The day will come when everyone who wanted a 1970s Firebird Trans Am will have one. In the meanwhile, they continue to come to market, and if you need one in your garage, something like this 1979 Tenth Anniversary model would be the ticket. It’s available here on craigslist for $36,900. You’ll retrieve it from New Lenox, IL. Thanks for the tip on this one, Pat L!

Hard to believe that asking price when you remember these simply as used cars, but for those in the market, the $10-or-$20-thousand threshold has been breached many times by now, and on the insane high end, one 1979 T/A traded nearly at $200K, but it was basically a brand new car with only a handful of miles on the odometer. Value guides put the car for sale here, with a low-ish 38,500 miles, somewhere near the asking price.

So what do you get for your cash? A very smart color combination of silver and charcoal, the familiar bird emblazoned on the scoop-equipped hood, but wait—this one is not called a “screaming chicken,” but rather a “super bird” because the tips of its wings extend onto the tops of the front fenders. The Anniversary models also have a new cast-aluminum turbo wheel in 15×8” size and, on the inside, red accent lighting. The top engine in the 10th Anniversary models was a 400-CID mill, but this car can’t have that—those came only with Borg-Warner four-speed sticks. This one, thus, has the 6.6-liter Oldsmobile 403 with a Turbo Hydra-Matic tranny. This engine, while reliable enough, is not known for taking well to being hopped up, but by this point, when you have a certifiable classic that has lived for more than forty years with under 1,000 miles of use per year, if you want something scary fast, you need to leave this one for someone else and go find a less-rare car to thrash.

On this car, the under hood area looks just slightly used but would be presentable at a show with minimal effort to upgrade the detailing. The ad says that the doors don’t sag and the panel gaps are good, but it makes no specific claims as to the paint condition or whether it has been redone. The car is in the general area of Chicago, which on the face of it would suggest salt and rust. But this T/A is one that has been carefully guarded. I’d bet that if the original owner bought it in January, he had it trailered to his heated garage, only to sit and admire it until well after old man winter had departed for the year. If you decide to add it to your collection, I’d just be sure to get the owner’s answer to the question whether this one is preserved, which it looks like, or had been restored, which might be the case. That would slightly ding the value, but it wouldn’t take away from the pride and fun of owning this Anniversary ‘Bird.