General Motors (GM) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009. This occurred toward the end of the Great Recession, and automakers sought bailout money to avoid going under. For GM, the company had to ...

Pontiac made more than its share of classic muscle cars during the brand's run from 1926 through 2009, including the classic GTO. Two Pontiac badges that don't often get listed with the GTO, Firebird, ...

The Pontiac 421 Tri-Power was a standout engine during the golden age of muscle cars, known for its impressive performance and unique design. Enthusiasts and collectors continue to admire its ...

Larry Dillon is one of those devoted Pontiac fanatics whose mission in life is to discover sad and neglected high-powered Pontiacs and return them to the streets where they belong. It's something that ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

The standard engine on the 1969 Pontiac GTO was the L78 400 V8, which used a Rochester Quadra-Jet carburetor to develop 350 horsepower. The L74, which Pontiac referred to as 400 HO before renaming it ...

Pontiac’s 427 experimental V-8 has all the right stuff for showing or going: aluminum block and hemi heads, direct port injection, overhead cams, main bearing girdle—and the package is wrapped ...

The Pontiac Ram Air V is a mythical engine that could’ve rewritten muscle car history, but to understand how, we must start from the beginning: Pontiac’s legendary Ram Air engine lineage helped keep ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Chevrolet and Pontiac both offered a pushrod V8 engine with an advertised displacement of 400 cubic inches. Considering that both carmakers are (were?) sub-brands of parent ...

Twinned with the Chevrolet Camaro on the F-body platform, the Pontiac Firebird is a desirable pony and muscle car from the heyday of Horsepower Wars. The 1968 model we’re covering in this article is ...