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SEMA 2009: Pinkee's ignites lust for a Pontiac Firebird

This year's SEMA show might have been a bit smaller than in years past, but there were certainly some heavy hitters in the crowd that proved the old "quality, not quantity" adage. Take, for instance, this super-clean, super-fine 1977 Pontiac Firebird. Like the Ringbrothers "Afterburner" Fairlane and the Goodguys Street Machine of the Year 1962 Corvette C1-RS, the look is modern, yet definitely retro. Dreamed up by hot rod artist Jimmy Smith, it was crafted to life by Pinkee's Rod Shop of Windsor, Colorado. It has a smooth-as-glass ... Read more →

Confirmed: "Phoenix" Trans Am conversion kit coming for Camaro Jonny Lieberman

So... as of January 1, 2010, Pontiac is dead. Buried. Gone forever. No more. Obviously, something as pesky as death ain't going to stop hard core Trans Am fanatics from driving an (almost) honest ...

Two real muscle cars destroyed for art's sake... Art is mad Dan Roth

Jonathan Schipper started grinding models of muscle cars into each other like tectonic plates as a way to express the "slow, inevitable death of American Muscle," and he's progressed to using two ...

Autoblog Podcast #87 Dan Roth

The Chicago Auto Show wasn't that eventful, but that's what we lead off Autoblog Podcast episode #87 with. The Challenger was the biggest deal, followed by the Denali XT, and then a bunch of ...

Catch "Travolta Fever" on eBay Dan Roth

By buying this (garishly) customized Firebird, you're really purchasing a way of life. Inexplicably listed as a 1971, when it's clearly about a decade newer, this car is your ticket to a full-on star ...

Goat or Chicken: Will 2010 Pontiac be a Firebird or GTO? 2 years ago on Autoblog

We visited this issue in February, when Winding Road speculated Pontiac would get a Camaro spinoff, but now Car and Driver is weighing in. With the imminent return of the Chevy Camaro, many Poncho fans have wondered about a possible return of the screaming chicken, as well. Pontiac's last attempt ...

eBay Find of the Day: Bullrun-winning Trans Am 2 years ago on Autoblog

We watched a marathon of the SpikeTV reality show based on the Bullrun Rally and hosted by Bill Goldberg, but weren't too terribly impressed with the premise. It seemed one needed only a decent proficiency at reading maps, as well as a lot of luck, to win. The winning team was the father/daughter ...

VIDEO: Knight Rider spoof... freaking hilarious 2 years ago on Autoblog

Every once in a while we see one of those flash-based spoof cartoons that are just too good to pass up. This one, which is a commercial for Australia's CarsGuide, takes a hilarious swipe at the early 80's car show Knight Rider to show how important the right car really is. From the car's request ...

VIDEO: Year One Bandit T/A in action! - UPDATED with latest version 2 years ago on Autoblog

UPDATE: Our friends at Year One graciously hooked us up with the latest version of this video - embedded after the jump. "Bandit you're reckless and you live much too hard..." We feel a full-fledged late 1970s lovefest coming on soon. Not that it'd be any worse than the resurgence of 1980s pop ...

Breaker, Breaker: Year One recreates Bandit T/As 2 years ago on Autoblog

click the pic above to view a gallery of Year One Bandit Trans Ams var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Burt_Reynolds_and_the_Bandit_Trans_Am_reunite'; Every now and then when I'm hammering to make time on a road trip, this is what goes through my head: "East bound and down, loaded up ...

VIDEO: The Magnificent 5 from Wide-Trac Country 2 years ago on Autoblog

It's been a while since I threw an old TV spot up for your enjoyment (though Dan has done a fine job serving up tasty nostalgia nuggets of late), and John's post on Winding Road's pie-in-the-sky Firebird Trans-Am future-fantasymobile had me flipping through my YouTube faves for something related to ...

Should Pontiac's RWD coupe be the GTO or Trans Am? 2 years ago on Autoblog

In its latest issue, Winding Road calls the fact that Pontiac will get its own rear-wheel drive coupe based on the same Zeta architecture (sorry, "Global RWD platform" is the new official name) used by the upcoming Camaro is a "poorly kept secret". We weren't aware the decision to give Pontiac a ...

VIDEO: Chicks! Gunplay! Pontiac! It's the '82 Firebird! 2 years ago on Autoblog

The YouTube treasure trove continues to bear fruit, this time in the form of a dealer video for the then-all-new 1982 Pontiac Firebird. Like another favorite of ours, the '64 Dart television commercial, the Firebird propaganda film also features exploding clay pigeons. This time, however, it's a ...

Hot Rod wants your help selecting its next project car 2 years ago on Autoblog

We certainly wouldn't claim that the only measure of a gearhead is the number of projects in his or her garage, but certainly it's a useful metric. By that standard, Hot Rod's David Freiburger definitely deserves his post as editor-in-chief, but even he has found himself with more cars than time ...

How not to drift, Vol. II 3 years ago on Autoblog

Previously, we learned that it's a bad idea to drift in areas populated with curbs. In this installment of Autoblog's Please Don't Act Like a Dufus lessons, the class will learn that other real-world obstructions can also cause significant damage. In this particular case, the unfortunate driver of ...

Trademark dumpster diving reveals a few gems 3 years ago on Autoblog

The news that is not 'right' has uncovered some interesting automotive tidbits while scouring through obscure trademark filings. First, General Motors has patented the term "8 speed" for use with what is presumed to be an eight-speed transmission. Logical, no? That would put their premium brands, ...

Baldwin Camaro shipped to Puerto Rico 3 years ago on Autoblog

Luis Felipe Cruz Morales, a drag racer in Puerto Rico, will be among the car enthusiasts to receive the Baldwin-Motion Camaro, a modified version of the 1969 muscle car. Cruising to the tune of 600-horsepower put out by a 540-cubic-inch engine mated to a modified TH-400 automatic transmission, the ...

The making of the Camaro Concept 3 years ago on Autoblog

With the return of Chevrolet's Camaro all but certain, we're pretty much reduced to playing the speculation game over option levels... and waiting. In the meantime, as thoughts of smokey burnouts and parking-lot doughnuts pepper our imagination, click on over to Popular Hot Rodding's website ...

Aspiring Texas Knight Rider gets his t-top stripped 3 years ago on Autoblog

We're not sure how K.I.T.T. didn't see this coming, but Matt Cyr-Knight, a 22-year-old college freshman in Texas had his heart broken when his Knight Rider clone was burglarized last month while attending class at San Antonio College.* We're not exactly sure how a 1998 Pontiac Trans Am ...






Autoblog Podcast #152: Paukert Enhanced!

Chris Paukert joins the usual crew of Chris, Sam, and Dan, summarily classing up the joint.

 
 

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