Pontiac’s best-selling Trans Am, the 1979 model year, marked the departure from true Pontiac engineering, with the final 400 ...
Every carmaker has that one last, defiant howl before the corporate world tightens the leash. For Pontiac, 1979 was that bittersweet crescendo—the final stand of the true Pontiac-built 400-cubic-inch ...
Most of us would be elated to purchase our dream car just once. Others might add another if the opportunity presented itself, but few will ever hold title to three versions at the same time. George ...
Jody Only is an author and photographer. Within the last five years in the auto industry, she has had bylines with TopSpeed, HotCars, LSXmag, Engine Labs, Chevy HardCore, and Street Muscle. She is a ...
The Ford Mustang debuted as a 1964 1/2 mid-year model, to great fanfare and robust sales. Chevrolet responded with the Chevy Camaro in late September of 1966. Five months later, Pontiac rolled out an ...
For years, rumors have swirled about a possible revival of Pontiac. Some claim a modern Firebird is in the works. Others share heavily doctored renderings of concept GTOs. But the truth is simpler: ...
When jazz trumpeter, vocalist and bandleader Joe Gransden, 53, finally tracked down the car of his dreams, it was sitting under a tree in Arab, Alabama, providing a home for snakes, mice and mold. The ...
In 1987, former super stock drag racer and performance parts entrepreneur Ed Hamburger formed Street Legal Performance (SLP). Hamburger wanted to apply his wealth of hot-rodding expertise to ...
This 1972 Pontiac Firebird restomod has been the subject of an incredibly thorough build process that took it down to individual nuts and bolts. The finished product is a stunning example of ...
The Pontiac Firebird debuted in February of 1967, built on the same F-body platform as the Chevy Camaro, which had bowed five months earlier. The Firebird was a bit of a consolation prize for Pontiac, ...
The venerable Trans Am Series is back as a headliner for the second straight year at Road America this weekend after being relegated to support status for decades. Trans Am features purpose-built ...
Most of us would be elated to purchase our dream car just once. Others might add another if the opportunity presented itself, but few will ever hold title to three versions at the same time. George ...