i4y]

My neighbor had a 350 Chevy in his trans am. Not sure what year it was, but it was stock 80's trans am.

[@grand73am]

@@RobertEast-i4y The 350 Chevy was never used in the 70-81 2nd Generation Trans Am. They did use some 305 Chevys in 80-81, along with Pontiac 301's. The Chevy 350 was finally used in 87-92 3rd generation Trans Ams, so your neighbor's car must have been one of those years. There were no more Pontiac engines after 81, so Pontiac was using Chevy 305's from 1982-up, and starting in 1987, also started using Chevy 350's, during the 82-92 3rd gen years. In 1989 (20th Anniversary for Trans Am), Pontiac even used a Buick Turbo V6, the powerful Grand National engine...one year only I believe.

[@RobertEast-i4y]

@@grand73am maybe it was a 305 , but it was a 4 speed car. Lots of donuts in it.

[@johnpatterson3313]

Do you still have the Red 1979 z-28 4 speed car...

[@chrischalkley8571]

With not having t tops and. 400 this seems more like a $20k car

[@wilsonlee5720]

It would’ve been a 403 not 400

[@chrischalkley8571]

@ they had both Pontiac 400 and old 403, the olds was less desirable

[@ccg1171]

Nice ride.

[@louislepage5111]

" East bound and Down " 😊

[@Brownbrosautomotive]

Loaded up and truckin

[@AntwonHauser]

Nice sounds good.

[@josephherron1343]

Nice car

[@lottolaughs9685]

Whooooooa!!!!

[@anthonycortese728]

I like watching the channel I just wish you would cut out with the horn comment every car and it seems like every car you have the windshield wipers never work

[@SigmaStoicGemini]

T-tops with 301/400/403? Yep, all day long!! 👍🤘 Non t-top with a 350? Nahhhh 😕👎

[@mikeb3986]

Brown guts, 350, automatic. Not