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Gregg Hamilton’s day job is keeping Ken Block’s cars running, and it shows in this twin-turbo, LS-swapped Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Built with World Rally-honed suspension knowledge and a 5.3-liter LS pushed through twin Garrett turbos, it is a Firebird he claims can run with a Z06 Corvette – and it is not even the only wild Firebird he has built.
Gregg Hamilton flew to Alabama to buy this Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sight-unseen off eBay, then spent years reshaping it using tricks learned building World Rally Championship cars for Toyota Team Europe and Ken Block’s team. The result is a widened, re-engineered coupe he says is “about as quick as a Z06 Corvette” — and a tribute to the Smokey and the Bandit obsession that brought him to America in the first place. Watch to see what happens when a rally engineer builds his dream car instead of just buying one.