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1978 Pontiac Trans Am Resto Mod!!! Modello 403engine! 400hp 450torque on 2040-cars

Year:1978 Mileage:204 Color: finish
Location:

Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
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This 1978 Pontiac Trans Am has gone through an extreme make over over the past 2.5 years.  Restored from the ground up by a professional classic car restoration shop here in New England.  The car was completely disassembled to the bare shell, stripped down to the bare metal and refinished in Nocturne Blue metallic.  New tri-tone graphics, stripes and the eagle on the hood.  Mirror finish 2 stage base coat clear coat PPG paint system that has no flaws, straight body lines, proper alignment to all the sheet metal.  Two new front fenders, orig. rust free doors, orig. rear quarters.  Complete new tinted glass, new bright work and stainless trim, weather strip, window felts, door handles.  New Sno flake factory alloy wheels mounted on P225/70R  15" BF Goodrich TA radials.  High grade quality exterior finish.   Countless hours of priming, blocking and wet sanding went into the prep work resulting in an extremely straight body that looks like glass.  Under the hood is an Olds 403 performance motor built by Modello in CA.  This 403 Pro Street engine puts over 440hp and 450lbs of torque, 403 crank, 403 rods, high compression pistons, Edelbrock alum heads, full roller rockers, alum intake.  This turn key motor comes with a 5 yr. unlimited mileage warranty from the time of installation.  The transmission is a beefed up TH350 2 stage, Modello Launcher torque converter with a 2800 stall converter.  Everything is top notch, high performance with a complete list of specs.  The rear is a 10 bolt Posi upgraded to 28 spline axles, 2.73 gear ratio.  HD 1" rear sway bar, new KYB shocks all the way around.  Complete new font end components, such as ball joints, upper/lower A-arm bushings,, inner tie rod ends, sway bar link, all 4 brake rotors, new calipers, brake lines and hoses, complete new suspension, multi leaf rear spring, front coil springs, brake hardware, E-brake system.  Complete new exhaust system, 2.5 w/crossover pipe, dual Magna Flow mufflers with new chrome exhaust splitters.  Sub frame connectors were also added to strengthen the chassis due to the extreme horsepower this car puts out.  Only 204 miles since the car was restored.  Check out the fresh interior!  Black buckets, new carpet seat covers, door panels, headliner, complete new tilt steering, Kenwood am/fm CD player with two 6x9 in the rear.  New rear pkg. tray, new seat belts.  All the gauges have been restored, including the clock.  New brushed alum applique, rear window defroster, factory AC that works ice cold, retro fitted to R-134A system.  Basically, this Trans Am is new through out and ready to drive!  Nothing left to do on this "Bad Ass" TA.  Over $70k invested...like we say "buy the car done!" Call Roland for more info, tell him you saw it on ebay! 603-361-3693

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Junkyard Gem: 1980 Pontiac Phoenix LJ Hatchback

Sun, Jan 22 2023

The car-building world was rushing headlong into front-wheel-drive by the late 1970s, eager to reap the weight-saving and space-enhancing benefits of front-drive designs. General Motors designed an innovative FWD platform to replace the embarrassingly outdated Chevrolet Nova and its siblings, and that ended up being the Chevrolet Citation. The other US-market GM car divisions (except Cadillac) got a piece of the X-Body action, and the Pontiac version was called the Phoenix. Here's one of those first-year Phoenixes, not doing a very good job of rising from its snow-covered ashes in a Colorado self-service yard. Pontiac had used the Phoenix name on a luxed-up iteration of Pontiac's version of the Chevy Nova during the 1977-1979 model years, and so it made sense to apply that name to the Pontiac-ized Citation. Phoenix production continued through the 1984 model year (the Citation managed to hang on through 1985). Just to confuse everyone, the Nova name was revived in 1985, on a NUMMI-built Toyota Corolla. The LJ trim level was the nicest one for the 1980 Phoenix, and it included lots of trim upgrades and convenience features. However, even Phoenix LJ buyers had to pay extra for a three-speed automatic transmission instead of the base four-on-the-floor manual ($337, or about $1,291 in 2022 dollars). If you wanted air conditioning, that was another $564 and you had to get the $164 power steering and the $76 power brakes with it (total cost in 2022 dollars: $3,080). Affordable cars weren't so affordable back then, not once you started adding basic options. Both generations of the Phoenix had grilles influenced by those of the Pontiacs of earlier years. The base engine was the chugging 2.5-liter Iron Duke four-cylinder, but a 2.8-liter V6 was optional. This car has the V6, rated at 115 horsepower rather than the Duke's miserable 90 horses. The price tag: 225 bucks, or 862 inflation-adjusted 2022 bucks. The Phoenix was available just as a two-door coupe and five-door hatchback. The MSRP on this car would have started at $6,127, or around $23,469 now. That would have been a pretty good deal even after paying for the options, with the Phoenix's excellent mix of good interior space and solid fuel economy… but the Citation and its kin (the Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark as well as the Phoenix) suffered from seemingly endless, highly publicized recalls and quality problems.

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The recalls keep rolling in from General Motors, evidently keen to avoid repeating the mistakes of the ignition-switch debacle and clean house. This time they're all coming at once, with five separate recalls announced together covering approximately 2.7 million vehicles.
The largest of the five actions involves over 2.4 million units of the previous-generation Chevrolet Malibu and Malibu Maxx, Pontiac G6 and Saturn Aura in order to fix brake light wiring harness, which have been found to be susceptible to corrosion. The recall is separate from the 56k Aura sedans which GM recently recalled over faulty shift cables, not to mention the previous massive recall of 1.3 million vehicles - some of them the same models - but appears to have resulted from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation that started with the G6 almost a year ago.
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Junkyard Gem: 1988 Pontiac 6000 LE Safari Wagon

Wed, May 27 2020

The Detroit station wagon was fast losing sales to minivans and trucks as the decade of the 1980s progressed, but Pontiac shoppers still had plenty of choices as late as the 1988 model year. A visit to a Pontiac dealership in 1988 would have presented you with three sizes of wagon, from the little Sunbird through the midsize 6000 and up to the mighty Parisienne-based Safari. Today's Junkyard Gem is a luxed-up 6000 LE, complete with "wood" paneling, found in a car graveyard in Fargo, North Dakota. Confusingly, the "Safari" name in 1988 was used by Pontiac to designate both a specific model — the wagon version of the Parisienne/Bonneville— and as the traditional Pontiac designation for a station wagon. That meant that the wagon we're looking at now was a Safari but not the Safari in the 1988 Pontiac universe. The 6000 lived on the GM A-Body platform, as the Pontiac-badged version of the Chevrolet Celebrity. Production ran from the 1982 through 1991 model years, with the A-Body Buick Century surviving all the way through 1996. The LE trim level came between the base 6000 and the gloriously complex 6000 STE (which wasn't available in wagon form, sadly). I visited this yard in Fargo after judging at the Minneapolis 500 24 Hours of Lemons in Brainerd, Minnesota, last fall. Up to that point, I had visited 47 of the Lower 48 United States, with just North Dakota remaining, so I made a point of doing a Fargo detour in order to check that state off my list. I'm pleased that I found such a good example of the 1982-1996 GM A-Body in this yard, because the most famous of all the A-Bodies is the 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera driven to Brainerd by the inept Fargo-based kidnappers in the film "Fargo." This Minnesota-plated 6000 had some rust, but just negligible levels by Upper Midwestern standards on a 31-year-old car. The interior looked very good, with the original owner's manual still inside. The 6000 LE boasted "redesigned contoured seats and London/Empress fabric," which sounds pretty swanky. Something less swanky lives under the hood: an Iron Duke 2.5-liter pushrod four-cylinder engine, known as the Tech 4 by 1988. The Iron Duke was, at heart, one cylinder bank of the not-quite-renowned Pontiac 301-cubic-inch V8; while fairly rugged, the Duke ran rough (typical of large-displacement straight-four engines) and made just 98 horsepower in this application. Pontiac offered a couple of optional V6s in the 6000 in 1988, but no Quad 4.