For most American performance cars, the early 1970s marked the beginning of a difficult period. Rising insurance costs, ...

My interest in vintage racing goes back to the late '60s. As a young kid, I was fascinated by the American pony cars running in the Trans Am series, so I followed it closely up through the '70s, when ...

The 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am arrived with serious hardware, sharp styling, and a clear performance mission, yet it did not race out of showrooms. The car launched into a market already cooling ...

Introduced in 1969 as a performance package for the Firebird, the Pontiac Trans Am is mostly famous for its hood graphics and rear spoiler. And, of course, for its appearance in "Smokey and the Bandit ...

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 ...

When you're blessed with a fertile imagination, ideas flow through your mind effortlessly. Once you discern the good from the bad, you're left with some excellent stuff. Forty-one-year-old Rick Bohler ...

The Goldenrod Sprint you see here is among the rarest of the bunch. It was produced for the 1969 model year, when Pontiac ...

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 ...

Historians may have consigned Pontiac and American Motors Corporation (AMC) to the history books, but fans of both car brands are keeping the spirit alive and putting the classics through their paces ...

Pontiac canceled its ill-fated flagship muscle car at the last minute, after one car magazine had already declared it Performance Car of the Year.

In America, the 1970s were an era where domestic automakers lost battle after battle. The factories of the Big Three kept pumping out lumpen steel dinosaurs, while little Japanese cars overran them.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell the stories of new and old cars, and how to buy and enjoy both. Jun 26, 2024, 12:06pm EDT Jun 27, 2024, 08:02pm EDT The ...