CROSSINGTHE BORDER
Most people’s first experience of the Pontiac Firebird was in the Smokey and the Bandit movies; the black Firebird with the large eagle motif on the hood giving law enforcement the runaround while crossing state lines. It was a ’77 Trans Am special edition that actually featured in the 1980 movie. And so it was that I found myself up on the border in County Louth, Southern Ireland, to meet with Mick Levins and his 1977 model Firebird.
The movie, let’s face it, helped to
