[raw muscle cars]

This guy must not mind.....

The advice of the editor was to restore the T/A and keep it. HRM later reported that the Trans Am showed up at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals and "stole the show."

In December 1991, it was purchased by Dick Bridges from a private collector in North Carolina. "The T/A was complete, drivable, and in presentable condition, but it was no show car," Dick said. Scott Tiemann performed a concours restoration on the T/A that now features a correct engine right down to the date codes. It was completed by January of 1994 and competed at the Detroit Autorama.

Dick loaned the T/A for display at Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum until he sold it in early 2001 to a car dealer in Connecticut. It was bought soon thereafter by collector Rick Mahoney of Pennsylvania, and Milton purchased it in 2003.