Customer Reviews

Firebird and Trans Am (Enthusiast Color)

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Great photos (in color!) of the entire line of Firebirds and Trans Ams. However, the text and captions are far from accurate. Take what you read in it with a grain of salt. Several examples are: describing a 1981 4.9L Turbo engine while showing a picture of a 1989 20th Anniversary 3.8L Turbo engine; showing a 1992 TA but describing it as a 1993 TA; calling the 403 Olds the top engine for 1979 with 220 hp (the 400 Poncho engine was 220 hp, the Olds 185 hp); describing the 3100 engine as the V6 for the early Fourth Gen cars (3.4L actually); etc. I do recommend the book, though, for the great pictures. For a better text, buy Pontiac Firebird 1967-2000 Photo History by George Scala. This book is awesome - very accurate details of how the models changed from year to year, Firebirds, Esprits, Formulas as well as Trans Ams. The only bad thing is that the photos are in black & white.

This book served the purpose I was looking for - Pictures of different Firebird and Trans Am models through the model's 33 years of life. The pictures and layout are great. All pictures are full-color, and feature some beatiful cars.
However, the downside to this book is the faulty information this book contains for those that do more than just look at the pictures and captions. The author did very poor research on the changes through the years, especially in the 4th gen era, and in several cases, incorrectly identifies the year of a pictured model. Also, the book contains several glaring typographical and grammarical errors. It's a shame more attention was not given to the text, as everything else is well produced.

I bought this as a christmas present for my husband even after reading the other reviews. I looked at it myself, it does have good pictures but that's about it my book had 2 chapter sixes and I think some of chapter 5 printed in chapter 6 it is poorly put together not sure if the pictures are worth $15.00 but my husband seems to think so, I'm happy.

Pictures: *****
Information: ** a bit vague for the year to year comparisons for my tates.

I would probably not pay more than $10 for the book in Good condition, but I would recommend it for some light reading and the nice pictures.

The lack of accuracy mentioned above must be taken into account for serious enthusiests however.

John

A person very close to me is the proud owner of a '79 Trans Am (cherry condition) so I bought this book for him for his birthday. He was stunned!! The photo's are incredible and the detail is amazing.