Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Root Beer Float: This 1966 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 Speaks To Us!
Nov 30, 2021Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Root Beer Float: This 1966 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 Speaks To Us!
I recently came to a rather unpleasant revelation: not counting a work-related trip or a move, I haven’t been on a proper long-distance roadtrip since 2010. Oh, sure, I’ve made some small...
Pro-Touring LS Swapped Cadillac Coupe Deville- Introducing The Chicken Coupe, A Project That Excites Me To No End.
Jul 10, 2021Chad Reynolds1
The Chicken Coupe has been a long time coming and is a project that I am behind 100%. After all, good friend Matt Graves is the one behind this craziness and he’s been involved in some...
Edd China Show Us What Happened To The Cadillac’s That He And Mike Were Supposed To Race Across China And Europe!
May 29, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Edd China Show Us What Happened To The Cadillac’s That He And Mike Were Supposed To Race Across China And Europe!
On this episode of Edd China’s Workshop Diaries he keeps working on one of his favorite projects, the electric ice cream truck starts looking racier, but the big news is the Cadillacs. The...
The Luxury HMMWV: We Got Junkyard Digs To Revive A Diesel-Powered Buick!
Mar 29, 2021Bryan McTaggart1
Have you seen the joke passed around about how in forty or fifty years, nobody is going to be excited to open a barn door and find a Honda Civic? Yeah…I might hate the things, but I promise you...
Money No Object: 1969 Pontiac GTO “The Judge” With An LS3/5-Speed Swap
Feb 13, 2021Bryan McTaggart7
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In went off the air in 1973. So, to be quite fair, you will have to get a history lesson together for anybody under the age of 40 if you really want to explain the...
Rough Start: 1977 Pontiac Bonneville – Last Call For Pontiac Power!
Jan 13, 2021Bryan McTaggart2
When GM put the full-size B-body platform on a diet, there was no singling out a brand that would be spared the crash diet. Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet…all of the full-sizers lost a...
Best of 2020: Devin Taylor’s 2014 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon
Jan 01, 2021Bryan McTaggart3
It’s always fun to debate the merits of a street car that has performance numbers far and above what it should, isn’t it? Somebody says their car has “X” amount of horsepower,...
Rough Start: 1979 Pontiac Firebird In Need Of Sticker Removal
Dec 18, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Rough Start: 1979 Pontiac Firebird In Need Of Sticker Removal
A couple of days ago we showed you a video of Jay Leno driving an absolute creampuff of a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am, to the letter how we’d want it: WS6 suspension, black, T-top, four-speed, bird...
Defiantly Angry, Yet Pleasantly Refined: Jay Leno Checks Out A Super-Clean 1979 Trans Am
Dec 15, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
1979 was the last year for the Pontiac mill. The civil war within the Excitement Division was about to take a turn for the ugly…the gearheads who had held onto hope until the very last second...
This G-body Pontiac Bonneville Runs 10.79 In Full Street-Legal Trim – Power And 1980’s Luxury!
Dec 04, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
Australian gearheads have been yelling it at us for years: just because it has four doors doesn’t mean that it can’t haul ass and be cool. What could be more fun than hooning your car?...
Plug In Or Get Paid Out: Cadillac Is Putting A Half-Mil On The Table For Dealerships Who Don’t Want To Go All-In On EVs
Nov 24, 2020Bryan McTaggart8
If GM is going to have their way, Cadillac’s will be quieter than they ever have been by 2030, with the top-tier GM badge ditching the German target they’ve had since the late 1990s and...
Money No Object: 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30
Nov 07, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
Do you have a perfect layout for a certain model of car? For example: how many of you think that every 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am must be wearing the Y82 black paint with gold trim and, of...
Classic YouTube: A 1200HP, Twin-Engined, Twin-Turbo AWD Pontiac Grand Prix That Runs The Quarter In The Nines
Oct 21, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
I didnt even look at the title of the video, but it looked promising enough: a late-1990s Pontiac Grand Prix GTP with some cheapie aftermarket taillights, a plastic vent-looking thing on the rear...
Money No Object: 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Packing 627 Horsepower LSA Swap
Oct 20, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Money No Object: 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood Packing 627 Horsepower LSA Swap
We love it. Absolutely, unabashedly adore it. The LSA is a screamer of an engine, the mill that made the Cadillac CTS-V wicked and saw the Holden VF GTS rage. It’s got plenty of guts without...