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Originally Posted by LS1Hawk
Chevy might have outsold Pontiac, but without cars like the the '74 T/A 455 SDs the muscle car era would have died completely.
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The muscle car era died that year anyway. I love the SD cars and would love to own one, but Pontiac bookended the muscle car era over 10 years. Started it and ended it in my opinion. '75 was probably the worst year ever for the F bodies, performance wise.
As for sales numbers, in the Firebird's best year it was still outsold by the Camaro by over 2 to 1. And the engine that was designed for the Camaro became one of the most (if not the most) popular engines of all time. I would argue that the sales numbers were because (with the exception of the first gen) the Camaro was always the more socially acceptable version of the F-body. Like it or not the Firebird (especially the Trans-AM) was more in-your-face and had love-it-or-hate-it styling.