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A like-new 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am that that has been driven conscionable 37 miles was sold astatine the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction for $220,000.
The car had been stored successful a Michigan workplace gathering and was covered successful particulate erstwhile it was precocious purchased by a car restoration company.
Restore A Muscle Car selling manager Tom Hegland told Fox News Digital that it was 1 of 4 identical Trans Ams that were purchased by a household arsenic investments, and this 1 could beryllium the lowest-mileage illustration from the exemplary twelvemonth left.
RARE 1970 PONTIAC GTO JUDGE MUSCLE CAR SOLD FOR RECORD $1.1 MILLION
The car had been stored successful a workplace gathering for decades. (Restore A Muscle Car)
It is simply a well-equipped hardtop with a 6.6-liter V8 engine, automatic transmission, powerfulness everything and the iconic Screaming Chicken decal connected the hood.
The 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is powered by a 6.6-liter V8. (Restore A Muscle Car)
The achromatic coupe hardly needed immoderate enactment to get running, conscionable caller fluids, a substance strategy flush and a battery.
Hegland did not accidental however overmuch his store paid for it, but the car outgo conscionable $8,300.45 erstwhile it was new, the archetypal paperwork says.
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While a akin conveyance successful concours information should beryllium worthy astir $70,000, according to Hagerty, that valuation does not instrumentality into relationship 1 that has hardly been driven.
The car had conscionable 37 miles connected the odometer erstwhile it crossed the artifact astatine the auction. (Restore A Muscle Car)
The folks bidding connected it astatine the auction did, however, and it ended up selling for $220,000.
It lone needed caller fluids and a artillery to get running. (Restore A Muscle Car)
That is astir treble the $118,250 that was paid astatine a Mecum Auctions lawsuit past January for a bluish 1979 Firebird Trans Am with 38 miles connected the odometer, marking a important appreciation for the exemplary implicit the past year.
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It mightiness beryllium clip to cheque your barn for immoderate "chickens" you near successful there.
Gary Gastelu is Fox News Digital's automotive editor.
