The Super Duty designation dates to Pontiac's successful early 1960s efforts in NASCAR and the NHRA, but it lay dormant for almost a decade. By 1970, the division's street machines, although wildly ...

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 ...

Last year, a 1974 Trans Am, powered by its original Super Duty 455, and four-speed manual, changed hands at auction for a lofty $134,400. It was no run-of-the-mill used car, of course: two owners; ...

Buying a Pontiac Trans AM in the ’70s meant you were automatically cooler than you started off. It was the pre-Disco years equivalent of buying street cred. The Mecum Auction in Los Angeles this ...

Introduced for the 1969 model year as a performance version of the Firebird, the Pontiac Trans Am took its time to build momentum and really get under the public’s skin. In the first five years of ...

Since the beginning, terms like Ram Air, High Output, and Super Duty have been synonymous with hard-core Firebird performance. But in 1975 the Trans Am became another victim of emissions standards and ...

As these Pontiacs changed hands over the years, many of the individual stories were lost, and a large number of them remain a complete mystery to hobbyists and researchers. Sometimes clues can be ...

The rivalry between General Motors and Ford has played out on drag strips around the nation for decades, and now, a new video is bringing the heat with two classic muscle cars lining up for some ...