For many gearheads, the year 1970 represents the peak of the muscle car era — or at least the peak of the first muscle car era. A big part of what conspired to make 1970 special is that to remain ...

For our fourth installment on Pontiac crate engines, we are taking a look at two crate engine builders who each have earned the respect of fans of both early and late-model Pontiacs and their crate ...

Due to stricter government regulations, the era of unrestrained factory-built performance was coming to an end in 1971. However, GM's excitement division answered with the largest displacement engine ...

Some of the differences between the Pontiac 400 and the Chevrolet 400, both owned by General Motors, include the engine and ...

The 1970s were a particularly upsetting time for American car enthusiasts. Not only were insurance costs climbing and new emissions regulations strangling big-capacity V8 engines, but the '73 oil ...

It was over, Johnny. The muscle car thing had run its fun, psychedelic course by the early 1970s. Rising insurance rates, falling compression ratios, and looming federal regulations effectively killed ...

Historically, the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am raised the performance levels a notch or two over a plain Firebird in the muscle car hierarchy of the Sixties. But the Super Duty 455 version of the Trans ...

We all know what happened to the GTO in the early '70s, and how insurance costs reduced the customers' appetite for muscle cars, but Pontiac didn't abandon the fight. Not entirely, at least, with the ...