1978 Pontiac Firebird Sky Bird
The 1978 Firebird Sky Birds were essentially direct copies of the
show car, but the Blue Bird Body Company of Georgia refused to allow use
of the original name. The number of Sky Birds isn't available, but the
package has some extra appeal to modern Firebird collectors and seem to
be getting scarce.
With no reason to mess with success, the 1978 Firebird and Trans Am
basically carried over from the '77 except that there were a lot more
"special editions" like a gold Trans Am with brown accents and blue "Sky
Bird" and red "Red Bird" Firebirds. America snatched up 93,341 Trans
Ams and 93,944 other Firebirds for an astounding total of 187,285 - the
best sales year ever.
The Sky bird package contained many unique featurs such as:
- Two-tone blue finish, medium blue upper - dark blue lower
- Blue trimmed snowflake wheels
- Medium blue grille liners
- Blue-accendted taillights bezels
- Sky Bird sail panel decals
- Bodyside tape stripes, in graduating tones of blue
- Blue Custom interior
- Blue Formula steering wheels
- Blue Custom seat belts
(source: pontiacpower)
This featured 1978 Sky Bird is essentaily the same as the pervious year
but with the updated interior for 1978. This car was found on Ebay a few
months ago. It sold for over $12,500. The special edition Firebird had
only 4,000 actual miles and had never been titled.
The Sky bird package contained many unique featurs such as:
- Two-tone blue finish, medium blue upper - dark blue lower
- Blue trimmed snowflake wheels
- Medium blue grille liners
- Blue-accendted taillights bezels
- Sky Bird sail panel decals
- Bodyside tape stripes, in graduating tones of blue
- Blue Custom interior
- Blue Formula steering wheels
- Blue Custom seat belts
(source: pontiacpower)
The car was still on the original factory M.S.O. (Manufacturer's
Statement of Origin). Dingman-Hatch Pontiac in Ocala Florida sold this
car on January 13th 1978 to Polly Jane Burris who kept the car for 21
years. Polly and her husband owned Cardinal Motors in Ocala and
therefore simply reassigned the M.S.O. and never titled or registered
the car, on the rare occasion when the car was driven they did so on
their dealer plate.
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