Faults:

After a couple years of everyday use, along with weekend strip runs, the car started to puff smoke from the exhaust. It required a rebuild on the heads at 85,000 miles.

General Comments:

This car was a true American machine. Mine had a 4 speed trans, and A/C. I took it to the local strip a few times. This car on nice cheater slicks, ran a consistent 12.7, which is awesome considering that I was running with stock exhaust, carb, intake, and even air cleaner. The poor thing just couldn't hang with expressway driving, as my car had factory 4.10 rear gears.

Faults:

Very little ever went wrong. Except for the need to replace back tires too often, the car was actually quite dependable for the few months that I owned it.

Although the engine ran fine, I did discover that the piston to cylinder tolerances from the factory were rather large, which concerned me since I was accustomed to building tight engines.

General Comments:

Mine was the 400 Ram Air IV, automatic, white exterior with blue stripes, and a blue interior.

The previous owner had installed a low rear-end, which limited the top-end speed to about 95 mph, but the Trans Am burned the extra wide tires almost all the way to 95. Even with the automatic, I could be traveling at 60 mph and give it full throttle and it would spin the back tires. A friend of my wife's had recently rebuilt his Nova SS-396 with a full race engine, and his Nova was supposed to be the fastest car in town, but my Trans Am blew his doors off in a quarter mile. I got more than a few concerned comments that the Trans Am was too fast. :-)

The Trans Am sat fairly low and handled plenty well with fat tires mounted on the honey-combed wheels. During the time of ownership I thought of the car as being the heaviest that I had ever owned.

Comfort was never an issue. All I cared for was the acceleration.

My biggest peeve was about how the tires seemed to pick up every nail. The tire expenses finally got out of hand, and since we rarely owned a car for more than a few months anyway, we traded the car off for a MGB-GT.

Faults:

Posi traction rear blew out the back!

Rear tires need to be replaced a lot.

General Comments:

This car stock, when it was unrestored after it sat in my dads garage, killed a TT Supra on the streets. This car stock has 345hp and 430 lbs of torque at the WHEELS, this is a beast of a car. Ran 13.5 unrestored at Ewrindale.

I put $3,000 in this car, new tires, tranny rebuilt, headers, exhaust, mufflers, carb, camshaft, 3.73 rear gears; all cost less than $3,000. And turned out 12.4!

Has 70 TA handling, so it handles AMAZING!

This car is one hell of a car, get it if you can afford $30,000.

Faults:

Was subject to a ground-up, body-off resto 1996 and nothing has fallen off since then.

General Comments:

What can I say? It goes like a rocket, it won't really go round corners but conversely it can be quite hard to keep in a straight line.

Tyres are expensive and in the age of the £4 gallon it doesn't come out much, but it's the meanest thing on four wheels and EVERYTHING gets out of its way.