Newsletter 50-2020
Rückblick Immer diese Ausreden. Aber es hat schon seine Gründe, dass der Newsletter von «radical» nicht mehr ganz so regelmässig erscheint wie auch schon. Nicht, dass wir weniger Geschichten verfasse...
Rückblick Immer diese Ausreden. Aber es hat schon seine Gründe, dass der Newsletter von «radical» nicht mehr ganz so regelmässig erscheint wie auch schon. Nicht, dass wir weniger Geschichten verfasse...
Trostpreis Man muss sich das nicht unbedingt so vorstellen, dass innerhalb des General-Motors-Konzern alles Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen war Mitte der 60er-Jahre. Nach dem Krieg war GM zwar schnell zum...
T-top 1987 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Bright Blue Metallic with Charcoal Interior. Original 5.0 V-8 with Automatic Transmission. Features include Tinted...
Provided photos. As a kid, did you try to draw cars that combined features of several favorite models? Dmitry Khudobin gets inspiration like that today. He’s got a book full of designs, and, working ...
Highly customized 1984 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This custom car is built on a GM F-Body Pontiac Firebird chassis as show car and daily driver. Custom ...
Restomod 1983 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: GM Performance ZZ383 C.I.D. 450 Hp Engine 4,600 miles; “G-Force” 600 Hp 5 speed transmission 6,100 Mil...
1979 Pontiac Trans Am. Art from the collection of Rocky Rotella. Many of us have imagined what it would be like to order our favorite vintage cars back when they were new. Using the information in th...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Consider the state of the American performance car at the turn of the century. Dodge’s V-10-powered Viper was ...
1979 Pontiac Trans Am from Steve McQueen’s “The Hunter,” pulled from an Illinois barn. Photos courtesy Carlyle Motors. In 1979, Steve McQueen began filming what became his final motion picture, The H...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference GM’s new-for-1982 F-body sports coupes were, as they represented...
1970 Chevrolet Camaro (top); 1971 Pontiac Firebird (bottom). Images by the author. This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic wo...
Rückblick Ja, wir haben das Glück, dass wir ganz viele von den wirklich feinen Automobilen fahren dürfen. Das ist weder Abstumpfung noch Gewöhnung, dass wir da nicht mehr vor jedem neuen Polo oder Au...
Trostpreis Man muss sich das nicht unbedingt so vorstellen, dass innerhalb des General-Motors-Konzern alles Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen war Mitte der 60er-Jahre. Nach dem Krieg war GM zwar schnell zum...
Chapter Three: The Dark Ages As the 1980s gathered steam, it was clear that Pontiac, like all auto manufacturers, was being led by legislation. The US government had, starting in the late 1960s, impo...
Refurbished 1985 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car runs and drives beautifully. Engine is a 305 cubic inch/5.0 tuned port injected. It has be...
1969 Pontiac Firebird Coupe for sale. From the seller’s description: Hello, what I have for sale is unique. This car has been in my family for the last 46 years. First owner was my uncle, from 1970 t...
Photo by Matt Litwin. Nobody couldn’t have predicted that the stratospheric success of the 1965 Mustang would lead to direct competition: Everybody suddenly wanted a part of the youth market that Lee...
1974 Pontiac GTO. Still images from video below. Today, via various cell phone apps, we have access to film effects that can be added to the videos we take to make them look like overexposed, high-co...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Devoted fans of GM’s Pontiac Motor Division still mourn the 2010 death of the 83-year-old brand, an unfortunate result of the company’s ...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
In 1982, Pontiac debuted an all-new Firebird with a radical aerodynamic shape, the first significant redesign of the model in 13 years. Not content with the car’s already slippery shape, in 1984 the ...
While Dodge built plenty of three-axle trucks, it never came out with a six-wheel-drive Power Wagon, so Legacy Classic Trucks went ahead and built one using a WC63 chassis and turbodiesel Cummins. Ja...