Mirrorless Pics: Pontiac Trans Am with a Canon EOS M

A couple years ago, I tagged along to the Indianapolis hamfest at the Marion County Fairgrounds. In case I saw anything that needed photographing, I brought along a Canon EOS M with the EF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit zoom mounted.

Sure enough, there was something to photograph, right there in the parking area!

Despite fitting in the palm of your hand, the big 18MP APS-C sensor of the EF-M delivers DSLR-quality images. I mean, essentially it's a EOS Rebel T4i with the mirror box and optical viewfinder removed.

This is a 1979 Trans Am, with the 10th Anniversary Y89 option package.

As Sammy Hagar sang in "Trans Am (Highway Wonderland)", '79 was the end of the road if you wanted horsepower overload...at least for a while. That was the last year for the big motors in the Pontiac F-body pony cars.

The fact that the hood scoop decal reads "6.6 Litre" rather than "T/A 6.6" means that it has the 185bhp Oldsmobile-sourced L80 403cid engine, instead of the optional 220bhp W72 Pontiac 400 cube V8. For the following model year, the only performance motors in the Firebird were the Chevy 305 or a turbocharged Pontiac 301.