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While we’re all cooped-up at home practicing the gearhead version of social distancing (read: texting each other drag pics behind closed garage doors), we know that, at some point, you’ll find yourse...
Hawks Motorsports built this 1992 Pontiac Firebird Formula at their company in Easley, South Carolina. The car is powered by a turbocharged 6.0 L LSx V8 making 700 horsepower to the wheels. The engin...
All Speed Customs built this 1970 Pontiac Firebird at their company in Muskegon, Michigan. The muscle car is powered by a twin-turbo 454 ci (7.439 L) Pontiac V8 producing 1200 horsepower. The motor f...
Bruce Hawkins built his 1991 Firebird Formula at his company Hawks Motorsports (HM) in Easley, South Carolina. Under the custom ZR1 inspired hood sits a supercharged 427 ci LS7 V8 making 717 horsepow...
Schwartz Performance built this 1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula at their company in Woodstock, Illinois. The car rides on their G-Machine chassis with Ridetech single-adjustable coilovers and a power s...
Arkady Khudobin and brother Dmitry Khudobin own a business making custom fiberglass motorcycle fairings. Several years ago the brothers wanted to build a muscle car that combined design elements from...
This 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am came from the factory with an 403 ci Oldsmobile V8 making 185 horsepower. The owner sent it to V8 Speed & Resto Shop in Red Bud, Illinois for some performance upgr...
Do we have a treat for you, this week: a terrible movie! Look, there’s an art to a bad movie. It takes a certain amount of intestinal fortitude to actually endure it from one end to the other, but li...
Gregg Hamilton loves being Ken Block’s lead mechanic and Pontiac Firebirds. You might remember his previous project, a Trans-Am with a twin-turbo LSx V8. Three years ago Gregg started building a seco...
It’s no secret that we’re losing dragstrips all across this great land. Why is that? Land values increasing? Housing developments being allowed to go up near tracks? People less interested in drag ra...
In the seminal film, “Pulp Fiction,” the question is asked of us: are you an Elvis man or a Beatles man? That might seem like no big deal, but the answer really does define your movement across and y...
A fabricator in Omaha, Nebraska wanted a new project to work on and showcase their skills. They originally planned to build something using a 2002 Subaru WRX similar to Factory Five Racing’s 818 kit....
In 1968, the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indy were recorded for a documentary produced by Hollywood’s Documentary Productions Inc. Not only is the hour-plus film an amazing capture of what drag racing was...
Riley Stair really turned heads at SEMA this year with his very unique 1970 Pontiac Firebird. Sitting inside the engine bay is a 400 ci LSx V8 and equal length 8-to-1 headers. He hopes to get 1,000 h...
Riley Stair spent the past two years creating a 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am shell into part race car and part art piece. The car rides on a custom tube chassis with a custom independent pushrod su...
The male of the species is always more colorful, but that’s because he’s competing for attention. Which is glorious. We look at a lot of cars in any given day. A lot of cars. And when it comes to mus...
Snakepit Customs in Indianapolis, Indiana built this 1967 Pontiac Firebird called “Project Oculus” for Ric Peterson of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. Under the hood sits a supercharged 6.2 L LSA V8 bu...
It’s been nine years since this 1974 Pontiac Firebird was on the road. The Swedish owner spent that time designing and building the lightest and best performing 2nd generation Firebird he could. Sinc...
Roadkill performed many engine swaps while making 76 episodes. Along the way we covered a few such as their Cadillac Brougham with a Cummins 6BT and Stubby Bob with a supercharged BBC V8. Recently Ro...
This 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am was built by Gary Hagar at Hack Shack Inc in Rogers, Arkansas. The car rides on a Roadster Shop FAST TRACK chassis with full independent suspension, Penske RS adju...
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...
Roadkill is back and this time Mike Finnegan builds his Dream Car, a 1969 Pontiac Firebird to compete at One Lap of America race. The goal was to completely overhaul the Firebird in three days and to...
What happens when an engineer decides to build the lightest and best performing 1976 Pontiac Firebird he can? Well you get a lot of CAD design, aluminum, CNC’d parts and an amazing amount of custom p...
An engineer in Ohio has embarked on a very unique project wrapping the body of a 1967 Pontiac Firebird around a 2014 Toyota Prius. The owner first purchased the car in 1979 after graduating college w...