Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, TECH, Videos
The Homecoming Rescue: Waking Up A 1991 Firebird After Years Of Sitting
The best part of the story of this rescued and revived 1991 Pontiac Firebird is much more than getting lucky and scoring a pretty decent third-gen F-body for damn near nothing. It has nothing to do...
Droptop Dreaming: This 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Is Packing The Grunt It Needs To Move Out!
When you are perusing a car catalog online, such as the docket for the Barrett-Jackson auction that kicked off yesterday, there is a good chance that you can overlook a gem simply because you are...
Disco Might Be Dead, But This 1977 Pontiac Ventura Can Be Brought Back To Life!
The first car I had was a 1975 Camaro that fit the bill, but in all honesty, I would’ve taken just about anything that was set up like a 1970s street ride: slot mags, a bit of a hike in the...
One Of None: This 1971 Pontiac LeMans Got The El Camino Treatment, But Not Like You’d Expect
Making a Chevrolet El Camino look like any of it’s corporate siblings suddenly sprouted a bed is pretty straightforward and simple: take the basic El Camino body, swap the Chevrolet stuff for...
Muscle Before Muscle? This 1957 Buick Special Looks Pretty Aggressive For A Fin Car!
I have a very hard time looking at any 1950s car, especially ones with fins, and equating them with raw power and speed. Yes, even such examples as a fuel-injected 1957 Chevy and the Chrysler Letter...
Rolling Rich: This 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 Will Make You Feel Like Real Old Money!
It’s official: the Cadillac Limo, a.k.a. the U.S.S. d’Elegance, has met it’s demise. Feel like pouring one out for another barge gone to the crusher? Don’t. It wasn’t...
Money No Object: One Bad, Black Goat – This 1971 Pontiac GTO Is Sublime!
It’s no Tri-Power car, it isn’t a Judge, and it isn’t a even the “right year” for the GTO, whether you believe that’s 1964, 1967, 1969 or 1970. It’s not 100%...
Rough Start: Another Clean Oldsmobile Omega? Hey, It’s Christmas…Treat Yourself!
Five thousand dollars…that’s the entirety of the budget that the Rough Start series gets to work with. That’s not purchase price of the car, that’s the entire budget to start...
Rough Start: Sleepy Brown – This 1979 Buick LeSabre Is The Perfect Hustle Car
A Buick LeSabre of similar vintage to the 1979 coupe that we found while surfing for Rough Start finds is one of our top picks for a true sleeper. That car, a blue mirror-image on nitrous, is known...
Rough Start: A Pontiac Fiero That Is Still A Pontiac Fiero!
Fierce. Proud. Intimidating. Vicious. Those are some of the ways that the Italian word “fiero” can be used. But the car that Pontiac debuted for the 1984 model year didn’t exactly...
Grand Theft Auto: You Can Still Get Into A Trans Am GTA Like This One Without Breaking The Bank!
Third-gen F-bodies often get typecasted as the ultimate mullet-mobile, but really, that is kind of an undeserved reputation. First off, the real mullet cars were the rubber-bumper second-generations....
The GM Future Transformation: What Is Getting Cut Out Of The General’s Current System
DETROIT – General Motors (NYSE: GM) will accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the comprehensive strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, capitalize on the...
Monday Shopper: The 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass SX – Hiding In Plain Sight
1970 might have been the high point in the Musclecar Era, but even before the EPA started to become a problem, insurance agencies were causing all sorts of headaches for customers who drooled like...
