Trans Am sales went through the roof in 1979, becoming the best year in the history of this nameplate. Pontiac produced 211,453 Firebirds, and the Trans Am accounted for more than half of this number.
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The Trans Am didn’t explode in popularity until years after it arrived
The Pontiac Trans Am arrived as a niche performance package, a sharper, louder variant of the Firebird aimed at road course ...
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ENDS 4/9!!!! A short-window giveaway is putting a highly original piece of late-1970s performance history up for grabs—a 1979 ...
It was the middle of the 1960s, and American car manufacturing was on the cusp of what would be one of its greatest eras. Gasoline was cheap, meaningful emission regulation was years away, and the ...
Today's Nice Price or No Dice Trans Am eschews the traditional screaming chicken decal on the hood for ram air induction. Low miles and a six-speed stick add to the car's attractions, but will the ...
For a generation of automobile enthusiasts, the Pontiac Trans Am remains one of the A-list vehicles of America's muscle car era. It's not hard to see why, as stock Trans Ams hit the market with some ...
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 ...
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 ...
Say what you want about the 1980 Trans Am, but despite the asymmetric hood design, it was a fantastic car. The Trans Am was coming after a massive performance in 1979 when its sales surpassed 117K ...
After a satisfying strip-test of SLP's 350hp PerformancePac on a bone-stock '99 T/A (owned by Firebird-freak Kelly Holloway) in the Dec. '06 issue of HPP, we decided to step up to the company's 375HP ...
"What was that guy thinking when he ordered his car this way?" We've all said it one time or another as we've come upon a Pontiac with a very strange color or option combo. Of course, 99 times out of ...
In late September 1966, Chevrolet debuted the Chevy Camaro as a direct competitor to the stunningly successful Ford Mustang. The Excitement Division didn’t want to be left out of the pony car fun, and ...
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