![]() The engine was shot, but the car still belonged to the original owner who took exceptional care of it over the years. My initial search turned up a bunch of typically beat rides in the 1,800- to 3,000-dollar range until I came across this particular car. It was better to spend some money on something that was really nice to begin with. Also, I looked at a couple of rat-traps before coming to the conclusion that I didn’t want to restore a whole car. I’ve had plenty T-top cars, and while none of them leaked, I’ve found that I never really used them and the chassis’ always twisted a lot even with subframe connectors. “Once I decided to buy another one, my main requirement was that it was a hard top. On a meager automotive magazine writer budget, we only had about 2,500 dollars to play with initially, which meant we could either buy a running/driving Formula with beat up body panels and missing interior pieces or a clean bodied, mint interior project with some engine issues. For us-well, Steve-to find a nice project worthy of owning, we had to be willing to make some sacrifices. However, like anything of the era, a modern Formula (you know, one that still runs and drives) is not without its fair share of issues. In a world filled with original Nintendos, a hip Michael Jackson, and the crew from Lethal Weapon, 225 hp was about all you could ask for and for one young Steve Baur, who was 16 at the time, it was a beauty of a car that he could only dream of pulling up to the school yard in. Re-introduced in ’87, the Formula 350 was the top of the line Firebird, packing a 5.7-liter L98 engine under the hood, capable of producing-wait for it-upwards of 225 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque. Whether its worn-out brake pads, a faulty starter, or just a leaking seal, we have the right replacements in our selection of 1987 Pontiac Firebird parts. Sure, there was a major stock market crash in there too (sound familiar?), but ’87 also brought us some of the coolest GM pony cars in a while, including the Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 and its bigger brother, the Trans Am GTA. Gas, for those of us who were driving at that time (your author was four), was just 89 cents a gallon and an entire pound of bacon cost less than two bucks. Flying Shark (1987)(Firebird Software)Developed byToaplan Co., Ltd.Released1987Also ForAmiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns, NES. ![]() Robocop, Lethal Weapon, and Dirty Dancing were hits in the theater, Michael Jackson’s Bad album was tearing up the charts, and children were banging away at their controllers playing games like Contra, Street Fighter, and Mega Man. ![]() It’s with great nostalgia that we look back at the year 1987.
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