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So do you think the 1989 turbo trans am was the best trans am ever?

Absolutely the best-TTA! I also really like the CETA manual 6 speed with T Tops. I dont have a facebook, but I'll recuit some "likes" for him.
 
Damn, and I thought I was about the last person on Earth without a FB account :) Who has time for that....
Those reads were quit funny....I like the no way the 87-89 GTA with the 5.7 Corvette engine was the best..... :) Some folks just don't know and will never know the performance the little 6 has.
 
NO FB here .... to old for that crap.. TTA is one of the best cars I have owned.. I have had all sorts of muscle cars BUT the TTA was the most fun.. That car took a beating !!!
 
No FB here either.

I'm one of the last few people that actually communicate my latest activities with friends in person. Weird huh?
 
Don't get me wrong, i love my TTA's but imo the 1974 SD is the most fun car i ever owned, drive one and you will understand...take away that car and yes i would agree that the TTA was the best...BTW what in the hell is facebook? ; never read that one...:rolleyes:
 
robert lee said:
Don't get me wrong, i love my TTA's but imo the 1974 SD is the most fun car i ever owned, drive one and you will understand...take away that car and yes i would agree that the TTA was the best...BTW what in the hell is facebook? ; never read that one...:rolleyes:
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Robert, you are on Facebook, your wife has your picture on there. Just ask her.:guns:
 
TTA984 said:
Robert, you are on Facebook, your wife has your picture on there. Just ask her.:guns:
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WHAT??? Just wait till see gets home!! I just read those comment's, what a bunch of DA... i really love the one about the 81' turbo is fast as hell and the 89' was detuned because of the Vette, :omg:
 
NICE. I had to throw my 2 cents in. I loved that video though, you could really tell how much he loved the TTA.
 
TTA984 said:
Robert, you are on Facebook, your wife has your picture on there. Just ask her.:guns:
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That is how it works around my house, my wife wastes enough of our time on there..... Hmm so if I got a fb page I wouldn't probably talk to my wife again yet we live in the same house, wow has society made huge advances.... I could just fb her asking what she wants for dinner and such.
 
Wow, I dont feel so "outdated" now. I thought everyone (but me) had FB. Younger people dont realize how intrusive it is. My son told me the neighbor girl was blabbing on there about how she and her family were on their way to New York City this spring. Funny, the house got broken into while they were gone. Duh!

TMI on FB for my taste.
 
I have to say I am MUCH_MUCH relieved to know that allot of you are not FB users.

Neither am I, but like others, my wife is addicted to that hog wash. So much so I had to get her a phone and upgrade my cell phone package to include a data package so she could post to her FB page on the fly.

The whole idea of putting oneself "out there" for the whole world to comment on and leer at drives me nearly insane.

FB has been the subject of few heated discussions in my house.

It justs seems to appeal to a primal narsacist tendency we humans have and that tendency erodes our character...I personnaly like to stay off people's radar, but apparently 500 million people disagree.



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2QUIK6 said:
That is how it works around my house, my wife wastes enough of our time on there..... Hmm so if I got a fb page I wouldn't probably talk to my wife again yet we live in the same house, wow has society made huge advances.... I could just fb her asking what she wants for dinner and such.
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FB is not that big of a problem with the wife and me BUT don't get me started on ; farmville, hidden chronicles, bubble safari or pioneer trail, i will wait till she is into it @ call her from my cell phone @ ask for a beer (while i'm in bed) and watch the spark's fly!!...:teehee:...:D
 
FB is not too bad, just don't put any personal info. on there. And don't do the farmville and those other crazy things.

I don't fool with twitter, never did like that one.:cool1:
 
I know this thread started out as "the best TA ever". Mike, sorry I hijacked your thread because I mentioned I didnt have FB. Didnt mean to cause a firestorm. :(
 
kymmee said:
I know this thread started out as "the best TA ever". Mike, sorry I hijacked your thread because I mentioned I didnt have FB. Didnt mean to cause a firestorm. :(
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No harm done Kymmee. I am really glad some of the folks in the social media are saying good things about the TTA.

The people that say bad things about the TTA have never owned or drove one, so they really don't know what they are missing.:beach:
 
kymmee said:
I know this thread started out as "the best TA ever". Mike, sorry I hijacked your thread because I mentioned I didnt have FB. Didnt mean to cause a firestorm. :(
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You did it Kymmee! you started a firestorm blah blah, i can't believe you did that blah blah what was you thinking blah blah what would your parent's think blah blah blah, i guess that's how 500 millon people think, unreal....:lamo:..:bash:...:teehee:...:rofl::rofl:we will let you off the hook THIS time
 
I have always liked the TTA since the day I saw Dick Baker's car roll up the street back in 89. Now I wouldn't excatly call it my favourite Trans Am of all time, I mean it's pretty hard to beat the original 69, or the 70,71, 72 models. But you can't buy those cars for what a TTA retails at these days. Of all the modern Trans Ams it's the most going for it .
My love affair with it is starting to falter though, because it is clearly not a car to take to local car shows or cruise nights. The general public do not know what these cars are, just another 80's vintage firebird, yawn !
Yet again today, beat at a local fair show by a 80's something, common as dog dirt on the sidewalk Corvette. The vintage of Corvette you see at Carlisle for $6995.00 or best offer and there are half a dozen to choose from. Now thats depressing, take a rare car, even more so in Canada, to a local show and get beat by one of the most common and least valuable cars at the show.:disgust: In my previous muscle car world, usually the most rare and nicest condition muscle car won the day.
 
So, just last night went to a cruise-in. I was trying to find a parking spot and I could already hear people saying, there is a Turbo Trans AM. They were all around my car as soon as I parked.

I have got a lot of respect for the TTA around here. There is always someone that wants to see a TTA that has never saw one before, but has only read about them in magazines.:yes:
 
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TTA984 said:
So, just last night went to a cruise-in. I was trying to find a parking spot and I could already hear people saying, there is a Turbo Trans AM. They were all around my car as soon as I parked.

I have got a lot of respect for the TTA around here. There is always someone that wants to see a TTA that has never saw one before, but has only read about them in magazines.:yes:
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I think the problem here is that most people do not know they even exist, let alone what they are looking at. TTA's were and are not common at all in Canada. When I'm in the U.S., even GTA's and Trans Ams draw more respect. I have had it at a few cruise nights, but only 2 local shows so far. 1st show a 87GN took the class, which is understandable, everyone knows what they are. But to loose to an 80's Corvette,,,:thumbdwn:
On the positive, the TTA was a blast to drive to & from the show, good working car.
 
The general public do not know what these cars are, just another 80's vintage firebird, yawn !
1969 400, 4-sp bird,( first car ), 1974 sd455, 1971 (or 72?) buick gs stage1 455-4sp, 69' 440 roadrunner, i owned all this car's from 78' to around mid 80's (not at the same time) with dozen's more less rare car's in between , but i would tell people with each car that one day they would be worth ALOT of money and everytime i said it people would look at me like i had 2 head's and three arm's but now you would get the same look if you offered 5k for any of them, the TTA is not there yet but it will be...:yes:
 
robert lee said:
The general public do not know what these cars are, just another 80's vintage firebird, yawn !
1969 400, 4-sp bird,( first car ), 1974 sd455, 1971 (or 72?) buick gs stage1 455-4sp, 69' 440 roadrunner, i owned all this car's from 78' to around mid 80's (not at the same time) with dozen's more less rare car's in between , but i would tell people with each car that one day they would be worth ALOT of money and everytime i said it people would look at me like i had 2 head's and three arm's but now you would get the same look if you offered 5k for any of them, the TTA is not there yet but it will be...:yes:
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I also think so. The only difference today over the muscle car revival of the late 80's and then again in the late 90's is that the retro cars of today are so much better than the cars of the 80's & 90's that guys were trying to relive glory days in.
I have owned a lot of Black S/E's and a Gold S/E when they were $7500.00 cars. Heard it so many times from other huys at cruise nights, "why would you want one of those"?. Try to buy a decent 77/78 Black S/E these days for that now. I also find Trans Ams/ Pontiacs to be kind of a regional interest thing. Pontiacs are not high on the list in these parts for what ever reason.
 
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