Firebird

by Michael Lamm

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932128017
• ISBN13: 9780932128010
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: HP Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Firebird book is great

Great book if you like how a car goes from drawing board to production. I love the pictures of different design proposals and how the designers refined the cars look. If every carbook had studio shots in it, I would buy them all!

An excellent book for firebird fans

This is a good book about the 1st and 2nd generation firebirds. Lots of photos and insight about the cars origins and development. Also has information about the pontiac banshee concept car. This book should be in the libary of an firebird fan.

Exactly!

I echo the same sentiments Casey from WI. does. This is a must have for any enthusiast of the Firebird/Trans Am. There are even lesser known facts in this book than any other. Do you remember the days of the Pontiac Trans Am corrals? The motorhome? The cars? Good Stuff! Remember the 303 racing engine? It's all in here.

An excellent source for Firebird enthusiasts.

This book is, simply stated, a must have for the serious Firebird enthusiast. It covers the history and development of the first and second generation F-body Firebird, including production numbers and data for base, Esprit, Formula and Trans Am models. Year-by-year changes are chronicled in the text, and several sidebars are included for discussing topics related to the Firebird's development (i.e., the XP 833 prototype, Fire Am's, Mecham Macho T-As, etc.) in every chapter. The chapters' (1-7) titles are: The Firebird's Ancestry Hatching the First Generation The First Generation, Year by Year Developing the Second Generation Second-Generation Firebirds Firebirds on the Track The Trans Am The book covers models up to '81, and provides many "inside" details of the Firebird's development from the engineers and designers who developed/created the Firebird, including John DeLorean, Bill Collins, Herb Adams, Bill Porter, John Schinella ("Mr. Trans Am"), John Folden, etc. I highly recommend this book to any Pontiac, and especially Firebird, fan. It's that good.