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 ...

1981 was a disappointing year for the Trans Am, as Pontiac's car couldn't recover from the decline that had started a year earlier. The Trans Am sold over 117,000 units in 1979, but the next year ...

In 1981, if you wanted a fast Trans Am you had to build it yourself or leave it to a select group of tuners, who hadn't given up on the soon-to-be-replaced Second-Gen platform. Among them was Trans Am ...

The Chevy Camaro bowed in late September of 1966, introducing GM’s new F-Body platform in the process. Five months later, Pontiac received its own F-Body platform model, the Pontiac Firebird. Both the ...

Ford Motor Company introduced the Ford Mustang as a mid-year model in April of 1964. The Mustang was an instant success for which General Motors had no production rival, at least not in the showrooms.