1997 Pontiac Firebird

1997 Pontiac Firebird Firehawk â?" SLP Engineering Package, LT1 V8, Ram Air, T-Tops Why This Car Is Special The 1997 Pontiac Firebird Firehawk is not a trim level Pontiac offered through its normal dealer network. It is a specialty vehicle produced through a partnership between Pontiac and SLP Engineering, a New Jersey-based company that had been working with GM since the early 1990s to build higher-performance versions of F-body cars. SLP â?" which stands for Street Legal Performance â?" took base Firebird Formula and Trans Am platforms and transformed them into factory-warranted, dealer-delivered performance vehicles that went well beyond what Pontiac's own engineering team was allowed to produce under GM's internal restrictions at the time.