The big news in 1981 for Pontiac Trans Am buyers was the introduction of the Daytona Pace Car edition. This new model sported limited-edition black graphics, a blacked-out roof, Recaro seats, and red ...

Pontiac’s 1981 Turbo Trans Am Recaro Edition wasn’t fast, but it was fabulous; it paced Petty to his seventh Daytona 500 win, ...

Tom Sherer was only 19 years old when he first laid eyes on this black-on-red 1981 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Turbo. It was parked in the Philadelphia apartment complex where his brother, Chris, lived ...

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.

An extensively modified 1981 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am with the type of performance to rival even the fastest modern-day supercars is heading to auction this weekend. This classic muscle car is known as ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1981 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Bandit across different levels of condition. Edit options.

Pontiac has made some pretty cool Firebirds throughout the years. From its first generation and all the way to its third one, the Firebird withstood the test of time just fine. The fourth-gen? Not ...

In 2010, Thomas Eyeington bought a derelict 1981 Pontiac Trans Am (TA) with a tired Poncho 301 and TH350. His plan: Build a modern high-tech hot rod for his son Alexander's 16th birthday. Tom swapped ...

Turbocharging got to be all the rage during the mid-1980s, when fuel injection became cheap and reliable enough to become mainstream hardware. In the early 1980s, however, carburetors were still used ...