Pontiac’s best-selling Trans Am, the 1979 model year, marked the departure from true Pontiac engineering, with the final 400 V8-powered Firebirds ...

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 ...

In response to the wildly successful Ford Mustang, Chevrolet debuted the Chevy Camaro in late September of 1966. Pontiac got an F-Body of its own five months later with the Pontiac Firebird. In 1969, ...

A California-built 1979 Pontiac Trans Am reemerges in white with black graphics, upgraded with a cammed 455 V8 engine.

Modified 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a 455 V8, refreshed interior, and white finish heads to auction in Illinois.

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.

Pontiac-lover John Soliman vividly remembers the fateful day that this 1979 Trans Am becamehispersonal ride: "It was 1987, and I was going to Hicksville High School in Long Island, New York. I was ...