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I'm a die hard GM guy. It's what I grew up with, what I'm familiar with, and what I'm comfortable with.
I've always been partial to '69 Camaros, but I've been leaning toward '70-'73 RS Camaros more recently, and that's what I *was* looking for. Priorities meant putting this off, but just as I started looking at cars, I realized we may finally have the means to get into a new house. However, I had the bug bad, and started looking again a few months later.
That's when I came across this 2000 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am WS6 6-speed. This was my top choice of any later model vehicle I can think of. I knew I could find one more easily, it would be easier to find with a manual, that it would be relatively inexpensive, and would have the benefits of a late model car. It may put off buying a house a year, but my wife agreed that I had waited long enough.
It had under 54,500 miles on it when I picked it up just a few weeks ago, and has never seen winter. It was brought up from VA 3 years ago, then stored in a heated warehouse during MI winters. Other than some chips on the front bumper, and some minor scratches on the driver's rear quarter, it's very clean. No tears or cracks in the leather. There's on small crack in the passenger side door panel, and the driver's side seat belt guide was broken, but that's it. It's also mostly original, with just Borla catback exhaust, ZR1 wheels, and an old Sony headunit (OE headunit was included.) I've had a few minor issues that cropped up within 36 hours (headlight motor and headlight connection, a power window motor, and trunk latch), but I have that all sorted out. I also remounted the single DIN radio with a double DIN kit, with a pocket. It looks a lot cleaner, and opens up options for upgrades later. And I managed to replace the PCV valve without breaking the ridiculous apparatus GM used. Hopefully I'll get around to changing out fluids when we get a solid run of warm weather.
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I've always been partial to '69 Camaros, but I've been leaning toward '70-'73 RS Camaros more recently, and that's what I *was* looking for. Priorities meant putting this off, but just as I started looking at cars, I realized we may finally have the means to get into a new house. However, I had the bug bad, and started looking again a few months later.
That's when I came across this 2000 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am WS6 6-speed. This was my top choice of any later model vehicle I can think of. I knew I could find one more easily, it would be easier to find with a manual, that it would be relatively inexpensive, and would have the benefits of a late model car. It may put off buying a house a year, but my wife agreed that I had waited long enough.
It had under 54,500 miles on it when I picked it up just a few weeks ago, and has never seen winter. It was brought up from VA 3 years ago, then stored in a heated warehouse during MI winters. Other than some chips on the front bumper, and some minor scratches on the driver's rear quarter, it's very clean. No tears or cracks in the leather. There's on small crack in the passenger side door panel, and the driver's side seat belt guide was broken, but that's it. It's also mostly original, with just Borla catback exhaust, ZR1 wheels, and an old Sony headunit (OE headunit was included.) I've had a few minor issues that cropped up within 36 hours (headlight motor and headlight connection, a power window motor, and trunk latch), but I have that all sorted out. I also remounted the single DIN radio with a double DIN kit, with a pocket. It looks a lot cleaner, and opens up options for upgrades later. And I managed to replace the PCV valve without breaking the ridiculous apparatus GM used. Hopefully I'll get around to changing out fluids when we get a solid run of warm weather.
2000TA_WS6_M6_FNT.jpg2000TA_WS6_M6_BCK.jpg2000TA_WS6_M6_DoubleDIN.jpg
Helps that the wife was on board haha 
357ci LT1, cammed, stalled, and driven. 
(She doesn't like driving my truck either)
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