It was late afternoon on Sunday, July 3 and I had a little time to kill. For those of you unfamiliar with the car sales business, the 4th of July weekend is a big sales weekend. No rest for the Continue reading →

Though the first generation Camaro made a big performance splash with its big-block 396 cubic inch V8, it reached legendary status via Chevrolet’s COPO program which allowed the Camaro to be ordered in the late-1960s with a multitude of Continue reading →

The original muscle car era was an almost mythical time in automotive history – cheap gasoline, lots of horsepower, and plenty of choices of inexpensive new performance cars. Like all good times such as the Roaring Twenties or the 1990s Continue reading →

What a big difference 34 years makes. The Los Angeles Lakers were the 1982 NBA champions, and now in early-2016 one of the worst teams in the NBA. In 1982 Donald Trump first made Forbes magazine’s 400 (richest) list, today Continue reading →

Many years ago NASCAR racing caused some of the hottest performing V8s to be dropped into muscle cars while also fueling the release of the most aerodynamic automotive shapes of the original muscle car era. The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, Continue reading →

When you think of Pontiac performance in the 1980s. Immediately the Trans Am comes to mind, then after that the Firebird. And perhaps next is the 2-seat Fiero. And then the 6000 STE and maybe the Grand Prix or the Continue reading →

Ask any Chevrolet Camaro expert when the lowest point in horsepower output for Camaro was,  and the answer will usually come back as "1982". However this doesn’t in any way mean the 1982 Camaro Z28 (the top Camaro performance model Continue reading →

Editor’s Note: the following Pete Dunton article was originally published on September 4, 2013 on Firebird Nest.

When the 1976 model year rolled in, Fall of 1975, the second generation Firebird began its 7th model year. For some at Continue reading →

GM’s mid-size A-body platform was extremely successful in the 1960s and early-1970s. Ford and Chrysler with their mid-size offerings just couldn’t seem to match the sales of GM’s extremely popular A-bodies. During this era the A-body platform seemed to be Continue reading →

We all know the sad story of how most of the muscle cars from the golden era sometime in the 1970s or certainly by the 1980s either were long gone or faced the humiliation of crappy or lukewarm performance. The Continue reading →