The 1967 Pontiac Firebird represents the first year of Pontiac's version of a "pony car," created to compete with and take sales from the amazingly successful Ford Mustang. Even though it was a sister ...
The Pontiac Firebird commands a unique position in the great pantheon of American muscle and pony cars, not merely as a stablemate to the perennial Chevrolet Camaro, but as a statement of ...
The 1968 Firebird Ram Air I and Ram Air II share a nameplate and basic 400 cubic inch formula, but they are very different cars once I get past the fender callouts. One is a relatively low-production ...
When John Leland, a research engineer from Kettering, Ohio, bought his '67 Firebird 400 convertible in 1980, he didn't know it was one of the first 100 F-body Pontiacs ever built, nor did he know that ...
Pontiac joined the battle in the pony market with the Firebird, but fighting against the Camaro and the Mustang looked impossible at first. The GM brand sold only 82,560 Firebirds in 1967, while the ...
Pontiac is credited with turning the key on the muscle car era with the legendary 1964 GTO, and by the time the GTO's first generation ended in 1967, the Ford Mustang was three years old and had sold ...