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Originally Posted by Alvin
Reminds me of a magazine article back in the day regarding GTO Judges. I have changed it to 1979 Y-84s.
Personally, even though we own a real “Bandit” Y-84, I am tired of seeing every TA turned into a Black TA and then labeled as a REAL BANDIT CAR! For Sale, at shows, ad nausea. Most are too obvious as being less than any “Bandit Car”.
Part of this is what makes riding around in our Martinique Blue 1978 W72 4-spd WS6 even more fun. Always get thumbs up & positive recognition from the general public.
Familiar with your white TA at DAPA, having viewed it in person and it IS A VERY NICE CAR!
Correct me if I am wrong; As I recall, it is an original owner 403/Auto equipped 1979 TA, yes?
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Yes it is an original numbers matching 403 car with every option except rear window defogger. It was special ordered with every option, but the build kept getting delayed because first one or the other option was temporarily on backorder......Pontiac was overwhelmed with orders for 79 Trans Ams and they were constantly running out of parts for them on the assembly lines. This car was built in February 1979 at the same time the
tenth anniversarys were being built and they were holding back all the rear window defogger back windows for the TATA cars which had to have them installed. The original owner told them to build the car without the defogger. When the car came in at the dealer
it was an absolute mess. All told it had about 25 glaring mechanical and cosmetic issues
when it was delivered and the dealer wound up repainting most of the car when it was 6 weeks old. I used to service this car at my car repair shop when it was a brand new car,
and the original owner and myself did a frame off resto on it in the early nineties, after
the purchase of about 12,000 dollars worth of nos GM parts from the dealer. It has only been driven about 10,000 miles in the last twenty years and currently has 48,000 miles
on it. The body has never had a speck of rust on it anywhere nor has it ever had so much as a door ding in it since it was new. I purchased the car for my wife in 2000 when she decided she wanted an old car to have fun with. Watch for a feature on this car in Hemmings Muscle Machines in the near future......they did a shoot
on the car last fall and it should see print in the near future.