![]() ![]() ![]() I can both feel and smell that interior just from the picture, as a school roommate would occasionally get his mother’s 81 or 82 Pontiac Phoenix to use around move-in or move-out time. Wow, like Geo I cannot recall seeing these with the wire wheel covers, but some stylin’ grandma clearly took care of this one. Just wire the guy the money and I will go and pick it up for you and hold it until you can arrange shipment! □ Actually I had not even noticed the location until Geozinger mentioned rust country, and I scrolled back up and saw the license plate. Well, Will – I can solve all of your problems as this car is within an hour’s drive from my house. If this is a turkey, it’s a pretty tasty one to me.Ĭurbside Classic: 1983 Camaro Berlinetta – The Last One Of Its Kind Left With Its Original Wheels?Ĭlassic Curbside Classic: 1989 Camaro RS – GM’s Deadly Sin#6 – 46 Trips To The Dealer In The First Year That’s a pity as, much like not every Chevelle was an SS, not every Firebird was a Trans Am. We’ll never see a new one of those, and none of us is likely to see an old one at a car show. And, again, I should point out this is a brown pony car with wire wheel covers. There are still plenty of third-generation F-Bodies on Craigslist and Marketplace but this one is remarkably clean. Speaking of interiors, by the way, have you ever seen an ’82 Firebird with a cabin this nice? Those seats look almost showroom fresh. The Fox-body Mustang may have enjoyed greater critical acclaim, at least later in its run, but if you showed an ’82 Firebird and an ’82 Mustang to someone unfamiliar with both, it’d be the Poncho that’d get their attention. Nevertheless, these are extremely handsome cars, even the root beer brown paint and wire wheel covers failing to detract from this Firebird’s aesthetic appeal (perhaps perversely, they enhance its appeal to me). I’ve heard about these cars’ flaws, chiefly the rattly, plastic-fantastic interiors and stiff ride. Next year was where the V6 option saw some attention, with a high-output version in the mid-range S/E that added 23hp and the option of a five-speed manual and a four-speed overdrive automatic. It produced 112hp at 5100 rpm and 148 ft-lbs at 2400rpm and was available with either a four-speed manual or the featured car’s three-speed automatic. While still no speed demon, Consumer Guide found the V6 models to be more nimble and comfortable than the V8, though it still had its work cut out for it hauling around 3000 pounds of pony car.įor the third-generation’s debut year, there was only one tune of the carbureted 2.8 available. The only thing that would make this Facebook Marketplace listing more morbidly fascinating is if it had an Iron Duke under its hood.įortunately, this base Firebird has the 2.8 V6 – the fuel-injected four-cylinder was actually a credit option. There are already so few third-generation F-Bodies here, with no Firebird ever officially sold here and the Camaro only arriving on our shores with the latest generation (even though we engineered the last, Zeta-platform model). The odds of me seeing a brown Firebird with wire wheel covers in Australia are infinitesimally small. ![]() That’s why this ’82 Firebird V6 fills me with such joy. The pool of non-SS and non-V8 models isn’t deep enough to drown in. Now, imagine you don’t live in the US or Canada but somewhere like the UK or Australia, where such cars weren’t sold. You know there are Chevelle sedans and Mustang V6s out there but they’re the beater in the depressed neighborhood or the discarded relic engulfed in the long grass. You go to a classic car show and every Chevelle is an SS and every Mustang a V8. The Firebird Trans Am 1982 model is a Coupé car manufactured by Pontiac, with 3 doors and 4 seats, sold new from year 1983 until 1984, and available after that as a used car.North American Curbivores will be familiar with this feeling. For stopping power, the Firebird Trans Am 1982 5.0 V8 HO 5-speed braking system includes Discs at the front and Drums at the rear. Stock tire sizes are 215 / 65 on 15 inch rims at the front, and 215 / 65 on 15 inch rims at the rear. Stabilizer bar (30mm) front suspension and Live axle with coil springs, longitudinal lower control arms and torque arm, and transverse track bar. On the topic of chassis details responsible for road holding, handling behavior and ride comfort, the Firebird Trans Am 1982 has Independent McPherson. The power is transmitted to the road by the Rear wheel drive (RWD) with a 5 speed Manual gearbox. This engine produces a maximum power of 192 PS (189 bhp - 141 kW) at 4800 rpm and a maximum torque of 325 Nm (239 lb.ft) at 3200 rpm. With 0 to 100 km/h (62mph) in 7.6 seconds, a maximum top speed of 124 mph (200 km/h), a curb weight of 3186 lbs (1445 kgs), the Firebird Trans Am 1982 5.0 V8 HO 5-speed has a naturally-aspirated V 8 cylinder engine, Petrol motor, with the engine code GM Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 305 LG9. ![]()
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