[LateNightCable]

I've seen a photo of a TransAm with European plates, Autobahn country I believe. It's not like the car is running around with a flaming chicken on it's hood anymore. I know a guy who thinks the Firebird was too subtle. He thinks all body color decals should have been chrome - he also has bad taste in auto accessories from what I can tell.

You could look at the F-Bird and think " redneck hillbilly appeal ", but then anyone with prejudice on their mind could say that about any American V8 car with a perfomance tilt. The car was never supposed to be subtle, or travel under the radar screen, it looks like a car that could snort, and sounded like it too. It's image was kind of hairy chested and macho, and in it's final iteration, appeared, dare I say, almost Italianate in it's swarthy bravado.

Understated certainly has it's place, but then that place doesn't tend to have " Fire " in it's name.