Burt Reynolds' name still moves the market around the Pontiac Trans Am, and this one arrives with a harder sell than most: a numbers-matching 1978 Y82 Special Edition is listed for sale with its original Hurst T-tops in place. The car is one of only 3,345 automatic Y82 Special Editions built for 1978, which puts it well above the usual driver-grade clone.
The listing comes through Restore A Muscle Car on Motorious, where the car is shown as inquire-for-price rather than with a posted figure. That leaves the buyer to weigh rarity, paperwork, and originality against a market that increasingly sorts these cars by details, not nostalgia.
3,345 Y82 Special Editions
Pontiac built 3,345 automatic Y82 Special Editions for 1978, and that number is the backbone of the sale. The car left Barrier and Beck Pontiac in Charlotte, North Carolina, finished in Code 19 Starlight Black over a Code 19N black interior, and it still carries its numbers-matching Pontiac 400 cubic inch V8 with the factory automatic transmission and a limited-slip rear axle.
For collectors of Bandit-era Trans Ams, that combination is the difference between a car that looks right and one that can be documented as right. The Y82 package is tracked separately from base models on Hagerty's valuation tools, so the market does not treat these cars as interchangeable with standard Trans Ams.
Original Hurst T-tops
Factory equipment fills out the case for this car: air conditioning, a tilt steering column with cruise control, a full gauge cluster with tachometer, an AM/FM stereo cassette deck, power steering and brakes, tinted glass, and bucket seats with a floor-mounted shifter and console. It also wears refinished 15x8 WS6 snowflake wheels with BF Goodrich Radial T/A tires in 255/60R15 size.
The odometer shows 91,670 miles, which gives the listing another point of reference for buyers trying to separate preserved cars from later-built tribute cars. Original Hurst T-tops and matching numbers matter here because they help establish that the car is still built around the parts Pontiac installed in 1978, not a recreated version assembled to mimic the package.
PHS paperwork
A full PHS package backs the car, including the factory invoice and original window sticker. That paperwork is the sale's anchor, because it lets a buyer trace the build from the factory record rather than relying on trim tags or seller description alone.
The price is the missing piece. Restore A Muscle Car is offering the Trans Am on an inquire-for-price basis, so anyone shopping this Y82 Special Edition has to ask directly before deciding whether the paperwork, mileage, and original hardware justify the ask. For a car this scarce, the first real filter is not the listing copy; it is what the seller wants for it.
