The 1976 Pontiac Trans Am arrived at a moment when muscle cars were supposed to be finished, choked by emissions rules and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty arrived just as Detroit was being forced to turn down the volume on big cubic inches, ...

The original Trans Am was a mid-'69 model produced in limited numbers. The only color combination was Cameo white with blue racing stripes. The hood scoops were functional but the side extractors were ...

The Trans Am variants of the iconic Pontiac Firebird went from a factory-available performance package into one of the most popular poster boys of the muscle car era. The first and second-generation ...

Back in 1978, Herb Adams, the Pontiac legend who by then was an integral part of Pontiac's Advanced Design group, helped introduce the world to the WS6 Trans Am Special Performance package. For a mere ...

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 ...

At the beginning of the 1970s, few things were hotter than the American muscle car. These smaller vehicles packed a ton of power and looked like the coolest things on the road. From the Ford Mustang ...

The Chevy Camaro debuted in September of 1966 in response to the stellar success of the Ford Mustang. Not wanting to be left out of the pony car game, Pontiac demanded and got the Firebird five months ...

Ford debuted the Mustang in mid-April, 1964 as a half-year model. Sales were expected to be around 100,000 units per year, but far eclipsed that mark, with more than 400,000 units crossing Ford ...