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1977 Pontiac Firebird

Trans AM SE Coupe
Mecum Harrisburg 2022
Wednesday, 27 July - Tuesday, 30 August 2022
$440,000
Sale Price
Yes
Reserve
30 July 2022
Sold Date
S132.1
Lot Number
#2+
Detailed to restored
Mecum Auctions
Auction House
Chassis no. 2W87Z7N202963. Black and gold over black vinyl. 400/200hp, automatic, Y82 Black and Gold special edition, glass T-tops, factory Uniroyal tires, air conditioning, cruise control, gold alloy wheels.

Evaluation: Represented as the matching numbers engine. Excellent paint and original interior. Shows only slight age and no use. The odometer reads 15 miles and nothing in the car’s on-site description tells us it is an original, unused car but there are a few clues like the factory tires and taped door sills.

Bottom Line: Smokey and the Bandit in the metal, an impressive, even astonishing, example of meticulous presentation. Mecum sold another Y82 Trans Am at Indy two months ago (s/n 2W87Z7N145675) for $187,000, which was hard to understand at the time, but this transaction is something else. The only way to make sense of it is to consider it a 15-mile original unused Trans Am that has been meticulously detailed to pristine showroom condition, and even then it is a curve-setting result.

by Rick Carey
12 August 2022

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