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 ...

Pontiac is iconic in the world of muscle cars, and some of the brand's rarest vehicles can fetch very high prices. In fact, ...

The 1971 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am arrived at a moment when muscle cars were supposed to be backing down, yet it quietly turned into one of the most serious performance machines of its era.

It's difficult to grasp how an engine can generate enthusiastic buzz more than 40 years after its inception, but mention Pontiac's Super-Duty 455 and some Firebird fanatics get wide-eyed while others ...

Introduced for the 1969 model year as a performance version of the Firebird, the Pontiac Trans Am took its time to build momentum and really get under the public’s skin. In the first five years of ...

The Super Duty designation dates to Pontiac's successful early 1960s efforts in NASCAR and the NHRA, but it lay dormant for almost a decade. By 1970, the division's street machines, although wildly ...

With the demise of the Pontiac brand came the end of a long lineage of muscle cars. No, Pontiac wasn't offering the most exciting lineup at its death, save for the Holden-sourced G8, but history means ...

Sometimes automotive scribes have to beat themselves over the head to comprise a strong lead for a feature article. Other times one just comes to them as naturally as waking up in the morning. Then ...

Buying a Pontiac Trans AM in the ’70s meant you were automatically cooler than you started off. It was the pre-Disco years equivalent of buying street cred. The Mecum Auction in Los Angeles this ...

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 ...