Right now, being Thanksgiving right here within the U.S., most of us are occupied with one sort of chicken: the turkey. I’ll give you an alternate: the screaming rooster on the hood of right this moment’s Good Worth or No Cube basic Trans Am. Between consuming, watching soccer, and naps, let’s determine what this chicken could be value.
In I Sing the Physique Electrical, Walt Whitman celebrates the human physique as nothing in need of a miracle. Whereas not fairly miraculous, the wagon physique on yesterday’s 2021 Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo 4 proved fairly handsome. The Taycan is also totally electrical. All of us celebrated the automotive’s $67,000 asking worth by giving it a stable 65 p.c Good Worth win.
The story that Benjamin Franklin advocated for the turkey to be America’s nationwide chicken over the eagle is well-known however in the end unfaithful. Franklin did reward the turkey as a “Chicken of Braveness,” however fortunately, all of us get pleasure from them on the eating room desk and never as an emblem of nationwide pleasure.
One other chicken all of us may take pleasure in proudly owning is the flaming phoenix that historically adorns the hood of Pontiac’s basic pony automotive, the Firebird Trans Am. Launched within the Nineteen Seventies as a technique to spruce up efficiency automobiles that had been sorely missing in precise efficiency resulting from emissions and gasoline economic system requirements, this type of tape and decal remedy is a pastiche of the period. As soon as producers discovered methods to make automobiles muscular whereas on the similar time clear and environment friendly, such remedies principally fell by the wayside.
This 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is then a real denizen of its decade, because it has each the well-known “Screaming Rooster” decal and, as was par for the course on the time, a giant V8 that places out comparatively few ponies.
On this automotive’s case, that’s a 400 CID Pontiac V8 with a four-barrel Quadrajet carb sitting fairly underneath a shaker scoop. As fitted, the smog-strangled engine managed 185 horsepower and a extra significant 310 lb-ft of torque. On the plus aspect, that is apparently the sooner block which is stronger than these launched later in ’75, and there are many hop-up components out there to provide the Pontiac mill extra poop. In line with the advert, the TH350 mated to the engine (the TH400 received’t match within the automotive with cats) has a shift equipment put in.
Different factors of notice on this automotive embody a contemporary paint job, new decals, and a totally redone inside. That is additionally the primary 12 months with the wrap-over rear window, so the again seats, whereas cramped, aren’t the previous darkish holes of despair.
Mechanically, the automotive has been gone via and options rebuilt suspension and brake parts, new seals and consumables, and wears new Cooper tires on its good-looking Rally II wheels. Total, the automotive presents as good-looking and clear. Per the advert, the mileage is 84,937, however a changed odo reads 48K. Much less complicated is the title, which the vendor says is clear.
It’s not all turkey and gravy, although. Per the advert, the A/C is lacking the engine bay parts, which should be sourced and put in. That lack of A/C means this automotive in all probability acquired little use over the previous few months because it resides in Phoenix, Arizona, which masqueraded as a pizza oven for a lot of the summer season.
There are additionally a few minor leaks (gasoline pump, oil pan) that ought to be addressed. Then there’s the fiddly stuff inherent to proudly owning an previous automotive, equivalent to a misaligned door and the specter of folks speaking to you on the fuel station. Maybe most egregiously, there’s a CD caught within the stereo. Nevertheless, nothing within the advert’s “Cons” record ought to show a deal-killer.
What may, although, is the automotive’s $24,500 asking worth. That’s a whole lot of inexperienced to go together with our darkish and chicken right this moment. It’s within the vary for such automobiles of this age and situation, however is it a deal?
The place do you land on this Trans Am at that $24,500 worth? Does that really feel like a very good deal? Or does that asking make this Firebird a turkey?
You determine!
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