There may not be any other Pontiac engine that harbors as much mystique as the Super-Duty 455. Introduced in '73 as a maximum-performance effort capable of sustained 6,000-rpm operation, it was ...

Sometimes automotive scribes have to beat themselves over the head to comprise a strong lead for a feature article. Other times one just comes to them as naturally as waking up in the morning. Then ...

Now defunct, Pontiac was one of the most successful automotive brands on the North American continent back in the 1960s. During what was arguably the most exciting decade ever for American performance ...

The Super Duty designation dates to Pontiac's successful early 1960s efforts in NASCAR and the NHRA, but it lay dormant for almost a decade. By 1970, the division's street machines, although wildly ...

The Pontiac Trans Am 455 Super Duty arrived just as Detroit was being forced to turn down the volume on big cubic inches, which is exactly why it still looms so large in muscle car history. Built in ...

Pontiac was a bastion of performance during the last days of the muscle cars from 1972 to 1974. While other brands made do with strangled, low compression engines, Pontiac figured out how to sustain ...

Produced between 1967 and 2002, the Pontiac Firebird is one of those American automobiles that may be instantly recognizable anywhere around the world. That is mostly Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham’s ...