The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Widebody Kit, Explained
A widebody Trans Am is resurrection work: Pontiac no longer exists, so every modified Firebird is somebody refusing to let the screaming chicken die. That changes the build's whole character. There is no factory to honour or offend, no current model to copy — just the second-gen's shaker-hood drama and the Bandit mythology, or the later cars' wedge, asking to be amplified. The widebody treatment suits the Trans Am unusually well because the car was always theatrical: a machine that wore a flaming bird decal across its entire bonnet does not do subtle, and wider arches simply continue the original argument by other means.
What a Firebird Trans Am Widebody Kit Actually Costs
Trans Am widebody work is fabrication country. Unlike living platforms with catalogue kits, the Firebird's wide-arch scene runs on custom metalwork, universal flare adaptation and restomod-shop one-offs — which makes it more expensive per inch of width but also means no two builds match. The recipe follows pro-touring logic: widened steel or glass arches over a modern wide wheel-and-tyre package, almost always paired with the chassis and suspension upgrades the width implies, because a wide Trans Am that still handles like 1979 misses its own point. Generation choice defines the car: the second-gen (the Bandit era) carries the icon status and the decal heritage, while the third and fourth gens offer cheaper shells and a wedge shape that takes width like a prototype racer. Budget honestly for fabrication — $6,000–$15,000 of arch and paint work before wheels — and remember the classic-car prelude: rust assessment and structural honesty come before any cosmetic width on bodies this old. Values reward restraint on numbers-matching survivors; the guilt-free canvases are the rough shells and the already-modified.
Visualise your Firebird Trans Am before booking the shop
With no catalogue kit to standardise the look, every widebody Trans Am is a proportion judgement made from scratch — the exact case where seeing it first matters most. Render your actual Firebird wide before the fabricator starts. TunedRides does it in about 30 seconds.
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- 1Upload a photo of your Firebird Trans Am. Any well-lit angle works; side-on captures bodywork modifications like widebody kits the cleanest. JPG or PNG, up to 10MB.
- 2Select Widebody Kit as your style. Your Firebird Trans Am's own shape guides the render, so the result is your specific car reworked rather than a generic model.
- 3Download your render. Results in about 30 seconds. Free tier includes a watermarked version. Pro ($14/mo or $69/yr) gives 250 HD renders a month with no watermark. Perfect for sharing with shops or builders.