Birmingham, AL
1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400
1970 Firebird Formula 400, all orange, twin scoops, no stripes
The details
- Mileage
- 82,400 mi
- Title
- clean
- VIN
- 226870N100004
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From the seller
The Formula is the one people who know Firebirds buy: the 400 four-barrel and the twin-scoop Ram Air hood, in the first year of the second-generation body. Turbo 400 automatic, which suits the engine. Repainted in its original orange about ten years ago, and it is orange all over - no stripes, no decals. Checked the two places these rust - the lower rear quarters and the trunk floor - both solid. Front end rebuilt in 2022, receipts in the folder. It does about eleven miles to the gallon if you are gentle, and nobody is. Get an insurance quote before you fall for it; this is a Saturday car, not a first car. Photo credit: photo by Sicnag (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. They show a similar car, not this exact one. This is an example listing. Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1970_Pontiac_Firebird_Formula_400_(33274443961).jpg
An independent read
The seller tells you himself this is not a first car, and he's right - a 400 four-barrel with no ABS, no airbags, drum-era brakes and skinny-by-modern-standards tires is a bad place to learn, and a 16-year-old on that insurance policy will be an eye-watering number. As a listing it's more honest than most: it names the rust spots these are known for (lower rear quarters and trunk floor), admits the repaint, gives you a dated front-end rebuild with receipts, and tells you the fuel economy instead of hiding it. What it doesn't do is show you any of that - the one photo is a stock image of a similar car, so you have seen nothing of the actual interior, engine bay, trunk floor or odometer, and 1970 mileage claims on a 55-year-old car mean very little without paperwork. Price-wise, second-gen Formula 400s in good orange paint are genuinely desirable and asking real money isn't crazy, but you're being asked to pay collector-car money on zero photographic evidence. Buy this one for Dad on Saturdays if you love it, and put the kid in something boring with airbags.
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