The Notorious Trans Am. (247 Sports)
Eric Dickerson mentioned in passing that he loved the new 1979 Pontiac Trans Am. He’d seen it on a car lot on I-10 near Houston. In 1979, Dickerson was among the most coveted high school football players in the country. Texas A&M believed he should be an Aggie.
They offered him $50,000 in a suitcase. He turned it down. The car, though. . .
“I just liked it: the bird on the hood, the fins on the side, how sleek it was,’’ Dickerson recounted in his memoir last year.
He told his stepdad of his desire, who told a thickwallet booster, who made sure Eric Dickerson’s new vee-hicle (seen above) appeared magically outside his grandma’s front door. Dickerson didn’t sign with A&M (he went to SMU) but he kept the car.
“My grandma’s name is on the paperwork, but behind the scenes, A&M had agreed to reimburse her,’’ Dickerson wrote. “And that, my friends, is how the notorious Trans Am was paid for.’’
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