That's probably the most beautiful car I've ever seen.  I've watched the intro about 5 times lol.  I sent the pic of it doing a powerslide to my best buddy and he was speechless.  It's got that resto-mod, retro-modern feel to it.  I'm not completely set on the interior but I'm sure seeing it in the flesh would shut me up.  I own a 1980 turbo T/A which is sort of a bitter sweet edition of the T/A.  Sort of frowned upon but unique at the same time.  I love the thing.  I'm just a blue collar joe with little cash that loves his T/A.  Same goes for my buddy with his 76 bird.  No real complaints here but, are more "burt reynolds edition" trans am parts going to become available so we can bolt them on to our own rides?  In any case it's nice to see you guys doing this, keep it up and change it up.  I think the Elanor edition GT500 started a little trend that I hope continues.  With all the cookie cutter cars out there, wouldn't it be nice if GM took the BRE Trans Am and made it a production car?  We can always dream eh. 

Not to sound like a pest or anything but that fellow who mentioned he ordered a catalog 3 times and never got one isn't alone.  I didn't order 3 but I order one back in the winter of '06 and never saw it in the mail.  I just kinda shrugged it off.  I just ordered some parts over the phone and it went smoothly so I was satisfied but I thought I might bring it up.  Anyway, awesome car! Take care.

Matt

Keith,

I think you guys have totally hit this one out of the park.  You've absolutely captured the essence of the car, yet completely modernized it.

Some questions:

First, from the pics I saw of that airbox, I'm uming the airbox is functional, but, is the flap?  I always though one of the coolest elements of the experience of driving an early T/A was watching that vacuum-operated flap open and close as you modulated the throttle.  If it's not functional on the BRE, I really think you should consider making it so.  I've also thought it would be cool to mount a shift light inside the shaker.  It would be in the perfect spot to see when you need it, and it would be completely out of sight when you didn't need it.  Just a thought.

Second, does it have the chrome exhaust tips with the dual outlets like the original?  I think that's an important part of the patina, and would look really cool done in larger tubin.

Third, It looks like the shifter sits much further back than the original.  Are you using an automatic console?  It looks much better with the shifter set back where you have it.

And finally, the wheels.  WOW.  They are just amazing.  Is that a cast or a CNC center?  I saw where you're making them yourselves.  I had no idea you guys had that capability.  Here's a bug I'd like to put in your ear.  is there any chance you guys would consider doing an 18" version of the similar "honeycomb" wheel they did for Grand Nationals and Third Generation Firebirds?

Thanks for the compliments on the car. To answer a few of the questions:

The shakers on the first two prototypes have been open with a honeycomb mesh screen. We are in the process of developing a flapper door for the shakers, at least for the carbureted cars, and should be available on production BRE cars. Nice thought about the shift light, too.

The exhaust tips are currently brushed stainless steel patterned after the originals in 2.5" and 3" versions. A polished stainless version will probably be an option at some point.

The shifter is a custom unit positioned in such a way that we could use automatic consoles in all the cars. Moving the shifter closer to the driver also allowed us to use a straight lever instead of a longer curved OEM-type piece.

The wheels have CNC machined centers. We don't actually do the machine work here, but have it done locally. As for building the mesh-type wheel, we never say never, but designing and developing the programs and buying the billets is expensive. It will all depend upon demand, of course. If we get lots of requests, certainly we would consider it. We are building modern-sized versions of the original Honeycomb wheel used on many Pontiacs in the early to mid-70s. A lot of what we may try in the future will be determined by how successful the Snowflake and original Honeycombs are.

Thanks again for the input.

Keith Maney
YearOne

Gotta love this car, gotta have a ton of love for someone that takes a ton of time, a ton of cash and brings back a REAL Pontiac Muscle car.  The only sad part of this is that you're not going to make thousands of them to get the price down to where the normal person can purchase one.  I can't even imagine a 3K a month car payment, but your buyers will just pay cash.  But as usual I will dream about it.  Maybe I will get a chance to see one in person some day.

Heck I don't even see many original 77's so seeing a BRE will quite an event.

Hey if you think you can sell one for 50K email me so I can snag it.... wishful thinking for sure.

I freakin love the idea, I'm gonna start saving my money up cause I'm sure it'll be a lot. Anybody know roughly how much these will cost yet?