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Old 11-29-2022, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by rbrtmchl View Post
A sales brochure from 1974 says:

FIREBIRD SERIES FACTS AND FIGURES
MODELS
Hardtop Coupe, offered under four names: Firebird, Firebird Esprit, Formula Firebird and Firebird Trans Am.
That's always how I understood it formally. We do get used to talking in slang and abbreviations casually.

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