1979 was THE year for the Trans Am. It marked this model's 10th anniversary, and for Pontiac, it was exactly what the doctor ordered. With sales going through the roof, over 117K Trans Ams ended up ...

1979 was the perfect occasion for the Trans Am to see its sales go through the roof. The car was celebrating its tenth anniversary, and after a rough start, it slowly but surely became the ...

A California-built 1979 Pontiac Trans Am reemerges in white with black graphics, upgraded with a cammed 455 V8 engine.

Modified 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a 455 V8, refreshed interior, and white finish heads to auction in Illinois.

A like-new 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am that that has been driven just 37 miles was sold at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction for $220,000. The car had been stored in a Michigan farm building ...

Gregg Hamilton had always dreamed of having his own Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a V8 and manual gearbox, and after moving to America he decided to turn that childhood dream into a reality. Hamilton ...

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 ...

There were four new Dodge Darts sold in 2022, even though the car went out of production in 2016. The oddballs had been hanging around the lots for various reasons before finally being picked up by ...

One has to marvel at the canny foresight of the rare individuals who-back in the late-'70s and early-'80s-decided to purchase and squirrel away new performance cars, gambling on their eventual rise to ...

When you're a kid, the mall is a magical place where everything is shiny, new, and expensive. All these attributes held true in 1979 when an 8-year-old Rob Holtz discovered the most expensive '79 ...

From the January 1979 issue of Car and Driver. If we had a collective pinch of sense among us, we'd organize a cooperative fund and buy up all the 1979 Trans Ams we could lay our hands on, like maybe ...