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The Pontiac Trans Am WS6 package started as a simple order-form checkbox, but it transformed a standard fourth-gen Firebird into the sharpest-handling version Pontiac ever built. This detailed Cars & Bids review, viewed nearly 288,000 times, walks through every quirk from the functional hood scoops to the notoriously cheap interior. Watch to see what a few hundred extra dollars actually bought.
Everyone talks about the six-figure Hemi cars crossing the block at Mecum — but what does an actually affordable muscle car cost in 2026? Ultimate Muscle Car walked the Harrisburg auction floor pricing out Valiants, Novas, Catalinas, and Firebirds instead of the headline cars, and uncovered a real debate about who’s still buying these cars as the generation that grew up with them ages out of the hobby. Watch to see what real money actually buys right now.
A black Pontiac Trans Am shared the screen with Burt Reynolds in 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, and by the following year Pontiac had sold 117,000 of them. Two decades later, the LS1-powered WS6 Trans Am was faster and better built than ever — and GM killed it anyway. Top Tier Motors traces the cancellation back to four competing forces inside and outside General Motors, none of which had anything to do with the car actually failing to sell.
The 1971 Trans Am and the 1973 Corvette Stingray both appear in the 1978 film Corvette Summer, and the chase sequence featuring both earned a four-star rating from Car Chase Wonderland 2 — a channel that applies that standard carefully. Two of the more significant American GT cars of their era, on real locations, at real speed. For anyone who takes 1970s movie car chases seriously, this one belongs in the conversation.
Jay Leno sits down with AMC historian Mark Fletcher and his 1970 Javelin Mark Donohue Edition — a homologation special AMC built exactly 2,501 of, one more than the racing rules required. Fletcher’s own philosophy on car ownership, ‘I’m not collecting trophies, I’m collecting smiles,’ has become one of the most quoted lines in the show’s history. Watch the full conversation above.
The Pontiac Trans Am from 1970-1975 was a muscle car with a flair for drama—think swooping body styles and engines named like action heroes, such as the Ram Air III and IV. The ’74 SD-455 was the muscle-bound heavyweight, boasting an engine so strong it could almost bench press the car itself. By ’75, the Trans Am got a facelift with a wrap-around rear window, but emissions regulations were like a diet plan for the engine, slimming down those power gains. Who needs horsepower when you have style, right?
Pontiac never let 1981 Trans Am buyers have real horsepower and a manual transmission in the same car — the factory forced a choice. This owner refused to accept that trade-off, dropping a 400-horsepower crate small-block and a four-speed stick into a genuine WS6 Trans Am. Recorded in POV binaural audio so you can hear exactly what the factory never let buyers experience, this build answers a forty-year-old complaint.
Regular Car Reviews is giving away the WS6 Trans Am featured in this video — but the real story in the comments is an owner whose own WS6 sat under a cover for six years and fired right up the moment they turned the key. Watch to see what it actually costs to bring one of these back from years of hibernation.
Jay Leno takes the wheel of a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am on loan from the Audrain Automobile Museum — the same black-and-gold decal car most people know from the movies, but with a mechanical story that’s easy to miss. According to fans in the comments, this was the year Pontiac’s W72 400 actually out-accelerated the Corvette. Watch Leno find out if the reputation holds up.
The third-generation Camaro does not get much respect, dismissed as the awkward middle child of Chevrolet’s muscle car lineage. One owner spent years proving that reputation wrong, building an IROC-Z so subtly refined it looks nearly stock at a glance, no loud stripes, no attention-seeking mods, just years of careful work reserved for how the car actually drives. The Drive tracked it down for a proper test drive. Watch to see whether it lives up to the title.
Pontiac built exactly eight 1969 Firebird Trans Am convertibles, and V8TV has now featured every single one of them, including this fourth car, the one with the lowest VIN sequence number of the group. The eighth car in the set went missing for years before finally surfacing and getting restored in 2016. See what makes this particular Trans Am worth a second look inside an already impossibly rare set of eight.
Chevrolet’s small-block engines have been the life of the party since the ’60s, with the 302 winning races and the 327 showing up like a rock star. Mark Donohue’s 302 was a beast on the track, outperforming V8 rivals Down Under, while the 327 was like the James Bond of engines, looking good and packing a punch. From street cred to track cred, these engines had more torque than a family dinner debate. Remember, with a Chevy small-block, you’re always in the fast lane of fun!
Only 2,399 Dodge Challenger T/As were built for the single model year Dodge offered them, and this triple black example wears one of the rarest paint combinations of the bunch. Built to homologate Dodge’s Trans-Am race program, the T/A packed a 340 Six Pack that Dodge curiously underrated on paper. Here’s the story behind one of the most unique Challengers Dodge ever sent to a dealership.
This ’78 Trans Am restoration is almost finished, and the details worth knowing go beyond the Bandit-era looks. By 1978, Pontiac’s legendary 455 big-block had been gone for two years, replaced by the 220-horsepower W72 400 – a far cry from the muscle car glory days, but paired with WS6 handling that made it one of the best-driving American cars of its era. It became a legend through image as much as horsepower. A survivor this complete is worth a closer look.
The Camaro RS-SS-Z28 options from 1967 to 1969 bring the muscle to muscle cars! The ’67 Camaro, sharing its platform with the Nova, flaunts a semi-unibody design and three appearance packages, including the RS with hideaway headlights and the SS with a roaring V8. But wait, there’s more! The undercover Z28, the secret agent of the Camaro world, races in with a high-revving 302 engine. By ’69, buyers could pick from five engines or go big with a dealer-installed 427 cu in beast. Wheel size upgrade included!