The Trans Am was the king of the Firebird castle in 1979, reaching a record of 117,000 units produced for this model year. It was the highest the Trans Am ever got, with the production dropping ...

While we were taking pictures of a 1971 Pontiac "Tirebird" in Bruce Johnson's collection (Sept. 2018), we spotted this 1979 Formula in a row of 1970s Firebirds. Johnson is a muscle car collector, and ...

Every once in a while, a Pontiac comes along that seems to defy accepted logic. For decades we've been told that no Pontiac 400 engines were installed in California-bound '79 Formulas and Trans Ams ...

The Trans Am was already the coolest kid on the block in 1979, so it dominated the Firebird sales in a way that no other model in the lineup could match. Pontiac sold nearly 211,500 Firebirds, and the ...

The second-generation Pontiac Firebird, with appearances as Jim Rockford's trusty steed in "The Rockford Files" and an iconic movie role in both "Smokey and the Bandit" and its sequel, became one of ...

Television has made a lot of people famous, but only a handful of cars have tagged along with a show’s protagonist to lasting fame. One such example is the pairing that rose to a lasting stardom is ...

Pontiac's days of building excitement are long gone, though the brand arguably faded into the sunset long before the division was axed in 2009 as part of the fallout of General Motors' bankruptcy. Yet ...

“This is Jim Rockford, leave your name and a message”…if you’d like to buy my car. Or you can head to the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Saturday night to bid on a 1978 Pontiac ...