https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2022/01...-trans-am/

Eric Dickerson tells the story of his Gold Trans Am. It was pretty well known A&M got him the car and then he reneged and went to SMU.

"...To understand the story, you first need to understand the pressure I was under to go to A&M. Sealy’s in East Texas, about 70 miles from College Station, so it was an A&M town. The town’s biggest businessman, Clarence Shear, who owned the livestock feed store, was a big A&M booster who had given me a job the summer before. And the man I called my stepdad—my biological mom’s husband—had a side deal with A&M, where they offered him a house in Westview, the White part of Sealy, and a few head of cattle. (Cattle were big in Texas recruiting in those days; recruiters promised to keep your freezers stocked with meat.)..."

"...It was a verbal commitment. I was 18 and it seemed like the thing to say to make a lot of adults happy. But my heart was never really into it, and I’d soon renege on it. I know a lot of A&M fans are still pissed at me about that, but I really don’t care: if they want to be pissed at a kid whose head was spinning and was being pressured by all different kinds of adults, then that’s their problem and not mine.

There’s this urban legend that angry A&M boosters destroyed the car, but I’m here to tell you that never happened. I had the Trans Am my first few years at SMU, before I sold it to my best friend and fellow SMU running back, Charles Drayton.
Thanks to an SMU booster named George Owen, I was driving a Corvette by then...."

THE TRUTH FINALLY COMES OUT

An all-time great.

Damn sure worth at least a Trans Am and a Corvette in 1979 dollars

That's an awesome story.

High school recruiting in Texas in the 1970s. Those were the days ... LOL.