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

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

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

Editor’s Note: the following Pete Dunton article was originally published on September 14, 2013 on Mustang Pasture.

What if you had a time machine and managed to go back in time just a little before 1964 and prevented the

When Pontiac started the muscle car segment with the 1964 GTO which was a mid-sized car with a large displacement high performance V8, most of the other American automakers were caught off-guard including Dodge. In fact Dodge and Plymouth were

By 1979, the traditional muscle car was all but gone. The W72 400 CID V8 equipped 1979 Pontiac Trans Am was as good as it got, though rated by Pontiac at 220 SAE net horsepower (320 lb-ft of torque), NHRA

When performance cars are mentioned in a conversation, we always hear about those fast cars that made it into production. These cars reached stardom even if it was a very brief moment and even if their total production volume was

The Chevelle SS was Chevrolet’s bread and butter muscle car during the golden era. It was a car that just about any high school graduate who found a full-time job could afford. A few hundred dollars down, and an easily

If you were a performance gearhead who came of age during the 1980s, you’ll certainly remember Chevrolet’s Cross-Fire Fuel Injection V8s. These were motors that have received their share of barbs and ridicule – unfairly I might add. A common

Editor’s Note: the following Pete Dunton article was originally published in November 2012 on firebirdnest.com.

The introduction of the low-volume 1969 Trans Am had an original purpose of getting the still-born Pontiac 303 CID V8 certified for the Trans-Am