The Pontiac Trans Am powered by the 6.6-liter V8 saw its final year of production in 1979. Killed off by Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard, the rowdy Big Block T/A was to be no more.

Tom Sherer was only 19 years old when he first laid eyes on this black-on-red 1981 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Turbo. It was parked in the Philadelphia apartment complex where his brother, Chris, lived ...

This is the first car I've ever restored and I did all the work myself," says David Rosenbauer of his '81 NASCAR Pace Car Trans Am. Taking on such a project can be daunting, but David had some prior ...

While turbochargers are now a fairly common way to squeeze more power from a small engine, this approach was still in its early days in the late ‘70s. Due to the crisis that wreaked havoc in the ...

The original 1970 Datsun 240Z proved Japan was capable of building more than economy cars, kicked off a 52-year sports car story that gave us the legendary 1990s Z31 300ZX, and continues this year ...

Turbocharging got to be all the rage during the mid-1980s, when fuel injection became cheap and reliable enough to become mainstream hardware. In the early 1980s, however, carburetors were still used ...

The Pontiac Trans Am is among America’s more revered performance cars of yesteryear, particularly the second-generation turbo. But that 301 cubic inch V-8’s 210-horsepower seems rather paltry by today ...

1981 was a disappointing year for the Trans Am, as Pontiac's car couldn't recover from the decline that had started a year earlier. The Trans Am sold over 117,000 units in 1979, but the next year ...

In 1980, General Motors introduced a new turbocharged V8 engine option for the Pontiac Trans Am that sought to give buyers the best of both worlds: the power of a big V8 along with the efficiency of a ...

An extensively modified 1981 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am with the type of performance to rival even the fastest modern-day supercars is heading to auction this weekend. This classic muscle car is known as ...