Remembering The ’70 Firebird Trans Am
We grew up considering the Mustang as the most powerful muscle car and most loved pony car in the world - and that maybe is a fact. We’re not worthy, I know! However, if we try to go back in time, specifically in the 70s, there’s another great vehicle that embodies the real significance of a muscle car. And that is the 1970 Pontiac Firebird…
The 1970 Pontiac Trans Am’s standard engine acquired the 345-horsepower Ram Air 400-cid V-8 and it provided low-14-second elapsed times at the drag strip. Every Firebird owner was satisfied because of the performance brought by this exceptional vehicle. The Firebird Trans Am exhibited a brand new face in the muscle car department, bringing up the statement that it is a hot property like the Mustang… definitely as hot as a smoking radiator.
Because of so much impressive qualities, critics bent down on their knees. "Overall handling feel - for a production car - was as near to a front engine race car as we have ever driven." And Car and Driver called the 1970 Pontiac Trans Am "a hard muscled, lightning-flexed commando of a car, the likes of which doesn’t exist anywhere in the world, even for twice the price,” says Sport Car Graphic.
The 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Specifications:
- Wheelbase, inches: 108.0
- Weight, lbs: 3,800
- Number built: 3198
- Base price: $4,305
Top Available Engine
- Type: ohv V-8
- Displacement, cid: 400
- Fuel system: 1 x 4 bbl.
- Compression ratio: 10.5:1
- Horsepower @ rpm: 370 @ 5500
- Torque @ rpm: 445 @ 3900
Representative Performance
- 0-60 mph, sec: 5.6
- 1/4 mile, sec @ mph: 13.9 @ 102
