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Wanted to share this find with you. Last year, I saw a red 1982 Trans Am on a salvage auction website. It looked like it had hit a telephone pole. What caught my eye was the completely mint deluxe leather interior. Even though it was on the other side of the country, I put in a lowball bid and ended up winning the car. Shipping it cost more than the car did!
Anyways, when it arrived, I was excited to see that this particular 82 Trans Am is fully loaded, to include all power options, the rear wiper, WS6 performance package, 15" rims, rear disc brakes....the works. It has relatively low miles but I haven't been able to fire it up yet, because the impact jammed the radiator into the fan. It was owned since new by a 76 year old oncologist from Beverly Hills.
I'm hoping to get the core support pulled back out and put this car back together. I love the red/tan color combo.
Last edited by firebirdta84; Feb 4, 2020 at 08:06 AM.
Very clean! Wow.. They should have stayed with that console instead of the one they replaced it with that seperates.
I drove my brother-in-law's '82 Trans Am back when I was in college and fell in love with it, but I didn't remember the slight differences in the interior. Pontiac probably listened to the bashers that wanted more soft-touch materials and replaced the consoles with the later ones that nearly always warped. I wish mine was hard plastic.
I drove my brother-in-law's '82 Trans Am back when I was in college and fell in love with it, but I didn't remember the slight differences in the interior. Pontiac probably listened to the bashers that wanted more soft-touch materials and replaced the consoles with the later ones that nearly always warped. I wish mine was hard plastic.
Is the front of the console lid delaminating? It sure looks like something is coming loose.
Console by LEGO? Never could stand the 82-84 dash/console or the 82-85 cluster. Neat car though. Pull the front end, get it close then cut out the shark-attacked rad support and weld in a new one. Thirdgens hit by bigger trains have been fixed, why not...
Just so you are aware, WS7 did not include J65. A WS6 car would have J65 as part of the "package". WS7 means rear drums.
That was a typo in my OP. It is a WS6 car. Here's the build sheet I found under the front seat. I removed the seat to carefully remove this and that missing chunk was nowhere to be found...
