Firebird sales increased in 1974, and the Trans Am more than doubled from the previous year. Pontiac sold over 73,700 units this year, and the base Firebird accounted for over 26,000 cars, remaining ...
Pontiac was never good at letting go. Even as emissions strangled Detroit’s horsepower culture, the division that built the GTO refused to surrender quietly. And in 1975—against logic, policy, and ...
The Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty arrived just as Detroit was being forced to turn down the volume on big cubic inches, which is exactly why it still looms so large in muscle car history. Built in ...
It was over, Johnny. The muscle car thing had run its fun, psychedelic course by the early 1970s. Rising insurance rates, falling compression ratios, and looming federal regulations effectively killed ...
As the clich goes, every cloud has a silver lining and Barry Simpson's '78 Trans Am is mobile proof. Way back in 1972, Barry drove a '71 Formula 400 and was looking to trade up. He dropped in at ...