Earlier I did a Midwest survey but needed more data to get enough samples for more realistic results. As before, number differences are due to what was in the add. Can't rate road worthiness if all that's listed is Firebird and price or not even a price.

Kansas City, Des Moines, Denver, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and OK City are now joined by Phoenix, Los Vegas, LA, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Boston, Charlotte NC, Atlanta, Tampa and Miami.

I broke down down that road worthiness this way.

Above Average-This is for running cars with no major drivetrain issues. They could have a few small problems but nothing major and could be enjoyed as is.

Average - Again Running Cars that need something significant or just a lot of little things that take time, effort and or some money to solve. Tires, Exhaust and similar things. May have more significant body issues as well. Can still be driven now, but it looks and drives like a project.

Poor - Non Running cars! These cars need lots of TLC to be driven on the road. Major body damage gets you here. Basically the barnyard cars and or projects given up on.

In all 434 total Firebirds made the Survey. They broke down like this.

Base Firebird - 137
Formula - 50
Trans AM - 168
GTA - 55
Convertible - 11
TTA - 4
S/E - 6
SSA - 1
KR - 1
Bandit II - 1

Basic Six Cylinder - 64
5L - 207
5.7L - 119
Turbo - 4
Other - 7

Automatic - 353
Manual - 66

Above Average - 250
Average - 91
Poor - 90

Next I will break down the rest of the information

 

The information was gathered within 3 days at the beginning of Oct. It took me a while to put it all together and just finished. I only used Craigs List for the samples. Nicer cars will be sold on other sites like Auto Trader, Ebay so high price info may be lower than cars from this site. The first prices listed are for average prices of each category and the last being the highest price found (H). Numbers in parenthesis after the price is the number of samples used. All prices are rounded up.

This is designed to give you an idea of what is out there and about what you would pay if you were looking this fall.

Base Firebird - AA = $3870 (33) A = $1680 (25) P = $775 (24) H = $12,800
Formula - AA = $4290 (16) A = $1880 (5) P = $1385 (7) H = $11,500
Trans Am - AA = $6210 (63) A = $2680 (25) P = $1565 17) H = $15,000
GTA - AA = $6285 (23) A = $2810 (6) P = $2000 (6) H = $19,900
TTA - AA = $25,000 (4) H - $43,000
Convertible - AA = $7940 (6) A = $5500 (1) P = $1350 (2) H $12,500
SE - AA = $2700 (1) AA = $1350 (2) H = $2700
SSA - AA = $2700
KR - AA = $4800
Bandit II - AA = $7500

Yearly price averages

82 = $3580 (11) H = $ 6900
83 = $6370 (16) H = $12,500
84 = $3770 (37) H = $14,900
85 = $3240 (32) H = $16,200
86 = $3795 (41) H = $13,500
87 = $3330 (24) H = $11,500
88 = $4870 (16) H = $11,900
89 = $5115 (27) H = $43,000
90 = $2560 (8) H = $6200
91 = $4970 (21) H = $17,700
92 = $2420 (18) H = $7600

Mileage

Less than 10K = $32,000 (2) H = $43,000
10 - 50K = $9700 (28) H = $30,000
51 - 100K = $5480 (105) H = $12,500
101 - 150K = $4120 (75) H = $17,700
151-200K = $3195 (35) H = $19,000
200+ K = $3140 (12) H = $12,800

 

Here are some of the nice cars I found along the way!



A 91 TA Convertible 80k miles for $12,500



This 83 Pace Car 41k miles for $12,500



This 84 TA with 41K miles for $14,900

 

I like the look of this 84 with 50K miles selling for $7200



And this 85 TA Manual with 86K miles for $9000



This 85 TA with 50K miles is selling for $10,500



I had never seen a Blue Kitt car before this 85 with 68K miles

 

This 86 TA Convertible with 113K miles for $6000



Here is a good 87 6 Cyl with 72K miles



A nice 87 GTA with 69K for $6500



And this nice two TA with 91K miles for $8700

 

Here is a 89 Formula 350 with 108K for $5500



Another Formula caught my eye. This 89 Formula 350 with only 56K miles is selling for $11,500



This nice 91 Base Firebird 5L with 11K miles is selling for $12,800

 

sweet cars. most of these prices are dreamy sadly.

 

Some last thoughts. I picked large cities because there were more nice cars there. Rural areas tend to have more cars in need.

If you like Base 6 Cyl cars, the west coast is the place to go. If you want a TA or a nice GTA, the midwest and rust belt is where I would look.

I seems about half the cars are heading towards junk or are junk, and or are half done projects.