Trans Am Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Style
Trans Am Worldwide brings the golden gifts to AutoMobility L.A. with a pair of limited-edition tributes to the Trans Am.
Late fall in Los Angeles brings a lot of things to the table. A little bit of hockey and basketball to fill our nights. Some football to fill our weekends. Final preparations for the most brutal of shopping holidays. And of course, the annual extravaganza at the Los Angeles Convention Center that is the Los Angeles Auto Show. The last major car show in the United States of the year always has a surprise or two to close out the year, and we’re always ready to see what shows up.
We were certainly ready to check out this pair of tributes to one of the greatest Pontiacs to ever leave the assembly line, the Trans Am, a gold-and-white duo parked together at AutoMobility L.A.
Back in 2011, Trans Am Worldwide stepped up to fill the void left behind by both the fourth-gen Trans Am — last built in 2002 — and Pontiac itself by transforming the fifth-gen Camaro into the Trans Am that should have been. Since then, they’ve delivered all sorts of wonderful tributes to the high-performance pony car.
In May of 2017, the Florida builder dropped its most hardcore offering upon the quarter-mile: the Super Duty 455. Just 50 examples were ever be made, each packing a 7.4-liter V8 with a 2.3-liter Magnuson supercharger bolted on top.
The high-performance combo delivered an astounding 1,000 firebirds to the rear wheels, guaranteeing cars like this white-and-blue Trans Am will only ever be seen leaving a trail of thick white smoke and spent rubber behind.
More rare than the Super Duty 455 is the company’s 50th Anniversary Edition Trans Am.
Draped in gold with black stripes, a total of 16 examples (eight coupes, eight convertibles) will be available, each one starting at a price of $123,000.
For that, you get a kickass ride with anywhere from 600 to 800 horses on tap, a manual or automatic transmission to move them about, and all of the style one expects from Trans Am Worldwide.
Seeing this pair of Trans Ams at the L.A. Auto Show makes us pine for what could have been if things had worked out back in the 2000s.
Then again, it’s for the best those dreams remain where they are, especially when the reality is all that much more dazzling.
Photos for 6SpeedOnline by Derin Richardson
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