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Rough Start: A Pontiac Fiero And Just About Everything You Need To Go Racing!
Forget a project car…let’s say that the need for speed has been burning at the back of your brain for quite some time. You want to go racing…and that is never a cheap venture, no...
This 1977 Pontiac LeMans Was Supposed To Be A Figure 8 Car, But Was Spared – How Would You Finish It?
When I see things listings that say, “Figure-8” car, I automatically figure that within months, the car will be a dead carcass on a rollback headed to the crusher. Amateur racing is...
Rough Start: Egging On The Thoughts Of A Third-Gen Pro Tourer With A 1990 Pontiac Firebird
So Chad has third-gen F-cars on the brain. Can’t blame him, after seeing all the fun that he and Daphne have been having the last couple of weeks. And I can’t help myself…I have to...
Rough In All Of The Right Ways: This Cummins-Swapped 1950 Buick Is A Highway Roller!
I don’t know what caught me off-guard more about this Buick when it rolled in: just how large the car truly was or the unmistakable noise of a Cummins 6BT coming out of it. By Redneck Rumble...
Rough Start: A Four-Speed Oldsmobile Omega Is A Shift From The Normal Nova
This 1976 Oldsmobile Omega is one year off from what I rode around in as a kid growing up in Washington State. My mother drove one of these for years…originally bronze with a black vinyl roof,...
This 1975 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds W30 Is Killer – Hurst Hatches, Dual-Gate Shifter And 455 V8!
Yeah, yeah, we know…smog-choked horsepower in a heavy sled. Whatever. 1975 didn’t offer a lot in the way of horsepower and torque across any line, and the numbers had taken a beating...
Rough Start: Long-roofin’ It With An Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser!
The Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser was the warning flag that the brand was about to slip under the waves. Long the longroof option for Oldsmobile, when the 1991 update occurred, the 307 V8, the final form...
Question Of The Day: Have You Ever Seen A Car That Looks Right And Wrong At The Same Time?
One of my project car dreams is to take a Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2, the funky NASCAR homologation special G-body, and to build it into the machine that Pontiac simply failed to deliver on. Manual...
This 1966 Buick Riviera Custom Blends The Old School With The New Perfectly
When I was a kid, I had a book that explained the world of cars. It showed trucks and buses, farm tractors and the like, but what I really remember from it was the depiction of a hot rod and a custom...
Would You Rather, The Alternate Future Edition: Which FWD Pony Car Concept Appeals To You Most?
We know how the pony cars managed to survive the 1980s: Ford managed to give the Mustang a desperately needed horsepower injection that really came into play in 1982, and over at GM, the...
Money No Object: The 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT, As It Should Have Been!
You can quit laughing now. I mean it, the money spent on this 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT is worth it. The story of the Fiero is one of growth, maturity…and then, a quick and glamour-less death. A...
How To Sell A Crapbox Pontiac Grand Am, Lesson One: Honesty Is Your Friend!
Pontiac had many highs during it’s lifetime: the Safari, the GTO, the Firebird, even the Can-Am and the G8. While the company occasionally strayed into Brougham territory, overall their mission...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh-“Worthy News! This Week: Charity Done Right and More!
1. EcoBusted.(Photo: Ford) Need another set of headlights to memorize as you tear up the Interstate, late as usual? Here you go: Ford has unveiled Special Service Vehicle variations of the F-150 and...
