You don’t often see Vauxhalls in the USA, but for a little while, one member of GM’s British contingent was as transatlantic as Katherine Hepburn’s accent. What you see here is an F-type Vauxhall Victor,…
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Not-so-Wide Track Flashback: 1959 Pontiac Parisienne
For today’s Flashback we’re visiting Fort Charlotte in the Bahamas today, courtesy of this 1959 Pontiac Parisienne Vista taxi. Cabbies sometimes luck out and get the best rides. Fort Charlotte was built from 1789 to…
1973-75 Pontiac Grand Am: Right Place, Wrong Time
Years later, reincarnated as a small front-driver riding GM’s N-body platform, the Pontiac Grand Am would become the excitement division’s best-selling car. The original Grand Am, sometimes forgotten in the wake of that success, got…
1987-93 Pontiac LeMans: Partners at Odds
It seemed like a great idea – take a respected small car designed in Germany, where engineers know about good dynamics and quality cars, manufacture it cheaply in South Korea, then sell it in America…
1980 Pontiac Yellowbird: Birds of a Feather
It sure is yellow! And appropriately so, since this is a Pontiac Firebird “Yellowbird,” a one-year-only special model for 1980, obtained by checking off RPO W73. By this time the 2nd-gen Firebird was ten years…