The seventies marked the death of the muscle car (there really is no way of sugar-coating this fact). They saw the extinction of half of the pony car fauna by the time the 1974 production drew the ...

The 1972 Pontiac Trans Am 455 HO arrived just as Detroit’s first muscle era was fading, yet it managed to capture the last ...

After having driven one over a thousand miles in virtually every available driving situation in California, short of outright desert bashing, we came away thinking that the '76 Firebird Trans Am 455 4 ...

The Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty arrived just as Detroit was being forced to turn down the volume on big cubic inches, which is exactly why it still looms so large in muscle car history. Built in ...

Pontiac’s death was not sudden—it was a slow, painful fade into corporate oblivion. When General Motors finally shut the lights off in 2010, the industry didn’t just lose another brand—it lost its ...

It was over, Johnny. The muscle car thing had run its fun, psychedelic course by the early 1970s. Rising insurance rates, falling compression ratios, and looming federal regulations effectively killed ...