No not at all. in my original post, i specified to the people who are getting bent outta shape

My bad, I guess I just assumed you were talking to me.

Ahh Shane, I’m bored and you make it too easy at times. You know I have to have some fun at your expense now, right?

Why? And I quote:

Is not your implication, from the first quote, that a Trans Am is not a firebird? If not, then why do you feel the need to correct them?

Uh-huh. Why? I know a few chickens that are fast as hell. I know a few vettes that are slow as hell. Care to explain?

Ok, now you need to slowly put the crack pipe down, turn and walk away…no I can’t… how in the world did you come up with those power numbers? And that cat adds what where?!?

No, actually I’d ask you which one and as compared to what? Would you say a 350 pulling a 13.7 in the quarter is slow? (No helping Vader! BTW sale pending!)

With the right combo I’d be pulling 8’s. What’s the point?

So is a ’69 z28 with rotted floors, doors, rears and trunk, missing driveline and tweaked frame… but I wouldn’t want it.

Sorry kiddo, the price you pay for inflicting me with the headache.

Kidrcth, now therckid, but the sig is still Kidrcth. d00d.

that gave me a good laugh for the whole 5 minutes it took me to read it(i'm a slow reader). Yeah your right, but why only post stuff i said???????


And yeah therckid did change from kidrcth, but the sig, well that'd be a little bit complicated for my boy fruityone to change now wouldn't it. So i wont bother to ask until i get new wheels and make a big different look for the car.





Shane

Reading your posts gave me the headache, so thus I had to mete out the punishment appropriately. You have got to remember that we have to read these things, we don't hear 'em.

whats up with calling firebirds slow and t/a's fast? You do realize they could be equipped with the same engines right? Mine for instance has an LG4, and many early T/A's had LG4s. So what makes a firebird slower? sorry but i'm tired of hearing that! A Firebird can be just as fast.

On topic, my car is usually called a camaro by most people, although several females have called it a vette. Most gearheads think it's a formula at first sight until they see the 82-84 front clip.

Because nothing else is required to show your contradictions.

i have gotten nice camaro while in my bird a few times

guess people just dotn know what the pontiac and formula mean

side note..

if a cute girl says nice corvette/firebird/hot dog mobile/camaro/iroc/z28/RS/ smile, say thanks and then start talking to her...

if you correct them right away and make them out to be a idiot, they probly wont like ya very much.


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1) A Formula is a lower model than a trans am, but weighs less, no ground effects, and sometimes the same engine = can be faster than Trans Ams. Like the 5.0 Mustang LX's are faster than the 5.0 Mustang GT's.

2) There are Firebirds and Camaros. All other F-Body platforms are upgrades on these, thus carry their names. (Just like an upgraded electronic from a base model would be the same name with an X or S or such after it)

In fact GTA's are an upgrade from the Trans Am, so the proper name would be Firebird Trans Am GTA

3) Be glad you are not a corvette owner that hears "nice Firebird"

4) My favorite thing to say to Fox Bodies = "Nice Escort!"

ummm i thought GTA stood for Grand Trans Am, so wouldn't there be no need to say Firebird Trans Am GTA, You'd Say Firebird GTA(grand trans am).




shane

You would be incorrect. It stands for Gran Turismo Americano.

This is really going to piss some of you guys off, but I call my GTA a Camaro a lot. Most people know what a Camaro is, but if I say GTA they don't know what the hell I'm talking about. The people that get under my skin are the people that correct people when they call an IROC a Camaro or a T/A a Firebird. I had a Formula that would have run circles around my GTA. My brother's ex-girlfriend had a 91 Formula that would have spanked his Vette (and did a few times). Just so that all you guys know, there was also a Renault GTA (built on the Alliance platform) during the same year span as our GTA's. While talking to a few people the other day about my "GTA" one of them asked me why I was working on a Renault. I just about slit my wrists right there. I have had a couple people think my car was a Vette (from a distance), and it just made me smile because the Vette is the ultimate car as far as I am concerned.

Every girl I talk to thinks my car is a Corvette. Must be the wheels.

Hmm. My car is a Firebird, wanna race?

Can honestly say my car was never referred to as a corvette and i have it all over my valve covers....

It was called a thunderbird once....

I usually just shrug it off, but if you come up and try to act like you know alot of cars and about your counsins chevelle that can run 9's or brothers Eclipse that can lift the front wheels off the ground......Now i'm gonna hold you to know my car is a Camaro, if you call it a firebird, I know all the previous comments are lies because you obviously know nothing about cars.....

Most people seem to think any Firebird is simply a Trans Am. "Firebird, Firebird Formula? OOOOOH, a Trans Am." And if they make 'Vette comparisons, it's usually because it has "headlights like a Corvette."

But a compliment is a compliment. I just and say thanks.

But unfortunately, cops don't know the difference either! I was once pulled over and ordered out of my car AT GUN POINT! After he finally checked my license and registration, he's like, "sorry, but a black Trans Am like this one was just reported stolen in the area." Believe me, I was still shaking, but not enough to keep from getting pissed and say "this isn't even a Trans Am, it's a Formula." And he's like, "yeah, it was one of those."

shouldn't he have compared license plates, FIRST?

jus6t got back from work the first time i lauhged in hours, been 5 minutes.

holy crap that's terrible!!! kinda funny though.....



Right on!!!!! :rockon:

My old red camaro used to get called a corvette all the time.... kids would run up and be like "WOW, COOL CORVETTE MAN!" and old people too...

I have a few corvettes.

They're all Hot wheels and Matchbox cars but so what?! They're still "Corvettes"!!!

People ask me what that big pile of metal in the garage (that i am in the process of sanding 4 paint) is because its all torn apart.

I've gotten nice IROC before and nice RS. but never got mistaken for a firebird or vette. as long as people know its a camaro i guess i don't mind

back when my formula was actually driveable, guys at work would say like, hey nice lookin camaro, id say, thanks, but, its a firebird. theyd roll their eyes and sigh like i was being a smartazz, when that wasnt my intent.

shane... if you put half the thought you put into what goes into your car but obviously never will into typing coherent sentences... you might not get picked on. just a thought.

lol, thanks...

I hate the "Camero" thing! I hear people say it that way (like Cahmeero) and I always see them on eBay or for sale locally

FUEL RAIL COVERS... it says it on your FUEL RAIL COVERS..

you cant even see the valve covers on your motor... the coil packs are in the way.

<-- jokin and giving ya a hard time smilie.






btw, isnt camero spanish for shrimp?

Either way its the same car, basically. Differences are cosmetic for the most part.

I've heard "the Camaro has a better suspension, they're two totally different setups."

When I tell people they're the same car except for the body, people look at me like I have two heads.

Trying to explain a common platform is like trying to drill a hole through my own head.

Ya thanks for the news flash. But the post is about knowing the differences when seeing the car. not about the mechanics and stuff like that.

ya but his comment was in response to you saying this

"lets face it, calling a firebird a camaro or vice versa isnt all that bad, either way its a ncie car "

so he was kind of agreeing with what you said. Which makes you both off the topic of getting upset when someone calls your car something its not

I wasnt off topic.....oh well.

well if you wanna get technical the thread is off topic so dont bring that up.

LOL, that was too funny. And Formul8, I'm with you on the formula thing and a Trans Am not necessarily being the best bird. I have an 84 Trans Am, but the drivetrain is coming entirely from an 88 Formula and it should be a HUGE upgrade! Just like imports, stickers and labels are just that. The performance of a car is dependant on what's under the hood, not what it says on the hood/bumper/door/whatever.

Yeah guess I shoulda clarified that "same thing" more, eh?

People here stated how their car has been called the other. "My car got called a Firebird once... " At least some people are smart enough to see the similarities even if they don't get the exact model right. So what if someone calls your Camaro's called a Firebird at least they're close and they didn't call it a Mustang or Honda.

Ive never had anyone call any of my camaros a vette. But if they do, Id just point to my 75 stingray in the garage and say "thats a vette!" So i guess Im the only guy here who actually has a corvette

theres actually quite a few on here who have vettes, Jim85iroc has a sweet vette, someone else on here has a brother with a ZR1. A buddy of mine has an 86 but he lets me drive it all the time so I feel like I own it. Wait let me rephrase that, I WISH I owned it!!!!!

LOL

It's getting to me, even i'm starting to act like the people who know nothing about cars.........

I had the Mexican come up to me at Auto Zone and say hey nice Fierrie I use to have one like it. In the back of my head I'm thinking, "Yeah and if I were on crack I'd probally think I was driving a Fierrie too." A friend of mine once said that he could have sworn that I was pulling up in his driveway in a vet. And just today someone called my firebird a thunderbird. Here is the real kicker. Most people call it a Trans Am, When it's only a half and half but looks more like a firebird. And I've also had my car called a camaro too. That is was I call my "WHAT THE F***." moments.:lala:

my best friend technically "owns" my car and she still calls it a trans am and not a camaro or an iroc. it makes me laugh

i was in the drive through at taco bell and pull up to the window. the girl leans out and takes a look at my car and says " nice mustang" i had a horrible urge to snap at her and tell her its a camaro but i just smiled and drove off.

People never say "Nice" anything to me....Recently I started gettin more attention with the billet grill and motor swap, exhuast, system etc...But I have never had someone come up and say, Nice Car...

Thats got to be the absolute worst thing in the world. Call my car a chevette, a porsche, a miata i dont care. But imply that i drive a ford. I mean do i look like an idiot?

you would look stupider in the chevette then the mustang.

that is, if stupider is a word.

My car has been called a lot of things, seems like the typical name for firebird around here is camaro.

A few months a go I got a ticket that I believe toped all the names that my car has ever been called... I feel your pain 89 rs... I went to school and forgot my college parking sticker and of coarse they fined me for not having it the one and only day my car entered that parking lot without it and what really got me was not that i got a ticket but what they called my car on the ticket. They got every thing right besides were it has a line to fill out for make which they put MUSTANG on there.

My standards have lowered. If someone calls my car a corvette or a camaro I am satisfied that they got at least it was a gm.

i once herd
'oh sh*t, is that a ferrari'
i just smiled

The "Ferarri" one jsut reminded me....

Once I was at my friends house and his sister came out and ask if my car was a porsche. I just kinda smiled and said no. My friend started getting annoyed "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, IT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A PORSCHE!"

Thats OK, I went to lunch with one of my female co-workers a few months back and when I unlocked my car she was like "Cool! This car looks sweet!.......what is it?" I about fell over backwards. I told her "It's a Camaro!".....

She just gave me the blank-est "A What?" stare that I have ever seen in my life...

Bruce (90RS305)

I hate when people say I have an iroc . Its just a camaro to me. Everyone here refers to a thirdgen camaro as a iroc.

all most all people I know that are not car people call it a trans-am? When it has Z28 all over it? These are peole like my uncle that has not got it right once

Somone once said that i nice Ferrari. And I guess if you look at a 328, or 348 from the side there is a little in common.

Man I went with that and ran. I mean I love my bird... but c'mon, they thought it was a ferrari.


But I get "Nice Corvette all the time from girls. I dont bother correcting them". I only get offended when people try to tell me my car is NOT a trans am solely because I took the decals off.

In the end, I think everything with flip headlights is just automatically considered to be a Corvette by most people.