"Bandit" (2bandit) 08/18/2013 at 20:43 • Filed to: tr7

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In all seriousness, the Trans Am GTA Notchback is pretty close to a TR7

Wave Motion Gun > Bandit 08/18/2013 at 20:59

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As the original marketing brochures said, the notchback is for the southern enthusiast. I never understood what that meant.

Sparf > Bandit 08/19/2013 at 04:39

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Strangely enough I much prefer the regular glass hatchback. It might have something to do with what I've heard about the quality issues it had:

As attractive as the notchback was, GTA owners were constantly plagued with structural and cosmetic issues with the design. The fiberglass would blister, causing surface bubbles resembling a bad case of acne. The Pontiac repair solutions were simply to sand the notchback down and repaint it, but the problem would always return, and GTA owners could expect multiple trips in order to achieve a final repair of the problem, or to have a new notchback installed. The notchback was intended to carry over and be standard-issue on the 1989 20th Anniversary GTA, but the plan never materialized; the aforementioned quality control issues apparently caused GM not to carry it over to the next year.

(taken from Wikipedia , obviously)

Stuff like that is why I dislike fiberglass on cars, it's got next to no longevity at all.