Here's a 1987-1990 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am GTA in Flame Red Metallic.
1988 had seen a mild styling refresh for the 3rd Gen Firebirds, the most notable part of which was that the aero effects became better blended with the car rather than an add-on. Pontiac hadn't yet fully succumbed to the scoops-and-ribbed-cladding virus, so the cars were busier-looking than the sleek original '83-'84 T/A's, but nothing like the swollen grotesqueries that would follow in the Nineties.
The new-for-'87 Trans Am GTA came standard with the WS6 suspension package and the 215-horse L98 Tuned-Port Injection 350cid V-8, which was only available with an automatic transmission. (You could get a 205 horsepower TPI 305 and a five-speed as a three hundred dollar credit delete.)
Unfortunately the GTA was also larded up with every luxo option in the GM catalog and it needed every one of those ponies...and still got sand kicked in its face by 5.0L Mustang LX's and kids in strippo Firebird Formulas with 5.0 TPI mills and manual transmissions.
Sorry for the potato-quality photo, but I drive by this car frequently and I've been meaning to get a pic of it for yoinks and yesterday was the day. The only problem is that I had the Nikon 1 V2 & 1 Nikkor 18.5mm f/1.8, which has the equivalent to a 50mm field of view and I was snapping the pic out the rolled-down window of my Mustang, so the photo has the bejeezus cropped out of it.
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