Perhaps a better candidate for underrated muscle car might be Buick’s GSX 455 Stage 1, a sheet metal asteroid which laid down a stunning 13. It used the right body and chassis, but it would have lost a stoplight drag race to virtually anything else of note, including absolute yachts from Pontiac’s own lineup like the Bonneville and Catalina.
The Firebird really came into its own during this second generation and saw numerous special editions that became icons all. This gen of Firebird ditched the convertible option and was only offered as a coupe. The first-generation Pontiac Firebird was somewhat of a consolation prize for the. So is the Sprint even a muscle car? Buyers didn’t seem to think so. First-Generation Pontiac Firebird 19671969. Those numbers barely compete with the faux “muscle cars” from the mid-’70s. It completed the quarter-mile in 17.5 seconds.
As stated before, even with all of the modifications to the engine the Sprint only cranked out 215 horsepower. The brutal truth, however, is that the Sprint could not perform on the usual muscle car metrics.
