Ok, let's start off with the basics...... Here is a 1978 Pontiac Trans Am. It is equipped with the L78 Pontiac 400 engine, Turbo 350 automatic transmission and a 2.56 limited slip rear-end and also has the WS6 handling package with the 15x8 inch snowflake rims. It also comes loaded with power windows, power locks, A/C, tilt wheel, cruise control, factory body side moldings and Fisher T-top roof. It came optioned as a black car with gold decals and grey snowflake rims with black deluxe Lombardy interior. It is a numbers matching car with only 68,000 original miles on it. It does still have the factory spare tire, jack, and inflator bottle and Fisher T-top storage bags as well as the original Owner's manual, maintenance schedule, tire info, and warranty information that was in the glovebox. Everything works on the car including the cruise control (photo shown near bottom below). I have the original build sheet for the car and the PHS Documents with reproduction window sticker as well. Those are the basics of the car and what came with the car originally, I purchased the car back in 2000 from Tennessee with 49,000 miles on it and drove it home to Ohio, which by the time I got back here, it had just over 50,000 miles on it. In the first few years of owning the car I did quite a bit of normal maintenance to the car, about everything I could think of. Just to name a few things (and hopefully I name it all) I changed the oil, transmission fluid and gasket, rear-end fluid and gasket, air filter, fuel filter, PCV filter, flushed/cleaned/re-filled radiator, changed front coil springs and shocks, changed rear leaf springs and shocks, changed the brake pads and rotors up front, changed rear brake drums and shoes, all springs and also wheel cylinders, changed the window guides/felts, replaced the belts, changed/replaced the head gaskets, replaced the carb gasket, changed/replaced spark plugs - distributor cap - coil - rotor and spark plug wires, heater core, new 73amp alternator, charcoal filter, rebuilt carb, lubed chassis, changed power steering pump, replaced master cylinder, replaced worn or cracking vacuum lines, replaced the shaker seal. I also removed the original manifolds and put in headers with 2 ½ inch exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers in a true dual exhaust out factory tail splitters.  I think that was about the extent of what I did to the car in the first 2 years of owning it. Since then in the last 16 years, I have replaced the rear leaf springs and shocks again in 2013 (because I didn't like my ride height), had the carb rebuilt about 2007, replaced the battery in 2014, replaced the belts again in 2017, and of course changed the oil every year even though I only have driven it on the average of 1,000 miles a year. I have changed a few small little cosmetic items as well, like the center console lid, door emblems, door cups, inner door handle pulls, and a few other little things….. all stock appearing. The car has always been stored indoor during the winter and I have only been caught in the rain 4 times in 18 years with this car. I do have a "California" Car cover as well. I think that has been about it normal maintenance wise with the car since I have owned it. I am sure I am forgetting something minor, but I think you get the idea that all the fluids have been changed in the last 16,000 miles and everything has been well maintained. Now for the modifications that I have done to the car which are all in the photos below (also keep in mind that just about everything I have changed from original, I have kept the original equipment to go back on the car if someone wanted to ever return it to stock. So I have the original exhaust manifolds and mufflers, original snowflakes, original tail lights, and all that should have been on the car. So, anything that was original that was removed has been saved)…… In 2006 I had the car repainted factory base coat/clear coat Starlight black. I had custom decals made in charcoal/black/silver color combinations (I had actually asked Phoenix Graphix to do this and they did not. This was BEFORE their "Platinum Edition" decal kit came out). So these are customs decals made to Factory specs, just not factory colors. I was going for the whole "Silver Special Edition" look for my car since my car was black and silver on the inside, I wanted it black and silver on the outside. I did have the company make me a second set of decals that come with the car. So if the car ever needs to be repainted, I have all the exact decals like this to go back onto the car if needed. I also changed the snowflake rims and went with the 17x9 snowflakes from Year One (which I custom painted charcoal grey to match the decals on the car) wrapped in 255/50R17 Fuzion ZR1 tires (just a note, I did not have to change the speedometer gear in the transmission because the size of the tire/rim combination of the 17x9 with the 255/50 is less than 3% off of the factory tire/rim size). I have the original snowflakes and center caps in boxes in the basement. I also changed out the tail lights on the car. In 1978, the tail lights had black highlights to them, since I was going with the whole "Black and Silver" theme to the car, I changed out the tail lights to 1977 tail lights which had silver highlights to them (which is the only difference between the two). Again, I have the original tail lights in a box in the basement.  I installed a JVC head unit with DVD/CD player and blue-tooth functionality and USB and AV inputs that runs through the factory speaker up front and through a 400-watt Jensen amplifier in the back to 300-watt Infinity rear speakers and sub-woofer. This is installed in the map pocket of the car and stock factory AM/FM/8-Track unit is still installed in the factory location, so the dash was not cut out. The factory unit was rebuilt and does work if you wanted to run all the wires to it and disconnect the new stereo system. Yes the new stereo does play DVD's, you need to have the parking brake on to do so, but it can play movies in the car. I installed mud-flaps behind the front and rear ties (fronts have the Firebird logo and rears have the "Pontiac" name on them). I also installed a factory power trunk release in the car using all factory equipment and wiring. It is not original to the car, but I did use original equipment and wires when installing it in the factory location of cars that did have them. I have a set of Interpart rear window louvers for the car that are in mint condition that come with the factory key and also the factory instruction manual that came with it. I also have a set of front headlight black outs for the car. I basically have 2 sets of grilles for this car. I have the factory grilles, PLUS I have a whole other set of factory grilles with the mounting brackets installed for the headlight blackouts with the original "key" for taking them on and off. I have also a spare set of blackouts in case your driving and get a rock chip or crack in them. So that way you can either have the headlight blackouts installed or remove them and the grilles and put the factory grilles back on and not have just brackets sticking out of the grilles. I have two sets of floor mats, one just the rubber factory looking floor mats, and also the "Trans Am" carpeted floor mats as well. I have 3 different shaker scoops for the car. One of them I am keeping, but the other 2 go with the car. I have one un-cut shaker scoop with no letters on the scoop (the way it is supposed to be from the factory in 1978 with the L78 Pontiac 400), and I have another opened shaker scoop with "T/A 6.6" on the shaker in the custom colors. The third scoop which has "Hitman" on the scoop does not go with the car, nor does my custom front license plate. I think that about covers everything modified with the car…. Possibly, I could be forgetting something small. Now for the extra "provenance" about the car (besides being seen on the internet by millions of people via the 78ta.com website)….. Back in 2002, Anthony Bourdain called me to use my car in on of his episodes of the network television show "Parts Unknown". It was actually Season 3, Episode 11. So they were shooting here in Cleveland and used my car for one of the shows sequences. You can find this on the Travel Channel's website or even on YouTube. Of course Anthony passed away earlier this year. There was also a documentary made about Roy Halston called "Ultrasuede: In Search Of Halston" (2010) where my car was used as well. I drove my car to New York City for the making of this film. So, not only is my car known via the Internet, it has also been used in TV show's and Film. I think that just about covers everything about the car and it's past history and what has been done to it and with it. This car is in very nice condition and is very solid as shown in the photos below. I do drive this car so there are a few scratches and chips here and there, but still shows very nicely. I rarely go to car shows and would rather drive my car then sit in a parking lot somewhere. But just to show you that it does still show nicely, the one car show that I did enter which was the Piston Power show at the Cleveland IX center in 2017 with over 1,000 cars in attendance, I did win a trophy for "Modified 1973-1978". I wasn't expecting that, but that just goes to show you that the car overall is still very nice despite its small flaws.