The 1978 Pontiac Trans Am arrived at a strange moment in American car culture. Insurance costs were climbing, emissions rules ...

The 1975 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am arrived at a difficult moment for American performance cars, yet it managed to adapt ...

Whether it's reworking the ignition curve on a 400ci Ram Air III or cutting down the EGR tube on an LS1 displacing 346 ci, Pontiac owners love to tweak their machines to extract additional power. In ...

When is a Camaro not a Camaro? When it's an 800-horsepower Trans Am.

Aftermarket performance tuner Vengeance Racing recently announced the imminent arrival of “the ultimate road race” Pontiac Trans Am, complete with a long list of performance modifications designed ...

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 ...

A 1976 Pontiac Trans Am that would make anyone believe it has already been restored uses the WWW for one ambitious objective: to find a new heated garage, hopefully belonging to a collector, to ...

For most enthusiasts who lived through the 1960s and 1970s, a muscle car had to be based on a large-volume production model and hide a large, potent, naturally aspirated V8 under the hood. While the ...