Pictures: Berserko Bob

Buying a new car is a costly venture, especially if your intentions are to take a new car and convert it into a genuine race car. On top of the cost of your new, never-to-see-the-street automobile, you’ve got to go through the process of converting and building a race car. This process is as alive and well as it has ever been, and we wish we had the statistics for how many new cars end up driving solely at the race track.

Yet here is one would-be race car that time seems to have forgotten. Bangshift was tipped off to 1987 Firebird Formula with just 13 miles on the odometer and all the original plastic and coverings still intact. It is the Firebird that Time forgot, and it is up for sale.

The story goes that back in ’87 this Firebird Formula was purchased brand new with the intention of converting it into a race car. The buyer opted for the L98 350 V8 engine, an AM-only radio, manual crank windows, and no air conditioning to keep weight down as much as possible. But something happened, and the Firebird sat for the past 25 years, untouched in a heated and air conditioned garage until very recently.

With just 13 miles on the odometer, this car may very well be the lowest-mileage 1987 Firebird Formula still in existence. The plastic floormats and seat covers are still in place, and this F-body even wears its original rubber. We’ve never seen a 3^rd gen F-body this gosh darn clean, have you? What would you pay for this rare, unabused bird?