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Old 12-13-2018, 12:16 PM
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8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

Potato
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I like that color combo. 5 speed too. Will be interesting to see what that goes for.
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Low miles and a 5 speed. Will be interesting to see what it goes for.
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Lol Drew
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I like it
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

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Lol Drew
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It's not me! GM named the color.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russet_potato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russet_(color)

Russet, a color of autumn, is often associated with sorrow or grave seriousness.

Just always struck me as a funny name for a funny color.
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lame width wheels. Otherwise, fine.
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A red paint job, a wrap around spoiler, and some black crosslace wheels and it would be nice. Lol
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

Even in Potato Brown, it does not look bad... I like the gold accents...
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A red paint job, a wrap around spoiler, and some black crosslace wheels and it would be nice. Lol
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

I really like this car. Different than the average red or black car. One thing I hate seeing consistently is how people seemed to only save the most basic barely even good enough to be called a "Trans Am" or "IROC" cars. LG4, no options what so ever. Its just sad that someone poured their time into saving and preserving basically a base V8 firebird.
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Because the base cars were boring to drive I guess a lot of them didn't get driven as much. The 350, 5.0TPi +HO 5spd cars were such a blast to drive most got heavily abused.
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

Takes a boring sort to buy a 1970s poop brown performance car too.
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Takes a boring sort to buy a 1970s poop brown performance car too.
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In this cars case a repaint might just add value I think.
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

Even with fresh paint, it'd still be a Non-WS6 Trans Am with an L-Wheeze-4. Just a little too early in the game to really get me excited. It'd be a lot cooler if it were a 89 or 90 GTA. Or an 87-90 LB9 5spd. At least being a LG4 it'd be easy to slip in a carbed 350, but it'd still be brown. If it were at least an 86 T/A it'd have backlit gauges. Hard to fall in love with this spinster, she's already well on her way to being a crazy cat lady.

No, parked safely in someone else's garage is the perfect place for this one. I don't crave it, and don't feel obligated to save it.
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

Originally Posted by Big&BadGTA
lame width wheels. Otherwise, fine.

Lame wheels, lame spoiler, lame colors and the lamest engine (but cool transmission).................otherwise fine.
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Re: 8,500 MILE 1985 TRANS AM

Originally Posted by chazman
Low miles and a 5 speed. Will be interesting to see what it goes for.
i can tell you one thing mine was a lot cooler than this one and it was a hard sell at 10,500
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