There may not be any other Pontiac engine that harbors as much mystique as the Super-Duty 455. Introduced in '73 as a maximum-performance effort capable of sustained 6,000-rpm operation, it was ...

The Super Duty designation dates to Pontiac's successful early 1960s efforts in NASCAR and the NHRA, but it lay dormant for almost a decade. By 1970, the division's street machines, although wildly ...

Sometimes automotive scribes have to beat themselves over the head to comprise a strong lead for a feature article. Other times one just comes to them as naturally as waking up in the morning. Then ...

The 1973 Pontiac Trans Am arrived at a moment when muscle cars were supposed to be dying, yet it ended up defining an attitude that outlived the horsepower wars that created it. By pairing race-bred ...

Introduced for the 1969 model year as a performance version of the Firebird, the Pontiac Trans Am took its time to build momentum and really get under the public’s skin. In the first five years of ...

In the 1973 movie McQ, a 66-year-old John Wayne slouches onscreen with little of his former authoritative charisma. The laconic hero of many a western was ill suited to a hard-boiled detective flick, ...

The Pontiac Firebird is a pony car legend. Introduced by General Motors in 1967, it was half of GM's one-two punch response to Ford's iconic Mustang (the other being the Chevrolet Camaro). The ...

Pontiac was a bastion of performance during the last days of the muscle cars from 1972 to 1974. While other brands made do with strangled, low compression engines, Pontiac figured out how to sustain ...

The 1971 Pontiac Trans Am fitted with the 455-cubic-inch V8 arrived at a turning point for American performance. Compression ...

The Muscle Car Wars hit their peak in 1970 with the final year of full-power madness from GM and Ford. MOPAR gave it one more year, then caved to the federal emissions and economy standards. In 1971, ...