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Those among us sufficiently lucky to be around in the 70s when this wonderful automobile came out drool each time we think of it.  Imagine getting an automobile from the factory with a 455 cubic inch engine in it!This vehicle kicked butt!  Then if you did some work, like we did to ours, as in having the engine blue released, balanced and a ton more, it did even better.  Let’s just say it was doing much better then one hp per cubic inch!

This was the era of Smokey and the Bandit movies.  Good ole boy Burt Reynolds drove a black Trans Am in the movie and everyone and his uncle all of a sudden wanted one.  Of course, by that time the ones they were selling were watered down versions with no where near the power of the first ones. 

Since we are not sure of the statute of constraints, let’s just say that any stories are thought to start’Once upon A Time’. 

One of our favorite stories is when we were getting onto dawn road late one evening and a Camaro rolled up next to us and started revving his engine, well you can imagine the rest.Here was a poor soul who had not a clue of what was in store.  Since we do not believe in street racing, it definitely was a good thing we were both going onto the entrance ramp.  After we were satisfied that no one was on the parkway at that time of night, we let the Beast Out To Play.  We never did see any more then his fading headlights.

One of the funniest moments was when we lived in upstate NY and my man went to the store to choose something up and this guy in a Mustang 2 pulled up next to him and my man had some fun ( hey, we are all titled often ).  As Chuck tells it : You see at that time a local car dealer was running a television spot featuring a Mustang two just destroying a Trans Am.  So this gentleman pulls up next to me, gunning his engine for all he’s’s worth.  The light changes, he chirps his tires and flashes me a giant grin as he’s taking off.  Well, I idle away from the light,give it enough gas in first to pull even with him, then drop the hammer, lighting up both tires, throw second, light them up again and then ease off.  Drive down the line to the store.

When I come out of the store this man has finally got there and is waiting for me and says,’but the commercial asserts Mustangs will beat the pants off the Trans Am.’ I terribly blithely responded,’Not this Trans Am!’

They don’t make them like this anymore.  It’s sorrowful when you concentrate on it!  Those of us who lived and got raised in the time of the muscle automobiles, street rods, saturday night cruise nights were very,very lucky.  I feel sorry for the youth of today that they missed out on all of this. 

So what happened to that great 455 Trans Am, sadly the oppressive upstate NY winters are not kind to cars and rust took the Trans Am from us.  However, we probably did replace it – with a customised 1973 Vette, which we drove cross country to California, but that is a whole nother story!

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