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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 03:57 PM
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1987 Firebird Tojan

Never heard of one until now.

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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 04:05 PM
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Very ford probe like.
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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 04:35 PM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

I definitely don’t want one!
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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 04:40 PM
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ragged *** old car with a body kit to cover it up
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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 05:18 PM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

Clearly you didn't do a search on the forum before posting.

There were ABUNCHA heinous "custom" uglifications of that general sort available for both Firebird and Camaro back when they were new. The staying power of their appeal, however little it might have been at the time, has not grown, in the decades since. To me, it looks like taking a person that's in whatever degree of "good shape", and slapping on acoupla rolls of fat here and there. Maybe some love handles, a few blubber butts, thunder thighs, and so forth. Obviously, without cutting, the only thing that can be done, is to add on; and it never was a "good look". Not any of them, not on any of these cars. The same could be said I think of the same kind of crap for pretty much ANY kind of car. Just a gimmick designed to separate the tasteless but financially abundant from some of their filthy lucres.

Eminently foregettable.
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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 05:45 PM
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Just a gimmick designed to separate the tasteless but financially abundant from some of their filthy lucres.
Clearly you don't know a $26K car when you see one.

Even comes with your favorite option, Sofa.... fornicated wiring!
Looks like it might have the whole car underwater submersion pre-treatment option too.


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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

Too bad we don't have a vomit smiley on this forum.
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Old Mar 23, 2022 | 07:03 PM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

Originally Posted by sofakingdom
Too bad we don't have a vomit smiley on this forum.

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Old Mar 24, 2022 | 07:31 AM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

They are even uglier than the choo- choo custom screw ups
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Old Mar 24, 2022 | 09:02 AM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

The phrase, 'Butt-Ugly' comes to mind.




................and the pic of the under-hood wiring is classic.
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Old Mar 24, 2022 | 09:09 AM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

wouldn't Tojan sound better as Tojam?
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Old Mar 24, 2022 | 11:26 AM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

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wouldn't Tojan sound better as Tojam?

Nah, too close to toejam, conjuring up the image of the D.I. in the movie Full Metal Jacket yelling out the faults he sees in the recruits, he yells to one "Pop that blister" and to another "Toejam!"

poor Private Toejam.......
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

Originally Posted by sofakingdom
Too bad we don't have a vomit smiley on this forum.
Consider it a loan.



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Old Mar 25, 2022 | 08:53 AM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

I'm more turned off by the fact that interior isn't clean. There's dirt and dust everywhere,
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Old Mar 25, 2022 | 04:28 PM
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Re: 1987 Firebird Tojan

they;re just as hideous as i recall!
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