A vintage Chevelle SS lines up against a modern Pontiac G8 in a straightforward drag race, and the result left at least one viewer typing in all caps demanding to know how the Chevelle possibly lost. Between the G8’s LS-based V8 and decades of advances in fuel injection and tire technology, this matchup turns out closer, and more lopsided, than nameplate reputation alone would predict. Watch the pass that still divides old-school muscle car loyalists.
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A Pontiac G8 wearing VIN 001 spent years as a low-mileage curiosity in Burt Reynolds’ hands, eventually picking up a prototype Bandit insignia connecting it to the movie that made him famous. By the time it reached the block at Barrett-Jackson West Palm Beach it had covered barely 800 miles on its factory tires. Read on for why a Hollywood legend was standing next to Pontiac’s least flashy sedan.
