{"id":2217628,"date":"2026-10-24T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2217628"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:05:00","slug":"1979-pontiac-firebird-trans-am-for-sale-with-21956-miles-shown-has-the-right-hood-but-what-about-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2217628","title":{"rendered":"1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am For Sale With 21,956 Miles Shown Has The Right Hood, But What About The Price?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"columns-holder\">\n<div class=\"add-on-google-widget\">\n<div class=\"add-on-google-heading\">Add Jalopnik on Google:<\/div>\n<div class=\"add-on-google-buttons-row\">\n                    <button type=\"button\" class=\"add-on-google-btn\" id=\"preferred-source\">Preferred Source<\/button><br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMXBneTRxX2Zw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"add-on-google-btn\" id=\"google-discover\">Google Discover<\/a>\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Depending on how old you are, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/2198015\/every-pontiac-firebird-generation-ranked-top-speed\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Pontiac Firebird<\/a> Trans Am nameplate occupies very different pop culture spaces. If you&#8217;re a child of the &#8217;70s, the Screaming Chicken decorated the hero car of &#8220;Smokey and the Bandit;&#8221; if you grew up in the &#8217;80s, it could talk and was named KITT; and if you were born a bit later, you may know it as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jalopnik.com\/2261805\/1989-pontiac-20th-anniversary-trans-am-30000-miles-buick-sourced-turbo-v6\/\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8217;80s muscle car<\/a> in which Dwight Schrute pulled up to Dunder Mifflin every morning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 1979 Trans Am definitely appeals to those on the older end of that spectrum, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsideclassics.com\/vehicles\/5681-nsh\/1979-pontiac-firebird-trans-am\" target=\"_blank\">Streetside Classics<\/a> is offering up one with just 21,956 miles on the odometer and the hood decal you want. It&#8217;s\u00a0being sold out of Nashville, Tennessee, finished in Cameo White, and it features its presumably original 185-horsepower 403-cubic-inch V8, a three-speed TH350 automatic transmission, and power steering. Brakes are discs up front but drums in the back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As if it didn&#8217;t look cool enough from the outside, this Trans Am has a red vinyl interior. And unlike some red interiors of modern cars that can often look like they were made by Fisher-Price, this is closer to burgundy. I&#8217;m also a sucker for that engine-turned aluminum dash trim \u2014 that&#8217;s what you call it when the metal has those swirls in it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The price for all this late-&#8217;70s flamboyance? $40,995. Whether that&#8217;s worth it or not will likely depend on just how much you like Trans Ams, but for context, 40 grand doesn&#8217;t quite buy that much when it comes to new cars. General Motors doesn&#8217;t make Pontiacs anymore, let alone Trans Ams, but Ford does still build a Mustang, and as of this writing, the least expensive V8 version you can get costs $49,795 including destination, and if your budget is 41 grand, you&#8217;re looking at the Premium version of the four-cylinder EcoBoost. Not nearly as cool or rowdy as a low-mileage, original red vinyl interior &#8217;79 Trans Am, I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Depending on how old you are, the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am nameplate occupies very different pop culture spaces. If you&#8217;re a child of the &#8217;70s, the Screaming Chicken decorated the hero car of &#8220;Smokey and the Bandit;&#8221; if you grew up in the &#8217;80s, it could talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,247],"class_list":["post-2217628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-jalopnik-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}