A Rare Chance To Own A Unicorn From Pontiac

A 1979 Pontiac Trans Am With 65 Miles On It Could Be Yours For $159,900

Nearly four decades ago, 18-year-old William Leland Jr., a distant relative of Henry Leland, the founder of Lincoln and Cadillac, bought a highly well-equipped 1979 Pontiac Trans Am for $10,095. The Trans Am wasn’t to be driven or even washed, Leland ordered. When Leland died at the age of 42, his father took over ownership, and preserved the car according to his son’s wishes as a shrine.

Now, after being passed on to a third owner, the car is on sale, having been preserved in pristine condition 39 years after it emerged from GM’s manufacturing facility in Norwood, Ohio.

The car, according to RK Motors, has “never been washed, never been rained on, and [benefitted] from yearly fluid changes that included fresh oil and distilled water.”

It was also fired up once a month, and worked through its gears. It’s hard to imagine a 1979 Trans Am in any better shape.

(Jalopnik.com)

Old School Meets New School

Meet the Dodge SRT Demon's Ultimate Challenger: The Trans AM 1,000 HP Super Duty

[H]oping to steal the spotlight from the Dodge Challenger SRT is the latest vehicle of the Trans Am: the 2017 Trans Am Super Duty.

The Pontiac label was put to its shallow grave after General Motors axed the brand in 2010 as a result of financial dilemma. But now the Pontiac's classic muscle car is given a second life in the form of the 2017 Trans Am 455 Super Duty. The previous Trans Am vehicles were modelled from the 5th generation Chevrolet Camaro and General Motor's Zeta chassis, now the newly unveiled Trans Am 455 Super Duty is probably the first unit ever produced that is molded around the sixth gen Chevy Camaro and the lightweight Alpha chassis.

The biggest asset of this beast of a vehicle is its 455 cubic inch (7.4 L) variant of the GM's recent generation V LT1 V8 engine equipped with a Magnuson TVS2300 supercharger that produces up to 14 psi of boost- which has 0.5 less psi compared to the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon. Trans Am Worldwide further revealed that the engine of the 455 Super Duty was made in partnership with a still unnamed premier NASCAR engine builder hailing from Martinsville, Virginia. Turns out, our guesses would directly point to the Arrington Performance by the very own NASCAR racer and team owner Joey Arrington. A cold air intake and purely ceramic coated headers, with 3.0 inch of exhaust powers contribute to an impressive 1,000 hp and 1,046 lb-ft of torque: a 160 hp and 276 lb-ft more than the Demon's performance on gas and 192 hp and 329 lb-ft more than the Demon's execution on 91 octane.

Tod Warmack, co-founder of Trans Am Worldwide, exclaimed in a press release that the new sports car is a full overhaul that wholly displays lustrous body lines paired with manly proportions and retro design. Trans Am Worldwide is also offering alternative glass T-tops within this year, however the most groundbreaking thing that they have done is that they have a new reputation to be proud of- offering a 1,000 hp performance set in a production automobile joining a few company that has the same feat.

(4WheelNews.com)