(first posted 5/11/2013) If a Cavalier Rally Sport isn’t quite the real thing for you, how about a Firebird Really Sport? It’s a very rare special version of the Firebird, during a brief period when Pontiac was having a bit of bowtie-envy. It even extended to what’s under the hood:
Yup, these bombs came with the 454 Chevy rat-motor. If you’re going to have a bit of fraternal competition, why not ratchet it up a bit? Pontiac scored quite a deal on them from Chevy, as the Camaro wasn’t being sold with them.
It was planned to put some really monster wheels and tires on the back of these, but the GM legal department put a stop to that at the last minute. The visual result is somewhat less than really stellar.
You can always count on CC to find the most obscure and forgotten tidbits of automotive history, and give your the really full story on them.
It staggers the imagination. I didn’t know domestic rice existed in the ’70s, I thought it was all Superfly-mobiles. Could this be the progenitor of the Type-R craze of the ’90s?
This was the genesis of the flagship from Acura that included a built in keyboard (being “digital” was very popular in the ’80’s). I believe the model was called the Acura Integral TypeR.
Meth alert-code red-Mullet advisory-code amber
And what’s wrong with a mullet?
Nothing.
What’s wrong with the REALLY SPORT package?
Spent a goodly chunk of my life living in Florida. Mullets are great battered and deep fried.
(Look it up!)
There’s a bit of hick in all if us. That’s why we like thus car. Sans the flares.
I like my Mullet Smoked from Ted Peters Famous Smoked Fish http://tedpetersfish.com/menu.htm
+1.
Absolutely delicious !! Especially pan seared with the fillets sprinkled with a bit of salt and pepper and lemon juice
Abomination. Probably some illegal. Nice side curtain.
I wonder what the GM RPO code was for the Firebird with Probable Cause package?
I wounder how much extra weight that thing packs around??? It apears as if sombody got a super deal on bondo by the drum and applied 98% of that drum to this car.
That my my 2nd thought, after it matches the area its parked it. This vehicle needs a Kwik-E_Mart parking lot to lay some rubber in.
Never would have thought you could get this from the factory, I figured it was some guys White Dudes idea of a “Badarse” custom.
Somebody screwed up a Trans Am I would say. If not please buy a dictionary before you spell it on the side of your car.
Seems like another nail in the Pontiac coffin. No room or gas mileage. Fits well in the deadly sins category. Fast though
But is it *really* fast?
Probably fast to the ground.
Seems like Pontiac really screwed up with this car and deserved to be put out of business. I mean, how could they sell an ugly pos like this and think they could survive. They should have known that a second third or fourth owner sould beat the crap out of it, ad tons of bondo to it, make up some “rally sport stickers” and cause it to look like 1/10 the car it was originally.
AAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
My eyes!
Coming up on ‘Cops’…..
wow, that is just awful.
This is what Jim Rockford would have driven had he lived in a trailer.
Oh, wait a minute…
You had me going there for a minute!
Ha ha I hope you guys do realize this is a homebrew by some hooplehead probably 30 years after the car left the factory. So I look at it no differently than the Rice-O-Rama pictured below, some one’s personal idea of customization. Probably the only thing that is interesting is if it really did have a 454 it would be fairly fast.
After reading the Rally Sport Cavalier post and remembering the late-80’s Cavaliers with butt-ugly “RALLEYE (sic) SPORT” graphics…I needed a good laugh.
As least “really sport” is spelled correctly.
I actually have seen a late model Chrysler Mini-van with a FACTORY mind you, R/T on the tailgate. I threw up in my mouth a little. Soccer mom/dad’s taking the family box out for a track day??? Really??? Now then again, put Viper V-10, and I’ll be impressed,
Google “Dad’s bad-ass van” for a minivan that is at home on a track.
Seemed to be a popular model locally (lots of old winding roads around plus Thunder Hill raceway) Even my dentist wife has one. forest green, five spoke chromes, gold package
It hurts me to see that poor poor Firebird.
This reminds me of a dark blue Bronco II that used to run around Jasper, AL years ago. Its red-tinted bug deflector had widely-spaced white vinyl letters stuck on it that read “SHAMLESS”.
..then there was the Diarrhea-painted ’67/’68 Chevy Bondomobile truck with matching windshield banner that spelled out “Do – Do Brown”.
Uh….brain bleach, please.
Uh… April 1st was six weeks ago.
“Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poop-On?”
I think Herb Adams and Jim Wangers would be proud of this car. Points deduction though for the overspray on the left side rear splitter. 🙂
wow. why would you spend money to screw up a car that actually has some value? if you don’t like that generation of Trans Am, why not sell it and get something you do like? crazy.
Perhaps the last robbery this car participated in was a successful one and the owner has now moved on to swank purple Monte Carlo….
Or he’s in the apartments in the background get whacked out on crystal with his friends in the Beretta and catfish Sable.
It may be a Canadian version. I think most of them had Chevy motors. It’s hard to tell from the pictures but it may have a Camaro dash in it. The Canadian Chevelle SS396 was a Beaumont SD396 so it fits that a Canadian F body would be a ‘Really Sport’. Another clue is the rare ‘Cold Weather Package’ which include the rear wheel flares to allow for extra wide snow tires as well as the Visqueen over the door glass to add extra insulation from those pesky cold winds.
Uh, no.
I see this example is also fitted with GM’s controversial ‘Astro-Flo’ ventilation system, which replaced conventional window glass with ‘high-tech polymers, like those used in the NASA Skylab program’. When this claim was queried by legal, marketing argued – successfully – that some of the bits used to build the station were, indeed, shipped in saran wrap.
This car actually belongs to the guy who designed the Pontiac Aztec.
Something says this car is all “show” and no go…
Modified in that awful late 70s/80s fashion. Movies and TV shows from the era are a good window into that style.
Junkman
The Wraith
Aw, now that is actually brilliant. It’s like an American Mad Max Interceptor.
Chips
My first thought was that it was in Japan and was a victim of Engrish (www.engrish.com).
It’s an art car!
Someone is parodying our love of all things automotive by lampooning what would be (considered to people outside of the hobby) a desirable car.
No wait, no artsy people would have the intimate knowledge of our hobby to be able to create such a statement…
I’m going with meth-addled thinking or the ego of a 15 year-old who’s father owns a (bad) auto body repair shop…
Please tell me this is a photo-chop… Please?
No. We shoot what we find on the street, and no doctoring allowed, unless we title it a “What If”.
I realize that, Paul. I guess I forgot to add the “sarcasm” tags…
Regardless, that’s one ugly bird.
This era of the Firebird / Trans Am, is a car that does not look good modified, ever, IMO. They need to have the same rims, same paint, same bird on the hood as stock, or the look doesn’t work. Only deviations to this rule involve eliminating the graphics, but never adding more or custom graphics. I knew someone that had a 79 Trans Am with all graphics deleted, and it looks nice. He claimed that was a factory option, but I don’t know for sure. Had the shaker scoop, Olds 403 engine, and had the wing and all of the wheel spats just like the TA package cars, just no stickers. It was brown metallic with rally wheels.
60’s Mustangs are another car that doesn’t look good modified, IMO.
Yes, there was a “chicken delete” option for the Trans Am, but seldom was it deleted, well, because it was the 70’s.
Knew a Pontiac salesman in the Oldsmobird era, ordered a silver “graphics delete” T/A looked “different” but cool.
Sad. So very sad.
Those firebirds are among the few american cars I’ve known since childhood (through diecasts mostly but still…) and I’ve always had a soft spot for them. That kind of treatment is borderline criminal… surely there should be a national society for the prevention of cruelty to cars dealing with this sort of thing?
That fender looks like it was chewed up by a either a wheel coming off or a ball joint breaking at speed.
I can hear Lynyrd Skynyrd coming from the apartment window – but not sure if they play that music up in Oregon. Different strokes for different folks – probably a washed out 80s dude who probably has a son with a Civic with a fart can.
now, now…Lynrd Skynrd were actually pretty good songwriters and musicians…the owner of that car would be playing hair metal. 🙂
+1. I’m thinking Whitesnake, or maybe Warrant for this one. Or is that War Rent?
Nothing wrong with Whitesnake thank you,I bet there’s a Motley Crue CD in the stereo!
😀 Stereoside Classics could send this site in a whole other direction! And this owner might still be saving to upgrade from a cassette deck…
Had coworkers in the 80’s in N.J. Young guys 18-21 (I was in my 30’s) who LOVED the hair bands, exclusivley. And thought EVERYTHING else was disco. Where shocked to find out Steve Miller Band was cool, Or Fleetwood Mac. Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult. As In “wow dude are they a new band?” They knew, Ratt, Poison, Whitesnake,Twisted Sister. Didn’t know any music before they where in elementary school. They thought KISS was an old timers band, you know “back in the 70’s” old.
its an easy. fix. Take an air chisel,cutting torch, grinder, whatever,and fix the wheel wells. No need to make it perfect,just presentible. Keep the rest of the car the same {a drivers side window might be a good idea.}
A rough sand, and do a nice flat black paint job
Now, for very little cash,you got youreself a Rat Rod..
Grind and sand until you hit metal…..
Ahh, you assume there is still metal left under all that bondo.
A Firebird was on my must have list but not this one,kill it with fire ASAP!
OK, time to fess up…that is a picture of my high school ride after I did the paint and bodywork. On Saturday nights after the Dog ‘n Suds closed we’d drive over to the sewage treatment plant to spray paint “HAIL SATIN” on the standpipe.
With the weight of all that rear wheel flare Bondo I’ll bet it gets great traction in the snow…
I’m going to be kind and give this owner the benefit of the doubt. Let’s presume that this is your run-of-the-mill hipster type, just being ironic.
Wait, well…ummm…yeah. I guess that doesn’t really make anything any better, now does it?
The graphics on the side seem to be missing some punctuation. I think it’s supposed to read, “REALLY SPORT?”
Or maybe “REALLY, SPORT?” (As in “Tie me kangaroo down, sport.”)
I envision someone vandalizing with some black paint, adding the punctuation.
“Pontiac. We Build Excitement. It is our customers who convert it to Excrement.”
Pontiac also made the very rare “Alley Sort”, when was the last time you saw one? most came equipped with a 10 hp briggs motor!
Soon as I saw it, realized it must be the missing Vipper prototype from Chrysler, What better was to disguise it than use an orphan make body. The visqueen cleverlly hides the fact it has snap in side windows. The front fenders carefully restyled by Firestone 500’s for the extra ventilation the Vipper models needed. And the hardtop body keeps the roadster body from anyones minds. The wheels are the only bit that may suggest Vipper legacy (and the special tires that fill out the custom wheel wells with more inflation), and the Vipper orange-magenta red with black race stripe. Obviously it has been safely hidden from view in this parking space. Now if we could get photos of the Plymouth Howler that used a stretched Citroen 2CV on the prototype.
This is really awesome. At first I thought I misread the title. Then I thought it was a typo, then I thought it would be fun to put the typo on the car. And then I saw that the typo was on the car!
Kudos to the owner for an awesome sense of humor that goes perfectly with the malaise era performance and presentation of these cars.
Last night I was watching the 1974 John Wayne, cop movie, “MC Q.” In it he drives what was probably an early, Pontiac Trans Am that had the decals and identification removed. It was painted a dark green and it looked great, as expected. These cars look great when they are in action, as during a ludicrous “chase” sequence where Wayne goes charging through surface streets and then under an elevated freeway. Both my brothers had Trans Ams of this era and they were exiting fun cars, Too bad this one was butchered,
Nice!
This Firebird reminds me of the Van Halen cover of “Don’t Call Us… We’ll Call You.”
“Really Sport?” Reminds me of the time I watched a documentary about North Korea-one segment showed a special store for members of NK’s version of the Inner Party that was well-stocked with genuine “SUNYO” electronics…
Those SUV type rims really don’t work on a car, yet it still looks under-tired. Junkyard candidate?
Prototype mirror and side glass are nice touches. (Even Black Bess was better trimmed than this).
You could drive a Big$$$ car and not get as much attention as you would driving this Fireturd.
Hope this guy doesn’t go in for a tattoo with his spelling skills!
Reminds me of the guy who was thinking of buying one of those new Chrysler ‘Specifica’ minivans.
…I’m still waiting on the ’77 Canadian Firebird LJ turbodiesel.