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1995 Pontiac Trans Am - The Specialest Specialist Special
Abe Finkel claims 10-second timeslips in his daily-driven 1995 Pontiac Trans Am Comp T/A more
Pontiac Retrospective - Thanks For The Memories
Pontiac will be no more as of 2010. Here's a look back at the history of the brand and its greatest hits. more
1965 Pontiac Tempest Custom Station Wagon
Tempest. Tempest. Say it. It's a Tempest. more
1963 Pontiac Tempest LeMans - "Oh, This Old Thing?"
Go Ahead, Line Up Against Rob Freyvogel's Tattered '63 Tempest LeMans. All You Are Likely to Get Is a Big Surprise. more
1980 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am - The Lineman
Just Your Average, Stock-Looking, 3,860-Pound, 9-Second, Twin-Turbo, 455-Powered Trans Am more
The Boys Are Thirsty in Atlanta and There's Beer In Texarkana
Year One give you a chance to buy their Bandit Edition Trans Am from the movie Smokey and the Bandit more
1959 Pontiac Bonneville - Wide-Track Wonder
Check out this marvelously mild 1959 Pontiac Bonneville. more
1956 Pontiac Safari - Long-Awaited Wagon
Dave White's '56 Pontiac Safari more
1964 Pontiac GTO - Never Give Up
Don Stellhorn totalled his 1964 GTO on a road course, but instead of hanging it up, he rebuilt and is back on track, this time with what is perhaps the most wicked '64 GTO in the world. more
1964 Pontiac Bonneville Dream Car Of The Month
Check out the 1964 Pontiac Bonneville the Dream Car Of The Month - Rod And Custom Magazine more
Readers' Dream Car Contest Winners -  1961 Pontiac Ventura and 1936 Chevrolet
A customized 1961 Pontiac Ventura and 1936 Chevrolet stand out from the rest as winners of the Readers' Dream Cars contest in Rod and Custom Magazine. Read and drool over the stunning drawings. more
Pontiac Solstice LS7 Motor  - The World's Baddest Solstice
Will HandzelThe engine swap is a tradition in hot rodding and HOT ROD magazine. Cadillac V-8s and Buick nailheads in Model A and B Fords were commonplace in the early days, and the musclecar was born via the concept of the engine swap. Anyone over the age of more
1965 Pontiac GTO - Thestork
Unless you're building an all-out race car, the hot rodding life is filled with compromise. If you need to be able to turn corners or stop, lightweight drag struts and paper-thin brake rotors are not the hot ticket. Any sort of sustained 60-mph driving negates more
Evolution - 1964 Pontiac GTO
As Musclecars Continue To Be White Hot, Builders Known More For High-End Street Rods And Customs Are Getting Into The Game. Is The "Street Rodification" Of Musclecars The Next Big Thing? more
You Judged,  We Painted - Project Car - 2004 Pontiac GTO
Before Handing Over the Title to Our GTO Project Car, It Gets the Visual Makeover You Voted for Last September. more
The Fix
After initially being smitten with the on-road performance of Magnuson's supercharger kit on our project GTO and writing the glowing prose such subjective impressions evoked ("In Torque We Trust," Jan. '05), the sucker just wouldn't run at the track. The 416 r more
Jungle Ride in a 1958 Pontiac Safari
When it comes to creating a custom as incredible as Bob Garacochea's '58 Safari wagon, imagination is as important as mechanical skill. In Bob's case, his imagination had this whole car built before he even found the raw material. And his imagination was a cri more
The Pump-Gas Poncho - Win Your Dream Engine Contest
Reader Chris Williams Designed A Pump-Gas 400-Based 455 Pontiac For His Trans Am. It Made Just Over 500 Hp. We Think We Can Do Better. more
Chrysler 300 SRT-10 & Other News
Check out the cars that Detroit has to built now in order to compete with European and Japanese cars in this month's issue of Hot Rod Magazine. more
Pontiac GTO - The Ugly American - The Musclecar Boom
Drifting started in Japan, but even the reddest-necked hot rodder has to admit it's an amazing show. Cars slide sideways from corner to corner, spewing clouds of incinerated rubber and screaming turbocharged banshee wails in what amounts to an automotive mix o more
1950 Pontiac Streamliner Fastback - Like Butter
Check out this 1950 Pontiac Fastback that has parts from a 1950 Oldsmobile and 1954 Chevy - Rod And Custom Magazine more
Chuck Cushner's 1959 Pontiac Bonneville - Sunny Delight
Check out Chuck Cushner's 1959 Pontiac Bonneville that has a 389 Engine, chrome wire wheels, and Diamond Back Classic whitewalls inside Rod & Custom Magazine. more
Roadster Dream Car Of The Month
The quality of some of the roadsters featured 50 years ago was first rate. The influences of Indy-style racers in design and quality are apparent. I was fortunate in my teen years, in the '60s, to cruise around in a late-'40s/ early-'50s track roadster. I was more