1970 Pontiac Firebird One (Custom Concept)
Created as a radical, one-off reinterpretation of Pontiac’s second-generation Firebird, the Firebird One is a privately designed and built custom. Completed in the early 1970s on a 1970 Firebird base, it blends American pony car underpinnings with sharply futuristic, almost Italian GT–influenced coachwork.
The Firebird One retains the underlying F‑body platform and basic hardtop proportions but wears a completely bespoke steel body with a much lower roofline and a flowing fastback-style rear.
Up front, a pointed nose with hidden headlamps and a smooth, nearly grille-less face replaces the production Firebird’s split grille, while the sides are cleaned of factory sculpting and dominated by pronounced wheel arches.
At the rear, a shortened Kamm-style tail and custom lamp treatment further distance the car from its production roots, giving it the presence of a low-volume coachbuilt GT rather than a modified street car.
Mechanically, Firebird One is powered by a small-block Chevy V8 backed by an automatic transmission in a conventional rear-wheel drive layout with typical Firebird underpinnings. The car’s significance lies almost entirely in its bodywork and design story, not in bespoke engineering.
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