Auto Trader Classics Find: A Historic 1970 Pontiac Firebird Road Racer, The BFG Tire BirdBy Brian Lohnes Posted 06/23/10

It's OK, you can stop looking. We've found the coolest 1970 Pontiac Firebird in the world. This restored racer has some interesting history under its belt, like being the first production car to win an SCCA race on radial tires. It competed at Daytona, Sebring, and several Trans Am races during the 1972 season. Because the car and team were based in Canada, the team was allowed to run a Chevy engine, because Canadian Pontiacs shipped with Chevy mills. 

Even neater than that, the car was constructed by Jerry Titus' TG Racing team. It was the third of three car built with the intention of competing in the 1970 Trans Am season. BF Goodrich became the primary sponsor of the car and it became known as the "BFG Tire Bird".  

According to the seller's ad, after the 1971 Daytona 24 hours, the car was converted into a Camaro and lived the rest of its racing days as a Chevrolet. Obviously the car has been restored to appear as it did prior to the change over. 

The sales price is a stratospheric $550,000. As much as we love the car and think it runs the cool meter off the charts, half a million is steep money. Sure it was the first radial tire car to win an SCCA race, and being a footnote to history is something cool, but half-a-million cool?

Being able to fire it up and take it out at historic races would probably make all that buyer's remorse float away like exhaust out of the side pipes.