Following a decade of finding its feet post World War II, the American automotive industry went mental during the 1960s. The concept of the muscle car had been around for a little while, as ...

The Pontiac Firebird Formula is a trim level available on the Firebird from 1970 (initially called the Formula 400 at the second-generation Firebird's debut) through 1981 and 1987 through 2002, the ...

The Pontiac Firebird Formula 400 sits in a sweet spot between bare‑bones pony car and full Trans Am theater, and that balance is exactly what keeps collectors chasing it today. I want to trace when ...

The Pontiac Firebird was one of GM's attempts to catch up to the burgeoning pony car segment pioneered by the Plymouth Barracuda and popularized by the one and only Ford Mustang. Built on GM's F-body ...

During the third-gen Firebird's last year on the market, Pontiac partnered with tuners Street Legal Performance (SLP) Engineering and created a Corvette ZR-1-rivaling muscle car of epic proportions.

The pony car landscape of the late 1980s was one of compromised ideals. By that time, the muscle era’s thundering large-journal engines were long gone, replaced by smaller, emissions-choked V8s ...

What does a man do who has previously modified Knight Rider reproductions and who has been a "Pontiac Firebird Man" for years? If that man is Rob Louisell of Louisell Motors, he takes an F-Body frame ...

With the average new car costing around $45,000, and the average 1- to 5-year-old used car priced over $30,000, finding affordable transportation — new or used — remains a challenge. The good news is ...

Bob Gross, a pipefitter by trade, wasn't too happy with his Firebird Formula Pontiac. Now that stands to reason because "Rapid" Robert had owned such kemps as a '68 full-custom Chevy, a '63 Chrysler ...