![]() Over the next month we priced out parts and negotiated a price on the car. As with almost any project this list did not even come close to what actually needed to be fixed on the the car. The list originally consisted of gas tank, fuel pump, cat back exhaust, brakes, tires, and a few other little things here and there we noticed. ![]() After finishing our analysis of the car we wrote up a quick list of parts we knew we would need. ![]() Remember how I said that the car was put away with a full tank of gas? Yeah, that turned into a tank full of pure corroded fuel that was so bad that when we later stuck a siphon down the filler neck it only brought up rust and some scuz. The underside of the car was very solid thanks the the undercoating, however the exhaust from the cats back had some rust holes and the Y-pipe had a small crack. If you can’t tell from the pictures, that is not a lot of space to work with. This meant we would need extract the spare from inside the car. Well, we were happy until we realized the electric hatch latch would not work with just the jump box juice. We attempted to put air into the tires to see if they would hold air and we were happy to find all but one held pressure. The engine turned relatively easy and felt smooth throughout a few revolutions. A socket and breaker bar were then put on the harmonic balancer pulley so we could check if the engine would turn over. The gas cylinders that hold the hood up where shot so rather than have one person stand and hold the hood while the other examined the engine, we grabbed a nearby broom which proved to be a perfect substitute for a prop rod. The battery, as would be expected, was completely flat but a quick attachment of a jump box gave us enough juice to let us examine important things like if the pop-up headlights worked. My dad and I thoroughly looked over the car to see what we had to work with. Here was a complete, solid, unmolested, Trans Am that was even in one of my favorite colors for cars, white. When the headlights from our van hit the car I was breathless. The car never ran or moved for the next 13 years until my dad and I yanked the car out of storage. Secondly, in 2000, he shoved the car into a storage unit with a full tank of gas when he moved to Wisconsin. For one he smoked in the car A TON, which left the headliner and rear seats stained and the rear plastics covered in scuz. Over the time he owned it he had the transmission rebuilt after 3rd gear went out, had the underside and engine bay shot with undercoat, changed the oil regularly, and overall took very good care of the car excluding two important things. There, it was bought by an old co-worker of my dad. Over the next couple years, the car was driven lightly, never saw snow, and eventually in 1993 was sold to a used car dealership in Michigan. You would not believe how many people have cracked that joke. In this case, GTA stands for Gran Turismo Americano not grand theft auto. The GTA package included things like the 5.7 liter L98 V8 (the same V8 that was in most C4 Corvettes that for 1990 models was rated a 245 hp and 345 lb-ft of torque), the WS6 “performance” suspension (yes 4th gen Trans Am owners, you were not the only ones the get a suspension package named WS6), gold snowflake rims, and copper laced GTA badges. This car was unique not only because it was bought with the GTA package, but also because it was bought without T-tops which went against the trend of most Firebirds of the time. On January 9, 1990, a woman bought this 1990 Pontiac Trans Am GTA from a small, multi brand dealership in Rochester, New York.
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