Frank Rupert credits the slick, shiny, wet look of his 1979 Trans Am to a simple cleaning routine he follows. It’s one, he said, anybody could do. LIMA – Frank Rupert knows a thing or two when it ...

1979 was a fantastic year for the Trans Am, as the production numbers went through the roof. Pontiac produced over 211,000 Firebirds in 1979, and the Trans Am accounted for approximately 117,000 units ...

Mike Lane’s two-toned silver and charcoal colored 1979 Trans Am is a 10-year, limited edition Trans Am. He also has a 1989, 20th anniversary limited edition Trans Am and a limited edition, 25th ...

Tod and Scott Warmack aren't twins, they were actually born five years apart, but their matching '79 Trans Ams sure look like they came from the same mother egg. Tod tells HPP, "In 2005, I was looking ...

Every carmaker has that one last, defiant howl before the corporate world tightens the leash. For Pontiac, 1979 was that bittersweet crescendo—the final stand of the true Pontiac-built 400-cubic-inch ...

The Trans Am looks every part the old lion among our trio. Whereas the Triumph and Mazda peer into the 1980s with their wedge shapes and flip-up headlamps, the bigger and brawnier Pontiac consciously ...

Ypsilanti, Michigan's, Mathias Buckson parted with his Pontiac but not the way he had hoped. The young buck postponed college and worked two jobs to pay for his pride and joy, a '79 Pontiac Trans Am.

The Ford Mustang debuted as a 1964 1/2 mid-year model, to great fanfare and robust sales. Chevrolet responded with the Chevy Camaro in late September of 1966. Five months later, Pontiac rolled out an ...

Since its 1969 debut, few American cars have struck such a passionate chord or built so strong a following as the Firebird ...