The 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am did not just close out a decade, it crystallized everything loud, flashy, and unapologetically American about late‑seventies performance. You still feel that when ...

1979 was THE year for the Trans Am. It marked this model's 10th anniversary, and for Pontiac, it was exactly what the doctor ordered. With sales going through the roof, over 117K Trans Ams ended up ...

Its Firebird Trans Am still strutted around like it hadn’t read the EPA memo. In 1979, even as disco faltered and smog rules stiffened, the bird on the hood burned bright in metallic paint—and Dylan ...

We’ve all had our “Oh, crap!” moments—I remember running over my own foot when I used a screwdriver to bridge the starter solenoid in my 1967 Camaro when it was still in gear. I also saw a buddy’s ...