1977 Pontiac Trans Am, currently live on Hemmings Auctions with no reserve. We’ve been talking a lot about the new Hemmings Auctions venture in recent weeks, and now it’s finally active, with live au...
From the seller’s description: 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans am . All original one owner car. This car has not been restored or modified and is an unmolested survivor. All options work perfectly and 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...
Photos by Gary Kessler, courtesy of Mecum Auctions. These days, photochoppers don’t waste much time in slapping together station wagon or shooting brake versions of every new car after the first offi...
1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicular lots...
From the seller’s description: 1976 Pontiac Trans Am , 455 Engine, 4 Speed Manual Transmission, Air Conditioning ,Power Steering, Power Brake, Power Windows, 89,000 Original Miles, Numbers Matching, ...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The late 1970s were hardly a time of optimism for performance fans of the Pontiac Trans Am, but thanks to the efforts of two brothers from Glendale, Arizona, the perio...
The Blue Bandit. Photos courtesy Randy Stone. I have owned several cars through the years, including a couple of Mustangs, a Plymouth Duster, a few pickup trucks, and, out of necessity when kids came...
1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Package for sale. From the seller’s description: This 10A/E runs and drives great on the highway and anywhere without issue. Unrestored. California built car. C...
1972 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale. From the seller’s description: This Trans Am is extremely rare, a real #s matching 455 H.O. LS5 car. It has PHS documentation and the 72 TA was the lowest pro...
The 1982 Pontiac Recaro Trans Am Special Edition. Photos courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. When Pontiac introduced its third-generation Firebird Trans Am for the 1982 model year, it wanted to remi...
1979 Chevy Camaro Z28 (top); 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enab...
Everybody, it seems, has a story about how cheap cars were in the old days. From gently wrecked Ferraris, now worth millions (or tens of millions) of dollars that sold for the cost of a three-year ol...
1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition. From the seller’s description: I am not going to bore you with Trans Am facts. You already know about these cars. I was able to purchase another toy wh...
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 ...
The 1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition crosses the block. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In 2011, a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am 10th Anniversary Edition with less than seven miles on the odom...
With both cars in the garage, there isn’t much space to work on the T/A, unless the Buick can be pulled out, which isn’t an option when the snow flies. Photos by author. If you have read my blogs ove...