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VIDEO AT LINK....................... Good luck finding a car that's more 1970s than this. This 1978 Macho Trans Am has had its engine modified since being sold by Mecham Pontiac. (Vehicle Selling Solutions) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A 1978 Pontiac "Macho" Trans Am has been listed for sale on Ebay in Bismarck, North Dakota, but the story of the rare muscle car starts much farther south. The car was born at the Mecham Pontiac dealership in Glendale, Arizonza, where brothers Dennis and Kyle Mecham decided to do something about the Trans Am 6.6-liter V8's malaise era power, which maxed out at just 200 hp....

The last “Bandit” Trans Am owned by Burt Reynolds was sold at a Julien’s Auctions event featuring the late star’s memorabilia for $317,500 on Sunday. The 1979 Pontiac wasn’t actually used in “Smokey and the Bandit,” but was a tribute car built for Reynolds by Bandit Movie Cars in Florida that he drove in public events. Reynolds owned several replicas over the years as the dozen or so vehicles that appeared on screen were all damaged during the making of the movie and discarded afterward. The most authentic original is a car that Universal Pictures bought at the time to...

How did Kevin and his business partner (and cousin) Don Emery score this very special Trans Am? It all started with an ad that is featured in every Ames catalog and on its website: "Wanted: Low Mileage Low Production Cars." One day Kevin received a call from a Don Larsen of Victorville, California. Don mentioned that he had a car that Ames might be interested in and said it was possibly the first production 1969 Trans Am ever built. "Don was thinking retirement and figured it was time to sell the TA," says Kevin. That's a pretty bold claim to...

Vice President Joe Biden’s net worth has been estimated to be as low as a quarter-million dollars — chump change by the standards of Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney — but surely that’s enough money in the bank to pick up a decent Trans Am, right? According to these guys, no. They want you to buy a Poncho for the Veep, and so far they’re raised about $800 of the $25,000 they think it will take. Why? Well, here’s their case: Joe Biden has calmly and quietly been an incredible Vice President. He was one of the first politicians to...

NOONDAY - Three people with ties to a white supremacist group were taken into custody Monday after they allegedly robbed and beat a man with a baseball bat.Authorities responding to the reported beating were given consent by the suspects to enter their mobile home off Lakeway Harbor Drive.Once inside the home, which was decorated with Nazi SS insignias and mementos, lawmen located not only the bloodied bat, but a stash of loaded weapons, ammunition, bags of drugs and a pit bull with no ears.The exterior was outfitted with makeshift surveillance cameras, capturing footage for display on a large living...

Ah,those manly French ! A French policeman faces trial in police court for driving under the influence, (and violation of fashion codes ?) after he was stopped -at the wheel of his car,drunk,and wearing only a pair of fishnet tights. The man admitted to being a part-time prostitute,after his fellow officers pulled him over,following a chase through the Bois de Boulogne-a wooded area on the outskirts of Paris,much favored by transsexual prostitutes.The embarrassed officer said he needed the extra income. (Clearly his wardrobe was not au courant.)