Car of the Week: 1969 Pontiac Firebird convertible

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One of the best things about the pony cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s was that they could be so many things to so many different types of customers.

Depending on the engine and equipment they were ordered with, the Mustangs, Camaros, Chargers, Barracudas and similar ilk could be everything from muscle monsters, to cool pseudo-sports cars, to tame family transportation. They may not have been great any one thing, but millions of the mid-size pony cars from the era ably served multiple roles will riding a giant wave of popularity in American showrooms.

Take Dan and Joyce Staehle’s 1969 Pontiac Firebird convertible, for example. Joyce wasn’t too crazy about driving Dan’s hairy 1966 GTO, or his sweet 1954 Lincoln Capri, so Dan started looking for something more suitable. “The Lincoln was just too big for her. She didn’t like driving it,” says Dan, a resident of Brownsville, Wis. “And the GTO, well, it’s a GTO! She wasn’t going to drive that.”

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oy they arnt have as pretty with the top off.....and that light green is not helping none

a 68 400 tripple green hood tach console 4spd was almost my first car
 
Pop Quiz, show me a convertible that looks better with the roof up (~9 months of the year for most of us) than it's counterpart coupe or hardtop. I'd even say that up to 50% of them look worse with the top down.
 
TheIronSausage said:
Pop Quiz, show me a convertible that looks better with the roof up (~9 months of the year for most of us) than it's counterpart coupe or hardtop. I'd even say that up to 50% of them look worse with the top down.
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any ford retracta top, vw bugs..cause down that top is UGLY, alfa spider..cause its actualy got slick hardtop. the kids with the miata "fastback" tops

shall i keep going?
 
I meant between the convertible car, and the regular production car.. I can't think of any convertible that looks better with the top up than a regular production 2 door coupe, sedan, or hardtop. Up to 50% of the convertibles still look worse than the regular car with the top down.. Looking at you, Beetle, 911 targa, Dakota Sport, E bodies, A body Barracudas, (I'll catch some flak for those two) etc. I think the only cars that look decent with the tops down are old 4x4s, Sports cars, and Land yachts
 
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pretty much any "hardtop" vert falls into that as most of the removeable hardtops were sexier than the original coupe of the car...retracta top ford look WRONG with the top down tho..the ass ends up way way way too long
 
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