The Chevy Camaro bowed in late September of 1966, introducing GM’s new F-Body platform in the process. Five months later, Pontiac received its own F-Body platform model, the Pontiac Firebird. Both the ...

Sales of Pontiac's Trans Am collapsed in 1980, with the carmaker selling just little over 50,000 units – down from 117,000 cars in 1979. Pontiac struggled to keep the Firebird a compelling model, and ...

The Pontiac Trans Am powered by the 6.6-liter V8 saw its final year of production in 1979. Killed off by Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard, the rowdy Big Block T/A was to be no more.

Say what you want about the Trans Am, but nobody can deny it was an iconic model. Its performance appetite made the Trans Am a highly desirable model, with Pontiac eventually creating special models ...

The 1980 Pontiac Firebird Turbo Trans Am certainly looks the part with its iconic screaming chicken hood decal and T-top roof ...

Last year we titled our annual newmodel Pontiac Firebird Trans Am road test "The Last American Musclecar" (Feb. '79 HOT ROD), but ever since we've been hoping that Pontiac would somehow prove us wrong ...

We face a conundrum with this car. The fact is, it looks just like one of the 800,000-some ordinary Pontiac Firebirds built between 1982 and 1992, most of which are remembered more for their poser ...