One weekday afternoon, creeping along in stop-and-go on the Los Angeles freeway behind the wheel of the rare and wonderful 10th Anniversary Limited Edition Trans Am that I co-owned with my wife, I ...

Every carmaker has that one last, defiant howl before the corporate world tightens the leash. For Pontiac, 1979 was that bittersweet crescendo—the final stand of the true Pontiac-built 400-cubic-inch ...

Tod and Scott Warmack aren't twins, they were actually born five years apart, but their matching '79 Trans Ams sure look like they came from the same mother egg. Tod tells HPP, "In 2005, I was looking ...

Frank Rupert credits the slick, shiny, wet look of his 1979 Trans Am to a simple cleaning routine he follows. It’s one, he said, anybody could do. LIMA – Frank Rupert knows a thing or two when it ...

Movies and cars often go together like peanut butter and jelly, with few combinations as memorable as the black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am in "Smokey and the Bandit." Thanks to Burt Reynolds' on-screen ...

Eric Dickerson has finally come clean. In his just-released memoir, "Watch My Smoke: The Eric Dickerson Story," written with Greg Hanlon, arguably the best SMU football player money could buy reveals ...

The popularity of the Trans Am was already on the rise in the late ‘70s, so Pontiac decided to increase the consumer appeal of the car with another special edition in 1978. The Y88 Gold Special ...

Mike Lane’s two-toned silver and charcoal colored 1979 Trans Am is a 10-year, limited edition Trans Am. He also has a 1989, 20th anniversary limited edition Trans Am and a limited edition, 25th ...

The enduring appeal of the Smokey and the Bandit films starring Burt Reynolds means the beaky 1977-78 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is never short of buyers. Naturally, most people gravitate towards the ...

Under pressure from insurance companies and strangled by emissions legislation red tape that strangled its V8s, Detroit had almost entirely abandoned the concept of the muscle car by the late 1970s.