We found 6 1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am listings across ClassicCars.com, eBay Motors, and independent dealers — here’s what’s available right now and what the market looks like.
The 1969 Firebird Trans Am is the car that started it all for Pontiac, and it is also one of the hardest first-year muscle cars to actually find for sale. Only 697 were built that first model year, and just eight were convertibles, so the population of genuine, numbers-matching examples still on the road is small and shrinking every year as more of them get locked into permanent collections. That scarcity shows up clearly in what turned up this month: alongside the real cars, we found a convertible tribute built on a modern LS2 drivetrain and openly marketed as “car number nine,” plus a couple of well-built Trans Am clones wearing the stripes and spoiler without the factory paperwork to back them up. That split between documented originals and honest tributes is exactly what buying a ’69 Trans Am looks like in 2026, and it is worth understanding before you fall in love with a set of Tyrol Blue stripes. Scroll down and you will see the full range, from a sub-$50,000 restomod to a PHS-documented survivor pushing $160,000.
This month’s search turned up six listings worth your attention, spanning Florida, Montana, Nebraska, Indiana, Ontario, and Tennessee, with asking prices running from $47,900 for a driver-quality tribute up to $159,900 for a one-family-owned, numbers-matching Ram Air III four-speed. It is a thin market by listing count — this is a genuinely rare car, and dealers who have a real one do not let it sit unsold for long — but the spread is wide enough to matter. The standout is a Lincoln, Nebraska car that has stayed in the same family since new, still wearing its rare white interior and PHS paperwork; the most honest listing is a Knoxville convertible clone that never pretends to be anything but a well-built driver. Both are worth a look for very different reasons.
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Watch: Gateway Classic Cars Walks Through a Ram Air III Trans Am
Gateway Classic Cars runs showrooms across the country and has moved more first-year Trans Ams through its doors than almost any other dealer network, which makes their walkthrough content a good baseline for what a properly presented ’69 should look like. This particular video covers a Cameo White Ram Air III car finished in the correct twin Tyrol Blue stripes, and it is useful less for the sales pitch and more for seeing the factory details up close: the Endura nose, the functional Ram Air scoops, the T3 headlight arrangement, and the F-body cockpit that would carry over into the far more common second-generation cars. If you are cross-shopping a Trans Am against a standard ’69 Firebird, this is a good five minutes to spend before you start reading listings.
Car shown in this video:
- 1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am — Cameo White with Tyrol Blue stripes, Ram Air III 400, automatic transmission
More 1969 Firebird Trans Am Listings Available Now
These six come from ClassicCars.com, eBay Motors, and independent dealer sites, and the mix of genuine and tribute cars below is intentional — we are flagging which is which so you know exactly what you are looking at.
1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am — $159,900
Cameo White, white interior • 34,214 miles • ClassicCars.com (Restore a Muscle Car LLC, Lincoln, NE)
This is the real thing: numbers-matching Ram Air III 400 with the correct four-speed, PHS documented, and owned by the same father-and-son family its entire life until this dealer acquired it. The rare white interior and factory tilt column are the kind of options that get noticed at a national meet, and the 34,000 original miles are unusually low for a car this old. If you want a Trans Am you never have to explain or apologize for, this is the one on this list that clears the bar.
1969 Pontiac Trans Am Convertible Tribute — $138,740
White, white interior • 20,244 miles on the build • ClassicCars.com (Grogan Classics, Watford, Ontario)
Read the description carefully before you get excited about the price: this started life as a standard ’69 Firebird convertible and was transformed into what the seller straightforwardly calls “car number nine,” since only eight genuine factory Trans Am convertibles exist and real ones trade in the seven-figure range. This one runs a 2006 GTO-sourced LS2 and Tremec T56 six-speed rather than a period-correct drivetrain. Honest presentation, but know exactly what you are buying — a well-built modern tribute, not a factory convertible.
1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am — Contact seller for price
Cameo White, Tyrol Blue interior • 92,301 miles • ClassicCars.com (Precious Metal Classic Car Sales, Elkhart, IN)
No listed asking price and a bare-bones description with no build details — that is a real gap in an otherwise period-correct-looking car, so budget for a call to the dealer before you get your hopes up on condition or numbers-matching status. The color combination and mileage are promising on paper, but with this little written detail, treat it as a starting point for a phone conversation rather than a car you can evaluate from the listing alone.
1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Clone — $59,500 OBO
White • ClassicCars.com (Private Seller, Missoula, MT)
Sold openly as a clone, this one runs a 400 cubic inch Pontiac engine upgraded with Fi-Tech fuel injection, along with power steering and Vintage Air — upgrades that make it more livable than a stock ’69 without pretending to be a numbers-matching car. Described as excellent condition by the private seller; at this price point it is worth a pre-purchase inspection to confirm rust repair quality before committing.
1969 Pontiac Trans Am Tribute — $47,900
White with blue stripes, blue interior • 75,640 miles • ClassicCars.com and eBay Motors (SuperSport Classics, Largo, FL)
The lowest price on this list, and it is priced like what it is: a restomod tribute, not a matching-numbers car. It runs a 400 V8 with an automatic transmission, Wilwood disc brakes, a Ford 9-inch rear end, and subframe connectors — a genuinely upgraded driver, just not a period-correct one. This exact car is cross-listed on both ClassicCars.com and eBay Motors at the same price, which is common for dealer inventory and not a sign of anything wrong.
1969 Pontiac Firebird Convertible Trans Am Clone — Call for price
Cameo Ivory with Tyrol Blue tail panel and stripes • Smoky Mountain Traders (Knoxville, TN)
Advertised plainly as a clone, not a real Trans Am convertible — honest labeling that this list appreciates. It carries a built 400 Pontiac V8 with an aftermarket cam, aluminum intake, and Holley carb, backed by a four-speed and a Posi rear end, plus power windows, power top, and Vintage AC. Frame connectors have already been added underneath, which is a good sign someone thought about structural rigidity before selling it.
What the Market Is Telling Us
Pull back to recent auction results and the picture gets clearer than the asking-price listings alone can show. Classic.com’s market benchmark for 1969 Trans Ams currently sits at $155,559, and that number has been trending down. Actual hammer prices over the past year back that up: Mecum sold examples for $220,000, $192,500, and $162,250 across separate 2026 sales, Barrett-Jackson brought $156,200 in January, and a Hemmings online auction closed at $152,000 in May. On the lower end, a Bring a Trailer sale in November 2025 closed at just $86,000, and a Hagerty Marketplace auction hit $194,205 back in February 2025 after 39 bids. That is a genuinely wide band for the same nameplate and model year.
What separates the top and bottom of that range is almost entirely documentation and originality. PHS-verified build sheets, matching numbers on the engine block and drivetrain, and factory-correct options like the WS4 Trans Am package or Ram Air IV upgrade push a car toward the $150,000-plus end. Cars missing paperwork, showing replaced sheet metal, or running non-original drivetrains — like the LS-swapped convertible tribute in this month’s listings — settle into the $50,000 to $140,000 range depending on build quality, even when the workmanship itself is excellent. The auction premium is real too: cars that cross a Mecum or Barrett-Jackson stage tend to bring more than the same car would fetch in a private sale, simply because of the exposure and bidding competition.
For a patient buyer, that spread is an opportunity rather than a problem. A well-documented, numbers-matching example like the Lincoln, Nebraska car is priced well under the recent auction ceiling, which suggests private-sale asking prices haven’t fully caught up to where these cars are actually trading at auction. If you don’t need PHS paperwork and just want the look and sound of a ’69 Trans Am, the tribute and clone builds in the $50,000 to $140,000 range deliver most of the experience for a fraction of the cost — just go in knowing which category you’re buying.
What to Check Before You Buy
The first-generation Firebird’s Endura nose is the single most model-specific thing to inspect closely. That urethane-over-steel front end was a styling first for the ’69 model and it does not age gracefully — forum members on HAMB and Trans Am owner boards consistently report cracking at the mounting points, sagging where the foam backing has degraded, and paint that never quite matches the surrounding sheet metal after a repaint, since Endura requires a flexible-additive paint process that many shops skip. Beyond the nose, check the trunk floor at the rear quarters, the lower front fenders behind the wheelhouse, the floor pan under the carpet near the firewall, and the frame rails just forward of the rear leaf spring mounts — all classic F-body rust points on cars that spent decades in road-salt states before the current restoration wave caught up to them.
Mechanically, the Ram Air III and IV 400 engines are well understood but not maintenance-free. A worn Quadrajet carburetor needle valve will show up as a rough, rich idle and fuel smell at startup; that is a common and inexpensive fix, but a seller who has never touched the carburetor in years of ownership is a signal to budget for a rebuild. The Safe-T-Track differential and the factory exhaust manifolds — prone to hairline cracking after decades of heat cycling — are the other two items owners on Pontiac forums flag most often as sounding fine on a five-minute test drive and then needing real money three weeks after purchase. On any car marketed as Ram Air, confirm the underhood ductwork from the hood scoops to the air cleaner is actually connected; it is a common item to go missing on cars that have changed hands or had engine work done.
Documentation matters more on this specific car than almost any other muscle car on the market, simply because so many ’69 Trans Ams for sale today are clones and tributes built on standard Firebird donors — as three of the six listings above openly are. PHS (Pontiac Historic Services) paperwork is the standard verification, and it will confirm whether the VIN, engine code, and WS4 Trans Am package were factory-original to that specific car. If you are planning to drive and enjoy the car rather than flip it at auction, a well-built, honestly-labeled clone at a fraction of the price is a completely reasonable choice — just don’t pay numbers-matching money for a car that can’t back it up with paper.
Gear to Bring When You Go Look at It
If any of these listings have you thinking seriously, these are the tools worth having before you go inspect a classic in person — or hire someone who has them.
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Which one on this list would you actually buy — and which would you pass on? If you are in the market for a 1969 Firebird Trans Am right now, what is your number for a real one versus a well-built tribute? Share your thoughts in the comments below. And if you know of a listing we missed, share the link — the community finds the best ones.
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