1988 Pontiac Trans Am GTA Notchback

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Trans
• Am
• Pontiac
• GTA
• TPI
• TPI350
• Goodyear
• Notchback
• Notch

[FSXPilot246]

thanks alot guys... I cant wait until spring to drive it again...

[koioo2]

@FSXPilot246 so do you stil have it its awsome baeutyful piece of history

mi dream black golden.

[FSXPilot246]

@koioo2 Yes, I still have it! However, It is not a notchback anymore. The notch back fiberglass started to crack, get ripples, made the paint get fisheyes and all kinds of nasty stuff. It looked like shit, so I put a regular glass hatch on it, with a fiberglass wrap around spoiler. I made sure it looked factory when it was done, you cant even tell the hatch was changed. I like the way the car looks with the glass hatch anyways, I always the the notch looked funny from the side.

[firechicken76]

some actually came from the factory with those hatches.

[87TAGTABANDIT]

wow it's so smooth looking

[cwmnedmond]

You should have never took the Notch off dude that was a bad mistake, these cars are sought after like no other and you Ruined it. I would switch it back If I were you and never tell anyone what a bad decision I made.

[JAMZ87SS]

So you removed the only thing that mad ethe car worth anything, and that is a good thing?  You took it from one of 624 made to one of countless clones...

[camaroman101]

love notchback firebirds

[borntobewildpascal]

You Have a Fucking Nice Car Man !!! Really .... 

[thebeholder19]

@asdfghjkl10531 There is literally no fucking difference...

[HRVAT1975]

@scottyas209

What he said - :-)  Agreed 100%

[3rd4thgenFbody]

@FSXPilot246 your right from a side view it reminds me of a fiero

[aquatikoon]

Nice spaceship.

[scottyas209]

@SR3R - That transmission explanation is wrong.... First, that 350 ISN'T an LT1, it's an L98... The F-Body didn't get the LT until 93 (fourth gen). Second, trans cost wasn't the issue, in 93 on, you DID get the T-56 "corvette trans" as an option, and the price difference wasn't dramatic. Second, the L98 didn't have more torque than a regular T-5 could handle. It had to do with the fact that the vette was slow back then, also very poorly built, they didn't want the 'maro beating it out.

[SR3R]

I just bought an 87' GTA and @ cooldude79790 it was because they would have had to stuck the corvette manual transmission in it and would have been a more expensive car. So people would look at the GTA price and Corvette price and would be like.. well why get a GTA when I can get a Vette?

The 350 TPI LT1 was throwing major amounts of torque, and the regular manual transmissions wouldnt be able to handle that.