As the Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli enters its 60th-anniversary season in 2026, the iconic series will have a very familiar voice at the helm of its broadcasts. Allen Bestwick, a respected ...
The Muscle Car Wars hit their peak in 1970 with the final year of full-power madness from GM and Ford. MOPAR gave it one more year, then caved to the federal emissions and economy standards. In 1971, ...
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 ...
Sometimes you stumble on people who are doing very, very cool stuff. This was the case for me when I spotted a call-out to a Florida company called Trans Am Worldwide. Among other things, these guys ...
The Trans Am Super Duty is powered by a supercharged 7.4-liter V-8 making over 1,000 horsepower that’s mated to a six-speed manual transmission. That’s a significant bump over the car the Trans Am ...
The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am disappeared from showrooms decades ago, but its reputation refuses to die. That appeal is what inspired a small American outfit, Trans Am Worldwide, to bring the ...
Pontiac was a bastion of performance during the last days of the muscle cars from 1972 to 1974. While other brands made do with strangled, low compression engines, Pontiac figured out how to sustain ...
Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
Expect a new look for a pair of Toyota Camrys this weekend in the Trans Am Series. Toyota Racing Development and Five Star RaceCar Bodies are taking the cover off of a new car body for the Toyota ...
The Trans Am Series TA class, which averaged fewer than 10 entries last year, has just 11 entries for the 2025 season opener at Sebring. The explosion of GT racing series and “country club” tracks has ...
Due to stricter government regulations, the era of unrestrained factory-built performance was coming to an end in 1971. However, GM's excitement division answered with the largest displacement engine ...